Source: Guardian
Country: Burkina Faso
The award-winning reportage artist visits the drought-plagued African country to meet its people and learn about their lives
See Olivier Kugler's reportage-illustrations of the people he met in Burkina Faso
Earlier this year, this year Valerie Amos, the head of the UN's humanitarian and emergency relief programme, warned that a combination of failed crops, locust plague, high food prices, conflict, chronic levels of poverty and drought meant more than 18 million people were facing hunger across eight countries in west Africa, including the Sahel region. More than a million children under five are at risk of severe malnutrition.
Read the full report on the Guardian.