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Failure to respond to early signs of famine costs lives and money

January 17, 2012

As the warning signs of a new food crisis appear in West Africa, Oxfam and Save the Children have looked back at the human and economic cost of failing to heed these signs in 2010, with tragic results becoming all too clear in the Horn of Africa last year. Thousands of needless deaths occurred and millions of extra dollars were spent because the international community failed to take decisive action on early warnings of a hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa, according to a new report by the two international aid agencies.

From crop to cup in Papua

January 16, 2012

Kitchen table coffee is helping women in remote Papua.

Haiti: The slow road to reconstruction, two years after the earthquake

January 10, 2012

In the two years since the devastating earthquake, Haiti’s government has still not implemented comprehensive plans to address the key issues of shelter; sustainable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene; and secure livelihoods. Donors have failed to meet UN humanitarian appeals and have delivered less than half of promised reconstruction funds.

The international community must renew efforts to bolster the government’s capacity to effectively coordinate reconstruction, while consulting and engaging with Haitian citizens in the process.

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South Sudan struggling in face of growing refugee crisis

January 9, 2012

Six months since South Sudan’s independence, the world’s newest nation is struggling to cope with a major refugee crisis and massive internal displacement, international agency Oxfam said today.

Haiti reconstruction proceeds at a ‘snail’s pace’

January 9, 2012

In a report released today, international agency Oxfam said reconstruction of Haiti, two years on from its devastating earthquake, has proceeded “at a snail’s pace” leaving more than half a million Haitians still homeless. Oxfam urged the Haitian government and donor countries to accelerate reconstruction of the country.

Oxfam despatches experts to typhoon-hit parts of the Philippines

December 20, 2011

Oxfam has a team of ten experts on the ground to assess the water and sanitation conditions in Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City in southern Philippines, after flash floods brought on by typhoon Washi displaced at least 26,000 families and killed 927.