Hungry goats stripping what little green is left on thorn trees at Dori, in northern Burkina Faso. - - Drought in Burkina Faso. Five years of subnormal rainfall has brought severe drought and tragedy to Burkina Faso, 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 of cattle. The five other affected countries of the Sahel are Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Mali and Chad. The UN Secretary-General designated FAO as the focal point for coordinating emergency relief operations mounted by the UN system. A major part of the relief has been emergency food aid provided by the UN/FAO World Food Programme. During the first eight months of 1973, WFP allocated more than 57,000 metric tonnes of food (chiefly grains) to the six countries in peril - at a total cost to WFP of some $9 million.