Sorry had no time to gather her belongings.

She fled barefoot from gunman approaching her village.

But she did have one vital load.

Unborn twins do any day.

Soon after arriving at a nearby town in northern Burkina Fasso, she gave birth.

Her escape from violence was over.

Her battle with hunger had just begun.

Just to have the bare minimum to survive is very hard.

We don't eat enough and we have nothing to live from like we used to in the village.

It's 16 months since Habibou fled and gave birth.

Her boys, Hassan and Hossain, weigh 7 kg each, the same as a healthy four month old.

It's an escalating situation across Burkina Fasso and the wider Sahel region, where militants with links to Al Qaeda and Islamic states have killed thousands.

The bloodshed has worsened food shortages in a region already hit by poverty, climate change and the pandemic.

The United Nations says over half a million under five in Burkina Fasso are acutely malnourished.

On the World Food Program in October described more than 10,000 people as one step short of famine.

Am I not a czar?

Bray is a midwife.

It's a clinic in Kenya, where Habibou now lives, she says many of the mother she sees a suffering mental and emotional scars.

Some of the women here have been psychologically affected.

Eso How can a woman who was psychologically affected get her child out of a cycle of malnutrition?

The clinic is being overwhelmed by malnutrition.

Before the crisis, it had around 30 child patients.

Now it's 500 but at least it's open.

The violence has closed dozens of health facilities, and about 200 others are operating at minimum staff levels, government figures have shown.

And though many civilians are now relying on food aid, humanitarian agencies warn that they cannot reach some of the worst hit areas.