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Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of a starving Sudanese child and a vulture waiting in the background. The Vulture and the Little Girl, also known as The Struggling Girl, is a photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times on 26 March 1993.
Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) [1] was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide four months after at the age of 33.
Starving child during the blockade. During the first weeks of the war, the Nigerian government decided to impose a blockade of Biafra. Access to the secessionist republic through foreign currency transactions, mail and telecommunications, and all seaports and airfields was to be cut off.
At least 34 children have already died of malnutrition in Gaza, the government media office reported on June 22. The true number could be higher, as limited access to Gaza has impeded aid agencies ...
Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the ...
Over the following three weeks, police began their search of the 800-acre (3.2 km 2) property, finding more shallow graves and additional survivors who were starving to death. The first bodies recovered from the graves were mostly children.
In November 1984, the British Royal Air Force carried out the first airdrops from Hercules C-130s delivering food to the starving people. [40] Other countries including Sweden, [41] East and West Germany, Poland, Canada, United States, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were also involved in the international response. [citation needed]
Children in West and Central Africa are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, which further endangers their health, according to a new report by UNICEF published Wednesday. West Africa experienced ...