Amid the violence, the Somali people have endured bouts of natural disasters, including famine, drought and floods. In this picture, Farhiyo Hassan sits with her sick and malnourished two month-old twins at the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, in August 2011. The U.S. government said 30,000 children had died in Somalia due to famine in the previous three months alone.
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