April 24
Africa: Oxfam Reaction to the Global Report On Food Crises 2024
Today's "Global Report on Food Crises" (GRFC), led by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN), says that 281.6 million people across 59 countries are now experiencing acute… Read more »
March 21
Africa: Global Water Crisis Looms Yet Only One in Four of the Biggest Food and Agriculture Corporations Say They're Reducing Water Use and Pollution
Only 28 percent of the world's most influential food and agriculture corporations report they are reducing their water withdrawals and just 23 percent say they are taking action to… Read more »
March 06
Africa: Over Six Million People Face Hunger, Malnutrition and Water Scarcity in Zambia, Oxfam Warns
Oxfam warns that over six million people from farming families in Zambia are facing acute food shortages and malnutrition until next growing season, which is twelve months away,… Read more »
December 11, 2023
Africa: COP28 Draft Text a 'Scandal That Has Failed Us All'
In response to the Global Stocktake draft text released tonight, Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam International's Climate Change Policy Lead, said: Read more »
Africa: Oxfam Reaction to the Possibility of 'Abatement' Language in the Final Text of COP28
On the term ''abatement'' appearing in the final text regarding the phase-out of fossil fuels, Oxfam International's Climate Change Policy Lead Nafkote Dabi said: Read more »
November 20, 2023
Africa: EU's Richest 10% Emit As Much Planet-Heating Emissions As Half the EU's Poorest Population
A European wealth tax would raise nearly €250 billion a year which could be used to fight the climate crisis and inequality. Read more »
May 11, 2023
Africa: Chocolate Giants Reap Huge Profits As Promises to Improve Farmers' Incomes 'Ring Hollow'
Ghanaian cocoa farmers' paltry incomes fell on average by 16 percent since the start of the pandemic --while the confectionary profits of the four biggest public chocolate… Read more »
April 12, 2023
Africa: Obscene Amount of Aid Is Going Back Into the Pockets of Rich Countries
Today, the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD DAC) published its preliminary figures on the amount of development… Read more »
April 13, 2023
Africa: For Every $1 the IMF Encouraged a Set of Poor Countries to Spend On Public Goods, It Has Told Them to Cut Four Times More Through Austerity Measures
Multilateral lender's role in helping to insulate people in low- and middle-income countries from economic crisis is incoherent and inadequate, says Oxfam Read more »
April 10, 2023
Africa: False Economy - Financial Wizardry Won't Pay the Bill for a Fair and Sustainable Future #AfricaClimateCrisis
2023 could be a turning point. A year when the world emerges from unprecedented crises, and governments deliver progressive reforms that build a brighter future for all, and for… Read more »
Africa: Oxfam Warns of Rich Country Financial Wizardry That Puts Their Own Interests Ahead of the World's Poorest People #AfricaClimateCrisis
New Oxfam analysis describes a $27 trillion black hole - accumulating at around $3.9 trillion a year to 2030 - that low- and middle-income countries face to meet climate-related… Read more »
March 30, 2023
Africa: The EU Chooses Fuel Over Food to the Loss of Millions Going Hungry #AfricaClimateCrisis
Today, the EU chose fuel over food in the provisional agreement reached on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the EU law that incentivises the burning of crops to fuel cars and… Read more »
November 22, 2022
Africa: G20 Verdict - Oxfam Criticizes G20 for Lack of Action to Tackle Extreme Inequality
G20 world leaders have failed to take definitive action to tackle poverty, hunger, climate, debt and deprivation that is crippling millions of people around the world, says Oxfam. Read more »
November 20, 2022
Africa: Loss and Damage Fund At COP27 a Monumental Win, If Properly Funded - Oxfam #AfricaClimateHope
Responding to the final communiqué of the COP27 climate talks in Sharm El-Sheikh, Gabriela Bucher, Oxfam International's Executive Director, said: Read more »
Africa: Just a Quarter of Pfizer's Covid-19 Treatment Orders Will Go to Developing Countries
Rich countries have secured almost three times as many courses of a World Health Organisation (WHO)-recommended COVID-19 medicine, Pfizer's Paxlovid, according to new analysis from… Read more »
November 07, 2022
Africa: A Billionaire Emits a Million Times More Greenhouse Gases Than the Average Person
Billionaire investments in polluting industries such as fossil fuels and cement double the average for the Standard and Poor group of 500 companies - Oxfam Read more »