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...Water Department will be using the compound potassium permanganate to treat the water supply, DiVasta said...
...child howls in pain and anger: the gruel is scalding hot (several other children display peeling scars from previous burns), but far worse, the day's only meal is gone. After filling their pots, the refugees file through the gate -- they are not permitted to eat in the compound -- and settle down in side streets or dusty clearings. There they wait impatiently for the food to cool, then wolf it down...
...skeletal men, discovered semiconscious on the outskirts of town, are carried into the compound and laid side by side underneath a tree. The friends had collapsed after walking for three days and two nights to reach this place from their home village 31 miles away. A nurse slips intravenous tubes into barely visible veins and covers each man with a gray blanket. With stomachs too cramped to tolerate food, the men ignore the cans of gruel placed at their side. The nurse predicts that neither will survive to evening...
...quickly. A man with a gimpy leg, evidently the center's undertaker, expertly wraps these two bodies and four others -- the day's dead -- in rags and burlap sacks discarded from rations that came too late. He puts the bundles into a blue wheelbarrow, wheels them out of the compound and down to the banks of the Juba, where they are lowered together into an open grave...
...still darkness outside the compound, a handful of women and children shelter for the night beneath a stunted shade tree. They will be the first in line tomorrow. Others have made their way back to roofless, unkempt huts, abandoned during the fighting here, to wait out the long hours until another feeding day begins. Says UNICEF's Dr. Yeron: "I have been in the refugee camps during the Ethiopian famine, and I have never seen such a catastrophe as we have in Somalia." Still, he says, since dry rations became available here two weeks ago, the situation has improved. "Last...