Kenya

Thirty-nine organizations call on governments to ensure access to asylum seekers during COVID-19 pandemic

22 June 2020

People seeking safety are trapped at borders across Eastern Africa due to COVID-19 measures.
Close to half of women are feeling more anxious, depressed, isolated, overworked or ill because of increased unpaid care work caused by the pandemic – Oxfam survey

18 June 2020

Forty-three percent of women surveyed across five countries reported feeling more anxious, depressed, isolated, overworked, or ill because they are having to shoulder even more unpaid care work as a result of the coronavirus crisis, said Oxfam today.
New swarms of locusts threaten to increase hunger in East Africa reeling from floods and coronavirus

27 May 2020

Oxfam warned today that millions of people in East and Central Africa, already suffering due to flooding and the impact of coronavirus, are at risk of increased hunger and poverty as the region braces for the latest generation of locusts which are due to hatch in June ―just when crops are to be harvested.
Millions of locusts devastate crops in East Africa in the worst outbreak in decades - Oxfam prepares to respond

29 January 2020

Oxfam is preparing for a potential response as swarms of locusts sweep across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia and are likely to grow 500 times bigger by June to neighboring Uganda and South Sudan. The plagues are hitting the East African region where food insecurity has already reached record levels.
More than 52 million people across Africa going hungry as weather extremes hit the continent

7 November 2019

More than 52 million people in 18 countries across southern, eastern and central Africa are facing up to crisis levels of hunger as a result of weather extremes, compounded by poverty and conflict.
International complacency puts lives at risk as drought hits Horn of Africa

24 July 2019

More than 15 million people are in need of aid as drought hits parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia again.
The use of tax havens in the ownership of Kenyan petroleum rights

10 May 2016

This report reveals the widespread use of tax havens and low tax jurisdictions in the corporate structures of companies holding petroleum rights in Kenya.
Risky jobs and domestic violence - new report reveals ‘hidden’ social costs of today’s high food prices

22 May 2013

A new era of high and volatile food prices is causing life-changing shifts in society, according to Oxfam and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in a joint report published today.
Somalia conflict: camps are 'barely fit for humans'; international response inadequate

2 September 2009

A total failure of the international community to deal effectively with the Somalia crisis and help end the war is resulting in a spiral of human suffering and exodus to neighboring countries.