Adama is severely malnourished, and is a patient along with his 35-year-old mother, Amadou, at a hospital in Bandiagara, in the sub-Saharan African republic of Mali.
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Africa: the unfolding catastrophe caused by us
Adama is not happy. He is hanging from the blue-cloth harness of a weighing machine, his spindly limbs waving in the air, fear writ large in his wide eyes, crying. But his sobs are half-strangled and weak, unlike those of a healthy, full-throated two-year-old.
