A girl poses for a portrait in a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Baidoa, Somalia, on Dec. 14. As people flee their homes because of drought, famine and fighting, camps have sprung up this year around the Somali capital and other cities. Luke Dray for NPR hide caption
Acutely malnourished child Sacdiyo Mohamed, 9 months old, is treated at Banadir hospital in Somalia on Saturday. Somalia's government has declared the drought there a national disaster. Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP hide caption
Displaced families line up to receive food rations at a feeding center in Somalia. Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Somali civilians line up for food during the famine this year. Militants are banning relief agencies who warn a quarter of a million Somalis are at risk of starvation. Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP hide caption
Children from southern Somalia fill jugs with water at a refugee camp in Mogadishu Tuesday. The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a U.N. aid official said Tuesday. Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP hide caption
Somali refugees wait at dawn at a registration center at the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya Tuesday, to receive aid after having been displaced from their homes in southern Somalia by famine. Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The World Food Program is airlifting Supplementary Plumpy to Mogadishu. Rein Skullerud/World Food Program hide caption
In Dadaab, Kenya, newly arrived Somali refugees lined up for tents Thursday (July 21, 2011). Oli Scarff/Getty Images hide caption
Monday (July 18, 2011): At a refugee camp near Mogadishu, a Somali woman cries after the death of one of her children. Mustafa Abdi/AFP/Getty Images hide caption