A displaced Somali girl holds her younger brother on her back as she waits for food distribution in a camp outside the capital Mogadishu after another round of street violence, 9 September 2007 – In a country ravaged by more than 15 years of armed conflict, compounded by droughts and flooding, the light at the end of the tunnel still seems to be just out of reach. The ICRC has been present in Somalia since 1977, working in close cooperation with the Somali Red Crescent as a key provider of emergency aid to the victims of armed conflict and natural disasters.