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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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: 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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: Oxfam Reaction to First Shipment of Grain Leaving Ukraine

In response to reports that the first shipment of grain left Ukraine today, Eric Munoz Oxfam America Food and Agriculture expert said: Read more »

Africa: Oxfam Reaction to Ukraine and Russia's Historic Grain Deal

In reaction to Ukraine and Russia's recently signed grain deal, Max Lawson, Oxfam International's Inequality Policy & Advocacy Lead said: Read more »

Ethiopia: Looming Rainy Season in Northern Ethiopia to Bring More Risks of Disease and Hunger, As Aid Still Falls Short

The upcoming rainy season in northern Ethiopia poses new and heightened threats as communities struggle to cope with ongoing conflict, displacement, hunger, and disease. Read more »

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 »

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 »

Africa: Media Reaction in Response to Reports of a Compromise On the Vaccines Trips Waiver

In response to reports of a potential compromise agreed by the EU, South Africa, India and the US for a waiver of intellectual property rules for COVID vaccines, Max Lawson, Head… Read more »

Africa: Oxfam Reaction to the IPCC's Working Group II Report On Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Responding to the publication of the IPCC's Working Group II report assessing climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, Read more »

Mali: Oxfam Reaction to the Withdrawal of the French and European Troops From Mali

In response to the announcement of the withdrawal of the military Barkhane operation and the Takuba forces from Mali, Oxfam's West Africa Regional Director, Assalama Dawalack Sidi… Read more »