Desperate mother sends her children back to famine zone

DOLO ADO, Ethiopia - When Somali mother Eblah Sheikh Aden gathered her seven children and set off walking for Ethiopia to find food, she never imagined she would end up sending some of her brood back into the heart of famine.

But that's just what the 35-year-old did to four of them when she realized they were not going to get fed in time at one of the Horn of Africa's overflowing refugee camps - swelled by a deadly mixture of drought, war and bored donors.

"They were extremely sick, and there wasn't food here," she said in the Kobe Camp in Ethiopia. "I couldn't watch them die and had to make a decision."