A drought described as the worst in 60 years pushes some 13 million people across the Horn of Africa into crisis, and Somalia takes the worst of it after two decades of conflict. Fault Lines correspondents travel to Mogadishu, now filled with Somalis who fled famine and fighting in the al-Shabab-controlled south, and film the refugee camps and clinics where aid workers try to keep up with the arrivals. The UN estimate cited in the film puts three quarters of a million more lives at risk before year's end, on top of the tens of thousands already dead. Interviews with Somali officials, aid workers, and US administration figures lay out the competing explanations: a collapsed Transitional Federal Government, al-Shabab's restrictions on aid convoys, and Washington's counterterrorism priorities shaping what assistance actually gets through. The film asks directly whether aid to the region has become too politicized to save the people it's meant for. This is the first half of a two-part series on the US response to the famine.