Truly important news from Somalia continues to NOT make front pages of newspapers or top stories on nightly news

There’s a lot of news in the world.. but one place seemingly ignored all of the time is Somalia. The latest, as described by the AFP, can bring tears to your eyes:

Nearly too weak to cry, Masteha Jama Mohamed’s three-month-old daughter is barely the length of her forearm, as the severely malnourished baby struggles for survival in famine-hit Somalia.

Mohamed is herself just a teenager: the 16-year-old mother says her baby has been sick ever since she was two weeks old, and now at 2.5 kilogrammes, is still only the weight of a newborn.

But even after reaching Mogadishu’s Banadir hospital, she still fears her child might not survive





Truly important news from Somalia continues to NOT make front pages of newspapers or top stories on nightly news