Somalia, The Land Allah Forgot

Kevin Fleming

National Geographic

On the frontiers of existence, thousands of refugees of the Ogaden war crowd their huts together at Las Dhure camp in Somalia's Northwest region. A plague of disease hangs over this camp like the early morning fog. Tuberculosis and malaria are epidemic, but measles and diarrhea are the biggest killers, often claiming twenty or more victims a day.

Kevin Fleming, "Somalia, The Land Allah Forgot," in POYi Archive, Item #11332, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/11332 (accessed June 22, 2025).