Hard times in East Africa

As a result, the strongest in 60 years of drought in East Africa, which affected 11 million people, the United Nations for the first time in this generation has officially declared famine in that region. Overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia are taking every day, about three thousand people, many families run out of victims of famine and armed conflict regions. The already scarce water resources and food, supporting millions of people in the Horn of Africa, is rapidly disappearing, and families who still have the strength to go through hundreds of miles, hoping to reach the center of refugees in search of food and aid. Many simply die on the road. The authorities have warned that about 800 thousand children will die of hunger in East Africa - Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya. Charitable organizations are faced with a difficult situation: a slow response of Western vlasteyi African governments, terrorist groups, block access to the region, acts of terrorism and anti-terrorist laws that restrict the activities of humanitarian organizations, not to mention the scale of the current situation. Here are a few dozen photographs taken in recent weeks in East Africa.