Country Archive

Filtering options

Filtered stories. Filter: Mozambique

Over 24 million people in Southern Africa face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity due to extreme weather

Hunger

Millions of people across Southern Africa are grappling with the dual crises of hunger and flooding. Over half of Malawi’s 19 million population, six million people in Zambia, over three…

Tropical storm Filipo hits Mozambique

Millions of people have nothing left to eat but wild roots as they have lost their crops to repeated extreme weather  Tropical storm Filipo has hit Mozambique today, leaving hundreds of thousands…

Innovation meets expertise: Oxfam’s clean water projects around the world

Water

Oxfam's water engineers provide large-scale water supplies and disease-preventing sanitation facilities to millions of vulnerable people around the world.

Five Things to Know about Safe and Unsafe Abortion

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Five basic facts you should know about abortion to have an informed understanding of this healthcare procedure.

A collage with a green background and an image of a cardboard sign held by one manicured hand that reads, "Abortion is healthcare."

Southern African countries face “terrifying and overwhelming” cholera outbreak

Humanitarian Assistance

Southern African countries face “terrifying and overwhelming” cholera outbreak as Covid19 cases begin to rise again, Oxfam warns. Southern African countries including Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe are facing an…

UN General Assembly: My Hope Lies with the People

  • Brand
  • Climate Change
  • Feminist Aid

Gain a fresh perspective on this year's UN General Assembly with insights from our director of policy and campaigns, Diana Sarosi.

Women Deliver 2023: Inspired by Youth to Push for Ambitious Action

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Violence Against Women and Girls
  • Women's Transformative Leadership

Gain insights into this year's Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda, through the eyes of Erin Kiley, Oxfam Canada's director of international programs.

A group of young men and women smiling and holding signs with messages on sexual and reproductive health and rights.

How Sharing Information on Safe Abortion is Transforming Lives in Rural Mozambique

How Oxfam Canada places sexual and reproductive health decisions back into the hands of women and girls in Mozambique and other countries.

A group of people, primarily Black women wearing colourful clothing, giving their back to the camera, sit outside, surrounded by trees. They listen to an instructor who stands before them, presenting a sheet of paper displaying an image.

Oxfam and partners mounting a humanitarian response to help people affected by cyclone in Malawi and Mozambique

Emergency Response

More than 80 people including women and children have been killed in Mozambique, Malawi and Madagascar, and millions more need urgently need clean water, shelter and food following Cyclone Freddy…

Oxfam Canada launches new program to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mozambique and Uganda

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Thanks to a contribution of $19.6 million from the Government of Canada and close to $1 million from Oxfam Canada’s generous supporters, more than 370,000 marginalized and vulnerable young women…

Climate-fuelled Cyclone Eloise compounded by COVID-19 leaves over 260,000 in urgent humanitarian need: Oxfam

  • Climate Change
  • Natural Disasters

Cyclone Eloise, which recently hit the Sofala province in central Mozambique, has left over 260,000 people in desperate need of humanitarian aid, said Oxfam. Around 142,00 hectares of land and…

Cyclone Idai one year on: A stark reminder of climate change’s impact on women

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Emergency Response

When Cyclone Idai swept across Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe on March 14, 2019, it was deemed one of the worst cyclones ever to hit Africa, killing over a thousand people…

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

  • Climate Change
  • Emergency Response
  • Feminist Aid
  • Natural Disasters
  • Water

Tens of thousands of people 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…

Young and inspiring women's rights activists in Mozambique: Taking action on sexual and reproductive health and rights

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Violence Against Women and Girls

These inspiring young SRHR activists are raising the equality bar for women in Mozambique.

6 months after Cyclone Idai: farmers are fainting in fields because of hunger

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters
  • Refugees and Internal Displacement

Six months on from the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Idai in which more than 1,000 people were killed in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, hunger is escalating as the United Nation’s…

Mozambique cyclone appeal allots less than 1% to needs of women and girls

  • Emergency Response
  • Feminist Aid
  • Natural Disasters

Oxfam, Save the Children and Care are calling on donors to meet or exceed the proposed $5 million target to fund programs that support vulnerable women and girls ahead of…

Cyclone Kenneth – extreme weather pummels Mozambique again, putting thousands more lives in danger, Oxfam is there

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters

Oxfam and international and local partners are planning to help people in Mozambique hit by a second devastating cyclone in less than six weeks. Oxfam is part of the COSACA…

Five things to know about Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters

Cyclone Idai has caused widespread destruction and left communities in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in urgent need of life-saving humanitarian assistance.

Women walking through floods in Mozambique

Cyclone Idai one month on: thousands in Mozambique still cut off from any help and struggling to survive

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters

“Like a war zone” says Oxfam; destruction and suffering still not fully mapped Despite initial appeals, international aid effort still grossly underfunded Aid agencies already stretched and running out of…

Cyclone Idai: Survivors face a new disaster as cholera spreads; number of cases now over 1,000

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters

International aid agency Oxfam says the Mozambique government is acting quickly to set up cholera treatment centres in the devastated city of Beira, but the international community must offer more…

Oxfam Canada welcomes Government of Canada’s response to Cyclone Idai, hopes Canadians will join to double the impact of their donations

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters

(Ottawa) – Oxfam Canada, along with the members of the Humanitarian Coalition, welcomes the Government of Canada’s decision today to match donations by Canadians in response to the devastation caused…

Cyclone Idai: Oxfam calls for a massive effort to prevent and contain cholera in Beira

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters
  • Water

In response to news reports that the number of cases of cholera in the cyclone devastated city of Beira has risen to 139, Oxfam calls for a well-coordinated effort to…

The Humanitarian Coalition delivers aid to survivors of Cyclone Idai

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters

(Ottawa) As the scope of the devastation brought on by Cyclone Idai continues to unfold in Southern Africa, Canadian aid agencies are working together to rush emergency assistance to survivors.…

Oxfam distributing emergency aid to Cyclone Idai survivors in Malawi and Mozambique

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters
  • Water

Oxfam has distributed emergency supplies to survivors of Cyclone Idai in Nsanje district, one of the worst hit areas in the southern tip of Malawi, and in camps in Buzi…

Survivors of Cylone Idai at risk from waterborne diseases: Oxfam

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters
  • Water

Oxfam will begin distributing lifesaving aid including water purification tablets and hygiene kits to some of the communities worst affected by Cyclone Idai over this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of…

Oxfam sends message of support and solidarity to the people affected by deadly cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters
  • Water

As Oxfam leaders from across the world, attending our annual board meetings in Kenya, we send our solidarity to the people of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi whose lives have been devastated…

Oxfams appeals for aid as thousands of lives are still at risk after Cyclone Idai

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters
  • Water

Oxfam’s initial aims are to reach up to 500,000 people – hopefully more – including in partnership with other international and local NGO partners, to help people hit by Cyclone…

Cyclone Idai leaves trail of death, destruction and homelessness in southern Africa, affected countries appeal for urgent aid

Emergency Response

Oxfam will be responding with water, sanitation services, food and other non-food items to people affected by Cyclone Idai that hit Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe on March 14-15. Scores of…

Changing Laws, Changing Lives

Formal justice structures are inaccessible to survivors of gender-based violence in Mozambique, especially in remote areas.

success_story-iwd-moz-900x395.png

Women’s rights: Changing laws, changing minds

Advocacy in Canada

Gender inequality is the most serious and pervasive form of discrimination in the world. But with new laws and social movements, change is possible.

safeguarding_blog_header.jpg