Touma hasn’t eaten in days. She sits silently, her eyes glassy as she stares aimlessly across the hospital ward. In her arms, motionless and severely malnourished, lies her three-year-old daughter, Masajed. Touma seems numb to the cries of the other young children around her. “I wish she would cry,” the 25-year-old mother tells us , looking at her daughter. “She hasn’t cried in days.”