Guest: Thomas Gouttierre, Center for Afghanistan Studies, The University of Nebraska

Guest: Jeremy Bowen, BBC News

High global food prices have pushed the country even closer to the brink of famine by exacerbating the devastating effects of violence, displacement and chaos. The United Nations has declared a wide swath of central Somalia a humanitarian emergency, the final stage before a full-blown famine.

Anti-immigrant attacks have led to 22 deaths and the displacement of 13,000 people in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Takeaway talks with a professor and a migrant in South Africa as violence escalates.