wow.gm - Thousands of people in western Burkina Faso will need food aid for months to come, after floods wiped out homes and farms and now a lack of rain threatens whatever crops survived the deluge. “Some displaced persons need to be assisted till June because the farms are flooded and the terrible drought we are having now will make things worse,” Alain Galbone, the prefect in Bama, told IRIN. The town, 20km west of Burkina’s second largest city Bobo-Dioulasso, was one of the worst hit by flooding,...» view full story