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Race to prevent disease as thousands more Rohingya arrive daily in Bangladesh
Aid workers are in a race against time to stop the rapid spread of disease as thousands of Rohingya people arrive in Bangladesh every day. Oxfam warned that an outbreak of cholera would devastate the camps where hundreds of thousands are without safe water, shelter or enough food to eat. More than 50,000 newly arrived…
Yemen cholera outbreak now the world’s largest on record
Yemen’s five-month old cholera crisis is now the world’s largest outbreak since records began, Oxfam said today, as the number of suspected cases rose to over 755,000. The Yemen outbreak has overtaken the 754,373 suspected cases recorded in Haiti in the six years between 2010 and 2015. More than 2,100 people have already died from…
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya without shelter & clean water in flooded camps: Oxfam
More than 70 per cent of the nearly 430,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh are without adequate shelter and half have no safe drinking water, Oxfam warned today. Heavy rains and floods in camps have left people facing extreme hardships, and have slowed down the building of emergency shelters and clean water tanks,…
Oxfam warns of Hurricane Maria’s impact on thousands of vulnerable families in Dominican Republic
Oxfam is currently preparing to respond to the likely humanitarian needs of people now being hit by Hurricane Maria in Dominican Republic. Much of the country is already saturated after the recent heavy rains caused by Hurricanes Irma and José. This flooding has put the most vulnerable population at risk, especially those living in mountainous…