It was early November when Aisha Hussein, nine months pregnant with her first child, felt the start of labour pains and knew she needed to make her way to a health centre from her village of Mareerey in Somalia’s Jubaland state.
She boarded a minibus taxi and, after a tedious four-hour journey, the 16-year-old arrived at the mother and child hospital in Kismayo, a coastal city about 100km (62 miles) away.
