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Somalia: Farmers fight fears of El Nino floods; ICRC delivers 75,000 sandbags
02-11-2023
For weeks, forecasts have warned of increased rains due to El Nino this season, with a 90% chance it will trigger severe flooding in the Horn of Africa. In Somalia, where the planting season just started, farmers have barely recovered from one of the harshest droughts in years and yet again find themselves faced with another climatic event they have no control over.
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Gaza: ICRC helps in the release of hostages
20-10-2023
The ICRC today helped facilitate the release of two hostages, transporting them from Gaza to Israel in its role as a neutral actor between the warring parties.
ENG FRA العربية SPA
Karabakh: Searching for signs of life as winter approaches
19-10-2023
ICRC teams are visiting communities in Karabakh in their search to provide help to people after the huge exodus which followed the recent escalation of hostilities.
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Gaza: Surgical team, 60 tons of humanitarian aid and medical items mobilised but access urgently needed
18-10-2023
A convoy carrying 60 tons of aid, including urgently needed medical items, from the ICRC has been mobilised for Gaza, but safe humanitarian access is urgently needed to deliver them to civilians in need.
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SOUNDBITE FROM MAKESHIFT CAMP IN GAZA: “Civilians lack food, electricity, water”
15-10-2023
William Schomburg, the head of sub-delegation for the iCRC in Gaza, speaks from a makeshift camp set up for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, about the humanitarian conditions on the ground.
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Azerbaijan and Armenia: Working to help people left behind in their homes
06-10-2023
Teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross are working to find people still in their homes after tens of thousands of people left the region.
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Libya: Survivors mourn, call for humanitarian assistance, medicine, clean water
21-09-2023
After devastating floods killed thousands of people in Libya’s northeast, survivors mourn family and friends that perished in the disaster. Thousands of people are displaced and need food, clean water, shelter, and medical supplies. Many are also desperate to have news of their missing loved ones.
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Somalia: Spike in fighting sees three-fold increase in wounded
18-09-2023
The number of people wounded by conflict in Somalia has increased dramatically this year. As hostilities have flared in different parts of the country, ambulance teams from the Somali Red Crescent Society have reported a more than three-fold rise in the number of people requiring treatment for weapon wounds.
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Eastern Chad: Sudanese refugees desperately seeking loved ones
15-09-2023
Over 150,000 Sudanese refugees are now in Adré, on the border between Chad and the Western Darfur region of Sudan. Most of the refugees are women and children, fleeing extreme violence that has ravaged their homes and villages since April.
ENG FRA
Libya: Ensuring the dignified treatment of the deceased
15-09-2023
In the wake of the devastating floods in Libya’s northeast, over 10,000 people are still missing. The ICRC is sending additional supplies, including 5,000 body bags, to Libya to support with the dignified identification and burial of those who have tragically lost their lives.
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