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/ 20 November 2007
Aid workers are calling it Africa’s biggest humanitarian crisis, but no one has to tell Fatima Usman how rapidly things have gone bad in Somalia. The slender 23-year-old’s son Mohamed died of hunger. So did her daughter Isha. ”I am praying to God that he will not take this baby yet,” she says, gently cradling the wizened face of Muhiadeen, her four-month-old son.
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/ 30 December 2006
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed arrived on Saturday in Mogadishu’s western township of Afgoye a day after his prime minister entered the capital, abandoned by its Islamists rulers who vowed however to continue their fight. The Islamists, which had controlled Mogadishu since June when they routed a United States-backed warlord alliance that lawlessly ruled the city.