The first U.N. emergency airlift flight arrived in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi Sunday to assist the hundreds of thousands of Somalis who have fled the devastating drought and famine afflicting their homeland.The Horn of Africa is facing what is being called one of the largest humanitarian crises in 50 years. In Ethiopia, emergency refugee camps that opened just weeks ago are already at capacity. One Somali refugee named Safiala arrived at a camp in Ethiopia a week ago with seven children. It took them days to reach the camp. On the way tragedy struck.

Safiala Abdullahi, Somali refugee: “I became sick on the way, and therefore the child had nothing to eat, because I had no breast milk, so he died of hunger and dehydration. We called on passers-by to helped us dig a grave. We buried the child and left.”

António Guterres is the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

António Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees: “Our heart is broken when we see mothers telling us that after having walked for days to reach safety, they have lost their children on the way, to see children dying and the doctors not being able to address their situation because it is too late, and to see that we have a lot to do together.”