Health facilities attacked or looted, health personnel displaced, ambulances blocked or destroyed – nearly two years of the armed conflict in Sudan have had a devastating impact on healthcare.

The DRC Red Cross, the ICRC and the IFRC are gravely concerned by the deepening humanitarian crisis in the Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly in the city of Goma. Thousands of civilians, including women and children and wounded and sick people, are bearing the brunt of the conflict.

Severe malnutrition rates have risen sharply in healthcare facilities supported by the ICRC in northeast Nigeria. Clinics report a 24% increase in the number of young children suffering from malnutrition compared to the previous year.

Rural areas of northern Ethiopia that have experienced heavy fighting in the past years remain heavily contaminated by unexploded ordnance. Weapon contamination poses severe risks for civilians, especially children.

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.

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.