Frank Spooner Pictures / Gamma
01 January, 1993
A mother sits by her child who has just died of malnutrition. A long march had brought them to this abandoned school, one of the few buildings in the area left undamaged by the civil war. Aid agencies were using the school as an emergency feeding center.
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