Herizal Alwi: kelaparan di Somalia selatan

By late August, from famine in southern Somalia will die each day 2,500 people, if not now begin to provide the necessary assistance to the hungry, the UN predicts.
In mid-July, the UN officially declared the famine in the two southern regions of Somalia, and in early August that another six regions close to that line. Famine in Somalia have already recognized one of the biggest humanitarian disasters of this kind in human history. According to current projections, hunger may take away the lives of over 12 million people across Africa.

1. A child suffering from malnutrition in a hospital in Mogadishu. Associated with "al Qaeda" Islamic group "Jamaat Al-Shabaab" controls much of southern Somalia and does not suffer from hunger for people to leave the country. Islamists established a camp where persons who attempted to flee from areas controlled by the group. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

2. Koufo Ali Abdi is the body of his 3-year-old daughter, who died of measles in a hospital Mogadishu. "I hope that they will be able to save others," - says Abdi, who still had two children. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

Голод<br /> в Восточной Африке продолжается

3. The woman next to a child who is suffering from the effects of malnutrition in hospital "Banadir" in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

4. Flies swarmed the person suffering from the effects of malnutrition in hospital, the boy stolitss Somalia. Hunger - not just the result of prolonged drought, but the Islamist group "Jamaat al-Shabab," which ousted from the country's many Western humanitarian organizations, thereby depriving the drought-affected residents needed assistance. The situation is daily becoming more and more difficult - tens of thousands of Somalis have died and more than 500 thousand children are on the brink of starvation. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

5. A person suffering from the effects of malnutrition on the boy's closed veil flies in the hospital, Mogadishu. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

6. Every day, thousands of Somalis are leaving the epicenter of the crisis and the run to the capital or in overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. In the photo: People who have fled their villages, arriving in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

7. According to the UN for assistance in urgent need of about 12 million people, not just in Somalia but also in Ethiopia and Kenya - two other countries in the region, whose population suffers from hunger, which resulted from the drought. In the photo: People are building a tent in a makeshift camp in Mogadishu. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

8. People who have fled from their villages, build temporary housing on arrival in the capital of Somalia. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

9. Every day, about a thousand Somalis from southern regions swell army of destitute in Mogadishu. In the photo: A woman holding a child suffering from hunger and the effects of malnutrition. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

10. Children on the brink of starvation in a hospital Mogadishu. The current drought - the strongest in East Africa for 60 years. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

11. A woman bathes a child suffering from malnutrition. Members of the group "Al-Shabaab" said the message of the UN a strong hunger in the country are "explicit propaganda," and upheld the ban on humanitarian aid by Western organizations. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

12. A woman carries a child in temporary housing in Mogadishu. According to the UN, on the brink of survival is about one-third of the Somali population, as well as millions of people in other countries, the Horn of Africa - Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

13. The authorities have warned that about 800 thousand children will die of hunger in East Africa - Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times)

14. Soldiers of the Interim Federal Government of Somalia border patrol Somali town Dhobli. Thousands of people arrived in Mogadishu in hopes of getting humanitarian aid.Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Josette Sheeran said that the organization is unable to feed 2.2 million Somalis are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. (AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam)

15. The Somalis are in line for humanitarian aid to Mogadishu. Items of humanitarian aid to drought-stricken East African countries are full of thousands of hungry people, many women leave their children die by the wayside, because they can not reach the centers for assistance. (AP (AP Photo / Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

16. Aerial view of the Dadaab camp in Kenya. C the beginning of Ramadan register new arrivals is much slower than usual. The situation is complicated by the fact that many of the refugees, already severely depleted, are determined to comply with the prescribed daily Ramadan fast. (AFP PHOTO / Tony KARUMBA)

17. Newly arrived Somali refugees settle in the outskirts of the camp «Dagahaley», which is part of a huge settlement of refugees in Dadaab, Kenya. Refugee camp in Dadaab, founded in the early 1990s, near the border of Kenya and Somalia, was originally designed for 90 thousand people, but, according to UN estimates, now live here 4 times more refugees. The civil war and the strongest in 60 years of drought, the lives of nearly 12 million people were in danger. (Photo by Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

18. A Somali refugee woman is driving a herd of goats in the camp of «IFO», which is part of a huge settlement of refugees in Dadaab, Kenya. UN calls on Kenya to open new camp for refugees. Dadaab, had grown to gigantic proportions, is no longer accommodate all the refugees from Somalia. (Photo by Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

19.Rabotniki warehouse unloading sacks of food in the camp of Dadaab. (AFP PHOTO / Tony KARUMBA)

20. Somali refugees waiting at the entrance to check-in area refugee camps «IFO», which is part of a huge settlement of refugees in Dadaab. (Photo by Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

21. A Somali refugee woman carries a sack of humanitarian aid past the people waiting in the reception area refugee camps «IFO». (Photo by Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

22. Somali women and children waiting for food distribution in the area of dolomite in southern Somalia. July 26 air delivery of food, carried out by the World Food Programme, have been suspended due to have arisen in the last minute problems with the documents. (PETER MARTELL / AFP / Getty Images)

23. Somali refugees out of their huts on the outskirts of the camp «Dagahaley», which is part of a huge settlement of refugees in Dadaab, Kenya. Thousands of Somalis have fled the country, fleeing from famine and violence. (Photo by Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

24. Somali refugee is digging a hole for the latrine on the outskirts of the camp «IFO», which is part of a huge settlement of refugees in Dadaab. (Photo by Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

25.Pozhilaya woman sits waiting for food distribution in the center of food distribution in Lokute near Wajir. (SIMON MAINA / AFP / Getty Images)

26. Somali refugee rests on a wheelbarrow in front of the check-in area refugee camps «IFO», which is part of a huge settlement of refugees in Dadaab. (Photo by Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

27. The boy from southern Somalia, wrapped in cellophane film in a refugee camp in Mogadishu. ((AP Photo / Farah Abdi Warsameh))

28. Doctor examines depleted seven-month boy in a field hospital the International Rescue Committee camp Dadaab. (AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam)

29. Suffering from malnutrition, weak-minded child of Somalia is tied to the bed, lest he fall from it. The picture was taken at the field hospital the International Rescue Committee camp Dadaab. (AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam)

30. The doctor takes a blood sample from undernourished Somali refugee in a field hospital the International Rescue Committee in Dadaab, Kenya. (AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam)