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Agro-pastoralists in Tin Akof, northern Burkina Faso, at a Red Cross distribution of food vouchers.

How we helped

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement helped across the Sahel region of west Africa.

Two men wade through flood water

Africa floods crisis 2007

More than one million people were affected by flooding in 17 countries - but in particular Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso.

Aid boxes

Africa Food Crisis 2006

We launched an appeal in 2006 to help people across Africa survive when drought and inflated prices left them without enough food.

Alwilayat Mohamed and her family

Alwilayat Mohameds story struggling to feed our children in the Sahel

Alwilayat has already lost two daughters under the age of five and is facing a daunting struggle to feed her two sons.

Malika whose mother is benefitting from a Red Cross gardening programme

Djenabas story vegetables provide food for thought

Thanks to a Red Cross gardening project, Djenaba is confident she’ll be able to send her two-year-old daughter Malika to school this autumn.

Habsatou Abdulaye is president of the Sandari vegetable garden group

Habsatous story seeds of a better future in the Sahel

Habsatou is president of the Sandari vegetable garden group. Thanks to the Red Cross, she and her friends are now able to grow aubergines, cabbages, onions, lettuces and okra.

Six-month-old Issa being assessed as malnourished

Hadjatous story

Hadjatou cradles her six-month-old son after learning from a Red Cross nurse that her baby is acutely malnourished.

Vegetables Oroukia grows through the Red Cross project are helping keep her family from the brink of starvation

Oroukias story oasis of hope in the Sahel

Oroukia Boulo and her husband have seven children. Instead of being able to fill their three granaries after harvesting their cereal crops this year, they couldn’t even fill one.

Ouilimatou in his grandmother's lap

Ouilimatous story young and hungry

As Ouilimatou lies, listless, in his grandmother’s lap he does not look like a child who is nearly two years old.

Sorhow and some of her children

Sorhows story hunger is hard to deal with

Usually Sorhow's family grows enough millet and sorghum to feed themselves, but inadequate rainfall caused their last harvest to fail.

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