WOLAYITA ZONE, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA, 21ST AUGUST 2008: Toma Belate, about 40, sits in his house with one of his six children

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WOLAYITA ZONE, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA, 21ST AUGUST 2008: Toma Belate, about 40, sits in his house with one of his six children and a cow he is looking after for a neighbour. "Life was difficult even before food crisis," he says. "The children have been sent to supplementary feeding centres as they are so thin. There is no food for them."

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Location: Ethiopia
Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
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