Local residents use calabash gourds as flotation devices as they swim across flooded farmland in Gudinchin village, near Dutse in northern Nigeria, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Farmers in northern Nigeria said Monday they feared their crops were destroyed in weekend floods that started when two swollen dams overflowed and displaced 2 million people. In the village of Gudinchin, rice and corn stalks poked above a fast-moving river that had washed over the fields. A few houses in the village peered above the water, and people had constructed a makeshift embankment out of the remains of mud houses that had washed away.

Farmer Garba Gudinchin bundles the only millet he was able to salvage when flood waters inundated Gudinchin village, near Dutse in northern Nigeria.