Somalia Died Thousands because of famine|UNO

 the most latest news is brought to you by the newsexcel.com see the detail of this news ,The money comes on the heels of a $105 million relief package President Obama approved this week, bringing the level of U.S. assistance to the Horn of Africa to $508 million.
Andrew said he was inspired by images of skeletal babies and stick-thin children he saw on television, which led him to name his campaign Save Somali Children from Hunger.
Somalia (Reuters) - The semi-arid lands surrounding the frontier town of Dhobley in southern Somalia have become a dust-bowl, the thorny scrub stripped of all vegetation as famine grips the region and an exodus of the starving empties its villages.
"There are hungry people in Ghana but our situation is not as desperate as the people of Somalia," said the skinny, soft-spoken boy.
Because of the inability of relief organizations to operate in the regions where famine is greatest, tens of thousands of Somalis have left their homes. Growing refugee camps in Mogadishu and just over the border in Kenya are focal points for aid that is pouring into the Horn.
The U.S. estimates that more than 29,000 Somali children under age 5 have died in the country's famine the last three months.

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At the Kakuma Mission Hospital in northern Kenya, an incident between two mothers illustrates the growing desperation among refugees as a famine in neighboring Somalia that has killed tens of thousands draws an international aid effort.
The World Health Organization has said it is very concerned about disease outbreaks in drought-hit East Africa, due to a lack of clean water for drinking and bathing, overcrowding in camps and the low tolerance to disease of starving young children.
More than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa are in need of immediate food aid, including nearly half of Somalia's population.

Aid is only reaching about 20 percent of the 2.6 million Somalis who need it, Mark Bowden, the U.N.'s top humanitarian official for Somalia, said on a visit to Mogadishu on Monday. The situation is better in the Somali capital, where about half the city's 600,000 inhabitants are receiving aid, he said. Still, camps in Mogadishu for displaced people are among the five declared famine zones in Somalia.
Thousands of Somalis fleeing the famine have poured into Kenya and Ethiopia, compounding the problems faced by those two nations.

Around 12.4 million people in the region currently face acute food shortages and 3.2 million in Somalia need "immediate lifesaving assistance," the UN said.