Above: Shweyga Mullah, the badly burned former nanny of two of Moammar Gadhafi's grandchildren, is greeted with a bouquet of flowers on her arrival at Malta’s international airport. "she was being brought over in a private plane chartered by the Maltese government," reports Darrin Zammit Lupi, a Reuters stringer covering news in the Mediterranean Island Nation of Malta. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)
Reuters
By Darrin Zammit Lupi
SEP 16, 2011
Ever since the Libyan uprising began last February, the small Mediterranean island of Malta which I call home has been a vital cog in the vast humanitarian machine in operation. It started as an evacuation hub for thousands of people and then became a critical transit point for humanitarian aid. Several months later, Malta continues to play its part. I got the call to head to Malta’s international airport VIP lounge around lunchtime, to photograph Shwejga Mullah arriving on the island for medical treatment. Shwejga Mullah is the Ethiopian nanny who was recently discovered weak and alone in the home abandoned by deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son Hannibal. It’s been reported that Hannibal’s wife Aline threw boiling water over her, causing horrific scald burns and scars, when she did not stop his daughter from crying and refused to beat the child.
View the photos at Reuters.com.
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