Millions of people in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia who need pasture and water for their livestock face acute food shortages because of poor rains, a US-based monitoring unit said on Friday. In a report on the three East African countries, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET) said about 2 million people in southern Somalia and more than one million in Ethiopia's Somali region need urgent humanitarian aid. In Kenya, dozens of pastoralists and hundreds of their animals have already died of hunger and thirst during a three-month drought in the arid eastern and northern regions. FEWSNET said the situation in the region was alarming because of reports of a rise in malnutrition, child deaths, livestock deaths and crop wilting in agricultural areas.