Cry of the children of Africa) اطفال افريقيا ينادون ويصرخون

تركي الوايلي · 2011-07-28, 02:38 AM

Skeletal, frail and hours from death: The haunting face of baby Mihag given 50% chance of survival after mother walks for a week to refugee camp

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Cradled in his mother's arms, this is the face of a skeletal seven-month-old baby starving to death in the Horn of Africa.
Weighing just seven pounds - as much as a newborn - Mihag Gedi Farah stares wide-eyed, his skin pulled taut over his ribs and tiny arms.
Mihag is just one of 800,000 children who officials warn could die across the region in the worst drought for decades.

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Aid workers are rushing to bring help to dangerous and previously unreached regions of drought-ravaged Somalia.
Many starving children and adults remain in the country far from the feeding tubes and doctors in field hospitals in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Sirat Amine, a nurse-nutrionist with the International Rescue Committee, said Mihag has just a 50-50 chance of survival.
The little boy should weigh three times what he does now.

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His mother, Asiah Dagane, said: 'In my mind, I'm not well. My baby is sick. In my head, I am also sick.'
A nurse at the camp said Mihag was 'severely, severely malnourished'.

She added: 'We never tell the mother, of course, that their baby might not make it. We try to give them hope.'
Mrs Dagane brought Mihag and four siblings from Kismayo to Kenya after all their sheep and cattle died. Their journey took a week.

Tens of thousands of Somalis are fleeing the starvation, many of them on foot, from Kismayo and the capital Mogadishu.

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