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COTE D'IVOIRE: Malnutrition concerns in country’s prisons

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80115

Friday, November 28, 2008

DAKAR Tuesday, September 02, 2008 (IRIN) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a nutritional feeding programme at the...

SENEGAL: Landmines claim new victims in Casamance

Monday, May 05, 2008

The Association of landmines' victimes in Ziguinchor stands up for the rights of landmine victims.One man was killed and 20 passengers injured when a...

Senegal: ICRC resumes work in Fogny, Casamance

International Committee of the Red Cross http://www.icrc.org

Monday, April 14, 2008

Eighteen months after suspending field operations, the International Committee of the Red Cross is once more present on the ground in Fogny, northern...

SOMALIA: Displaced families surviving on less than one meal a day, says ICRC

IRIN

Friday, March 14, 2008

Large numbers of families displaced by violence in Somalia are surviving on less than one meal a day and spending large proportions of their meagre...

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Humanitarian crisis spills over into South Kivu

IRIN

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The ICRC has begun a distribution of essential items – clothing, blankets, mats, soap and kitchen sets – to over 500 displaced families who have...

SUDAN: Thousands more flee violence in Darfur - UN

IRIN

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Violence in Sudan's remote western region of Darfur has forced nearly a quarter of a million people to flee their homes this year, increasing the...