The picture, taken by Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly in Tahoua, northwestern Niger, on August 1 2005 shows the emaciated fingers of a one-year old child pressed against the lips of his mother.
A swarm of locusts and the worst drought in decades left millions of people short of food in the west African state.
'The picture has haunted me ever since I first saw it two weeks ago,' said James Colton, chairman of the World Press jury. 'It has stayed in my head, even after seeing all the thousands of others during the competition."
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