Bags of WFP food are loaded onto canoes.  WFP/Saidou Sawadogo

WFP reaches communities isolated by floods in Burkina Faso

During the months of the rainy season WFP used multiple means of transportation including donkey-pulled carts and canoes to deliver food to communities in the Sahel region. 

Overview

Burkina Faso, also known by its shorter name Burkina, is a landlocked country with borders that touch six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d’Ivoire to the southwest.  The capital of Benin is Ouagadougou.

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Country at a glance 2013
Planned Beneficiaries1,305,369
Beneficiary needs (mt)10,049
Beneficiary needs ($US)18,634,518