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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Thousands of sacks of food aid meant for Somalia's famine victims have been stolen and are being sold at markets in the same neighbourhoods where skeletal children in filthy refugee camps can't find enough to eat, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Families at the large, government-run Badbado camp said they were often forced to hand back aid after journalists had taken photos of them with it.
Ali Saaid Nur said he received two sacks of maize twice, but each time was forced to give one to the camp leader.
"You don't have a choice. You have to simply give without an argument to be able to stay here," he said.
speaks volumes about the idiots at the helm of the leadership in that city.I hope every mooryaan who profited from this is hanged by the balls and made an example out of.disguising scums
More and More displaced people entering Mogadishu to seek governments help, the government ordered many aid agencies to come to help the people. The government has also provided shelters like the badbaado camp for the IDP's that ran away from al-shabaab controlled district.
May Allah SWT reward our government for helping their people
Wave after wave of famine stricken IDPs continue to pour into The Badbaado Mogadishu IPD camp, seeing those that had once escaped displacement from conflict now being forced to seek refuge in the countries violent capital.
"We are continuing to see hundreds of severely malnourished, injured and exhausted households entering the capital daily in hopes of relief. For many, the weeks of travel have not only effected them physically but have drained them emotionally."
Today at the main entrance to the Badbaado IDP camp, we met with Faama Eedan Abdi, a fatigued and tearful new arrival, cradling the small child she had given birth too not a week before while traveling the long road to Mogadishu. This is her story:
"I was pregnant and didn’t want to travel, but staying at home in Diinsoor was too risky. Already I knew many who starved to death. There is no more food or water there. I think this is the end of my village. I lost everything; I wish I knew it would be like this. While I was traveling I saw many children abandoned because their mom’s had no energy to carry them. I have seen death from the war but I have never seen anything like this. I am scared for my baby, if he lives he has no home, if he dies he had no chance.”
To respond to the needs of the most vulnerable in Mogadishu, HIJRA has scaled up its current intervention in The Banadir hospital and is currently working in the newly formed Badbaado IDP camp to construct and establish 1 Mother and Child Health Clinic to offer Primary health care services to the 30,000 emergency IDPs currently located in the camp.
