significantly larger than wheals. is this your miracle baby? eight weeks premature and weighing less than a kilogram at worth, this baby has made a remarkable progress. his mother died a day after he was born. his grandmother, disabled, now must raise him. reporter: the maternal mortality rate here is nine and a half times higher than afghanistan. four and a half times higher than somalia, and 927 times higher than countries like sweden and spain. more women die giving birth here than anywhere else in the world. security is a major factor. repeat attacks by al qaeda linked al shabaab have caused government and aid agencies to shy away from the region. child marriage is another factor. with girls giving birth before
and for some time now, it seems like they were on their heels in the southern part of the country. does this seem to you a resurgence of them or just a sign that they ve always been out there just cooling their heels for a while? well, al shabaab have been on the lower rung of the hierarchy for al qaeda. recently we have to consider this incident in a long line of a chain of events where al qaeda are regrouping. i believe we have prematurely declare wed have defeated al qaeda. and of course we have got to understand that al qaeda achieved more thanity could have dreamed of under bin laden s leadership. and now with this attack in kenya, somalia s al shabaab have
al qaeda, back fl february of 2012. so there is a relationship there, members of al shabaab have traveled to afghanistan and melissa, there s also what i ll call an axis of al qaeda concern, where al qaeda in yemen has worked closely with al qaeda in somalia. they train together, there is information exchange, tactics and techniques. that area concerns u.s. officials. does al shabaab have the ability to project power and threats against the united states and the homeland? absolutely not. but somalia americans have gone to somalia to fight within the civil war for clan reasons. motivated by their ancestral country and the obligation they felt to support their local tribe. the concern that law enforcement and counterterrorism officials have, is that these individuals could ultimately come back to the united states, and if they so chose to, then plan and launch attacks here. that hasn t happened, and i don t want to overemphasize
it s important to say they are not saying there is a specific threat, but what they are saying is there is a continued threat. certainly from al qaeda and affiliate organizations, and it notes that briefly al qaeda and the terrorists groups have linked their attacks to significant dates, and of course 9/11, there couldn t be anymore specific or significant dates than that. you know, i was just talking with a friend that said is this something that we should really, really be worried about. the state department issues these, randy, on a regular basis. in fact, this supplements another caution that was issued. it s the responsibility of the state department to warn americans who are abroad about this. that said, it is, of course, 9/11, very significant and the state department is saying there s a continuing threat out there. but it s not a travel alert for those here at home, it s for those who are traveling abroad or residing abroad? yes, that s what the state department d