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Photo: Malnourished children in a refugee camp near Lobito, Angola, wait for a plate of corn porridge, their only daily meal, supplied by Jesus Alive Ministeries, a South African based Christain group, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002. The children show signs of malnutrition such as thinning and yellowing hair, flaking skin, and pot bellies. Angola, like most other countries in southern Africa, is in the grip of a severe drought exacerbated by the fact that many farmers cannot plough their fields which are still littered with landmines, a reminder of the quarter-century long civil war that ended earlier this year. (AP Photo/ Pieter Malan)
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