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  • Beatrice* lives in Imvepi Refugee Settlement with her husband and young baby.  Photo: Kieran Doherty /Oxfam

    The life of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda on hold: Beatrice's story

    1 August 2017

    Beatrice, 19, fled the war in South Sudan with her husband and young baby after her mother was raped and killed.  Today, she lives with her family in Imvepi Refugee Settlement, among other 95,000 people. She is just one of the one million South Sudanese refugees currently hosted in nearby Uganda.

  • A woman and children gather safe drinking water from the tap Oxfam has installed in Huth IDP camp. Photo: Kate Wiggans/Oxfam

    A race against time: how Oxfam is fighting cholera in Yemen

    30 June 2017

    Four years of war have plunged Yemen into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and put the country at risk of famine. Now it is at the mercy of a deadly and rapidly spreading cholera epidemic, with nearly 1 million suspected cases. Help us stop the spread now.

  • George (prénom modifié) sur les genoux de sa mère pendant que le personnel sanitaire évalue son état nutritionnel, au Soudan du Sud.

    Famine in South Sudan: communities at breaking point

    7 April 2017

    In South Sudan, nearly 5 million people - 40 percent of the population - are facing extreme hunger. "We are seeing communities now at the breaking point". Read more about the situation and support our humanitarian response.

  • Awa Oumar, Oxfam's program beneficiary in Bria, Central African Republic.

    Central African communities regain their livelihoods

    18 November 2016

    Many families in Central African Republic struggle to obtain the basic essentials such as water and food. In Bria, Oxfam is supporting vulnerable households that have lost their means of production by helping them to relaunch their economic activities.

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