Making matters worse, 9 of her 10 cows have died in recent weeks, all drought victims.

According to the Vatican, the foundation has distributed more than $3.5 million on various projects to help drought victims and to combat the desert's spread.

The LBA funds were intended to supply relief to drought victims.

She said there were two million refugees, a far greater number of displaced people and 15 million drought victims in the region.

Already a £52million emergency aid package has been put together by the Government to help millions of drought victims in the Horn of Africa.

The approach recognised that issuing annual emergency appeals was unsustainable and did not secure timely delivery of food to drought victims.

Up to 80 percent of this East African nation's imports and exports, including emergency food for seven million drought victims, passes through Assab.

The water tank is tiny, and he has to scrub his pots and pans with the abstemiousness of a drought victim.

The warehouse, in Qaisar, in southwestern Afghanistan, supplies food to drought victims.

Other lawmakers questioned why drought victims should be treated differently than victims of hurricanes, earthquakes or floods.