urgences humanitaires

Beatrice, 19, fled the war in South Sudan with her husband and young baby after her mother was raped and killed.  Today, she lives with her family in Imvepi Refugee Settlement, among other 95,000 people. She is just one of the one million South Sudanese refugees currently hosted in nearby Uganda.

Today, the world stands on the brink of unprecedented famines. 30 million people are experiencing alarming hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and north-east Nigeria. Check out our map to see where Africa's most acute food crises are.

Voters in Central African Republic will this Sunday vote in a new president whose first task must be to end the violence which continues to devastate the country, and to provide better protection for its exhausted population. 

Mistrust, rumor and myths about the origin and spread of Ebola are allowing the disease to thrive, the aid agency Oxfam is warning. 

Oxfam is warning that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will not be contained unless more is done to prevent new infections. 

In the middle of 2011 a massive food crisis hit East Africa and the first famine of the 21st century was declared in Somalia.

On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti. More than 220,000 people were killed and over 300,000 injured. Thanks to the incredible outpouring of support from the public and governments around the word, Oxfam helped more than half a million survivors.