Eighty-three children in the DRC, aged five to 19 years old, have at last been reunited with their families, sometimes after years of waiting.
Mozambique’s national immunization campaign has vaccinated 75% of the population in six districts affected by armed conflict in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Manica, and Sofala with the support of the ICRC.
Three decades of armed conflict, plus climate change, plus rising fuel prices is a crushing burden for Somalis.
The Sahel region is being hit by the worst drought in over a decade, pushing more than 10.5million people into malnutrition. For Burkina Faso, the situation is particularly worrying...
Health facilities in Northern Ethiopia are under severe strain as the conflict continues for nearly a year and a half. Attacks against healthcare personnel and facilities are a major humanitarian concern.
Thousands of families are on the move in northeast Nigeria heading to remote locations. Some are going back home following the camps closure in Maiduguri. Others are fleeing areas affected by the conflict.
Somalia is the most drought-affected country in the Horn of Africa. This is the third and the most severe drought in the last decade.
Continuously raging violence in Taiz, Marib, Al-Bayda, Hodeida, Shabwah, Al-Jawf and Hajjah has forced over 157,500 people into displacement in 2021 only, adding to the over 3.3 million people who remain displaced across Yemen.
More than 300,000 people have been affected by the worsening drought in Somalia’s Galgaduud region. Last month the Federal Government declared a state of emergency, as thousands leave their homes in search of food, water and pasture.
Some 26 million people live in areas in Africa where humanitarian groups have difficulty reaching people most in need, where access to basic services like medical care is extremely limited due to violence and armed conflict, according to a new estimate from the ICRC.