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26 Mar 2020

Cyclone Idai one year on: what’s happening in Zimbabwe?

One year on from the devastating Cyclone Idai of 2019, ActionAid's Arbie Baguios explains what's happening in Zimbabwe and the consequences still bein...

Hollie Pycroft

Digital Communications

Cyclone Idai devastated parts of Zimbabwe. Photo: Zinyange Auntony/ActionAid
24 Mar 2020

How will Covid affect women and girls in poverty?

The World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic in early March 2020. This new coronavirus and Covid-19 disease affects all ...

Arsheen Qasim

Digital Communications

Residents of a village in Sierra Leona, attend a hand-washing session during the Ebola outbreak of 2014. Photo: Tommy Trenchard/ActionAid
12 Mar 2020

Behind the scenes of our Women by Women exhibition

On Wednesday 4th March, the Oxo Tower’s gallery space on London’s South Bank was transformed into ActionAid’s first Women by Women photography exhibit...

Guests at the launch night for ActionAid UK's Women by Women photography exhibition. Photo: Shyamantha Asokan/ActionAid UK
5 Mar 2020

Actress Fay Ripley: “What sponsoring a child means to me”

Cold Feet actress Fay Ripley explains why she’s sponsored a child with ActionAid for 12 years, and what it means to her and her family. ...

Fay Ripley

Celebrity guest blogger

Fay Ripley's visit to see ActionAid's work in Tanzania. Photo: ActionAid
28 Feb 2020

Southern Africa food crisis: the response in Zambia

ActionAid’s Gemma Bruley-Prince, returning from Zambia, describes the urgency of the Southern Africa food crisis, the response and the need for action...

Hollie Pycroft

Digital Communications

In Zambia's Western Province, ActionAid is supporting the distribution of maize, beans and cooking oil. Photo: Fredrick Ntoka/ActionAid
25 Feb 2020

Southern Africa food crisis: “I don’t know how we will cope”

ActionAid’s Ed Watkiss discusses the situation on the ground in Zimbabwe, in the midst of an escalating food crisis that’s risking millions of lives i...

Hollie Pycroft

Digital Communications

Southern africa food crisis. Photo: ActionAid

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