Mali: “I hope my brother will get this message”
Born to a Nigerian father and a Malian mother, Adama Saliou, known as Malam, was a teacher of the Qur'an in the town of Ménaka in Mali. But when fighting broke out there in 2012, he was separated …
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Ongoing needs in Iraq
2018: Displaced by war Two million people remain displaced in Iraq today. This mother and her children still live in a camp and dream of returning to their home. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Ibrahim Sherkhan …
Zambia: reunifying five children with their families
Gerard managed a full smile and a wave to the well-wishers and neighbours who gathered to bid him farewell. The other children, Dina, Diodone, Dunia and Mamie quickly climbed into the car, a bit …
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Specialist Red Cross Ebola team arrives in North Kivu
07-08-2018 Kinshasa/Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) – A team of Red Cross experts has arrived in the town of Beni, close to the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the …
Ethiopia: Red Cross starts delivering emergency assistance to people displaced by violence
The ICRC and Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) begun delivering emergency assistance to people displaced by ethnic violence in Ethiopia last week. The displacement occurred along the borders of …
Nuclear weapons - an intolerable threat to humanity
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and most of the international community, want to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again and are eliminated entirely. Why is it so …
Fractured lives: Little optimism for Gaza's wounded
Violence escalated in the border area of Gaza at the end of March, resulting in dozens of deaths and thousands of wounded, many by live ammunition. Hospitals, overwhelmed by a series of influxes of …
Supporting medical services and physical rehabilitation in Sudan
The Khartoum Cheshire Home (KCH) is a busy place – close to 50 babies under the age of five receive treatment here every week. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Fattah Since 2012, the ICRC has …
Information Notice on the processing of Personal Data
by the ICRC Brussels delegation The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the …
Yemen: ICRC deplores civilian cost of Hodeida attacks
03-08-2018 Sana'a (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross condemns Thursday's hits in the coastal city of Hodeida which resulted in the killing and wounding of scores of civilians. "The …
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