On a sandy stretch of land in southwest Somalia, a number of hundred folks disembarked vans, their eyes taking within the barren, makeshift camp that can be their new residence. Among them was Halima Ismael Ibrahim, a thin single mom of 10.
“We left to save ourselves,” Ibrahim tells me the subsequent day, as she cradled her youngest boy, a crying two-year-old, beneath the beating 40-degree solar they nonetheless had no respite from. She recalled how her household’s goats, camels and donkeys had collapsed and died from lack of meals and water.
