Another famine in East Africa

The BBC is reporting that there are severe food shortages in Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti, with corpses of animals lying everywhere in Kenya and 2 million people in Somalia alone needing urgent food aid. So remember these folks as you celebrate Eid!

BBC NEWS: Starvation looms in African Horn

And more from Africa: the Saudis have [turned back a planeload of Nigerian pilgrims](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4587650.stm) after the plane entered Saudi airspace, due to a dispute over money with the Nigerian government.