Acute malnutrition on steady rise in Somaliland amid aid delays Over 380,000 children under five are at risk of dying from a lethal combination of severe hunger and deadly diseases becuase of acute malnutr
43 million hit by South Asia Floods: Oxfam is responding Oxfam is providing over 186,000 flood-hit people with clean drinking water, food supplies, emergency shelter, hygiene kits, and other essentials.
‘The road smelled of dead bodies’: Iraqis fleeing Tal Afar tell of death in the desert Traumatized women and children fleeing Iraq's Tal Afar district have told Oxfam how people died walking for days through the desert in 50C heat to reac
Uganda faces world’s fastest growing refugee crisis as South Sudanese arrivals reach one million Uganda’s open-door policy to refugees has provided protection for one million South Sudanese - the third-largest population of refugees in the world.&n
Yemen’s man-made catastrophe is forcing people to make stark live or die choices Yemenis, already on the tipping point after more than two years of war, are now being forced to choose between treating cholera and putting food on the table
German engineering firms withdraw from Agua Zarca dam project in Honduras Oxfam has confirmed that Voith and Siemens will no longer supply components of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project in Honduras.
Oxfam providing clean water and hygiene kits to survivors of Sierra Leone mudslide Oxfam is providing clean water and hygiene kits to survivors of yesterday’s mudslide on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Torture, rape and slavery in Libya: why migrants must be able to leave this hell Rape, torture and slave labor are among the horrendous daily realities for people stuck in Libya who are desperately trying to escape war, persecution and po
Food shortages and funding gap push extra 700,000 people to verge of starvation in Ethiopia Another poor rainy season, the third in a row, has plunged 700,000 more people into crippling hunger and on the verge of starvation in the Somali region of s
Victory in Tunisia: new law says "Enough" to violence against women and girls The Tunisian Parliament has adopted a new law for the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence.