'ETHIOPIA, INEVITABLE FAMINE', A young girl bolds a bowl of seeds and grit she has gleened from the ground after a small food distribution. 1999

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Children are particularly hard hit by Ethiopia s hunger crisis many rural families are abandoning children in nearby towns where they have more chance of scraping a living through begging than in villages where grain stores are empty

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Size: 3780px × 5736px
Location: ETHIOPIA
Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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