October 22, 2008

SOMALIA: Nasir Ahmed – “I feel bad every time I see children my age going to school”

HARGEISA, (IRIN) – More and more children are missing out on childhood as conflict continues in war-torn Somalia. Families who fled the violence have been separated from their children and, as poverty bites due to drought and hyperinflation, many children have taken to the streets to fend for their families. Nasir Ahmed, 12, is one such child in Hargeisa, the capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland.

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