a highly nutritious peanut butter paste. her mother says this is the first time her daughter has received medical treatment. their home in southern somalia which has been suffering from severe drought for more than a year has no medical clinics. and the islamist militia al-shabaab has forbidden residents from accepting any form of aid. to escape with her daughter in secret was. a group of us left together we traveled on foot for eight days i need. six hundred thousand people like have come to the capital it's one of the few places where they can get aid and protection. but even in mogadishu provisions are meager. after more than two decades of civil war state agencies lie in ruins. monitor hospital one of the largest state clinics in the country lacks medicine and