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Fifteen year-old Habiba Isak, a newly arrived Somali refugee ...
Jul 28th, 2011
(Reuters) - Fifteen year-old Habiba Isak, a newly arrived Somali refugee carries her 4-day old child, Muslima, at a reception centre in the Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 28, 2011. Habiba Isak had barely recovered from trekking hundreds of kilometres to refuge in Kenya from drought-hit Baidoa, the nerve-centre of Islamist rebels fighting in southern Somalia, when the contractions started. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST DISASTER HEALTH) -
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