DOLO, Somalia – As Somali mother Quresho Mohmoud Dahir celebrated Eid Al Fitr, she counted her blessings: all her children were alive. They had food. They were safe.
“We will eat very well today,” she said proudly, gesturing at the food rations she’d received on Tuesday morning. Her 12-year-old daughter sat protectively atop the two sacks of corn and the beans her mother was going to prepare.
Ms Dahir is one of hundreds of thousands of Somalis forced to flee their homes by war and famine. She and her six children, the youngest only three years old, walked 12 days to get to this United Nations-run camp on the Ethiopia-Somali border after her husband’s disappearance after some fighting in their area.
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