Aid workers rush to help East Africa

Map locates the famine area of Somalia. 

Muse Nesir, a 12-year-old malnourished child from southern Somalia lies on bed at Banadir hospital。

1.                              Somalis displaced (移走) by famine wait to receive rations at a displaced camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, July 25, 2011. Some thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu seeking aid and The World Food Program executive director Josette Sheeran said Saturday they can't reach the estimated 2.2 million Somalis in desperate need of aid who are in militant-controlled areas of Somalia.(AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

An unidentified child awaits treatment at a field hospital of Doctors Without Borders, MSF, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, Monday, July 25, 2011. A U.N. agency is hosting an emergency meeting in Rome on Monday July 25, to mobilize action to fight famine in Somalia, Kenya and other drought-hit nations in East Africa, estimating that more than 11-million people need help in the drought-hit region. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

A family sit on a bed at a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, Tuesday, July 26, 2011.

A child with feeding tubes in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, Tuesday, July 26, 2011.

A young Somali boy waits at the reception centre in Ifo refugee camp, one of three camps in Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex on July 25, 2011. Some 40,000 famine-hit people have fled to the Somali capital Mogadishu over the past month in search of food and water, the UN refugees agency said Tuesday

 Asiah Dagane holds Mihag Gedi Farah, her 7-month-old child with a weight of 7 pounds, 8 ounces (3.4 kilograms), at a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Mihag Gedi Farah is 7 months old, and weighs as little as a newborn with the weathered skin of an old man. His mother managed to get him to a field hospital in a Kenyan refugee camp after a weeklong odyssey, but the baby's anguished eyes, hollow cheeks and fragile limbs show just how severe Somalia's famine is becoming. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

  A malnourished child wait outside a makeshift (临时代用品) shelter, Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at a refugee camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia.

 Daud Karama 5-year-old malnourished child from southern Somalia lies on bed at Banadir hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, July 26, 2011, after fleeing from southern Somalia.

 Somalis from southern Somalia receive food at a feeding center in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, July 26, 2011.