When it’s not climate change plaguing Somalis, it’s another one of ‘the three Cs’

Strife is life for an 11-year-old boy bearing witness to a cruel convergence of environmental and political disasters

20 June 2022 - 19:45 By Katharine Houreld

Each morning in this Somali border town, 11-year-old Bashir Nur Salat plots his day’s mission behind a crooked wire fence. Armed with only a friend’s yellow school shirt, a borrowed book and a toothy grin, he eyes his prize through the mesh: lunch...

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