DUDUMACAD, Ethiopia, 7 July 2023 (UNFPA)* Saving the life of this baby was a miracle and a blessing for my family. I am immensely grateful, said Amino Bashir, 25, as she held her newborn.
In
Ethiopias Somali region, a camp in the village of Gabias shelters
hundreds of households displaced by drought. Over 260,000 women are
currently pregnant in the Somali region alone, many of them
internally displaced from recurrent, multiple crises and at dire
risk of acute undernourishment, without access to even the most
basic health care. UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo
Ms. Bashir lives in Dudumacad
in the Somali region of Ethiopia one of the areas devastated by
a gruelling drought across the Horn of Africa that
has affected more than 36 million people so
far.