The following is a short statement from Nicolas Von Arx, Near & Middle East regional director for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in response to the recent escalation of ...

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has supported the large-scale repatriation of human remains between Russia and Ukraine following a recent agreement among the ...

As the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, concluded her three-day visit to Syria, she emphasised that respect for international humanitarian law (IHL) ...

In Niger, as in many other countries in the Sahel, * livestock herders face a double threat to their way of life. Pastureland is shrinking at an alarming rate as temperatures rise and rainfall ...

Tens of thousands of people arrived in Burundi since the beginning of this year, fleeing the escalation of armed conflict in the east of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Millions of Kenyans do not have enough to eat amid the worsening drought, and a growing number of people have been losing their livelihoods to extreme weather.

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 ...

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 ...

The conflict in Libya has left the country extremely vulnerable to climate variability and is likely to increase the impacts on agricultural production and therefore livelihoods, food and economic ...

جنيف (اللجنة الدولية) – يسّرت اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر (اللجنة الدولية) إطلاق سراح 3 رهائن ونقلهم من غزة إلى إسرائيل، وإطلاق سراح 90 معتقلاً فلسطينياً ونقلهم من إسرائيل إلى الأرض الفلسطينية ...

Dominik Stillhart, the director of operations for the ICRC, visited Ukraine this week where he saw the devastating human cost of urban warfare in Irpin and Bucha and visited the ICRC’s urban water ...