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.
On 6 February 2023, two earthquakes, each registering a magnitude of 7.8 struck the northwest region of the country. This natural disaster resulted in the tragic loss of thousands of lives and caused injuries to numerous others. Structures were devastated, leaving behind rubble where homes once stood.
This B-ROLL shows the production and post-production of a film to raise awareness of international humanitarian law (IHL), with the African football star Kalidou Koulibaly.
Thousands of families living in frontline areas are exposed to freezing temperatures, especially given that vital utilities such as water and electricity have been hard-hit by ongoing hostilities.
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