Ed Pomfret
Regional campaigns and policy manager, Horn, East and Central Africa
Ed has worked at Oxfam for the last three years, primarily campaigning on conflict and humanitarian issues. This includes long-term conflicts such as in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan and emergencies in Haiti, Pakistan and the Horn of Africa.
He currently works across all of Oxfam's campaigns and policy priorities in the Horn, East and Central Africa. Before Oxfam Ed was an environmental campaigner working on ancient forest protection and climate change issues.
Somalia has gone through periods of being ignored by the international community and then subjected to intense interference. In the absence of a functioning national government for two decades, Somalis have tried various ways to organise the country. But sadly, so far these efforts have been overshadowed by conflict and power struggles at the national level, in which the interests of most Somalis have been disregarded.
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Last year countries in the Horn of Africa were hit by a major drought. Approximately 13 million people have been affected by the impacts of the drought, conflict, high food prices and chronic poverty. Peoples' lives in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti have been turned upside down and many thousands are struggling to recover, pushed into desperate poverty from which it will take decades to recover. No one knows exactly how many people... Read more