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Oxfam provides new generator to improve water supply to people in besieged East Aleppo under attack with little food, water and healthcare
Oxfam moved Wednesday a huge generator across conflict lines to East Aleppo to help improve the water supply, but all other aid to the besieged area remains cut off. More than a quarter of a million people face winter with limited food and clean water, as renewed Syrian and Russian airstrikes stretch medical resources beyond…
‘We just came from the dead’ – families describe their escape from Mosul to Oxfam, as the number fleeing triples
Families are suffering appalling injuries and traumas to escape the fighting in Mosul as the number fleeing more than triples in the space of a week. Oxfam and other humanitarian agencies are working to ensure that the support in camps and communities keeps pace with the new arrivals. One woman who arrived at Hassansham camp,…
People living in ‘smoke-filled hell’ in areas around Mosul recaptured from ISIS
People living in ‘smoke-filled hell’ in areas around Mosul recaptured from ISIS Thousands of families are living in a “smoke-filled hell” with hardly any access to clean water or medical services after ISIS militants retreated from towns and villages on the way to Mosul, Oxfam said today. ISIS militants set 19 oil wells ablaze in the…
A year after the Paris climate deal, most vulnerable are still not getting financial support they need
The amount of net financial assistance going to help developing countries fight climate change has been miscounted by tens of billions of dollars, according to a new Oxfam report released on the eve of the United Nations’ climate change conference in Morocco. In “The Climate Finance Shadow Report 2016,” Oxfam shows that of the $41…