Best Photos of 2002: The Natural World

Drought and bloody civil war brought famine to Sierra Leone
JAN GRARUP / RAPHO

Lean Times
A fatal combination of drought and bloody civil war brought famine to tiny Sierra Leone. Outside the city of Nazran, local children played in the ruins of a farmhouse burned by the Revolutionary United Front

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