Photos of the Horn of Africa's food crisis
Tens of thousands of East Africans have left their homes for refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia where food and water are more plentiful, but still scarce.
Newly arrived Somali refugees enter the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab on foot, near the Kenya-Somalia border August 3, 2011.DAUD YUSSUF/REUTERS
A malnourished child cries at a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in Dadaab, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011.Schalk van Zuydam/Associated Press
A dusty-faced young Somali boy waits with other Somali refugees lining-up at a registration centre on August 2, 2011 at Dagahaley refugee site within the Dadaab complex to be registered to receive aid.TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images
A newly arrived Somali refugee collects non-consumable welfare items from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) compound at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border August 3, 2011.DAUD YUSSUF/REUTERS
Somalis from the south of the country carry their belongings as they arrive in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011.Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press
A child from southern Somalia takes food at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011.Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press
A Somali displaced family waits for assistance near a street in southern Mogadishu after fleeing from southern Somalia regions on August 3, 2011.MUSTAFA ABDI/AFP/Getty Images
Abdihakin Omar 3, a malnourished child from drought-ravaged southern Somalia sits in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Thursday, July 21, 2011.
Somali refugees walk past storks July 21, 2011, on their way to collect water on the edge of the Dagahaley refugee camp, which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement in Dadaab, Kenya. The United Nations has declared a famine in parts of Somalia as the worst drought in 60 years has crippled the Horn of Africa.Oli Scarff
Famine is declared when acute malnutrition rates among children exceed 30 per cent and more than two people per every 10,000 die per day.
Newly arrived Somali refugees queue for tents being distributed on the edge of the Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya on July 21, 2011. More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa require food assistance due to the drought.
Approximately 1,300 Somali refugees fleeing drought and famine are arriving each day at the Dadaab complex in northeastern Kenya.
Among the most vulnerable to the drought and famine are two million children under the age of five in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti.
Refugees collect water on the outskirts of the LFO refugee camp.
In the two regions of southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle, deaths among children under the age of five are exceeding six per 10,000 per day in some areas
A child sits on the outskirts of the Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement in Kenya on July 20, 2011.Oli Scarff
Two severely malnourished children lie on a table in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, after fleeing from southern Somalia due to lack of water and food.
Somalis who fled from the drought-raved southern part of the country hold pots and containers as they wait to receive food at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
A woman and her children displaced by drought from southern Somalia sit in an open area in a makeshift shelter in a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
A woman from southern Somalia prepares food as her children watch at a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
Families from southern Somalia stand around a pool of rainwater in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday, July 11, 2011, after fleeing the drought-ravaged region.
A Somali government soldier stands guard as refugees from the drought-ravaged southern part of the country make their way to a new camp in southern Mogadishu's Hosh neighborhood on Tuesday, July 12, 2011.
Somali refugees from the drought-ravaged southern part of their country walk in line after receiving food, money and blankets distributed by their government in Mogadishu on Monday July 11, 2011.
Refugees from drought-ravaged southern Somalia wait for food aid from a Muslim Aid Organization, on Sunday, July 10, 2011, in Mogadishu, Somalia.