Two women fetch water at a well drilled by the IRC in Dagari village, central Somalia.

A nine-year-old girl is making sorghum porridge for her family outside the school where they found shelter. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people in North Kivu have been driven from their homes by violence since April. 

Women from an IRC-organized farmer's group in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State weed their peanut garden.

Amou Lual with her one-year-old daughter, Aluel. 

Millions of Malians are threatened by the drought and hunger crisis in Africa's Sahel region. Issues like child labor, low school attendance, and sexual abuse -- all of which existed before the drought -- have been exacerbated by the current crisis.