A year like no other
Last year, as the pandemic spread around the world, we took immediate action to adapt our work to ensure that people affected by conflict were not forgotten. By continuing to provide life-saving food …
Last year, as the pandemic spread around the world, we took immediate action to adapt our work to ensure that people affected by conflict were not forgotten. By continuing to provide life-saving food …
Last year, conflict didn't stop because of COVID-19 . And neither did we – thanks to you! As the pandemic spread around the world, we were able to take immediate action to adapt our work and ensure …
This bulletin contains an overview of our operations focusing on COVID-19 and other activities during the second half of the year 2020. FACTS AND FIGURES NAIROBI REGIONAL DELEGATION FACTS & FIGURES …
30-12-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross is profoundly saddened that three of our colleagues were among those killed in Aden's airport explosion earlier today. Our …
"Mom, I'm going to walk," Min Htet Oo excitedly yelled while getting his second prosthesis fitted recently. Born with a lower limb deficiency, Htet Oo had the first prosthesis fitted in 2018. "We …
Kenya - Man dashes through a swarm of desert locusts to chase them away in the bush near Enziu, 200km east of Nairobi Large swarms of these locusts have infested over 70 thousand hectares of land …
28-12-2020 Bangui (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been forced to drastically reduce its humanitarian activities in Bouar in Nana-Mambéré prefecture after its office …
24-12-2020 Cairo (ICRC / ERC) – The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC), in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has distributed food and hygiene parcels to 1,500 families …
24-12-2020 In November 2020, the Oman Ministry of Health and the ICRC have launched the first phase of a 4-phase training course on the management of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear …
The capacity of Lebanon’s already strained public health sector to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak is limited. The Syrian and Palestinian refugee populations, as well as people in places of …
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