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- Dead fish and acid pollution point to cyanide in stream
- Farmers in Ghana affected by chemical spill call on government to investigate and punish polluters.
- Sahel food crisis
- Poor and erratic rains, failed harvests, and soaring food prices set the stage for a severe food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa in 2012, placing ...
- 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.
- The Sahel: a food crisis looms
- Low rainfall, poor harvests, and high prices are creating serious problems for herders and farmers in West Africa.
- Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
- 'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
- 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 ...
- Saving Lives
- Disasters, and the way we respond to them, can be catalysts for social change—a chance to create lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.
- In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
- Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
- Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- Oxfam's oil, gas, and mining program
- Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate ...
- A set of simple water pumps improves life in a Gambian village
- In border village in Gambia, hardships hit everybody
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
- 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.
- In villages of Niger, hunger weakens people and animals
- Rains are desperately needed for farmers across the Sahel. But in some places, the rain will also make it very difficult to deliver vital aid.
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
- In Prestea, Ghana, gold mine expansion threatens water sources
- Communities are requesting a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a new mining project and for their right to free, prior, and informed consent regarding ...
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