The human cost of surging US air strikes in Somalia
- Mogadishu, Somalia – Nearly a year after a suspected US strike in southern Somalia left shrapnel embedded in her son’s body, Maryam Haji Abdi Guled still feels compelled to accompany him to school.
- She fears another child might push him while playing, disturbing a fragment of metal lodged near his hip.
- Doctors have warned that removing it could leave him paralysed.
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- Mogadishu, Somalia – Nearly a year after a suspected US strike in southern Somalia left shrapnel embedded in her son’s body, Maryam Haji Abdi Guled still feels compelled to accompany him to school.
- She fears another child might push him while playing, disturbing a fragment of metal lodged near his hip.
- Doctors have warned that removing it could leave him paralysed.
Sources: Al Jazeera