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Typhoon Washi victims who are made homeless after their houses were swept away by flash floods rest at an evacuation center in Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines December 18, 2011. Rescuers searched for more than 100 people still missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing almost 500 people in areas ill-prepared to cope with deadly storms. The cities of Cagayan de Oro and nearby Iligan on Mindanao island were worst hit when Typhoon Washi slammed ashore while people slept late on Friday and early Saturday, sending torrents of water and mud through villages and stripping mountainsides bare. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

December 20, 2011

Oxfam sends experts to Philippines in wake of typhoon Washi

As the death toll passes 1,000 from the devastating tropical storm that hit the southern Philippines on Sunday, Oxfam has...

November 30, 2011

“City of hope”: Reflections from Somaliland

By Caroline Berger, Oxfam Great Britain’s Regional and Information Communications Officer for the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the CIS...

November 11, 2011

Nine hectares of hope: irrigation in Ethiopia

New agricultural know-how and a sense of community have turned Ethiopian widow Balcha's life around. Despair has been replaced by...

November 1, 2011

Somalia famine hits farmers hard – but Oxfam project brings hope for the next harvest

Agricultural communities in southern Somalia – the country’s grain basket – are being severely affected by the current drought, which...

October 3, 2011

Scarlett Johansson’s video report from Dadaab (Day 2)

By Scarlett Johansson, Oxfam Ambassador. Originally published in the Huffington Post In the Turkana region of Northern Kenya, there is...

September 23, 2011

“We walked with our children on our backs”

An estimated 1.8 million women, men, and children in Somalia have been driven from their homes by the combination of...

September 21, 2011

Between a rock and a hard place

Around 1,000 Somali refugees arrive each day at the Hiloweyn camp, in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia, just a few kilometres from...

September 20, 2011

Smiles in Dadaab

Chee Chee Leung visited Dadaab, expecting the world’s largest refugee camp to be a site brimming over with sadness, sickness...

September 14, 2011

Waiting for water

Carly Sheehan travels to the village of Dillo in Ethiopia, where Oxfam is currently reaching over 8,500 people with clean...

September 12, 2011

In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance protects against drought

In Adi Ha, northern Ethiopia, a growing number of farmers now have a means of managing some of the region's...

September 10, 2011

Dadaab: a crack in the sky

Nicole Johnston from Oxfam Great Britain is unexpectantly buoyed by the incredible energy that is generated by the half a...

September 9, 2011

All hands to the pump

It's a race against time to get water equipment constructed before refugees arrive in a new camp near Dolo Ad,...