Cloaked in rags and dust, Somalis flee looming famine
A woman builds a shelter at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of Baidoa, in the southwestern Bay region of Somalia (AFP Photo/TONY KARUMBA)/ Baidoa (Somalia) (AFP) - Mariam Ibrahim, her seven children and two neighbouring families were the last to leave their village in southwestern Somalia. They loaded their combined belongings -- blankets, cooking pots, sleeping mats, jerry cans, clothes -- onto a hired donkey cart and walked beside it for 20 kilometres (12 miles) to Baidoa, the closest city. She joined thousands of others who are ...
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