Monrovia (LNRCS/ICRC) - Nearly 1,250 Liberian law enforcement and fire service officials have trained in basic first aid this year with the help of the Liberian Red Cross (LNRCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
In recent days, surgical teams from the ICRC have treated over 90 people wounded in the bomb blasts in Madagali and Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria. Nigerian Red Cross volunteers administered first aid to the wounded in both incidents.
Damascus/Geneva: Nearly 150 civilians, most of whom were disabled or in urgent need of care, were evacuated late night from a hospital in the Old City of Aleppo, in a joint operation by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The ICRC begins a two-day consultative forum on forensic services and management of human remains in Abuja today.
The ICRC calls on all parties to the conflict in Galkayo to take all precautionary measures to protect civilians, health care staff and medical facilities.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today launched an ad-style video which illustrates the terrifying human cost of ignoring the Geneva Conventions and aims to raise awareness of international humanitarian law.
The ICRC and the Somali Red Crescent Society has distributed rice, beans and vegetable oil for up to 60,000 displaced people.
Pretoria (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, has completed a two day official visit to South Africa.
Wrapping up a four-day visit to Nigeria, the President of the ICRC, Peter Maurer, met today with Nigerian President Muhammedu Buhari. The two discussed the humanitarian situation in Nigeria, particularly in the conflict-affected North East.