Inside a Mogadishu hospital, a struggle to treat the smallest victims of famine

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Anfa Habib Mohamed's skin is leathery and wrinkled, her face gaunt as an old woman. Her cloudy eyes stare blankly at the ceiling, as flies land on her forehead. Every few seconds, she moves her thin, tiny fingers, the only visible sign that she is alive.

Anfa is 3 months old. On her medical form, she weighs 5.5 pounds, but even that seems generous. Her cheeks are more bone than flesh. Her mother admits that her child is closer to death than to life. "I am afraid," said Nasteha Jana Mohamed, 16, holding her still child in her lap. "If she remains like this, she will die."

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Neil Irwin 07 Sep, 2011

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