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Thousands of children at risk of death in Somalia
UN says aid efforts in drought-stricken country must be ramped up to save lives
A cholera epidemic is spreading in famine-hit Somalia, with alarming numbers of cases among people driven to the capital Mogadishu by a lack of food and water, the World Health Organization (WHO) said recently (AFP/Getty Images)
Over 100,000 people have fled into Somalia’s famine-hit and war-torn capital in the past two months in search of food, water and medicine (AFP/Getty Images)
Six-month-old baby named Ali lays on a table in a corridor at a local hospital in Mogadishu on August 16, 2011 after he was hospitalized suffering from diarrhea and fever (AFP/Getty Images)
Somalis displaced from their home villages by famine and drought receive food at a feeding center on August 16, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. The centre, which serves up cooked meals prepared from World Food Program aid, helps feed thousands of Somalis who have fled famine and drought in the countryside and have settled in makeshift camps throughout the Mogadishu (Getty Images)
Security guards try to control a surging crowd at a feeding center on August 16, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia (Getty Images)
A malnourished child awaits medical attention at the Banadir hospital on August 16, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia (Getty Images)
Some 12 million people in parts of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda and Somalia are in danger of starvation in the wake of the region’s worst drought in decades (Getty Images)
Somali women living in a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) gather around an almost empty oversized pot in the hope of receiving the last servings of a hot meal from a Somali NGO on August 15, 2011 (AFP/Getty Images)
Somali women and men living in nearby camps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) queue on August 15, 2011 to receive cooked meals in the courtyard of a Somali NGO who is partnered with the World Food Programme and who serves about 1,000 people daily with rations of cornmeal and vegetable soup (AFP/Getty Images)
Somali women caring for their sick children who are suffering from malnutrition crowd around a table where the body of another baby that had recently succumbed to malnutrition lies on August 15, 2011 (AFP/Getty Images)
Four-month-old Hamsa sleeps underneath a layer of gauze meant to keep flies away from her face while on a table in a corridor of a local hospital on August 16, 2011. Hamsa was according to a doctor on site who first saw her, in severe shock and suffering from acute malnutrition (AFP/Getty Images)
Somali residents of a camp for Internally Displace Persons (IDP’s) stand next to makeshift shelters covering a field in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on August 17, 2011 (AFP/Getty Images)
The massive influx of people into Mogadishu and the rising number of cases of acute watery diarrhea in crowded urban areas places malnourished children at grave threat from cholera, which is a deadly and contagious disease,’ UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said (AFP/Getty Images)
