A girl dwarfed by temporary shelters set up by displaced people in Madina camp, Mogadishu.
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Five-month-old Farhiya, one of the inhabitants of Madina camp, is suffering from malnutrition.
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A newly arrived family builds a shelter at Badbaado camp.
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Private security stand next to close to an displaced persons camp that was once on the front line.
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A malnourished child lies next to his mother in Banadir hospital.
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A malnourished child treated by nurses in Banadir hospital. He died the following day of TB and cholera.
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An abandoned hospital bed outside Banadir hospital.
Domnic Nahr/Magnum Photos
Internally displaced people find shelter in a bullet-ridden house close to Hodan camp.
Domnic Nahr/Magnum Photos
Heavily armed soldiers control Bakara market in Mogadishu after retaking it from al-Shabaab.
Domnic Nahr/Magnum Photos
Relatives prepare the body of seven-year-old Umar Usman for burial, after he died of malnutrition.
Domnic Nahr/Magnum Photos
African Union peacekeepers drive through the streets of Mogadishu.
Domnic Nahr/Magnum Photos
A malnourished child lies under a mosquito net in Banadir hospital.
Domnic Nahr/Magnum Photos
Swiss photographer Dominic Nahr captured life in camps in Mogadishu, Somalia in 2011 where people fled drought and famine. Many suffer from malnutrition and disease. Insecurity there makes it dangerous for aid workers to stay for long.
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