A woman carries several buckets on her head to fetch water in Isiolo district, northern Kenya in Africa, July 22, 2011. A savage drought, the most serious one since 1980s and the subsequent famine, gripped large swaths of the Horn of Africa this year, affecting large parts of Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia, leaving 12.4 million in urgent need of international aid.[Photo/Xinhua]