The most famous photograph of the famine in Africa in the early 1990s. The photo brought the highest Pilitzer prize in the photographic world, but also the cause of severe mental illness. Leading to suicide on July 27, 1994 by Kevin Carter.
"Vultures waiting" -
The most famous photo of Africa's famine
Photojournalist deceased Kevin Carter
Let's take a look at the depressing images of East Africa's famine in 2011, the worst famine in 25 years in the region, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in the region. People, mostly children.
Africa in general and East Africa in particular have suffered from the severe consequences of harsh natural conditions and economic slowdown. One of the most serious consequences that people have suffered from is famine. Lack of food has always been an obsession with any of the people in the most difficult living conditions in the world.
The worst drought in 60 years of history has affected more than 11 million people in East Africa. Massive refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia during peak times receive up to 3,000 refugees each day. Families here are eager to flee hunger in areas hit by devastating wars. Many people can not even survive in refugee camps because essential supplies like food and water are not guaranteed.
International officials have warned that 800,000 children could die from malnutrition across East African nations like Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Kenya. Here are some heartbreaking images of hunger that sow misery to the people of these countries.
Mihag Gedi Farah, a 7-month-old baby with severe malnutrition, weighed in at only 3.4 kg in his mother's arms at an emergency rescue clinic in the town of Dadaab, Kenya.
Women and children fight in a small sand storm while on the road to find water for the family. Large parts of eastern Africa, including Kenya and Ethiopia, have been affected by severe drought. People in southern Somalia have suffered the worst of the worst famine in 20 years.
Nado Mahad Abdilli built a temporary shelter for her family at Ifo 2, an area for refugee camp expansion but not approved by the Kenyan government.
The Somali man brought a seriously malnourished child, under the direction of an African Peace Alliance delegation in Somalia (Amisom) from an evacuation camp to a peacekeeping operation headquarters. Patient admitted to emergency medical treatment.
Somali refugees waited in the registration area of the Dagahaley refugee camp.
The body of a four-year-old Somalilan, who died of malnutrition, was last bathed before performing a traditional burial ceremony at the Ifo refugee camp. Doctors can not save you after 4 days of diarrhea treatment. I die from losing too much water.
Abdirisak Mursal, 3, a malnourished child from southern Somalia, was treated at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu. The dreadful drought in East Africa has triggered a severe food crisis and an alarming rate of malnutrition.
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Eden Salaad, 4, was looking for her mother while being bathed in a broken pot at Medecins Sans Frontieres Hospital, where Eden was being treated for malnutrition.
The doctor could not save the child, the mother was a Somali woman crying with her child died of malnutrition.