Severe food crisis in Ethiopia
People line up along a rural road as they wait to be examined at a Doctors Without Borders outreach clinic in Tunto, southern Ethiopia. The country has been grappling with drought as well as a global food crisis that has raised prices. (Siegfried Modola / AFP / Getty Images)
Wariso Shete, 26, a farmer from the village of Ajee in the south, recently lost his 3-year-old son to malnutrition. Recent rains are helping his corn grow again, but they came too late to save his son. His three daughters survived. Its strange to see hunger when everything is so green, he said. But there is no food. The boy just starved. (Edmund Sanders / Los Angeles Times)
Villagers try to stay dry as they wait to be seen at the Doctors Without Borders clinic. People are calling the current food crisis “green hunger,” as the lush foliage and crops fed by late rains appear to belie the severe grain shortages. An estimated 10 million Ethiopians will need emergency aid to survive until the September harvest. (Siegfried Modola / AFP / Getty Images)
A child, watched over by his mother, is treated for malnutrition at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Shsemene, southern Ethiopia. The country is full of contradictions: it is home to the highlands that feed the Nile, yet suffers drought; it is Africa’s second-largest producer of corn, but suffers food shortages. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said the current crisis masked the progress being made in agriculture. (Siegfried Modola / AFP / Getty Images)
