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Dense shelters spanning as far as the eye can see have remained on the outskirts of Mogadishu a year after the crisis began.

And 3.8 million people in Somalia remain in crises and are in urgent need of assistance, while an estimated 325,000 children are acutely malnourished.

Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex alone houses 570,000 people. 18 that the Somali refugee population has exceeded one million. 18 that although there is currently no famine in Somalia and malnutrition rates have improved considerably over the last year, the situation remains fragile and progress could be reversed if aid is not sustained. It was compounded by high food prices and instability in the region. The drought had been prevalent in entire Horn of Africa and was described as the worst in 60 years. The famine has claimed tens of thousands of Somalis, was declared in the war-torn nation as a result of a severe drought. 20, hundreds of thousands of famine refugees living in camps outside of the capital say they still face hunger and desperation. As the WFP marks one year after famine was declared in Somalia on Friday, Jul. But they are not the only ones hungry here. It is hardly sufficient to feed this family of seven. Jama says that her family receives only 25 kilogrammes of grain, 25 kgs of flour, and 10 litres of cooking oil for a month. Famine may have ended, but for us hunger has not,' Hawa Jama, Miriam's mother, tells IPS. Here they live in squalor in a tiny shelter of only two square metres, in a camp that is run by self-appointed administrators who are often accused by the community of stealing aid.

And like the almost 400,000 famine victims who fled to the city for aid at the height of the crisis, Miriam, her parents and four siblings are still living in one of the many refugee camps outside Mogadishu. Weak and visibly malnourished, Miriam, like the rest of her family, hardly have enough food to eat.

20, Miriam has known no other life than the one in the Badbaado refugee camp, situated 10 kilometres outside the country's capital, Mogadishu. Born just as the United Nations World Food Programme declared famine in this Horn of Africa nation a year ago on Jul. * Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.Ībdurrahman Warsameh One-year-old Miriam Jama is a symbol of life in Somalia after the famine.

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