“I had to leave some of my children behind.” In a crowded shelter, Amina Abdi Hassan tells how she fled famine because of the drought. From the south of Somalia she walked with some of her children to the capital Mogadishu. But even there she is still hungry; there is too little help.
It is just one of many examples of families displaced in Somalia. The country is on the brink of famine, the United Nations warns. It has not rained enough in the East African country for four seasons in a row, resulting in many crop failures. Food prices have risen sharply and there is too little money for humanitarian aid.
More than seven million people, almost 50 percent of the population, have a hard time getting food, according to the UN.
Thousands of families in the Horn of Africa are fleeing the drought. Hospitals and refugee camps in Somalia are overcrowded. Amina Abdi Hassan tells how she left some of her children and walked with the rest to a camp in Mogadishu:
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