Africa: COP29 Deal Is a 'Global Ponzi Scheme' - Oxfam

Responding to the COP29 climate finance agreement, in which rich countries agree to mobilize $300 billion a year to help Global South countries cope with warming temperatures and… Read more »

Africa: Activists Host 'Make Rich Polluters Pay' Game Show At COP29 to Expose Big Polluters

Climate activists today added a dramatic twist to the COP29 summit with a live game show called Make Polluters Pay. As the United Nations climate finance negotiations entered their… Read more »

Africa: COP29 Must Deliver More Than 'Threadbare Promises' - Oxfam

In response to the latest climate finance draft text at COP29, Oxfam International's Climate Justice Lead, Safa' Al Jayoussi, said: Read more »

Africa: Billionaires Emit More Carbon Pollution in 90 Minutes Than the Average Person Does in a Lifetime

Fifty of the world's richest billionaires on average produce more carbon through their investments, private jets and yachts in just over an hour and a half than the average person… Read more »

Africa: Superyachts and Jets of Europe's Elite Emit More Carbon Pollution in a Week Than the World's Poorest 1 Percent Emits in a Lifetime

The carbon footprint of a super-rich European, accumulated from nearly a week of using super yachts and private jets, matches the lifetime carbon footprint of someone in the… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »