Tuesday 27 April 2010

The horrors of being sick in Somalia

People including a mother with a sick boy wait to be seen at a clinic in Mogadishu. A few hours after this photo was taken, terrorists attacked the clinic with a mortar.But Somalia’s unending war and the targeting of foreigners has forced all but a few aid groups to pull out. A Human Rights Watch report released on Monday called Somalia “one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.”

Some of the mothers had walked from the port town of Kismayo with their sick children. That’s nearly 500 kilometres to Mogadishu, across dangerous, unforgiving terrain.
Read More 

No comments:

Why cows may be hiding something but AI can spot it

  By Chris Baraniuk Technology of Business reporter Published 22 hours ago Share IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Herd animals like...