I spent my Eid day in the blistering heat of Banadir Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia; a place of trauma, suffering and pain. Before me, I saw mothers with their children and children without their mothers looking around with empty eyes. With temperatures soaring well above 30˚C, and no electricity, food or water, this was an Eid like no other. Having spent many Eids in Scotland, watching the children of Somalia suffering and not knowing this day to be any different was difficult for me to bea

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