Thursday, 11 August 2011

A tortured choice in famine: Which child lives? (AP)

Faqid Nur Elmi's  poses outside her hut in Dagahaley refugee camp north of  Dadaab, Eastern Kenya, 100 kms (60 miles) from the Somali border, Thursday Aug. 11, 2011.  When her 3-year-old son succumbed to hunger and thirst while fleeing Somalia's famine, she could only surround his body with small dried branches to serve as his grave. She couldn't stop to mourn — there were five other children to think about. The United Nations warned Wednesday  that the famine in East Africa hasn't peaked and hundreds of thousands of people face imminent starvation and death without a massive global response.About 1,300 new refugees arrive each day in Dadaab camps in northeastern Kenya. The new influx are running away from a famine that is getting worse in southern Somalia as an al-Qaida-linked militants in the country barred some major aid groups from operating in its areas of control, worsening the situation of the most vulnerable people. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her 1-year-old daughter on her back and her 4-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia's drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some of the little water she had on his head to cool him, but he was unconscious and could not drink.



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