Abuja (ICRC) – First responders seeking to assist the wounded must be allowed to do their work unimpeded in Nigeria’s ongoing protests, while live ammunition must be used only as a last resort by...
Statement to Ministerial Roundtable on Responding to Humanitarian Challenges in a Long-Term Perspective in the Central Sahel, 20 October 2020 As delivered by ICRC President Peter Maurer Excellencies,...
Statement to the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, First Committee: General debate on all disarmament and international security agenda items Delivered by Ms. Véronique Christory,...
Since the onset of the pandemic, numerous guidelines, protocols, and policies have been formulated and widely shared to safely and professionally manage the dead in a dignified manner. But many...
With a safer space for their school, students and teachers of Pagatin renew their hopes for better learning. Nasrah Abdulbayan longs for her old school, where she studied and played without worry...
Genève (CICR) – En Afrique, la flambée des prix des denrées alimentaires et les pertes d’emplois engendrées par la pandémie de Covid-19 font craindre une augmentation de l’insécurité alimentaire et...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The use of Third-Party Monitoring (TMP) allows organizations to monitor projects that are inaccessible to their own staff for various reasons. It also helps provide an independent...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) supports the economic security of individuals, households and communities affected by armed conflict; it does so by helping them to cover their...
Abuja (ICRC) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has seen an increase in malnutrition rates among children in nutrition centres it supports in Nigeria. The number of children...
A spike in number of children malnutrition cases has been observed in Somali Red Crescent (SRCS) health clinics, in particular in Beledweyne, Guriel and Baidoa. The rise in food prices and the loss...