Emotional Horn of Africa Appeal

10 million Muslims are suffering in the Horn of Africa amidst the worst drought seen in 60 years. Poverty has become extreme: children are dying of starvation, pregnancies are resulting in miscarriages and farmers' livelihoods are being destroyed.Many mothers along with their children say they have walked for a month on bare and bloodied feet to refugee camps in Kenya. Journeys of more than 300 miles are common. In their search for food and water, they have slept for weeks on burning sand under open skies.Water is now so scarce that the governor of the Middle Shabelle region, Abdullahi Moalim Hussain, recently said: 'Water is so expensive in the area that people are being buried without being washed, which is compulsory in Islam.'