This year's G8 Summit comes at a time when millions in West Africa are facing a food crisis. The call for G8 leaders to take action on food security couldn’t be more urgent.
- The Sahel region of West Africa is once again likely to face a serious food crisis that could, if early and effective action is not taken, prove as costly to lives and livelihoods as the past food crises. Oxfam aims to reach 1.2 million people across the region with aid.
- While worsening violence continues to make it difficult for aid agencies to reach the people in need, Oxfam is providing humanitarian aid to victims of conflict, drought and floods, as well as long term development help to some of the most vulnerable people in Sudan and South Sudan.
- We work directly with communities, seeking to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.
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Senegalese singer Baaba Maal has visited Mauritanian communities at the center of the current food crisis in the Sahel, to call attention to the humanitarian need there.
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18 May, 2012
International agency Oxfam warned that today’s announcement of the "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition" focuses too heavily on the role of the private sector to tackle the complex challenges of food insecurity in the developing world.
18 May, 2012
Ahead of the 65th World Health Assembly (WHA), taking place in Geneva next week, International agency Oxfam has warned that the fundamental role of the World Health Organization (WHO) as the leading agency for global health is at risk because it has suffered from a severe financial crisis and related heavy staff losses.
17 May, 2012
In Baaba Maal’s new role as Oxfam Ambassador he urged the world to respond to the food crisis in West and Central Africa before it is too late, having just returned from visiting communities in Senegal.
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