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Aid cuts and humanitarian deadlock are fuelling a full-blown public health disaster.

People around the world are trapped in a ‘toxic triangle’ made up of short-term financial investors, timid governments and fossil fuel companies, which threatens to push up  global temperatures, putting 400 million people at risk of hunger and drought by 2060.  

New cases of Ebola found in urban areas over the last few days show the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not yet under control.

Ebola is spreading in the DR Congo and Uganda, putting already vulnerable communities at greater risk. Here’s what you need to know about the situation and why aid cuts matter.

The violations outlined by the UN are proof of the misery and suffering being inflicted on the people of Yemen.

Following the publication of a major new report by the Global Commission on Adaptation today, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam and a member of the Commission said: “For too long adaption has been treated as if it were less important than emissions reductions. This report shows we need both: much deeper and quicker cuts in emissions and much more help for vulnerable communities from the Bahamas to Mozambique who are struggling to survive in the face of this crisis.“People on the front line of the climate crisis, who did least to cause it, have been largely …

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Acute food crises continue to reverse positive development trends in sub-Saharan Africa.

Typhoon Haiyan not only killed thousands across the Philippines and made millions homeless.

The 2013 elections helped to restore constitutional order in Mali and marked the start of a period of hope for peace, stability and development.