Typical season compared to the drought of 2010-2011
Created by hfriedhoff on Jul 21, 2011
Last updated: 07/21/11 at 04:10 PM
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SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a photgraph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 16 July, a Somali woman and her malnourished baby emerge from a tent serving as a medical clinic established by the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeeping operation. The mission's Civil-Military Component (CIMIC) has erected five large waterproof tents in a camp for internally displaced people near the the city's airport to serve as accommodation and a medical centre, with Ugandan doctors serving with the mission offering free medical treatment for people affected and displaced by the drought currently ravaging Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa region. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a photgraph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 16 July, a Somali woman holds her severely malnourished baby outside a tent serving as a medical clinic established by the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeeping operation. The mission's Civil-Military Component (CIMIC) has erected five large waterproof tents in a camp for internally displaced people near the the city's airport to serve as accommodation and a medical centre, with Ugandan doctors serving with the mission offering free medical treatment for people affected and displaced by the drought currently ravaging Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa region. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a photograph provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, a Somali woman walks with her baby past African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeepers from Uganda standing guard in a camp for internally displaced people in the Somali capital, Mogadishu 15 July. While visiting the camp to provide humantarian assistance to recently arrived people displaced by the severe drought currently affecting many parts of the country and the wider Horn of Africa region, Amisom peacekeepers from Uganda evacuated more than 10 severely malnourished children by armoured personnel carrier who were in need of emergency medical attention and relocated them to their medical facility at their operational headquarters in the Somali capital. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a photograph provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, Somali men carry a severely malnourished child under the instruction of a African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeeper from a camp for internally displaced people in the Somali capital, Mogadishu towards the peacekeeping operations headquarters where the boy was admitted for emergency medical treatment, 15 July. While visiting the camp to provide humantarian assistance to recently arrived people displaced by the severe drought currently affecting many parts of the country and the wider Horn of Africa region, Amisom peacekeepers from Uganda evacuated more than 10 severely malnourished children by armoured personnel carrier who were in need of emergency medical attention and relocated them to their medical facility at their operational headquarters in the Somali capital. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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