Famine in Africa - Help those in need to survive

The horn of Africa is again in serious trouble, on the verge of massive famine, even worse than the famine that ravaged Ethiopia in the 1980s.

Aid agencies have launched appeals for relief to tackle the humanitarian crisis that has left at least 12 million people in dire need of assistance.

The past year has been the driest year since 1951 in pastoral regions of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda. The drought has decimated livestock and forced food prices to soar. The World Food Programme has called the latest crisis a “creeping disaster”.