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Mission incomplete

10 September 2008

The international community took an important step in deploying the UN and EUFOR mission to volatile and insecure eastern Chad.

Oxfam welcomes European aid for West African food crisis but warns more is urgently needed

2 June 2010

International aid agency Oxfam welcomes the European Commission’s new aid package of 24 million euros for Niger and other countries in the Sahel region of West Africa, which was announced today in Brussels.

Failed rains put 10 million people at risk of a food crisis across West Africa

17 March 2010

Almost 10 million people across the Sahel region of West Africa are threatened with a severe food shortage. Oxfam calls for urgent response to warning signs.

Drought could become a catastrophe for 13 million if action not taken in West and Central Africa, Oxfam warns

9 March 2012

Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a full scale humanitarian emergency in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa if urgent action is not taken.

Oxfam response to WFP scale up in drought-stricken Niger

20 July 2010

Agency urges international community to take urgent action on the crisis In response to an announcement by the World Food Programme (WFP) today (July 20th) that it is scaling up its opera

West Africa: Millions of people at risk of serious food crisis without early action

12 December 2011

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.

Emirati filmmaker Ali F. Mostafa brings Africa’s Sahel food crisis center stage with new short video

15 June 2012

Emirati director and Oxfam supporter Ali F. Mostafa has swapped the high-wire drama of his highly successful City of Life and Classified films for a new short video looking at one of the most pressing humanitarian challenges in the world today.

Lack of funds and logistical delays leave hundreds of thousands starving as food crisis hits peak in West Africa

11 August 2010

Insufficient funding and delays in food delivery threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands in the Sahel belt of West Africa. There is little excuse for the lack of adequate funding and delays – the international community had been warned of the magnitude of the unfolding crisis for months.

Urgent action needed as Sudan faces countdown to crucial referendum warn aid agencies

24 September 2010

Five international aid agencies are calling world leaders at today’s Sudan summit to take concrete action to help ensure peace, safety and development for all Sudanese people. Failure to act risks a new eruption of violence and threatens the future of Africa’s largest country.

Aid agencies call for a 'surge' in aid effort to help 10 million facing hunger in West Africa

8 July 2010

Ten leading aid agencies today called for a 'surge' in the humanitarian effort to help 10 million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa.