NEW : U.N. announces a pledging conference for famine relief . ` More than 12 million people -- in Kenya , Ethiopia , Somalia and Djibouti -- are in dire need of help , and the situation is getting worse , '' said Valerie Amos , U.N . U.N. sources says Bakara got a shipment of weapons by sea . The government forces launched an offensive on September . The AU has issued another appeal for aid money .
NEW : U.N. announces a pledging conference for famine relief . U.N. sources says Bakara got a shipment of weapons by sea . The government forces launched an offensive on September . The AU has issued another appeal for aid money .