Among the youngest in the hospital in Baidoa, in Somalia's parched south, was Amir. Just over a year old, he was not only underweight but suffering with diarrhea and a fever. If he hadn't made it ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct. 6 -- An Italian aid worker who dedicated 33 years of her life to helping Somalis was shot and killed outside the hospital she founded to treat tuberculosis patients ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A bomb hidden in a doctor’s car exploded in a hospital parking lot in the Somali capital Wednesday, killing the doctor and a nurse in a rare attack targeting health ...

Doctors pressed his chest in a desperate attempt to support his breathing. His father brought him too late to a hospital in Somalia 's capital, Mogadishu. The victim of complications related to ...

After two days in a small Somali hospital, Abdiwali Abdi seemed to be groping his way towards some sort of recovery. The two-year-old still weighed just 4.6kg (10lb 2oz) - not much more than a ...

Last month, more than 60 patients were admitted with weapon wounds -- 30% of the hospital’s total admissions. Madina is Somalia’s de facto war hospital and over the years its admission numbers ...

Somalia, like Ethiopia and Kenya ... which is why she told Save the Children staff she could not take Malaika to the hospital — she had to ensure that her other children were cared for.

(Lily Martin/CBC) UNICEF estimates that since August, one child has been sent to hospital for malnutrition every minute in Somalia. The last famine the country endured, in 2011, killed more than a ...

In Somalia, the ICRC provides assistance in all these stages. Somalia`s first aid and pre-hospital emergency care program's activities (FAPHEC) consists of supporting holistic pre-hospital care by ...

The district hospital in Dollow - a dusty little border town in south-western Somalia - has been quietly assisting children like Abdiwali for years. Funded by the UK government, and others ...