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Forty percent of the area's children under five years old were malnourished as of January 1993, and an estimated 10 to 13 adults died of starvation daily in Ayod alone. [2] To raise awareness of the situation, Operation Lifeline Sudan invited photojournalists and others, previously excluded from entering the country, to report on conditions.
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.
This famine was the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winning photography The Vulture and the Little Girl taken by South African photojournalist Kevin Carter.Carter died by suicide shortly after being awarded the prize, possibly a result of trauma from witnessing the effects of the famine first-hand.
Six-year-old Fadi al-Zant is acutely malnourished, his ribs protruding under leathery skin, his eyes sunken as he lays in bed at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, where famine is bearing ...
Pictures showing the emaciated boy covered in blankets and receiving fluids intravenously were widely shared on social media after he died. Gaza Starving Children (AFP - Getty Images)
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[7] [8] [9] Most of the war casualties were civilians [10] particularly children, who were especially vulnerable to malnutrition. [ 1 ] [ 11 ] Another consequence of the blockade was a rise in violent crime in Biafra, particularly violent extraction of food from civilians by underfed soldiers in the Biafran army.