Guardian readers fund life-changing surgery for Somali boy injured in US airstrike

<p>After Guardian investigation uncovered drone strike that killed 12 civilians and injured many more, seven-year-old Abdiqadir Salah underwent vital operation in Mogadishu</p><p>On the rickshaw ride to the hospital, Marian Haji Abdi Guled felt a mixture of joy and apprehension: the day they had been waiting for had finally arrived.</p><p>Almost a year earlier, her then seven-year-old son, Abdiqadir Salah, had been seriously injured, alongside his two siblings, in what a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/16/somalia-us-trump-war-alshabaab-islamists-drone-airstrikes-civilian-deaths-children">Guardian investigation</a> found was a US drone strike on the village of Jamaame in Somalia that killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/05/guardian-readers-fundraising-somalian-boy-injured-in-us-strike-surgery-abdiqadir-salah">Continue reading...</a>