BAIDOA, Somalia: Mariam Ibrahim, her seven children and two neighboring families were the last to leave their village in southwestern Somalia.

They loaded their combined belongings—blankets, cooking pots, sleeping mats, jerry cans, clothes—onto a hired donkey cart and walked beside it for 20 kilometers to Baidoa, the closest city.

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