With the famine spreading further in and around Somalia, the Aid groups are appealing for more funding to cope with the crisis.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says the emergency situation requires an additional $86 million to cope with the famine in the country.
The drought and the famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 and has left 640,000 children acutely malnourished. Out of the population of about 7.5 million, United Nations says, 3.2 million Somalis need immediate life-saving support.
The UN says the whole of southern Somalia is likely to become a famine area within the next few weeks.
Malnourished Somali children cry inside a paediatric ward at the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu August 4, 2011. The famine gripping parts of southern Somalia has spread to three new areas of the country, with the entire south likely to be declared a famine zone within the next six weeks, the United Nations said on Wednesday.REUTERSA malnourished Somali child looks into the camera inside a paediatric ward at the Banadir hospital in capital Mogadishu, August 4, 2011. Drought, conflict and a lack of food aid have left 3.6 million people at risk of starvation in southern Somalia. The drought, the worst in decades, has affected about 12 million people across the Horn of Africa.REUTERSSomalia may have avoided a serious humanitarian crisisReutersAn internally displaced woman holds her malnourished son at the Banadir hospital in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, July 22, 2011. Islamist rebels in Somalia -- who control the parts of the country where famine was declared this week -- have said aid agencies they expelled from those areas last year cannot return, reversing a previous pledge.REUTERSA malnourished Somali child rests inside the paediatric ward at the Banadir hospital in southern Mogadishu, August 3, 2011. The Horn of Africa food crisis shows the need to provide the world's poor with better access to family planning as part of efforts to prevent future tragedies, the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said.REUTERSAn internally displaced woman holds her malnourished son at the Banadir hospital in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, July 22, 2011. Islamist rebels in Somalia -- who control the parts of the country where famine was declared this week -- have said aid agencies they expelled from those areas last year cannot return, reversing a previous pledge.REUTERSAn internally displaced Somali woman and her children arrive in capital Mogadishu, July 28, 2011. Aid groups, which have been clamoring for money to help famine-stricken Somalia, are struggling to reach millions in the affected areas. Some 3.7 million Somalis risk starvation in two regions of south Somalia controlled by Islamist al Shabaab militants. Yet more than 2 million of them have not received any help.REUTERS
