The Geneva Conventions, crucial international treaties regulating armed conflict, mark their 75th anniversary on August 12. These treaties form the backbone of international humanitarian law, a set of rules seeking to limit the effects of armed conflict, limiting the means and methods of warfare and safeguarding those not or no longer taking part in hostilities.
Minova, a town of about 50,000 inhabitants, tucked between the Lake Kivu and the mountains, has been a bustling commercial hub in eastern DRC. But, since the armed conflict flared up at the end of 2023, commercial activity has slowed dramatically.
An influx of patients with severe injuries and burns from an airstrike arrived at the Red Cross field hospital in Rafah, Gaza, desperately needing treatment on the night of May 26th, 2024.
The ICRC and 11 Red Cross National Societies are combining efforts to open a field hospital in Rafah, Gaza, to help address the overwhelming medical needs emanating from the ongoing conflict.
A year of conflict in Sudan has caused increased humanitarian needs across the country and beyond its borders while causing millions suffering and pain.
For several years, Burkina Faso has faced armed violence that forces many civilians to abandon their homes, often after witnessing atrocities. But being safe from physical danger does not mean being completely secure: night terrors, nightmares, family, social and professional isolation...
Thousands of families forced to flee the conflict in Sudan have taken refuge in Boro Medina, a town of some 5,000 inhabitants in the Western Bahr el Ghazal State of South Sudan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is expanding its visits to detention places across Somalia in response to the escalation of the armed conflict.
In February 2024, the Ndosho hospital in Goma, in the east of the DRC, received six times more patients than usual, forcing it to double its capacity and transfer patients to the provincial hospital in Bukavu.
TheICRC is seeking to clarify the fate of 23,000 persons whose families have no news, either because they have been captured, killed, or because they lost contact after fleeing their homes. The pain of family separation comes on top of indescribable loss, suffering and rising humanitarian needs two years after the escalation of the armed conflict, including for millions of people displaced, both within and beyond the borders of the two countries.