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A young clothing merchant sits next to piles of used clothing under the hot sun mid day at the Yaba Market, in Lagos, Nigeria. Clothing merchants sell used clothing illegally imported from the U.S. The markets rests on railroad tracks. (The train was…

Bedessa Isayas is evaluated at a medical clinic. At 1 1/2, he weighs less than 15 pounds and shows signs of kwashiorkor, a condition caused by severe protein deficiency.

Simple fare made from maize is measured into bowls at a Red Cross aid stations in Zambia. Children are brought to the center by families who can no longer coax anything edible from the land.

A Zambian woman, with her baby girl on her back, sifts millet in their drought-stricken village. The grain, a staple for many Africans, is often provided by aid agencies. Donors find it easier to feed the starving than to fix the causes of their…

An Ethiopian farmer picks through his drought-ruined corn crop, looking for a few kernels that can still be used as food. Even where water is available from lakes and rivers, most Ethiopian farm have no irrigation, and the government is too poor to…

A 5-year-old girl at a humanitarian aid center in Awasa, Ethiopia, shows the distended belly and fleshless limbs that indicates severe malnutrition.

Ledamos' windowless house, which they built 20 years ago using sticks, has a dirt floor and an open fire for cooking.

Kafela Kedire (CQ), age 2, suckles his father's nipple at the Morocho Therapeutic Feeding Center, outside of Awassa, Ethiopia. The father's name is Kedire Haji. Kedire said he allows his son to suckle bringing him comfort, but no milk. Kafela is…

The family of Batire Baramo and Ledamo Ataro share their one-room mud hut with domestic animals. Here, one of their children sleeps after nursing, but often Batire can do nothing to silence their cries of hunger.

In shriveled Ethiopia, the search for food is constant. Scraping together one meal often comes at the expense of providing for the next. Itike Ledamo, 3, and her aunt watch over the baking of bread. It may be the family's only meal of the day.…