We found the baby trying to suckle his mother

We found the baby trying to suckle his mother."The 65-bed Medina hospital had to cope with more than 200 casualties a day during the last phase of the conflict. "There was one poor woman who had been trapped in her home for 15 days by the bombing. "We had to act, there were some terrible things happening," he says. Mohamed Abdulle Mahdi, of the Women Care Organisation, is helping to look after 1,800 people in the Sisse area. He went out to get food for his mother and brothers and sister.

I ask Allah every day why this happened ..." Her voice fades away.Local charities are diverting money from other projects to help those who have fled the last round of fighting. His body was discovered two days later, shot through the head. Ali's mother, Fadia Hassan, rocks on the torn piece of matting on her mud floor, clutching a picture of her son "He was a good boy. "We go into the city every day, we try to get work and the best paid will be one dollar a day.

If we cannot find work we have to beg or look into the dustbins."But the excursions out of the camp, the only way to find sustenance, have become highly dangerous in the past few weeks Ali Imani, 13, went out one morning and did not return. The children do not get enough to eat and they fall sick." Abdi Ali Hassan, 45, recalls: "We saw a foreign charity man here last year He came with a lot of armed Somali guards. He did not talk to us but took lots of photographs, but that is the last we saw of him," he says. "I remember in the very early days we used to have some food from the foreigners, but that was years ago We have one meal a day, maize and beans. But it is the first seen there for more than two years and will amount to meagre shares for the two and half thousand residents.