We've got eight gunmen in the pickup in front of us, another seven are watching our backs in the vehicle behind. (..) Help is arriving here. A local Somali NGO, Saacid, showed us round some of its soup kitchens, where it serves some 80,000 meals a day. The maize comes from the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP), which is banned from operating in territory controlled by al-Shabab.