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Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.
Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.
Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
Sahel food crisis: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis
Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.
Oxfam responds as hundreds of thousands flee Ivory Coast capital
Fifty tons of relief supplies delivered to neighboring Liberia.
Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
In a city of water
Heavy rains in Senegal have turned the low-lying city of Pikine into a lake. Oxfam and a local partner are working to improve the conditions of life for those ...
For a Safer Tomorrow
This report, based on Oxfam International's experience in most of the world's conflicts, sets out an ambitious agenda to protect civilians in times of warfare.
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 ...
Darfur five years on: five steps forward
Five years since the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, first erupted, 4.5 million people are caught in its grip and are in need of aid. As the violence continues, that ...
Darfur video Q & A
We asked Oxfam supporters to tell us what they wanted to know about the crisis in Darfur—and received an overwhelming response.
Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
The Right to Survive
The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
Risk of another forgotten emergency in Africa as thousands flee Ivory Coast violence
Ghosts of Christmas past
Protecting Congolese civilians from the LRA
In border village in Gambia, hardships hit everybody
Food crisis grips Sahel region of West Africa, 10 million affected
Poor rains last year reduced the size of harvests and dried out pastureland across the region.
Troop surge in Afghanistan must not endanger civilians, warn aid agencies
Caught in the Conflict
Civilians and the international security strategy in Afghanistan
Rankin in Congo: 'Their humanity was what I wanted people to notice'
In 2009, celebrity photographer Rankin returned to Congo where he captured the love stories and portraits of people struggling through years of conflict in the ...
Protect and serve or train and equip?
US security assistance and protection of civilians
President Karzai’s new government must deliver on schools, midwives and police say aid agencies
Crisis in Honduras: Oxfam expresses concerns
Following the arrest and expulsion of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 29, Oxfam is closely following events in the country.
Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
Update on protection of civilians in eastern Congo's peace process
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