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• Drought and insecurity worsens in Uganda

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Raiders, diseases and the lack of water and pasture are hitting the livestock of north-east Uganda, reports Jane Beesley. Ugandan farmers and their sheep at sunrise [Photo credit: Jane Beesley] As light starts to break across the horizon the livestock belonging to 17,000 people are anxious to leave the ...
  5 days ago

• Oxfam reaction to Ed Miliband’s announcement for the future of coal in the UK

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  In response to Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband’s plans for coal in the UK, Oxfam’s Campaigns and Policy Director Phil Boomer said: “We welcome the government’s acknowledgement of the need to decarbonise the UK’s power sector.  “However, any plans to build new coal power ...
  6 days ago

• Film release: From daily life to disaster in Gabura

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Oxfam has today released a ‘landmark’ (says The Guardian ) online interactive documentary which captures the moment when Cyclone Aila hit Bangladesh in May 2009. The film’s Director here discusses making the film. We weren’t prepared for what was going to hit us. In May, we had travelled to Bangadesh ...
  1 week ago

• President Karzai’s new government must deliver on schools, midwives and police say aid agencies

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  The new Afghan government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalizing the police force, according to aid agencies working throughout Afghanistan. Their set of recommendations to the new Afghan administration also highlight ...
  1 week ago

• First Gazans get compensation from former Israeli employers

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Some 25,000 Gazans used to work for Israeli employers, but today none do. Five years since they abruptly lost their jobs, the first Gazans finally get compensation, Oxfam’s Catherine Weibel reports. Last month, I went to Gaza to meet three women who were the first in the occupied territory to win compensation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Finance ball shifts to US court as climate talks kick off in Barcelona

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Oxfam has called on the US to join Europe in laying its climate finance cards on the table, as international climate talks opened in Barcelona today. Real progress on climate finance is possible for the first time after European leaders, meeting in Brussels on Friday, outlined their proposal for how much public money ...
  2 weeks ago

• Philippines floods: Concern grows over long-term impact

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  With families still sheltering in temporary evacuation centres, concern about the long-term impact of Typhoon Ketsana on people’s livelihoods grows, Laura Eldon reports. How do you cope when rising floodwater forces you to flee your home with only what you can carry? Well if you’re one of the any number of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oxfam: EU leaders must commit new money or risk climate deal collapse

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Hundreds of miniature tents have sprung up in London today - along with Brussels, Berlin, Dublin and Madrid - to show EU Heads of State and Government what is at stake should they fail to agree a position on climate financing when they meet in Brussels tomorrow.   International aid agency Oxfam erected the tents to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ethiopia’s animal health doctors get busy

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  With lack of water and pasture because of the drought, livestock are struggling for survival. Maintaining their basic health is of paramount importance if people are to have livestock and a livelihood in the future. Oxfam’s Jane Beesley reports from eastern Ethiopia. “We’ve been training cows.” Having just ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oxfam rice reaches Typhoon Ketsana-affected villagers

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Oxfam is responding to the urgent needs of 25,500 women, men and children most affected by Typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam . Nguyen Thi Hoang Yen reports on the difficulties of an Oxfam emergency distribution. My colleague Hue and I sat in the cabin of the truck, trying hard to keep still on the hard seats ...
  2 weeks ago

• Flood-stricken Philippines gets emergency distribution

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Four weeks on from Typhoon Ketsana, floodwaters have yet to subside in many areas and thousands of people face the prospect of long months in temporary shelter. Laura Eldon reports on an Oxfam distribution of the essentials. When Typhoon Ketsana hit the northern Philippines on 26 September it unleashed more rain ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ethiopia: Water gathering is a full-time job

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Today is 25 years on from the 1984 famine, but the food crisis in East Africa continues. As a new Oxfam report calls for food aid to be re-examined, Oxfam’s Jane Beesley visits our ongoing programme in one of the driest regions of Ethiopia. The light is eerie. Dust hangs in the atmosphere ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ethiopia famine 25 years on: The face of hope

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  As Oxfam releases a new report highlighting the need to rethink food aid in Ethiopia, famine survivor Birhan Woldu explains why she agrees. My name is Birhan Woldu. In 2005 I came to realise that I had become the face of the Ethiopian famine, although as a young child in 1984-5 I knew or understood little about ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yemen conflict: Blistering heat in camps difficult to bear

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Oxfam’s is responding to the crisis in northern Yemen. Caroline Berger relays a blog from one of Oxfam’s field staff in Yemen. I’m standing in the Al Mazarakh camp in Haradh in northern Yemen. It is home to 950 families, or nearly 6,000 people, displaced by the ongoing fighting between Huthi groups and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Déjà vu as Poland and Germany threaten climate deal - Oxfam

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  EU finance ministers failed today to reach a deal on how to pay for climate action in developing countries - a make or break issue in international climate talks. Elise Ford, Head of Oxfam’s EU office, said: “The EU has in the past shown itself capable of delivering what’s needed to secure a deal in Copenhagen, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Europe prepared to cannibalise aid to tackle climate change

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Joint development NGOs response to EU Finance Ministers meeting today: OXFAM, ACTIONAID, CIDSE, CAFOD, APRODEV, TEARFUND, CONCORD Europe will offer no new money to help poor countries tackle climate change under proposals put forward by Finance Ministers today. Europe’s leading aid agencies warn the proposals ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Oxfam can hit the ground running

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Working with local partners is essential to Oxfam’s work. Oxfam’s Laura Eldon learns how our partners helped us be the first on the scene of the Sumatra earthquake. One of the things that has really struck me since I’ve been out in Padang is the importance of Oxfam’s work with local Indonesian ...
  3 weeks ago

• World Food Day: Typhoon Ketsana destroys Cambodia’s rice harvest

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Typhoon Ketsana made this year’s annual flood in Cambodia so much more intense that hectares of rice have been destroyed. Oxfam’s Dow Punpiputt reports. This is my first trip to Cambodia and I’m heading with our Media-Communications team to Kampong Thom province, one of the most affected areas from Typhoon ...
  4 weeks ago

• Blog action day: How sunlight can help during drought

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Over 23 million people across East Africa are facing critical shortages of food and water. Alun McDonald visits one of the areas worst affected. This article is posted as part of Blog Action Day on climate change. I’m visiting Turkana with Dida and David Napereng, two local Oxfam staff, to see some of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Kenya: “We’ve run out of food and I don’t know what to do”

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Over 23 million people across East Africa are facing critical shortages of food and water. Alun McDonald visits one of the areas worst affected. I’m visiting Turkana with Dida and David Napereng, two local Oxfam staff, to see some of the areas affected by East Africa’s worst food crisis in a decade. Turkana, ...
  4 weeks ago

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