Monsoon flood devastates Bangladesh, further flooding on the way
Oxfam is preparing for further flooding in Bangladesh, as the water from India’s Assam state makes its way down river.
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Oxfam Australia launches West Africa appeal as Sahel food crisis reaches hunger peak
International aid agency Oxfam Australia is today launching its West Africa Food Crisis appeal as the situation in the region heads towards the peak of the hunger season.
Across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, more than 18 million people are affected by the severe food crisis, with more than one million children at risk of severe malnutrition.
Options running out for 37,000 refugees in South Sudan’s Jamam camp, Oxfam warns
Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees face desperate, life-threatening water shortages and a growing threat of fatal disease in Jamam camp in South Sudan and must be urgently moved to a new site, international agency Oxfam said today.
Preparation makes the difference in natural disasters
In the first weeks after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, I remember meeting a young man called Anthony in a village called Manakudy, on the southern tip of Tamil Nadu in India. He was about 17 years old, and had lost both his father and sister to the deadly waves.
Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
Growing conflict in Mali and northern Nigeria is disrupting the supply of food to communities suffering from a major food crisis affecting 13 million people in West Africa, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
Thousands more lives and millions of dollars could have been saved with an earlier response to East Africa food crisis
Thousands more lives and millions of dollars could have been saved if the international community had taken decisive action on early warnings of a hunger crisis in East Africa, according to a new report by international aid agencies Oxfam and Save the Children.
Oxfam: South Sudan struggling in face of growing refugee crisis
Six months since South Sudan’s independence, the world’s newest nation is struggling to cope with a major refugee crisis and massive internal displacement, international agency Oxfam said today.
Two years on and Haiti’s reconstruction proceeds at a “snail’s pace” leaving half a million Haitians homeless
The reconstruction of earthquake-stricken Haiti has proceeded at “a snail’s pace” leaving more than half a million people still homeless two years later, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
Philippines floods: Oxfam warns of disease outbreak as hygiene conditions worsen at shelters
International aid agency Oxfam today warned that a disease outbreak is “waiting to happen” unless authorities quickly manage the shortage of water supply and address sanitation needs.
Millions of people at risk of serious food crisis in West Africa unless early action is taken, says Oxfam
Millions of people in West Africa could be protected from a serious food crisis if preparations are scaled up across the region, Oxfam said today.