Photos: Drought in Somalia
Learn about the drought in Somalia and how you can help.
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"Worst Humanitarian Disaster" - The drought in Somalia is being called the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world by the head of the UN refugee agency. Thousands of families have left their homes in Somalia in search of food, heading to where the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia meet. Hundreds already have died, and images of children with skinny, malnourished bodies are becoming commonplace in what is becoming known as the triangle of hunger in Africa. Learn more about the crisis and how you can help.\rA child from Southern Somalia stands outside a makeshift shelter in Mogadishu, Somalia.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
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Malnourished Children - The severe drought has plunged millions of Somalis into crisis after rains failed for several consecutive seasons in this Horn of Africa nation, and the U.N. and aid groups are warning of the possibility of a looming catastrophe. The drought has increased the number of malnourished children in some regions, displaced thousands of people and killed thousands of animals. Officials in a central Somali region said 18 people died of drought-related effects.(Photo: AP Photo Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Thousands Seek Refuge - The U.N.'s refugee agency says Dadaab's three camps now host more than 382,000 people, while thousands more are waiting at reception centers outside the camp. More than 135,000 people have fled Somalia this year—including 54,000 in June, three times as many as in May, says the UNHCR.UNHCR's Antonio Guterres is surrounded by Somali refugees as he speaks to the press in an area where recent arrivals from Somalia have settled, on the outskirts of Dagahaley Camp, outside Dadaab, Kenya.(Photo: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Appeal for Donations - The U.N. High Commisioner for Refugees has appealed for $136.3 million to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe amid a growing exodus of Somalis fleeing conflict and drought in their homeland.Somalis wait for food aid from a Muslim Aid Organization.(Photo: AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Fleeing to Mogadishu - Somalis aren't only fleeing to Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to the capital city of Mogadishu. Thousands have arrived in Mogadishu over the past two weeks seeking assistance and the number is increasing by the day, due to lack of water and food. A Somali family from southern Somalia displaced by drought eat food after their first night spent in open grounds without shelter and basic necessities in Mogadishu.(Photo: AP Photo Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
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Dying Cattle - The drought in the Horn of Africa is experiencing pre-famine conditions. The epicenter of the drought lies on the three-way border shared by Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, a nomadic region where families heavily depend on the health of their livestock. (Photo: AP Photo/ Sayyid Azim)
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Rebels Seek Aid\r - Somalia's top militant group has asked the aid agencies it once banned from its territories to return. Women from Southern Somalia carry food after receiving aid from a Muslim organization in Mogadishu after fleeing from Southern Somalia.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Waiting for Food - Families line up for food aid.(Photo: AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Seeking Comfort\r - An old man from Southern Somalia walks on makeshift crutches amongst makeshift shelters on the road near a church in Mogadishu.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Nourishment - Women carry food after receiving aid from a Muslim organization in Mogadishu.(Photo: AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Setting Up Shelter\r - Somali women from Southern Somalia assemble a makeshift shelter at a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
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Waiting for Food\r - A woman and her child from Southern Somalia wait outside a ruined building in Mogadishu.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
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Starving - (Photo: AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
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The Innocent\r - A Somali child from Southern Somalia sleeps in open ground in Mogadishu.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
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Cattle Dilemma\r - Pastoralist Darar Kamil, 70, owns 40 goats but is losing them at a fast rate because heavy droughts have vanished all graze land in the drought-stricken remote Somali region of Eastern Ethiopia, also known as the Ogaden.\r(Photo: AP Photo/ Luc van Kemenade)
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Recent Arrivals\r - Recently arrived Somali refugees stand outside their makeshift shelter in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Dagahaley Camp, outside Dadaab, Kenya.\rUNHCR estimates 1300 new refugees fleeing drought and hunger in Somalia are arriving daily in the Dadaab area of Northern Kenya.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Journeying for Food\r - Somali refugees walk amongst makeshift shelters and United Nations tents in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Dagahaley Camp outside Dadaab, Kenya.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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A Lifesaving Morsel\r - A mother feeds her malnourished child at a health center in the drought-stricken Ethiopian-Somali region also known as the Ogaden. More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda and the situation is deteriorating.\r(Photo: AP Photo/Luc van Kemenade)