Somalia, The Land Allah Forgot

Kevin Fleming

National Geographic

Somalia looks like a land forgotten. Seven years of drought, a depressed economy and war against Ethiopia over the Ogaden has fed Somalia's problems while her people starve. Here, a young Somali, his head shaved to prevent lice, cradles a baby goat outside his nomad family's hut in a refugee camp.

Kevin Fleming, "Somalia, The Land Allah Forgot," in POYi Archive, Item #11331, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/11331 (accessed June 22, 2025).