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At the Summit

Young women are the change agents

Rejoice Kankhande

I can tell you; it was an exciting and overwhelming experience watching young girls and women speak out and share their experiences at the Women Deliver Conference in Kigali, Rwanda from 17th to 20th…

The aftermath of Cyclone Freddy

Rich nations must honour $100 billion in climate finance

Lingalireni Mihowa

As a development worker, I have been to Phalombe, Malawi’s Southern Region District countless times. Whenever I am on a mission, I have always come out of the district satisfied knowing that Oxfam is…

Namanolo youth club in session

How Information Communication and Technology (ICT) can promote access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for youth

Rejoice Kankhande

It is a sunny Wednesday afternoon in Balaka District, in the Southern part of Malawi, and I am seated in awe as I watch Esnart Taipe lead a musical performance on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (…

Abandoned car in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe’s mining capital. (Picture: Andrew Bogrand /Oxfam)

‘They Offered Me Nothing For What They Had Destroyed’: How The Scramble For Clean-energy Minerals Is Hurting African Communities

Dailes Judge, Veronica Zano

Today’s mining boom may not be driven by the overt colonialist motives of the past – but the parallels are there, say Dailes Judge and Veronica Zano of Oxfam in Africa. “The lithium company came…