In pictures: UN allowed to intervene in Somalia famine

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  Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child with a weight of 3.4kg, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, Tuesday, July 26, 2011. The U.N. will airlift emergency rations this week to parts of drought-ravaged Somalia that militants banned it from more than two years ago, in a crisis intervention to keep hungry refugees from dying along what an official calls the "roads of death." Tens of thousands already have trekked to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, hoping to get aid in refugee camps.(AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

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  July 26 2011: Somalis from southern Somalia receive food at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia. The UN's foray into the famine zone is a desperate attempt to reach at least 175,000 of the 2.2 million Somalis whom aid workers have not yet been able to???

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  July 25 2011: Somalis displaced by drought wait in their makeshift shelter in Mogadishu. Some thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu seeking aid and The World Food Program executive director Josette Sheeran said Saturday they can't reach the estim???

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  July 25 2011: Somalis displaced by famine wait to receive rations at a displaced camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. Mohamed Sheikh Nor / AP Photo

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  July 25 2011: A man an from southern Somalia carries the body of his dead child from Banadir hospital in Mogadishu. Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP Photo

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  July 25 2011: Mothers from southern Somalia hold their malnourished children at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu. Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP Photo

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  July 26 2011: Somali prime minister Abdiwali Mohamed Ali, right, visiting the largest displaced persons camp in Mogadishu to assess the scale of drought victims flooding into the capital. The UN will airlift emergency rations this week to parts of droug???