This week the Food and Agriculture Organisation warned that many people in Somalia are 'on the edge ' . Despite knowing the hardships people there face every day , government soldiers destroyed dozens of temporary shelters and shops at a refugee camp in southern Mogadishu , forcing the inhabitants to pile all their belongings onto trucks and move on . Shocking photographs show possessions piled 15-feet high on the back of trucks , with some of the now homeless owners sitting precariously on top . Despite knowing the hardships people there face everyday , government soldiers destroyed dozens of temporary shelters and shops at a refugee camp in southern Mogadishu . Some trucks carried so many possessions that men were forced to run alongside them to make sure that nothing fell off . Displaced Somali families carrying personal belongings vacate the camp , which was closed down by Somali forces , leaving hundreds of families without shelter in capital Mogadishu . Displaced Somali families help push a battered pick-up truck carrying personal belongings from the camp . A boy watches as Somali refugees load their belongings onto a truck - knowing that the hard life they all led just got even harder . It seems that nothing could be left behind , with fencing , mattresses , water canisters and chairs all crammed onto battered vehicles . As they set off , several men ran alongside them to make sure nothing fell off . The Food and Agriculture Organisation has launched an emergency appeal for $ 697million to help 30 million people in 31 crisis-hit countries , a senior official with the U.N. agency said on Tuesday . It has requested that Somalia receives $ 118million of this . Meanwhile , it emerged that a former Washington-area taxi driver who was on the FBI 's 'Most Wanted Terrorists ' list has been detained and is in the custody of the Somali government , a U.S. government source said . Desperate : Somali children sit in the heat , surrounded by their family 's meagre belongings . Uncertain : These refugees have been left wondering what to do next and are pictured standing among their scattered possessions . The Food and Agriculture Organisation said that there are many people in Somalia living 'on the edge ' The FBI in said in January it added Somali-born U.S. citizen Liban Haji Mohamed , 29 , to its watch list because he allegedly provided support to the Somalia-based Islamist militant group al Shabaab . The U.S. source said Mohamed was arrested several days ago by Somali authorities and was now in Somali custody , but it was not clear if or when he would be sent back to the United States . The Washington Post first reported on Monday that Mohamed had been detained in Somalia . Mohamed lived in the northern Virginia suburbs near Washington and drove a taxi . He left the United States in 2012 . He was said at the time to be an associate of Zachary Chesser , an American who pleaded guilty in 2010 to threatening the writers of the television show 'South Park . ' Somali refugees go about their daily lives on October 30 , 2014 , at the Sayyid camp south of Mogadishu . UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that Somalia risks returning to famine without urgent aid . A Somali refugee walks in front of a camp for internally displaced people near the Parliament in Mogadishu on December 4 , 2012 . The humanitarian crisis in Somalia is 'critical ' , Stefano Porretti , acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia , said recently .
Government soldiers destroyed dozens of temporary shelters and shops at a refugee camp in southern U.S. . Shocking photographs show possessions piled 15-feet high on the back of trucks , with the owners sitting on top . Nothing could be left behind , with fencing , mattresses , water canisters and chairs crammed onto battered vehicles .