When her crops failed and her parched goats died, Hirsiyo Mohamed left her home in southwestern Somalia, carrying and coaxing three of her eight children on the long walk across a bare and dusty landscape in temperatures as high as 100 degrees.
Along the way, her 3-1/2-year-old son, Adan, tugged at her robe, begging for food and water. But there was none to give, she said. “We buried him,…
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