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This Pan Africa Program/AU Liaison Office (PAP) Progress Report covers the period from April 2018 until August 2022. These four turbulent years were dominated by the global COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts - which are still being felt, especially by the poorest and most vulnerable people, many of whom are in Africa.

Millions of people in West Africa could be protected from a serious food crisis if preparations are scaled up across West Africa, Oxfam said today.

Ante la llegada del huracán Irma a Cuba, desde las escuelas hasta las cuevas, sirven de albergues transitorios para preservar lo más importante: la vida.Justamente el  8 de septiembre de 2008, el huracán Ike afectó parte del oriente cubano. Todavía la gente de estas geografías lo recuerda. Según datos del Anuario Estadístico de Cuba (2016) dejó pérdidas ascendentes a 7 325,3 millones de pesos.  Como para no olvidar la fuerza de estos fenómenos, nueve años después las poblaciones de la región oriental volvieron a vivir una situación de riesgo, ahora ante el huracán Irma –el…

Despite promises, nearly three-quarters of African governments reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms.

The flight from conflict in Sudan with her family was a difficult journey. But in many ways, Shiama Ali’s challenges were just as hard after arriving in South Sudan. 

Oxfam spokesperson Elizabeth Stuart said:

Food inflation in some East African countries outstrips the global average leaving millions hungry, while food billionaires increased their wealth by $382bn over the last two years.

Despite its vital importance, West African agriculture is characterized by low productivity and beset with economic, social and environmental limitations.

Friends of the Earth (Les Amis de la Terre) France, Notre Affaire à Tous and Oxfam France, who had given BNP Paribas formal notice to comply with its due diligence obligations on 26 October, sued BNP Paribas over its massive support to fossil fuels and for its substantial contribution to climate change. BNP Paribas is Europe’s largest and fifth worldwide funder of fossil fuel expansion: the three organizations urge the bank to immediately stop financing this expansion and to adopt an oil and gas exit plan. This is the world's first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank.

Less than half (49 per cent) of the 2.1 billion COVID vaccine donations promised to poorer countries by G7 countries have been delivered, according to new figures published today by Oxfam and the People’s Vaccine Alliance.