unicef: PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 1 November 2012 Women tend their sick children in the paediatric ward of a UNICEF-supported hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. Under-five mortality rates in Somalia are the second highest in the world and have not changed since 1990. In the same timeframe, global rates have declined from 12 million deaths per year to 6.9 million annually. This tragedy for Somali children is the result of poverty and drought conditions that cannot be addressed because of decades of war. ©UNICEF/Kate Holt To see more: www.unicef.org/photography

unicef:

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 1 November 2012

Women tend their sick children in the paediatric ward of a UNICEF-supported hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Under-five mortality rates in Somalia are the second highest in the world and have not changed since 1990. In the same timeframe, global rates have declined from 12 million deaths per year to 6.9 million annually. This tragedy for Somali children is the result of poverty and drought conditions that cannot be addressed because of decades of war.

©UNICEF/Kate Holt

To see more: www.unicef.org/photography

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