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Video: three months from declaration of famine - the "other Somalia"

Three months after famine was first declared in some states of southern Somalia, this slideshow focuses on the people northern Somalia, far from the headlines but struggling to cope with severe drought, lack of infrastructure and an influx of people from the south fleeing extreme drought conditions and violence.

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