2011 Famine in East Africa

2. In this photo provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, a malnourished and dehydrated child lies on a bed in Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in Somalia in recent months, and over 11 million people across East Africa need food aid because of a long-running drought. (AP Photo/AU-UN IST, Stuart Price)

3. A malnourished child from southern Somalia sits at a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a U.N. aid official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

4. A malnourished child from southern Somalia lies on a mat 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, (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

5. In this photo of Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, three-year-old Ibrahim Abukar Abdi is fed through a nasal tube at Somalia's Banadir hospital in Mogadishu. Doctors say he is suffering from severe malnutrition and measles. His mother says there is no aid reaching the area she lives, 50 kilometers from the Somali capital of Mogadishu. The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in Somalia in recent months, and over 11 million people across East Africa need food aid because of a long-running drought. (AP Photo/Katharine Houreld)

6. In this photo of Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 and made available Wednesday, Aug.10, 2011, a mother puts her severely malnourished child in a specially made bag for weighing children under five at Kakuma mission hospital in Kenya's northern Turkana region, one of the most remote and marginalized areas in the country. Drought in the horn of Africa has caused the deaths of more than five people in Turkana, Kenya and has raised the cases of malnutrition among children. (AP Photo/ Tom Odula)  Adam Ibrahim, from Somalia, cries as his father Abdulle Ibrahim, left, comforts him during treatment at the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

7. A malnourished refugee from Somalia has a blood sample taken by a doctor at a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in Dadaab, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people now houses around 440,000 refugees. Almost all are from war-ravaged Somalia. Some have been here for more than 20 years, when the country first collapsed into anarchy. But now more than 1,000 are arriving daily, fleeing fighting or hunger. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

8. A displaced child sleeps next to a plate of food in a displacement camp in Dadaab, Kenya, Sunday, July 31, 2011. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people now houses around 440,000 refugees. Almost all are from war-ravaged Somalia. Some have been here for more than 20 years, when the country first collapsed into anarchy. But now more than 1,000 are arriving daily, fleeing fighting or hunger. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

9. A malnourished child from southern Somali rests in a makeshift shelter at a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011. The United Nations says famine will probably spread to all of southern Somalia within a month and force tens of thousands more people to flee into the capital of Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) 

10. The shrouded body of 12-month-old Liin Muhumed Surow lies on the ground before burial at UNHCR's Ifo Extention camp outside Dadaab, Eastern Kenya, 100 km (60 miles) from the Somali border,Saturday Aug. 6, 2011. Liin died of malnutrition 25 days after reaching the camp, her father Mumumed said. The drought and famine in the horn of Africa has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone, according to U.S. estimates. The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, suggesting the death toll of small children will rise. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

11. Relatives of Ibrahim Shegow of southern Somalia watch as he lowers the body of his 7-month-old boy into a grave in a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday Aug. 10 2011. The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a U.N. aid official said on Tuesday, Aug. 9. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) 

12. Muhumed Surow grieves following the burial of his 12-month-old daughter Liin Muhumed Surowlays at UNHCR's Ifo Extention camp outside Dadaab, Eastern Kenya, 100 km (60 miles) from the Somali border, Saturday Aug. 6, 2011. Liin died of malnutrition 25 days after reaching the camp, Mumumed said. The drought and famine in the horn of Africa has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone, according to U.S. estimates. The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, suggesting the death toll of small children will rise. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

13. A pregnant Somali woman sits by a tree trunk at UNHCR's Ifo Extension camp outside Dadaab. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)

14. A malnourished and dehydrated child lies on a bed in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu. (Stuart Price/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team via Reuters)

15. A malnourished child lies in a hospital in Mogadishu. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

16. severely malnourished Somali children receive fluids and nutrients intravenously at the Mogadishu Banadir hospital on July 30. (Tony Karumba, Mustafa Abdi/AFP/Getty Images

17. Khalif Yussuf reacts as nurses try to feed and clean him at a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in Dadaab. (Schalk van Zuydam/Associated Press  

18. Flies cover the face of a boy suffering from malnutrition at a hospital in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

19. Two-year-old Shiniyo, suffering from severe malnutrition, is bundled in her mother's arms while they stay at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders at a refugee camp in Dadaab. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

20. Four-year-old Said Nor, a malnourished child from southern Somalia, sits in a refugee camp in Mogadishu. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press

21. A young Somali refugee boy and his terminally ill mother, Haretha Abdi at Dadaab refugee camp, near the border of Kenya and Somalia in the horn of Africa. (Brendan Bannon/Polaris Images)

22. A severely malnourished child in the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Dagahaley refugee camp. Malnutrition rates have skyrocketed in the camp since the crisis began earlier this year. - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

23. Doctors Without Borders pediatrician Luana Lima checks on patients at the aid group's hospital in Dagahaley refugee camp Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

24. Daud Ali, a severely malnourished child at a Doctors Without Borders' therapeutic feeding center in Dagahaley camp Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

25. Twenty year old Abdi Hassan, a nomadic camel herder was beaten to a point of paralysis by al-Shabaab soldiers when he refused to allow them to take some of his camels as a tax. He fled Salagale by road with his wife and other relatives to Ifo Camp. He has been in the hospital since arriving in Kenya - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

26. Asli Adow Ali is the two-year-old daughter of Adow Ali from Salagale, Somali. The family arrived in Ifo in early July and Asli was admitted 27 days later. She is severely malnourished and receiving therapeutic feeding at the GIZ run hospital in Ifo camp. Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

27. Mariam Mohamud, 30, gave birth to a baby girl during the night. Mariam wrapped her child in a red cloth and holds her at a health-screening center run by Doctors Without Borders in Dagahaley refugee camp - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

28. A father cradles his severely malnourished child on a bus provided by UNHCR and IOM to move a group of stranded and vulnerable refugees from Hamey, Kenya. Most refugees make the journey from the border to the camps by foot at great peril. The roads are lined with bandits and many women report being raped during the trek - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

29. A displaced Somali woman cries after one of her children died of malnutrition at a camp near Mogadishu airport. (Mustafa Abdi/AFP/Getty Images

30. Siyad Ali, 2, a severely malnourished refugee from Somalia, cries after receiving treatment inside the stabilization ward in the International Rescue Committee clinic at the Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

31. Malaboy, 26, cradles her severely malnourished baby, Mahad, 2. The family arrived in June after fleeing drought and war in Baidabo, Bay region, Somalia. The journey took them 20 days. During their journey, they were set upon by bandits who beat the adults. Mahad was later admitted to a therapeutic feeding center - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

32. DADAAB, KENYA - JULY 24: Somali refugees wait at the entrance to the registration area of the IFO refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 24, 2011 in Dadaab, Kenya. The refugee camp at Dadaab, located close to the Kenyan border with Somalia, was originally designed in the early 1990s to accommodate 90,000 people but the UN estimates over 4 times as many reside there. The ongoing civil war in Somalia and the worst drought to affect the Horn of Africa in six decades has resulted in an estimated 12 million people whose lives are threatened. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

33. In this photo provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, malnourished and dehydrated children are seen on a bed in Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in Somalia in recent months, and over 11 million people across East Africa need food aid because of a long-running drought. (AP Photo/AU-UN IST, Stuart Price) 

34. In this photo provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, children sharing an intravenous drip are cradled by their mothers at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in Somalia in recent months, and over 11 million people across East Africa need food aid because of a long-running drought. (AP Photo/AU-UN IST, Stuart Price) 

35. A woman and her child receive treatment for malnutrition at a local hospital at the border town of Dadaab. People who can barely stay on their feet due to hunger walk for days or even weeks through parched wasteland to find a meal and water. Many of them also set out to seek help for their ailing children. (Schalk van Zuydam/Associated Press

36. A mother cradles her malnourished and dehydrated baby in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu. The United Nations says about 3.6 million people are at risk of starvation in Somalia as well as about 12 million people across the Horn of Africa region, including Ethiopia and Kenya. (Stuart Price/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team via Reuters)

37. Amina Salah Ali from southern Somalia cries next to her son who died at a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011. The United Nations says famine will probably spread to all of southern Somalia within a month and force tens of thousands more people to flee into the capital of Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) 

38. A Somali refugee waits at the entrance to the registration area of the IFO refugee camp, which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement in Dadaab, Kenya. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images) A Somali refugee girl sits perched on a tree in Ifo camp (Brendan Bannon/Polaris Images)

39. Newly arrived Somalian refugees settle on the edge of the Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

40. somalian refugees wait in the registration area of the Dagahaley refugee camp, which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

41. Somali refugees in Dagahaley refugee camp carry their sick and malnourished children to a new feeding center run by Doctors Without Borders on the outskirts of the sprawling refugee camp in Kenya   - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

42. A young boy takes bone-thin cattle in search of pasture at the edge of Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya. Many recently arrived Somali refugees have lost all of their animals to the ravishing effects of a prolonged drought in Somalia - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

43. Somali refugees wait in line at the reception center at Ifo camp. Refugees must first go to reception centers for health screening, immunization and finger printing. They will be given an appointment to be registered as refugees - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

44. A refugee uses twigs and scraps of material to build a shelter for her family. There is no room for most new arrivals in the Dadaab camps, so the thousands of people who arrive every week must carve out a place for themselves in the surrounding desert. Doctors Without Borders estimates that by the end of 2011 there will be 500,000 people living in and around the camps, which were originally built to accommodate 90,000 - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

45. A Somali mother enters the hospital ward for severely malnourished children in Ifo camp near Dadaab, Kenya Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

46. Fatuma Badel fled Buale, Somalia with 8 children after leaving her sick husband. "He became sick and I couldn't carry him. I don't know if he is alive or dead. This one, my youngest child was like a dead person when I arrived. Now I thank God I can hear him cry again." Badel has spent 3 days in the Doctors Without Borders hospital with her baby, Mohamud, who arrived severely malnourished. Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

47. A young Somali boy and his nomadic family fled Bardere, Somalia to Kenya in May 2011 because of hunger, drought and war. They traveled 32 days by foot and donkey cart relying on the kindness of people along the way for food and water A Somali refugee woman cradles her baby after dousing her elder daughter with water to keep cool under the sweltering sun - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

48. UNHCR protection officer, Mehreen Afzal, expedites registration for Qatmo Lidow Hussien, a handicapped refugee frrom Hagar, Somalia who arrived at the reception center in a wheelbarrow with her family - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

49. Refugees wait at a reception center immediately after arriving from Somalia. The registration process, which is key for refugees to get a regular, predictable and adequate supply of food, has become backlogged forcing many to wait two months to be formally recognized. - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images

50. Somali refugees dig the grave of Ibrahim Issack, a six-year-old child who died of complications of severe malnutrition a month after arriving in the camp, according to his uncle Hassan Issack. "We fled Buaale and traveled for 21 days by foot. It was very tiresome. we walked through drought with no food and little water. Along the way we were robbed and women were raped. - Brendan Bannon - Polaris Images