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- Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
- In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance offers a buffer against drought
- A growing number of families have signed up for weather insurance to protect their crop investments from insufficient rainfall.
- A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa
- More than 13 million people are still affected by the crisis in the Horn of Africa. There were clear early warning signs many months in advance, yet there was ...
- New vision needed for Somalia
- A Shift in Focus: Putting the interests of Somali people first
- More than six months after the UN declared a famine, Somalia is still in the throes of its worst humanitarian crisis in decades, with 31 per cent of the ...
- With irrigation, herders in southern Ethiopia turn to farming
- A small-scale irrigation project along the banks of the Dawa River is helping some herders grow enough food to feed their families--even as drought ravages ...
- Ethiopian farmers get a payout, easing effects of drought
- With cash from the weather insurance policies they bought through an innovative program, farmers from Tigray can now plan for the future.
- Fighting hunger in Mogadishu
- In Somalia, Oxfam's partner SAACID is saving the lives of thousands of children.
- A new way of life on the Dawa
- Drought is making it difficult for herding families in southern Ethiopia to earn a living from their livestock. Some people have decided to try a new approach: ...
- In the midst of famine, children survive with the help of Oxfam partner SAACID
- Community therapeutic care centers across Somalia's capital are admitting more than 3,000 malnourished children every week.
- Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
- Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.
- In the grip of drought
- Ethiopians find ways to fight back
- Millions face hunger as drought sweeps East Africa
- Oxfam America is responding to the crisis with emergency assistance that includes food and cash-for-work programs that aim to help about 350,000 people.
- Darfur Q & A Part 2
- Part two of Oxfam's Darfur Q&A series. Mike Delaney, Oxfam's Director of humanitarian response, and Scott Stedjan, our Senior policy advisor, answer your ...
- Darfur Q & A Part 1
- Part one of Oxfam's Darfur Q&A series. Mike Delaney, Oxfam's Director of humanitarian response, and Scott Stedjan, our Senior policy advisor, answer your ...
- Darfur Q & A Part 3
- Part three of Oxfam's Darfur Q&A series. Mike Delaney, Oxfam's Director of humanitarian response, and Scott Stedjan, our Senior policy advisor, answer your ...
- Darfur Q & A Part 4
- Part four of Oxfam's Darfur Q&A series. Mike Delaney, Oxfam's Director of humanitarian response, and Scott Stedjan, our Senior policy advisor, answer your ...
- Predictable, multiyear aid is life-saving in difficult contexts
- An interview with Melissa Phillips, NGO Secretariat Coordinator in Juba, Southern Sudan.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- Oxfam Great Britain pulls back international staff to Khartoum while it appeals decision to revoke registration
- In promoting public health, compassion is Margaret Asewe's best medicine
- In Chad, Margaret Asewe worked with some of the first refugees from Darfur. In the summer of 2007, she returned to confront another rainy season and thousands ...
- On a high note, Oxfam conveys health information
- Using familiar tunes, women sing about how to avoid fatal diseases in a crowded camp for displaced people in Darfur.
- Overview of the crisis in Darfur
- It has been more than five years since the crisis erupted in Darfur. Today, millions of people continue to live in fear without adequate protection.
- Darfur Crisis Fact Sheet
- An overview of the continuing humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
- Rescuing the Peace in Southern Sudan
- The next 12 months will be critical for the future of Sudan. As the country marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace ...
- Camp conditions in Somalia are among worst this aid worker has ever seen
- Shelter, clean water, food, medicine—all of these are needed in camps for displaced people in Somalia.
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
- Oxfam boosts aid effort to thousands fleeing new fighting in Somalia
- In Ethiopia, hunger lurks as rain begins to fall
- 4.6 million people now need emergency assistance as drought and high food prices take their toll.
- Oxfam evacuates aid workers from Chad capital
- Oxfam has evacuated its international staff from its N'Djamena office, following the latest upsurge in fighting in the Chadian capital.
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