Eventually Federal Nigeria found an effective way to quell the rebellious Igbos, by inducing famine conditions inside Biafra. The Nigerian Army began sea and land blockade of Biafra, cutting off food supplies.
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W. Willoughby Hooper on Famine
With controversies and debates again bubble up over famine photography, Iconic Photos look back as […]
Biafra by Don McCullin, 1968
Don McCullin introduced the world to the sight of children with stick-thin limbs and grotesquely distended stomachs from Biafra — images which are to become all too tragically familiar in subsequent decades as famines happened in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Uganda, and the Sudan.
Famine in Uganda
Taken in Karamoja district, Uganda in April 1980, the contrasting hands of a starving boy […]
Vulture Stalking a Child
In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod.