Following the eagerly awaited arrival in a village in Central Upper Volta of relief supplies in the form of sorghum donated to UN/FAO World Food Programme by USA, the local distribution is organized by the village chief and leader. - - Drought. Five years of subnormal rainfall has brought severe drought and tragedy to Upper Volta, one of the six affected countries of the Sahelian Zone along the southern edge of the Sahara - a region in which there is increasing human suffering and loss