U.N. agencies are calling for $1.6 billion from donor countries to help speed food aid to malnourished and starving refugees in East Africa.More than 11 million people are in need of aid in the region beset by the worst drought in 60 years, and 800,000 children could die from starvation, the U.N. says.Somalis are particularly vulnerable because the country is without a functioning government and al-Qaida linked groups have denied access to aid agencies."They have lost their crops. They have lost their livestock. They have lost any other means of income," Jeremy Konyndyk, policy director for Mercy Corps told the NewsHour. "In the case of people in southern Somalia, [they have] no choice but to either find aid, which is scant in that part of the world, or to flee."View a slideshow of the harrowing conditions Somalis face to find food below, and a complete list of ways to help, via InterAction:
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