displacement

Somalia: Families seeking help at a Mogadishu hospital August 25, 2011

Banadir Hospital, the government hospital in Mogadishu, is providing medical assistance to malnourished and sick people. The hospital is flooded with mothers and children, and there is a long line of people waiting to be admitted.

Somalia: Overwhelming needs in Mogadishu August 25, 2011

I just got off a Horn of Africa emergency response team phone conference involving dozens of colleagues in at least five different countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Somalia: Benti and her family in a Mogadishu displacement camp August 19, 2011

Benti and her family walked for more than 30 days to reach the displacement camp in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, where they now live in this makeshift shelter alongside thousands of others.

Somalia: Walking for weeks to reach Mogadishu's sprawling camps August 19, 2011

Somalia: In Mogadishu's overcrowded hospitals August 17, 2011

Somalia: An unimaginable situation August 15, 2011

Yesterday my colleague Cassandra Nelson, on the ground in Somalia, sent in several photographs of what she was seeing in Mogadishu, the country's crisis-ravaged capital to which our emergency response team has deployed.

Kenya: Saadia Farah and her daughter Amina in Wajir County, Kenya August 14, 2011

Eighteen-year-old Saadia Farah and her one-year-old daughter Amina, who are surviving the Horn of Africa's brutal famine with help from Mercy Corps.

Kenya: When the only asset you have left is hope August 14, 2011

At only 18, Saadia Farah is one of the many thousands of mothers that Mercy Corps is helping survive the drought crisis in East Africa.