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Somalia Famine

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Women and children queue to receive food at a World Food Programme (WFP) hot-food distribution centre in Mogadishu August 4, 2011, in this handout released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team to Reuters on August 5, 2011. Drought, conflict and a lack of food aid have left 3.6 million people at risk of starvation in southern Somalia. The drought, the worst in decades, has affected about 12 million people across the Horn of Africa.

An internally displaced Somali child eats a meal outside their makeshift shelters at a settlement near Mogadishu, August 4, 2011. Drought, conflict and a lack of food aid have left 3.6 million people at risk of starvation in southern Somalia. The drought, the worst in decades, has affected about 12 million people across the Horn of Africa.

A child from southern Somalia takes food at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011. Thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu over the past two weeks seeking assistance and the number is increasing by the day. The worst drought in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions, the United Nations has said. More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda and the situation is deteriorating.

A malnourished child from southern Somalia at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011.

Malnourished Somali children are seen inside a paediatric ward at the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu August 4, 2011.

An unidentified Somali woman attends to her malnourished twin children inside a paediatric ward at the Banadir hospital in capital Mogadishu, August 4, 2011.

A malnourished Somali child cries at the sick-bay inside a paediatric ward at the Banadir hospital in the capital Mogadishu, August 4, 2011.

A malnourished Somali child is seen inside a paediatric ward at the Banadir hospital in the capital Mogadishu, August 4, 2011.

Internally displaced children queue for food supplies at the Badbado refugee camp in the south of capital Mogadishu August 1, 2011. Somalia's famine refugees, weakened by months of drought, on Monday began Islam's punishing Ramadan fast amid the tents and shacks of the world's largest refugee camp.