The United Nations is warning the number of people needing food aid in the hunger crisis gripping the Horn of Africa stands to sharply rise over the coming months. Aeneas Chuma, the U.N.’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Kenya, said more than a million additional Kenyans will need aid by September.

Aeneas Chuma: “The food beneficiary population is expected to increase from the current 2.4 million, and the mid-season Kenya Food Security Steering Group assessment, conducted in May, indicates that up to 3.5 million people will need food assistance in the coming months.”

Around 11.6 million people are going hungry in the Horn of Africa region, which includes parts of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Areas of southern Somalia are enduring a famine, with one in 10 children at risk of starving to death. In the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a recently displaced resident described her family’s ordeal.

Mumino Moallim: “I fled from drought, and I do not have anything to eat, because my children are sleeping on the ground from hunger and disease. We get only one meal from the feeding center near our camp, and it is not enough for our children and us.”