This photo, by Franco Pagetti, was taken November 13th, 2008 in Mogadishu, Somalia.
" Nearly two years after Ethiopian forces led an armed intervention to oust Somalia's Islamic Courts Union from power, the impoverished country has seen some of the deadliest violence in its history. Devastated by an Islamist insurgency, Somalia is facing a humanitarian catastrophe that rivals Darfur, with Mogadishu at the forefront. A staggering 600,000 Somalis have fled the capital city from February to November of 2007 alone. Nearly half of the city is deserted with over one million internally displaced persons, IDPs, taking refuge in one of the hundreds of over crowded camps in and around the city, predisposed to fatal diseases due to unsanitary conditions and malnutrition."
Pagetti is part of the photography group, VII. www.viiphoto.com Please go to their site and support their work. They are changing the world with camera lens's. Phenomenal stuff.
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