Malnutrition is taking its toll on Somali children

Nearly too weak to cry, Masteha Jama Mohamed’s three-month-old daughter is barely the length of her forearm, as the severely malnourished baby struggles for survival in famine-hit Somalia. Mohamed is herself just a teenager: the 16-year-old mother says her baby has been sick ever since she was two weeks old, and now at 2.5 kilogrammes, is still only the weight of a newborn. But even after reaching Mogadishu’s Banadir hospital, she still fears her child might not survive. “I have not got help since I arrived,” said Mohamed wearily, who had been at the hospital for around six hours. “I am afraid that if she remains like this she might die.” Mohamed trekked from Afgoye town — the world’s…

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Malnutrition is taking its toll on Somali children

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