Seasonal rains bring hope and disease to drought-ravaged Somalia.
The U.N. has warned that drought and conflict mean civilians in Somalia, along with South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen, face mass starvation without food aid.
On Tuesday, the U.N. said 1.4 million Somali children would be acutely malnourished this year.
But it has not said to what extent the rains might ease the humanitarian crisis, if at all.
The rains began in parts of the country in the second week of April but by last week had spread to most areas.
The rains will allow farmers to plant crops as well as grass for the livestock that sustain Somalia’s nomadic families.
But the long drought has already devastated herds and forced many farmers to seek aid in cities.
Moreover, the rains bring cold and spread disease, a double threat for people and animals whose immune systems have been weakened by sustained hunger.
The disease has already killed more than 500 people.
"The goats were very weak," he said.