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"Desertification Means Famine"
Desertification Means Famine. Food aid came too late for two of the three children of this Ethiopian mother; days after this photo was taken they died. According to UNEP each year 21 million hectares of once productive land is rendered useless for...
United Nations Environment Programme
A Relief Centre in Burkina Faso
Third World poor are at the mercy of foreign donors. Scene at a relief centre in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) is an example.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Coping with Disaster: Drought in Ethiopia
The UN family of organisations is often called upon to help in times of disaster — natural and man-made. UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) provides legal protection and material assistance to refugees. Severe drought and endless poverty ca...
United Nations Information Centre
(Left): Even the single drop from the tap is nectar to him. (Right): Two emaciated girls who have nothing but skin and bones for bodies.
The Times of Ceylon Press
An Ethiopian girl who feeds dough to her hunger-stricken mother.
The Times of Ceylon Press
A dead body of a young man is being prepared for burial.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Ethiopians at Takalabab Camp in North East Sudan, where more than 35,000 have [...]
The Times of Ceylon Press
Seventeen Year Old Eritrean Girl
Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians are hunger-stricken due to the famine in Ethiopia. The picture shows the tragic condition of a 17-year-old girl. Debilitating malnutrition is more common among women and girls, who are considered less important...
Earthscan
