13 million people at risk of catastrophic famine

JULITA ANOBI sits outside her mud hut, surrounded by dusty fields, grinding away at husks of maize which are normally fed to the chickens.

The crops should have provided enough to feed the 65-year-old woman and her 18-year-old grandson. Instead they wilted in the baking sun.

"It is a tragedy," she said. "There is nothing to eat and nowhere to go. We try not to eat the husks because they cause diarrhoea. But there is nothing else."