Oxfam ready to respond to Hurricane Irma and watching closely tropical storm Jose Oxfam country teams and partner organizations in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba are now preparing to respond to probable damage from the impact of Hurricane Irma, to help people who are likely to be hardest-hit there.
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 malnutrition.
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 reach safety.
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.
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, said Oxfam in a new report.
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. The project has been fiercely opposed by the local communities, including the Indigenous rights defender Berta Caceres who was murdered for her protests in March last year.
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 poverty in African countries, according to a new report by Oxfam and Italian partners MEDU and Borderline Sicilia.
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 southern Ethiopia.