Iraqi children sit in an empoverished area on the edges of Nasiriyah, capital of Dhi Qar province, on September 25, 2023. For the past decade, Nasser Jabbar and his children have lived in a rundown house built of grey concrete blocks at a shantytown in southern Iraq. Drought chased the father of 10 out of the countryside, where he had been a herder and farmer, and into a life of unemployment and urban poverty. (Photo by Asaad NIAZI / AFP)