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The World’s Biggest Humanitarian Crisis Isn’t Making Headlines – But It Should Be

  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Hunger
  • People
  • Water

More than 31.5 million people in East Africa – Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – are suffering from the combined impact of conflict, climate and hunger.

A black woman is walking in a desert-like area carring 3 empty plastic jugs of differing sizes. She has a black floral piece of material covering her head, shoulders and torso and is wearing a long white skirt with large red circles on it.

What is Famine: Five Facts You Should Know

  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Refugees and Internal Displacement

Learn about the definition and causes of famine, and explore ways to support Oxfam in stopping and preventing it.

A group of women and children sit around an older man. They're sitting in the open, with a makeshift tent behind them. They wear colourful clothes and headscarves.

Can we really save only half of all people on the planet? Without a gender focus, climate solutions are bound to fail

  • Climate Change
  • Hunger
  • Water

Why placing women's rights and gender equality at the heart of climate interventions is needed for more equitable, lasting and successful solutions.

A woman is standing a barren, arid area, looking up in the sky and is wearing a blue head covering and black and white checked shirt.

Climate, Conflict and COVID-19 Crisis in the Horn of Africa

  • Climate Change
  • Conflict and War
  • Emergency Response
  • Hunger
  • Water

Countries in the Horn of Africa are enduring severe hunger, with near-famine conditions in some areas, due to conflict, climate-induced weather shocks (flooding in some countries, drought in others) and…

A man with dark skin and brown eyes stands in the centre of a large herd of thin, ailing camels whose hip bones are protruding. The man, who is very thin himself, is looking at us directly and wears a plaid shirt, dark pants and prayer beads and carries a walking stick.