Famine in East Africa
A malnourished Somali child is force-fed at a Mogadishu hospital.
Somali parents care for their sick children at a Mogadishu hospital, where most children who are admitted are suffering from
Famine in East Africa
A malnourished Somali child is force-fed at a Mogadishu hospital.
Somali parents care for their sick children at a Mogadishu hospital, where most children who are admitted are suffering from malnutrition and related illnesses.
A Somali child looks up toward doctors after being admitted to a Mogadishu hospital.
The father of 3-year-old Mariam Jele washes her hair at a camp in Mogadishu for Somalis who were displaced by drought and famine.
Gaunt and malnourished, Farhia Abdule, 5 months, awaits medical attention at the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
A Somali refugee washes her children immediately after they were registered and received rations at the Dadaab refugee complex.
Somali women wait in line outside a food distribution center in Mogadishu.
A Somali woman holds her ration card as she waits to receive a tent at a camp in Mogadishu.
Somalis stand in the arch of an old buildiing near a field covered with makeshift shelters in Mogadishu.
A Somali girl sings to her classmates during class at the Illeys primary school in the Dagahaley refugee camp north of Dadaab, eastern Kenya, 60 miles from the Somali border.
Somali boys walk through the Dagahaley refugee camp.
A malnourished Somali boy waits for food rations at a displaced persons camp in Mogadishu.
Somalis wait in a line for food rations at a camp in Mogadishu.
Ibrahim Abukar Abdi, 3, is fed using a nasal tube at Somalia's Banadir hospital.
A malnourished Turkana girl, Gloria Akae, is being held by her grandmother at the stabilization center at the Lodwar medical hospital.
A Somali boy waits to collect water at UNHCR's Ifo Extension camp outside Dadaab, eastern Kenya.
A malnourished and dehydrated child lies on a bed in Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
A malnourished Somali child sits in a makeshift refugee camp in Mogadishu. International aid officials estimate 29,000 children have died in the last 90 days in southern Somalia and 640,000 others are acutely malnourished.
A Somali child is examined by a doctor at a food distribution point in Mogadishu.
A Somali refugee holds her prayer tablet at an outdoor school at the Ifo camp outside Dadaab, Kenya.
A Somali woman and her two children leave a clinic at a refugee camp in Mogadishu.
A Somali child pulls a water container near the Ifo Extension refugee camp outside Dadaab.
A pregnant Somalian refugee woman sits in the Ifo Extension refugee camp outside Dadaab.
The body of Somali refugee Liin Muhumed Surow, 12 months-old, is prepared for burial at a United Nations camp outside Dadaab, Kenya. Surow died of malnutrition 25 days after reaching the camp. Drought and famine have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 in the past 90 days.
Somali refugee children eat a meal at a camp in Mogadishu.
A Somali woman waits inside a food distribution center at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. The Dadaab camp, designed for 90,000 people, houses about 440,000 refugees. A drought and famine in Somalia have affected more than 11.5 million people in the region, creating a triangle of hunger where the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia meet.
A Somali refugee feeds his child at an International Rescue Committee field hospital in Dadaab, Kenya.
People wait outside a food distribution center in Dadaab.
Somali refugees gather at a water distribution point at a new housing area in Dadaab. The Ifo site houses 5,000 refugees and will accomodate 90,000 refugees by the end of November.
A man holds his malnourished child at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia.
A malnourished child lies on a bed at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
A woman walks away with a ration of food at a relief distribution center in Lokitaung, Kenya.
A refugee woman waits inside a United Nations food distribution center in Dadaab, Kenya.
Women stand in line for food at a World Food Program compound at a refugee camp in Dadaab.
A Somali refugee gives water to her daughter at a distribution center in Mogadishu.
A man rests next to his malnourished child at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Doctors examine Mihag Gedi Farah at an International Rescue Committee field hospital in Dadaab, Kenya. The 7-month-old child weighs 7.5 pounds.
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