Humanitarian groups are increasingly worried about the looming budget cuts in U.S. foreign assistance. They argue that lives are at stake in places like the Horn of Africa, which is suffering its worst drought in decades.

Raising public and private money for that crisis been a challenge in the current economic environment.

InterAction, ONE, and World Vision are quoted in the story.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/12/141257957/besides-famine-somalia-suffers-donation-drought