Left: a man steals
maize from a starving
child during a food
handout by Médecins
Sans Frontières in the
Bahr el Ghazal region
of what is now South
Sudan. The region
was the worst
affected by the 1998
famine, which killed
at least 70,000 peopleAbove: British Royal
Marines rest by a
waterway in southern
Iraq in 2003 after
coming under fire
during a night patrol.
The soldiers have just
learnt that one of
their comrades has
been killedALL IMAGES © TOM STODDART / GETTY IMAGES36 • The Sunday Times Magazine