Food prices squeezing poor people and driving social change by stealth
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 Posted in Ethiopia, Food security, Kenya, Photos, Press release | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6271" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Domianah Mwikali struggles with high food prices in Mukuru, Nairobi"][/caption] A new era of high and volatile food prices goes beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and is causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn ...
Cash not food – giving poor people choices
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 Posted in Aid, Kenya, Pan Africa | No Comments »Just because someone is poor doesn't mean they should not be treated with dignity. And just because someone is hungry doesn't mean that food aid is the best thing to give them. Food aid can save lives - but too ...
Citizens and candidates debate ahead of Kenya elections
Friday, March 1st, 2013 Posted in Governance, Kenya | No Comments »In a few days time Kenya holds its national elections, and a lot has been done to increase dialogue between citizens and aspiring leaders. The country recently held its first ever live televised Presidential debates, and Oxfam and local partner ...
In Turkana, things are changing
Monday, February 11th, 2013 Posted in Kenya | No Comments »Confronted by multiple challenges and long-term marginalisation, people in Turkana are not just waiting for the government and NGOs – they are taking charge of their lives. They say necessity is a mother of invention and that human beings faced with ...
Tweeting from Turkana
Monday, January 28th, 2013 Posted in Food security, Kenya | No Comments »Our Regional Director Fran Equiza recently visited Turkana, an arid region of northern Kenya, where Oxfam projects are helping to improve people's resilience to crises such as chronic droughts, high food prices, and flash floods. Here are his tweets and ...
African and US singers join together to #Act4Congo
Friday, January 25th, 2013 Posted in Conflict, DR Congo, Kenya, Pan Africa, Video | No Comments »The Africans Act 4 Africa campaign - a network of African citizens, activists and musicians - recently brought singers together from the US, DR Congo and Kenya to raise attention to the ongoing crisis in eastern DRC. US gospel singer ...
2012- Our year in pictures
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 Posted in DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Photos, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania | No Comments »As 2012 ends, a look back at some of the events that have shaped our work in the region over the past 12 months - from ongoing emergencies in South Sudan and DRC, to working with amazing women food producers ...
Kenyan women – the invisible force of resilience
Friday, October 12th, 2012 Posted in Gender, Kenya, Pan Africa, Women's rights | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_5222" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A woman in Wajir builds a shelter for her family"][/caption] The theme for this year’s International Day for Disaster Reduction is, “Women and Girls: The Invisible Force of Resilience.” I don’t have to look far to see ...
Oxfam calls for one year freeze on Africa land deals
Thursday, October 4th, 2012 Posted in Food security, Kenya, Land, Pan Africa, Press release, Tanzania | 3 Comments »Land sold off in last decade could grow enough food to feed a billion people Land equivalent to the size of Cameroon or Kenya was sold off during the last decade to foreign investors, says international development agency Oxfam. The existing ...
Helping Kenyan pastoralists cope with a changing way of life
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 Posted in Drought, Food security, Kenya | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_4628" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Abdillahi Jilaow and his shop"][/caption] One year since the launch of Oxfam’s appeal for the food crisis in the Horn of Africa, Polycarp Otieno returns to Wajir in northeastern Kenya, to see how Oxfam’s response is ...