TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JENNY VAUGHAN:Sé

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JENNY VAUGHAN:Sécheresse: les dirigeants africains appelés à contribuer jeudi One-year-old Ejigayehu (R) who suffers from malnutrition after her family's maize crop failed this year because of delayed rains sits next to the mud hut that her family calls home in Shebedino on August 6, 2011. Ejigayehu is one of more than 250,000 in Ethiopia's southern region in need of food assistance as drought in the Horn of Africa has affected more than 12 million people, and children are the most vulnerable. African leaders will attend a conference on August 25 in Addis Abeba to raise funds for millions suffereing from drought in East Africa and famine in southern Somalia. AFP PHOTO / JENNY VAUGHAN (Photo credit should read JENNY VAUGHAN/AFP via Getty Images)