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Non-food Items at the Mbale Regional contingency Warehouse

Launch of the Mt. Elgon Regional contingency Warehouse: A Milestone in Disaster Preparedness and Response

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE(Mbale, Uganda – July 10, 2024) – Oxfam in Uganda, and consortium partners, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Caritas Tororo and Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) have today launched…

Oxfam in Uganda water

In the ten worst-hit countries, increasing floods and drought forced 8 million displacements last year – over twice that of a decade ago

Hunger nearly tripled in five of these countries over the same period. Water-related disasters forced people to flee from their homes nearly eight million separate times in 10 of the world’s worst-…

Press release - DAVOS 2024

Seven richest Africans have more wealth than the poorest half of the continent’s population

Africa’s richest 1 percent own nearly half of the continent’s total financial wealth. A tax of up to 5 percent on Africa’s super-rich could generate an annual amount of $11.9 billion, nearly enough…

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Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in “decade of division,” says Oxfam

Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in “decade of division,” says Oxfam Fortunes of five richest men have shot up by 114 percent since 2020.Oxfam predicts…

Launching RISE K project

Oxfam and partners with support of Irish Aid, launch a 3,000,000 euro five-year project in the Karamoja Sub-Region

(Moroto, 13th September, 2023). Oxfam and partners have launched an ambitious and transformative five-year initiative, the Resilience, Inclusiveness, Sustainability, and Empowerment of Communities in…

Poor people being bypassed or bankrupted as rich countries pour development billions into private healthcare

Investments of taxpayers’ money into dodgy deals, profiteering and exploitation, health scandals and human rights abuses —all with little or no accountability. This includes private hospitals…

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One in five persons don’t have enough water in drought-stricken East Africa

Up to 90% of water boreholes in parts of Somalia, Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia have entirely dried up One in five people in drought-stricken East Africa – a total of 33.5 million people…

Strengthen tax measures on High-Net-Worth Individuals to End Inequality in Uganda - Oxfam

Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years

Super-rich outstrip their extraordinary grab of half of all new wealth in past decade. Billionaire fortunes are increasing by $2.7 billion a day even as at least 1.7 billion workers now…

Hunger likely to claim a life every 36 seconds in drought-stricken East Africa over next three months -Oxfam

One person is likely to die of hunger every 36 seconds between now and the end of the year in drought-stricken East Africa as the worst hit areashurtle towards famine, Oxfam warned today.The…