Somalia--The Land Allah Forgot

Kevin Fleming

National Geographic

The right to life pales before the scourge of hunger among refugee children, like this month-old infant held by a German Red Cross worker at Las Dhure camp. The boy's relatives kept him barely alive on a diet of sugar and water after his mother died giving birth. By the time he was brought to the clinic, severe malnutrition had taken too great a toll, and the boy soon died.

Kevin Fleming, "Somalia--The Land Allah Forgot," in POYi Archive, Item #11329, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/11329 (accessed November 22, 2024).