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As of July 22nd, Oxfam is providing water to more than 20,000 refugees on the outskirts of the IFO1 refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya.
Tens of thousands of Somalis have already died in the worst hunger emergency in a generation.
The UN announcing famine in parts of Somalia, the first in the region in the 21st century, must be an urgent wake up call to the rest of the world.
Oxfam is calling on international donors and regional governments to urgently step up their response to the food crisis in East Africa as the gravity of the situation increases.
Momentum builds up as key states, survivors, investors' group, and industry give full backing for global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Robert Fox, Executive Director of Oxfam Canada, talks about the crisis in East Africa with CTV News.
Thousands of Somalis have fled into neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia due to one of the region's worst droughts in decades.
The following op-ed appeared in the July 13, 2011 edition of the Toronto Star
Oxfam, FAO and WFP call on the international community to address the worsening crisis in the Horn of Africa.
The Humanitarian Coalition - a coalition of Canada's leading relief agencies - raises the alarm that millions face starvation as drought ravages east African nations.
"This may become the worst food crisis of the 21st century,” said Hasnat Ahsan, humanitarian officer at Oxfam Canada. “Large numbers of lives could soon be lost."
