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 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 »
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 »
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 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 »
November 20, 2022
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 »
September 20, 2022
Africa: Response to Lancet Commission On Lessons From Covid-19 for Future Pandemics
Responding to The Lancet COVID-19 Commission's report on lessons for future pandemics, Anna Marriott, Health Policy Manager at Oxfam and Policy Co-Lead for the People's Vaccine… Read more »
September 15, 2022
Africa: Extreme Hunger Has More Than Doubled in 10 of the World's Worst Climate Hotspots - Oxfam
Less than 18 days of fossil fuel companies' profits would cover the entire UN humanitarian appeal for 2022 Read more »
May 10, 2022
Southern Africa: Poverty and Extreme Inequality Worsen in Southern Africa As Covid-19 Battered Countries Embark On a Dangerous Austerity Path
Plans underway to reduce public spending by $30.2 billion in 2022-26 Read more »
April 19, 2022
Africa: IMF Must Abandon Demands for Austerity As Cost-of-Living Crisis Drives Up Hunger and Poverty Worldwide
87 percent of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) COVID-19 loans are requiring developing countries that have been denied equal access to vaccines and are facing some of the… Read more »
March 30, 2006
Uganda: Rate of Death in Northern Uganda Is Three Times Higher Than in Iraq - New Report
The current rate of death from the war in northern Uganda is three times higher than in Iraq following the Allied invasion,… Read more »