Sahel food crisis 2012 4 10

Women work on March 21, 2012 in a field as part of a cash for work program run by the French non-governmental organization Action Against Hunger to build dikes to hold water near Diapaga, northeast of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. According to Action Against Hunger, at least 20 million people are threatened by famine this year in Sahel.