Somalia oxfam save the children famine aid 2012 01 18

Aid agencies like Oxfam and Save the Children have tried to explain why they have moved slowly in response to famine in the Horn of Africa. Here, a dusty-faced young Somali boy waits with other Somali refugees lining-up at a registration centre on August 2, 2011 at Dagahaley refugee site within the Dadaab complex to be registered to receive aid after having been displaced from their homes in southern Somalia by a famine that is ravaging the horn of Africa region.