Photo Gallery The Origins of Hunger
A malnourished baby inside a hospital in Burao, Somaliland. Around 20 million people around the world are at acute risk of death by starvation. A total of 800 million people are suffering from different forms of hunger.
Somaliland is suffering from an extreme drought that is killing off its main source of income: livestock. Save the Children has been trucking in water to the village of Harosheikh to help people survive.
The outline of a dead goat and its bones can be seen in a dry riverbed in Beerato in Somaliland. More than 10 million animals have died of thirst there in recent months.
In South Sudan, another region with a major hunger catastrophe, the root cause is fighting between government troops and opposition rebels. Here, a rebel fighter walks near his base in Thonyor. The United Nations declared a state of famine in the country in February.
Haiti ranks No. 4 on the 2016 Global Hunger List. Yfrancia Napoleon recently sought food assistance for her young daughter Roudegajina. Her son is now mentally handicapped as a result of malnourishment as a toddler.
