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In Burkina Faso, 80% of the population lives on agriculture and livestock. In one of the poorest countries in the world, the effects of climate change cause even more hunger and threaten the subsistence of the inhabitants. We work so that more than 31,000 families can have access to food, drinking water, and preventative information. Meet some of them. 

Since January 2019, the Northern Region of Burkina Faso has been affected by armed conflicts that have forced 1.7 million people to flee. Now they face a new challenge: finding water. In order to fully grasp the extent of this challenge, photojournalist Samuel Turpin travelled to the Central North region of the country with Oxfam, where water has become a scarce resource.

This report proposes specific actions to strengthen the role of local actors and potentially local humanitarian leadership in the response in Burkina Faso, so that it is more appropriate to needs, faster and more sustainable, and responsive to the changing reality dictated by an increased violence, while keeping people at the centre.    

Over the last years armed groups have spread over the Sahel region causing a humanitarian and security crisis, and devastating lives. Humanitarian needs have exploded in Burkina Faso, with 2.2 million people in need of assistance. They are in desperate need of food, shelter, and healthcare, but most urgently they need water. You can help.

Rwandan women head close to a third of agricultural households and provide almost two thirds of the labour on family farms. Despite this, they have very little control over the sale of cash crops. With the support of Oxfam, the women members of the Tuzamurane cooperative grow and sell pineapples together and are no longer trapped in a low income cycle.

As the G5 leaders meet at the Sahel Summit in France on 13 January 2020 to discuss their military response to the Sahel conflict, Oxfam and partners warn of insufficient humanitarian aid and protection of civilians.

West Africa is hit by its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million people going hungry. This number could rise to 38 million this June - a new historic level and already an increase by more than a third over last year- unless urgent action is taken.

In Rwanda, 45% of people live in poverty and rely on small-scale farming. There is no gas or electricity so women and their children spend hours every day collecting water and firewood, which traps them in a cycle of poverty. We contributed to a biogas digester project that is changing many families' lives and contributes to reduce inequality for women. Find out how.

Every Wednesday the radios in Rwanda come to life as characters, familiar as old friends, emerge for another episode of the soap opera “Musekeweya” or “New Dawn”.

Burkina Faso is currently experiencing one of the most rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crises in the world, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study describes the impact of the conflict on women and looks at their role in strengthening social cohesion and building peace.