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Income inequality high or rising in 60 percent of countries with loans from IMF and World Bank

Income inequality is high or increasing in 60 percent (64 out of 106) of low- and middle-income countries receiving grants or loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, reveals…

Over 24 million people in Southern Africa face hunger, malnutrition, and water scarcity due to extreme weather conditions, Oxfam warns

Millions of people across Southern Africa, are grappling with the dual crises of hunger and flooding. Over half of Malawi’s 19 million population, six million people in Zambia, over three million in…

Twaibu Aufi and his wife 49-year-old wife Stevelia Aufi are seen on what used to be their house in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Phalombe southern Malawi on Friday 24 March 2023. CREDIT: Thoko Chikondi / Oxfam

Tropical storm Filipo hits Mozambique exactly one year after devastating Cyclone Freddy left millions of people in urgent need - Oxfam responds

Tropical storm Filipo hits Mozambique exactly one year after devastating Cyclone Freddy left millions of people in urgent need - Oxfam responds. Millions of people have nothing left to eat but wild…

Failed maize crop in Lusaka Zambia. Photo Credit: Tipple Ntini/Oxfam

Over six million people face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity in Zambia, Oxfam warns

Oxfam warns that over six million people from farming families in Zambia are facing acute food shortages and malnutrition until next growing season, which is twelve months away, due to a severe…

Around 1500 people are still arriving every day from Sudan to these transit centres. Photo Credit: Yangi Teresa Justine/ Oxfam

South Sudan: More than 300 people share a single water tap, as transit centres hold four times their capacity, increasing risk of cholera outbreak – warns Oxfam

The influx of over half a million people fleeing Sudan’s conflict meant that transit centres in Renk – a border town in neighbouring South Sudan- are swelling with people four times their capacity,…

Feza Damani, mother of seven, fled the village of Kiwanja in the Rutshuru region. She has been living in Rusayo since September 2023. Mrs Feza and her seven children now live in a communal warehouse with several other displaced people. Photo credit: Yves Kalwira/ Oxfam

Conflict in North Kivu: over a hundred thousand people without clean water live in disastrous conditions

More than 133,000 people who fled the fighting in North Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), live in unimaginable conditions without one single toilet or water, posing…

In Africa, school completion and progression rates are lower for girls, particularly from poorer communities and rural areas, and the quality of education and learning still leaves a lot to be desired.

Over 18 million girls missing school in Africa as continent loses USD29 billion in education funding through flawed taxation

A staggering 18.8m girls are out of primary school in Africa according to a new report by the Tax and Education (TaxEd) Alliance and its allies. Each year, Africa loses US$29 billion in education…

50 year old Hareyat Gebrelibanos and a mother of four from Tigray in Northern Ethiopia cleaning mitad* traditional griddle used for cooking bread at Meles IDP camp. Photo Credit: Zerubabel Tore/Oxfam

Oxfam warns of growing hunger crisis in Tigray and Amhara regions as families resort to extreme measures to survive

Families still reeling from the aftermath of a two-year conflict in Tigray are now resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive. The conflict and erratic rainfall throughout the north of…

Caroline Nyirenda, (second right) a Health worker from Chawama Clinic seen educating the community on how to use the Oral Rehydration Solution sachets in Lusaka, Zambia. Photo credit: Loliwe Phiri/Oxfam

Southern African countries face “terrifying and overwhelming” cholera outbreak as Covid19 cases begin to rise again, Oxfam warns

Southern African countries including Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe are facing an unprecedented surge of cholera cases, warns Oxfam. The situation could become uncontrollable and difficult…

How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action

Seven richest Africans have more wealth than the poorest half of the continent’s population

Africa’s richest 1 percent own nearly half of the continent’s total financial wealth.A tax of up to 5 percent on Africa’s super-rich could generate an annual amount of $11.9 billion, nearly enough to…