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'Where is the help?': black tea and dark despair as Somalia edges closer to famine
Friday 10 March 2017 13.24 GMT
With nothing to eat and no sign of respite, people in the Somali town of Caynabo are fighting to stave off malnutrition and disease as they survive off scraps
On a rock-hard dust bowl of barren land outside the Somali town of Caynabo, more than a thousand people have pitched up makeshift shelters as they figure out how to survive. Searing drought has all but destroyed their pastoral lifestyle and now it threatens to kill them.
They are among 6 million people here in Somalia in need of urgent food assistance to prevent a repeat of the 2011 famine that claimed a quarter of a million lives.
Amina Dahir, a mother in her 30s, travelled for two days and two nights to get here after the last remnants of the family’s livestock perished. She was accompanied by her six children and other relatives.
“People are coming every day like us, carrying what little belongings they have. But there is nothing here for us – nothing to eat, nowhere to go,” she says, holding up the empty bowl from which the family consumed their last remaining food this morning – a few portions of plain rice – along with their final water reserves.
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On a rock-hard dust bowl of barren land outside the Somali town of Caynabo, more than a thousand people have pitched up makeshift shelters as they figure out how to survive. Searing drought has all but destroyed their pastoral lifestyle and now it threatens to kill them.
They are among 6 million people here in Somalia in need of urgent food assistance to prevent a repeat of the 2011 famine that claimed a quarter of a million lives.
Amina Dahir, a mother in her 30s, travelled for two days and two nights to get here after the last remnants of the family’s livestock perished. She was accompanied by her six children and other relatives.
“People are coming every day like us, carrying what little belongings they have. But there is nothing here for us – nothing to eat, nowhere to go,” she says, holding up the empty bowl from which the family consumed their last remaining food this morning – a few portions of plain rice – along with their final water reserves.
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/10/somalia-edges-closer-to-famine-where-is-the-help-black-tea-dark-despair
I can't stand it. The little girl in the first photo of the article - her eyes.
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.B143/Official_USA_Site.htm