The action of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Congo and Rwanda

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (81) ◽  
pp. 640-650
Keyword(s):  
International Institutions ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Organization Of African Unity

In September 1967, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), meeting in Kinshasa, adopted a certain number of resolutions. One of these called upon the mercenaries to leave the Congo and offered to effect this by peaceful methods, with the help of the appropriate international institutions. Following on this resolution, Mr. Mobutu, in his capacity as Chairman of the OAU Conference, appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross to help him in this task. He also declared that he would like to make contact with a representative of the ICRC.

Rwanda – Nigeria – Vietnam – Near East – Yemen – Korea

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (82) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Relief Work ◽  
Organization Of African Unity

Under the title “The action of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Congo and Rwanda” the International Review published last month an article on ICRC relief work at the request of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). It described events up to the end of November 1967.

OAU - ICRC Meeting

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (100) ◽  
pp. 368-368
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Organization Of African Unity

Mr. Diallo Telli, Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity, and Mr. Gratien Pognon, Assistant Secretary General, on 18 June, met Mr. Marcel A. Naville, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Geneva.

MANUFACTURING SOVEREIGNTY AND MANIPULATING HUMANITARIANISM: THE DIPLOMATIC RESOLUTION OF THE MERCENARY REVOLT IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, 1967–8

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-296
Author(s):  
JEREMY RICH
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Organization Of African Unity ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractIn 1967, European and Katangese mercenaries revolted against the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) intervened to try to have the rebels peacefully leave the DRC. Katangese troops who fled to Rwanda with white mercenaries were forced by the Organization of African Unity and the Rwandan government to return to the DRC, where they were eventually executed. White mercenaries, under the protection of the ICRC and Rwanda, ultimately escaped Mobutu's wrath. Congolese and Rwandan leaders skillfully employed the ideal of African sovereignty and humanitarian rhetoric with its Western and African allies to ensure their consolidation of power.

Help to War Victims in Nigeria

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (93) ◽  
pp. 626-633 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Institutions ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
The Third ◽  
Considerable Cost ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
To Come ◽  
War Victims ◽  
Work Up

In our last month's issue we gave an account of ICRC relief work up to the end of October 1968 in Nigeria and the secessionist province Biafra. This clearly brought out the scale and very considerable cost of the mission which will continue for months to come. As the financial situation had reached the crisis stage, the International Committee invited representatives of governments, National Societies and international institutions, able to help it, to a meeting in Geneva, in order to explain the facts which justify not only the massive scale of, but also support for, the Red Cross action. There were in fact three meetings, one of National Societies, the second of representatives of governments and inter-governmental institutions and the third of voluntary agencies.

A film on the International Red Cross

1966 ◽  
Vol 6 (60) ◽  
pp. 145-145
Keyword(s):  
International Institutions ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
The World

As President of the Monegasque Red Cross, Princess Grace of Monaco recently spent several days in Geneva during which she took part in a film being produced for Canadian Television. This company is in fact preparing a documentary of importance for the forthcoming World Red Cross Day, May 8,1966, on the activity of the Red Cross, in particular of the International Committee and the League of Red Cross Societies. The Princess had accepted to present and comment on the work of the two international institutions of the Red Cross. She thus divided her days between the ICRC and the League. An imposing series of “ shots ” were taken of the ICRC's Central Tracing Agency in which are classified cardindexes and archives concerning more than fifteen million prisoners of war and displaced or missing civilians during the course of armed conflicts in Europe and in the rest of the world. The Princess commented, in front of the cameras, on several cases with which the Agency had to deal and brought out the effectiveness and extent of the work carried out at ICRC headquarters on behalf of the victims of all those conflicts.

The International Committee and the League receive the Nobel Peace Prize

1964 ◽  
Vol 4 (34) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Keyword(s):  
International Institutions ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Nobel Peace Prize ◽  
International Review ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Nobel Committee

It was through a telegram sent to it on October 10, 1963 by Mr. Gunnar Jahn, President of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament and published by the International Review in a previous number, that the International Committee learnt that it had been chosen, together with the League of Red Cross Societies, for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1963. This was a great distinction which had for these two international institutions a special significance in the year of the Centenary of the founding of the universal movement of the Red Cross.

NEO-Colonisation of Africa and the OAU

1988 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Segun Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Organization Of African Unity

The early part of the sixties witnessed a rapid decolonization of several parts of Africa even though many have argued that these were mere placations otherwise referred to as flag independence. The seventies and thereafter have witnessed the re-colonisation of African States or in proper terms, the neo-colonisation of Africa by Western Powers. That African States since their qualified independence have been in bondage was never in doubt. Subtly but seriously, the Western Powers through its hydraheaded multinational corporations, in conjuction with international institutions and conventions, have taken over the affairs of African States ranging from politics through economics to culture. While these were going on, the Organization of African Unity stood aloof concerned with nothing in particular or perhaps helpless or on another note used as a tool by Western imperialism. It is the contention of this paper that Africa was neo-colonized by Western Powers mainly because there was no collective resistance that should have been envisaged and given by the Organization for African Unity. The formation, structure, financing and the objectives of OAU at the outset were inadequate to foresee and attack Western surreptitious moves to further imperialism in the seventies and beyond. Consequently, the OAU not only folded its arms while Western perpetrators went away with their imperialistic loot but was also consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirecly, covertly or overtly used in the course of the neocolonisation of African States.

Visit by the President of the Republic of Senegal

1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (253) ◽  
pp. 219-219
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Hamidou Kane ◽  
Organization Of African Unity ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Work And Employment

Mr. Abdou Diouf, President of the Republic of Senegal and current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), and Mrs. Abdou Diouf, Honorary President of the Senegalese Red Cross, visited the ICRC on 18 June 1986.Mr. Diouf was received by Mr. Alexandre Hay, President of the ICRC, members of the Committee and Directorate and heads of the main services of the institution. Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Minister of Planning and Co-operation, Mr. Andre Sonko, Minister of Public Offices, Work and Employment, Mrs. Mantoulaye Guene, Minister of Social Development, and Mr. Alioune Sene, Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative of Senegal to the Office of the United Nations at Geneva, accompanied Mr. Diouf during his visit.

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