‘I never thought I would live to see this horror’

FADUMA Sakow Abdullahi and her five children tried to escape starvation in Somalia by journeying to a Kenyan refugee camp.

‘I never thought I would live to see this horror’

Only one day before they reached their destination, her 4-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son died of exhaustion and hunger.

At first the 29-year-old widow thought the two were merely sleeping when they wouldn’t get up after a brief rest. She had to leave their bodies under a tree, unburied, so she could push on with her baby, 2-year-old and 3-year-old.

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