In a refugee camp in Kenya, food shortages left kids hungry even before Russia ended grain deal
Associated PressDADAAB, Kenya — Abdikadir Omar was trapped in an extremist-controlled town in Somalia for years until May, when he slipped out to make a 12-day journey with his wife and seven children to neighboring Kenya in search of food and safety. Ali Alkadir Hassan sits with his malnourished son Khalid Ali Alkadir, 5, in the International Rescue Committee hospital at Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, July 12, 2023. A mother sits with her malnourished child inside the International Rescue Committee hospital at Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Dool Abdirahman, 25, who fled Somalia with her malnourished baby daughter Hakimo Mohamed Abdullahi, 11 months old, when the infant developed hydrocephalus, or a buildup of fluid on the brain, at the International Rescue Committee hospital in Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. A Somali refugee girl walks past an armed Kenyan policemen outside a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee at the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya Friday, July 14, 2023.
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