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September 23
Africa: Oxfam's Reaction to the Summit of the Future's Pact
In response to the Summit of the Future's Pact, Oxfam Executive Director Amitabh Behar said: Read more »
August 16
Congo-Kinshasa: Oxfam Responds to Mpox Outbreak in Equateur As It Reaches Alarming Levels
The MPox epidemic has reached alarming levels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as more than 15,000 cases and over 540 deaths have been reported across the country since the… Read more »
July 29
South Sudan: People in Pibor County Resort to Eating Wild Vegetables As Hunger Crisis Deepens
People in South Sudan's Pibor county are forced to survive on wild vegetables, and desert dates as the number of people dying from starvation rises. With torrential rains halting… Read more »
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 »
April 16
Sudan: Reaction to Paris Pledging Conference for Sudan and Its Neighbors
Reacting to the outcome of the International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and its neighbours, held in Paris today, at which countries pledged a total of $2 billion - Oxfam in… Read more »
April 03
Southern Africa: Millions in Southern Africa Face Hunger as Extreme Weather Wreaks Havoc - Oxfam
Millions of people across Southern Africa, are grappling with the dual crises of hunger and flooding. Over half of Malawi's 19 million population, six million people in Zambia,… 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 12
Mozambique: Mozambique Hit by Storm Filipo, One Year After Cyclone Freddy
Millions of people have nothing left to eat but wild roots as they have lost their crops to repeated extreme weather 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 12, 2023
East Africa: East Africa's Floods Decimate Almost Entire Season Harvest and Leave Over Four Million People With No Food or Income
As COP28 comes to a close, rich polluting nation must accelerate support for adaptation and loss and damage for countries hit hardest by climate change. Read more »
East Africa: East Africa Hosts 10 Percent of Global Refugees While Ranking Among 20 Least Developed Countries
Oxfam and 12 NGOs urge global leaders to bridge the responsibility gap for refugee hosting and protection in East Africa 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 21, 2023
East Africa: El Niño Rains Wreak Havoc in East Africa As Humanitarian Funds Continue to Dwindle - Oxfam
The El Niño-induced heavy rains and flash flooding killed 130 people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, while the region is still reeling from one of the most severe droughts… 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 »
September 04, 2023
East Africa: Rich Nations Paid Less Than 5% of the U.S.$53.3 Billion Region Needs to Confront the Climate Crisis
Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan have incurred $7.4bn of livestock losses alone as a result of climate change Read more »
May 24, 2023
East Africa: Pledges Made At East Africa Pledging Conference 'Dismally Inadequate' - Oxfam Reaction
In response to the pledges made at the High-Level Pledging event to support the Humanitarian Response in the Horn of Africa in New York, Fati N'Zi Hassane, Oxfam in Africa Director… Read more »
May 22, 2023
East Africa: NGOs Call Out Climate Injustice and Urge Global Donors to Fully Fund the Humanitarian Response in the Horn of Africa Now
As the international community gathers in New York this week for the Horn of Africa High Level Pledging Conference, we urge global donors to address the impact of the climate… 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 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 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 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 »
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