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A drought affected pastoralist resident of Manyata Chokaa near Isiolo, Eastern Province, Kenya on 6 July 2011. The manyata is home to many former pastoralists who lost livestock to drought and conflict. Credit: OCHA/Dan DeLorenzo

After losing her livestock to drought and insecurity, Mariah Makwawi survives by burning charcoal. In this picture, taken on 6 July 2011, Makwawi carries more than 50 kg of wood into the national park outside Isiolo to begin the burning process. Charcoal is a major contributor to deforestation in the area and is illegal. After seven days of labour, Makwawi risks arrest to sell the product for about 500 Kenyan Shillings (US$5.50). Credit: OCHA/Dan DeLorenzo

Drought affected people at a mobile health and nutrition clinic screening in Bisle woreda, Shinile zone, Somali Region, in July 2011. Credit: Jiro Ose/OCHA

Sericho, Kenya - 7 July 2011 -A girl sits atop the water pipe that provides a stable water source to the town of Sericho, Kenya. More than five thousand families in the area are benefiting from water points rehabilitated by NGO Actione Contre La Faim using funds from the OCHA-operated Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) for Kenya. Credit: OCHA/Dan DeLorenzo

JUNE - Drought in the Horn of Africa: People in Sericho, Kenya get water from a recently rehabilitated water point. More than 5,000 families in the area benefited from water points rehabilitated by NGO Actione Contre La Faim, using funds from the OCHA-operated Common Humanitarian Fund. Credit: OCHA/ Dan DeLorenzo

Garba Tula, Kenya - 7 July 2011 - The carcass of a camel that has succumbed to drought conditions lies on a roadside in Kenya. Credit: OCHA/Dan DeLorenzo

On 9 July, Somali women and children stand outside temporary tents provided by UNHCR (the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) in the Dagahaley refugee camp in North Eastern Province, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Clothing and other items hang on small trees near several makeshift tents. The camp is among three that comprise the Dadaab camps, located near of the town of Dadaab in Garissa District. Credit: UNICEF/Kate Holt

Somalia/internally displaced people (IDPs)/ Zulekha Mahad Ali, 25, with her son Zakariah Guled, 9 months, at the Bosasso general hospital. She brought her son due to severe malnutrition. Zulekha comes from South Central Somalia and she fled beacuse of the war. UNHCR/R. Gangale/May 2011

Children and adults queue to register for aid, at early morning in the Ifo refugee camp in North Eastern Province, near the Kenya-Somalia border. The camp is among three that comprise the Dadaab camps, located near of the town of Dadaab in Garissa District. Credit: UNICEF/Gangale

On 7 July, a Somali woman and a child wait to register for food and other aid in the Dagahaley refugee camp in North Eastern Province, near the Kenya-Somalia border. The camp is among three that comprise the Dadaab camps, located on the outskirts of the town of Dadaab in Garissa District. Credit: UNICEF/Kate Holt

On 7 July, Somali refugees wait to register for food and other aid in the Dagahaley refugee camp in North Eastern Province, near the Kenya-Somalia border. The camp is among three that comprise the Dadaab camps, located on the outskirts of the town of Dadaab in Garissa District. Credit: UNICEF/Kate Holt

JULY - Famine is declared in Somalia: Somali woman and children walk through a dust storm at the Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya. Over half a million Somalis, who had fled famine and conflict, now live in neighbouring Kenya. Credit: UNICEF/ Kate Holt

On 10 July, Fatima holds her baby son in their makeshift shelter on the outskirts of the Dagahaley refugee camp in North Eastern Province, near the Kenya-Somalia border. The camp is among three that comprise the Dadaab camps, located near of the town of Dadaab in Garissa District. UNICEF/Kate Holt

JULY - Famine is declared in Somalia: Zulekha Mahad Ali's nine-month-old son receives treatment for severe malnutrition at the Bosasso general hospital in Mogadishu. Credit: UNHCR/ R. Gangale

SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a photograph provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, a Somali woman holds her severely malnourished child during a medical evacuation to the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeeping operation's heaquarters for emergency medical treatment 15 July in the Somali capital Mogadishu. While visiting an internally displaced people's camp to provide humantarian assistance to recently arrived people displaced by the severe drought currently affecting many parts of the country and the wider Horn of Africa region, African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeepers from Uganda evacuated more than 10 severely malnourished children by armoured personnel carrier who were in need of emergency medical attention and relocated them to their medical facility at their operational headquarters in the Somali capital. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.

SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a photgraph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 16 July, a Somali woman and her malnourished baby emerge from a tent serving as a medical clinic established by the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeeping operation. The mission's Civil-Military Component (CIMIC) has erected five large waterproof tents in a camp for internally displaced people near the the city's airport to serve as accommodation and a medical centre, with Ugandan doctors serving with the mission offering free medical treatment for people affected and displaced by the drought currently ravaging Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa region. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.

SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a photograph provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, Somali men carry a severely malnourished child under the instruction of a African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeeper from a camp for internally displaced people in the Somali capital, Mogadishu towards the peacekeeping operations headquarters where the boy was admitted for emergency medical treatment, 15 July. While visiting the camp to provide humantarian assistance to recently arrived people displaced by the severe drought currently affecting many parts of the country and the wider Horn of Africa region, Amisom peacekeepers from Uganda evacuated more than 10 severely malnourished children by armoured personnel carrier who were in need of emergency medical attention and relocated them to their medical facility at their operational headquarters in the Somali capital. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.

Ethiopian girls collect water. Credit: IRIN

Newly arrived refugees from Somalia wait to be registered and receive food aid in Dadaab Refugee Camp, in North Eastern Kenya on the 7th July, 2011. The Disasters Emergency Commitee is tonight launching an appeal to provide humanitarian relief to nearly 10 million people in the region who are thought to be affected by a severe drought. Credit: IRIN News

Sericho, Kenya - 7 July 2011 - The bones of livestock that succumbed to drought conditions bake in sun in Sericho, Kenya. Like many parts of Kenya's arid northern regions, Sericho has not experienced the expected seasonal rains in three consecutive years. Credit: OCHA/Dan DeLorenzo