Tanzania: Closing the Barn Door After the Goats Flee

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"I need my mother, please someone find my mother, she is over there," screamed the seven year old Aisha Mohamed, pointing towards the ocean. The scene was the shores of the Indian Ocean, and the time was the wee hours of September 2011, and the seven year old girl was screaming for her mother, whose body still lies at the bottom of the ocean, among the wreck of a boat.

"It was dark, and people were screaming all around me in the water, I looked for my mother but I could not see her, but I believe that she will come for," she said, recounting the horrific scene, but she was wrong however, her mother never came for her.

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