It’s a triple tragedy for Somalia’s sick and starving refugees
Liiban camp in Baidoa, Somalia where people displaced by hunger are living as they wait for relief supplies. PHOTO | PAMELLA SITTONI
It was a question that must have been playing out on the mind of most of the journalists in the room at Somalia’s Mogadishu airport, after the country’s newly elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed them on why the world must come to the country’s aid.
What was more urgent for the president? Trying to keep his people alive, or trying to keep the country together?
