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.
As delegates gather for the London Somali Conference, a new Oxfam briefing note calls for the country's humanitarian and developmental needs to be the top priority. Regional Campaigns and Policy Manager Ed Pomfret gives his view here.
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Many thousands of lives could have been saved in the Horn of Africa if the international community had responded to the early warning signs.
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