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G20 must provide immediate debt relief and ensure financing flows to save African people from a massive COVID-19 crisis

The measures that the G20 takes today must be those that ensure African governments have the resources needed to respond to the crisis. The COVID-19 crisis is collapsing health systems and threatening economies in the developed world, and they are using unlimited monetary expansion, something never...

Maria, 31, with her six children with their only belongings sheltering from the rain by the side of the road. 24 hours before this photo was taken the rain came and the river banks burst causing their home to flood. Fearing another cyclone was coming they gathered all their life belongings and came to higher ground. Credit:Elena Heatherwick / Oxfam

Tens of thousands of people are still suffering one year on from Cyclone Idai

Tens of thousands ofpeople across Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique are still suffering 12 months after Cyclone Idai battered Southern Africa, warned Oxfam today. Cyclone Idai, one of the worst cyclones to hit Africa, made landfall on 14 March 2019.

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SMALL-SCALE FARMING, FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA

A number of actions have indeed been put in place by governments as an immediate response to COVID-19 and the effects it is having on the population, which is to be applauded. Across the continent, agricultural inputs and livestock feed are being distributed to support food and pastoral production...

Our search for peace

South Sudanese women have played critical roles in efforts to achieve peace in South Sudan, yet their contributions have been under-recognized and under-documented. This paper contributes to remedying this by sharing women’s stories of their roles in peace making through the Comprehensive Peace...

IS THE SECURITY OF TENURE FOR WOMEN SECURED IN THE ‘AFRICA WE WANT’?

What is the position of women in Africa 57 years after the formation of the African Union? How would the world look like if women had secure access, and control of their land, and natural resources? Would the food crisis be managed differently during emergencies, like the big one we are now living...

CARE BURDEN ON AFRICA’S WOMEN AND GIRLS WAS ALWAYS TOUGH. COVID -19 HAS MADE IT TOUGHER

The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening the global development narrative of ‘leaving no one behind.’ This particularly, for the more than 420 million Africans who live below the global poverty line, many of whom are women and girls.This pandemic has laid bare what has for too long been invisible: the...

Africa Unites for Youth: Reaching out to African Youth by Bridging the Gap.

In April 2019, the African Union Commission (AUC) launched a new initiative that focuses on creating direct opportunities for the development of youth in Africa, to actively and meaningfully drive the full realization of Africa’s Agenda 2063. The “1 Million By 2021 Initiative” aims to concretely...

Unpaid care: The economic ball and chain that's holding women back

As African leaders congregate for the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union next week (February 9 -10), Oxfam will be pitching tent in Addis Ababa to lobby them to make women’s work count. Among the millions of African women whose message...

Literacy Vs. Gender-Based Violence: aiding survivor recovery in the Central African Reppublic

In the Central African Republic (CAR), a woman is a victim of sexual and gender-based violence almost every hour. A limited number of survivors can access medical and psychological support offered by specialized organizations. For most women overcoming the trauma and moving on is a challenge. Oxfam...