Under the blazing sun, Salado Adan Mohamed puts the finishing touches on her makeshift shelter, cobbled together from branches and fragments of discarded cloth. She has arrived in the southwestern Somalian city of Baidoa, the last refuge for people fleeing the worst drought in the country in a decade.
Along with her three children, the 26-year-old mother walked for five days “without eating” to make the 70km trek from her village to Baidoa. She settled in Muuri, one of 500 camps for displaced people in the city, where aqals traditional dome-shaped huts have been hastily built.
Desperate, hungry and
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