Food Shortages in Dadaab camp
Chronic food insecurity turned into a massive humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa. according to Care an International organization working in the area, More than 10 million people are in acute need of assistance. The situation, affecting large parts of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya,
- The situation is said to get worse as an estimated 1300 Somalis from the neighboring war torn Somalia keep pouring into the camp.
Humanitarian organizations operating in the area say children and women are the most affected. Limited medical facilities and the harsh conditions make it difficult to provide the much needed services. 
Horn of Africa: on the brink of a humanitarian crisisOne of the worst droughts in a century, compounded by high food prices and unremitting political strife, is spawning an immense humanitarian crisis on the Horn of Africa. Thousands of Somalis are fleeing their homeland each week; most of those who survive the brutal journey end up in refugee camps in neighboring Kenya.
Horn of Africa famine: Dadaab refugee camp takes the survivors | CrikeyBy now everyone has seen the pictures. They speak of humanity at its furthest extreme - skeletal children, dying mothers, fly-blown wounds on feet that have walked for days. In terms of the desperation of the situation, the pictures speak for themselves. The transformation that these images, broadcast on the nightly news, have had on the Dadaab refugee camp is noticeable.
