The crisis has been made worse by the influx of more than a half million Sudanese and Somalis fleeing war and famine in their countries.

Some 400,000 Somalis fleeing famine and conflict in their country live in the Dadaab refugee complex, which is now Kenya's third largest city.

Littlefoot flees famine and upheaval to search for the Great Valley, an area spared from devastation.

Thousands of Somalia's citizens have fled violence and famine and sought refuge nearby countries such as Kenya.

The Government said on Saturday that it was helping about 190,000 refugees return to the south, where they had fled famine and civil war.

Since the 1990s, over 23,500 refugees have defected from North to South Korea, fleeing severe famine and a repressive government.

However, by the late 19th century, peasants in northern Korea migrated to northeast China to flee famine and poverty.

JDC has also been instrumental in the rescue of Jews fleeing famine, violence, and other dangers around the world.

The Jews, Irish and other Europeans who fled pogroms and famine knew they would probably never return.

Women with small children fleeing war or famine, broken families without fathers living in slums, women and young girls forced into prostitution, even within the European Union.