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In Mali, a food crisis weighs heavily
Dyenaba Traoré and her daughter, Bintou, carry water to their garden. Photo by Charles Bambara A colleague the other day sent a computer file of photos from Mali, one of the countries in West Africa...
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Food crisis in Senegal: Animals also affected
Drought has reduced available pasture for livestock herds in eastern Senegal. Photo by Aliou Bassoum/Oxfam America. Second of two posts by guest blogger Aliou Bassoum, Oxfam America’s regional...
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Food crisis in Senegal: Can farmers plant this year?
Kassa Danfakha: “We need good quality seed, for rice, groundnuts, millet, and maize.” Photo by Brett Eloff/Oxfam America Kassa Danfakha says usually one of his biggest concerns in the growing season is...
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Senegal food crisis: Farmers speak out
I recently visited the far eastern Kedougou region of Senegal, where inconsistent rains last summer led to a poor harvest in the fall. Since then food prices have shot up, and many there are struggling...
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West Africa food crisis: Infographic
(click on the image to expand the infographic) A food crisis is now gripping the Sahel region of West Africa. A host of factors–including erratic rainfall, meager harvests, and the lingering effects...
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Sahel food crisis: Combating hunger with hygiene
Stevens recently returned from the Kolda region of Senegal which – like much of the western Sahel region of Africa – is experiencing a severe food crisis. This is the third of four blogs from the trip....
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How a savings group helps a mother survive Sahel food crisis
Mariama Ly ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 3 Photo: Holly Pickett/Oxfam America Mariama Ly is getting ready for the Tabaski holiday in her village, Bandafassi, in eastern Senegal. It’s a quiet day in the...
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Sahel food crisis update: Lifting a heavy load
Saliou Diallo works in his maize field. He used some cash from Oxfam to buy food for his family during the lean time while he was growing his crop. Photo by Holly Pickett/Oxfam America. Before...
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Photo of the week: How to use a tippy-tap
Photo: Holly Pickett/Oxfam America Sadio Danfakha washes her hands with a tippy-tap, a low-cost, low-tech plastic container used to promote hand washing in places with no running water. Oxfam and our...
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NFL superstars make eye-opening visit to Senegalese savings group
Larry Fitzgerald (white shirt) and Anquan Boldin (right) help women artisanal miners pound rock and sand. Photo by Audra Melton/Oxfam America The village of Sabodala in eastern Senegal is going through...
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Anquan Boldin: Is Obama committed to fair play in Africa?
Anquan Boldin, NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl Champion, has traveled with Oxfam to visit poverty-fighting programs in Ethiopia and Senegal. Anquan Boldin...
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Women build a new market in eastern Senegal
Saving for Change group meeting in Bandafassi, Senegal. Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/Oxfam America. Just getting some interesting (and encouraging) news out of Bandafassi, in eastern Senegal: My...
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Six ways to fix up a well and get clean water
Rebecca Blackwell/Oxfam America I’m working on a short piece for our annual report about Oxfam’s work in eastern/southern Senegal last year, when we helped a few communities fix up their wells and...
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Sahel food crisis: Cash programs put farmers back to work
Patrick Ezeala is a Regional Communications and Campaigns Coordinator in Oxfam America’s West Africa regional office in Senegal. As we drove into the village of Dialla Coumbi in the Kolda region of...
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After a poor harvest in Senegal, farmers find creative ways to carry on
In the semi-arid Sahel, Senegalese farmers find ways of coping. Binta Ndao is sitting in the shade in front of her home in a village in Senegal called Kalbiron. She has a bowl of groundnuts on her lap....
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Building walls won’t solve problems—let’s fight poverty and corruption instead
Instead of building legal and physical walls blocking people from coming to the US, why not fight the poverty, corruption, and conflicts that send them fleeing here? I was recently talking with...
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