Famine Victims Crowd Somali Capital

The World

Famine continues to ravage the Horn of Africa sending desperate families streaming into Mogadishu. BBC correspondent Andrew Harding is in the Somali capital, and he tells host Lisa Mullins about the effort to get aid to those who need it most.

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