SOMALIA: Nasir Ahmed - "I feel bad every time I see children my age going to school"

HARGEISA Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (IRIN) - More and more children are missing out on childhood as conflict continues in war-torn Somalia. Families who fled the violence have been separated from their children and, as poverty bites due to drought and hyperinflation, many children have taken to the streets to fend for their families. Nasir Ahmed, 12, is one such child in Hargeisa, the capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland. Ahmed was born into a poor family and going to primary...