Newly displaced Somali women and children walk to a food distribution point at the Kaxda district, outskirts of Mogadishu. Somalia, a Horn of Africa country of 12mn people, is facing its third famine in 25 years of civil war and anarchy.
Newly displaced Somali women and children walk to a food distribution point at the Kaxda district, outskirts of Mogadishu. Somalia, a Horn of Africa country of 12mn people, is facing its third famine in 25 years of civil war and anarchy. At least 260,000 people died in the 2011 famine in Somalia — half of them children under the age of five, according to the UN World Food Program.