Thursday, August 11, 2011

Feeding the starving in Somalia

Aid is slowly trickling into Somalia to help the hundreds of thousands of people affected by drought and famine. In Doolow, the last town before the border with Ethiopia, hundreds have gathered to get their first hot meal in days at an NGO feeding point. Duration: 01:55

http://youtu.be/F9aM2riPr2A

Sunday, August 07, 2011

Photo Makes Somalia's Famine Front Page News

On Aug. 2, when most U.S. papers ran a front page photograph of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' return to the House, The New York Times went with Hicks' photo from Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia।

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/08/07/139025921/photo-puts-somalias-famine-on-the-front-page?sc=fb&cc=fp