Africa — Latin America — Asia — Middle East

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (183) ◽  
pp. 305-309
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Emergency Assistance ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social Programme

As a post-war emergency assistance operation, the ICRC, at the end of February, submitted to the Government of the People's Republic of Angola (RPA) a six-month medico-social programme to supplement the humanitarian activities which it had been carrying on for several months. In a letter on 13 April, the Angolan Prime Minister, Mr. Lopo do Nascimento, informed the ICRC of the Angolan Government's wish for assistance programmes for the Angolan people to be conducted by national agencies and particularly through the National Red Cross Society which was then being organized.

Africa — Latin America — Asia — Middle East — Europe

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (181) ◽  
pp. 197-203
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
East Europe

Operations Director's mission. — From 25 February to 7 March 1976, Mr. J.-P. Hocké, Director of the Operations Department, was in Luanda. The purpose of his visit was to discuss with the authorities of the People's Republic of Angola what would be the activities of the ICRC in the postwar situation. Mr. Hocké had talks with the Prime Minister, Mr. Lopo di Nascimento, and with the Minister for Health and the Director of Information and Security. He also met leaders of the Angolan Red Cross, a Society which is in process of formation.

Africa — Latin America — Asia — Europe — Middle East

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (167) ◽  
pp. 92-95
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
High Government

The regional delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross for Southern Africa was in Mozambique from 1 to 18 December 1974. At Lourenço Marques he met high government authorities, including the Prime Minister of the transitional Government, and local Red Cross leaders.

Africa — Latin America — Asia — Europe – Middle East

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (169) ◽  
pp. 188-193
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Civilian Population ◽  
The Government

The delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross who have been in Addis Ababa for several weeks have not yet been authorized to go to Asmara. To the ICRC's offers to provide the victims of the conflict in Eritrea with assistance and protection, the Ethiopian Minister for Foreign Affairs has replied that the Government has the situation in hand and that there is no emergency. The ICRC is still prepared to play its traditional humanitarian role on behalf of the victims of the present conflict: the wounded and the sick, prisoners, and the civilian population.

The President of the ICRC in Romania and Yugoslavia – Africa – Latin America – Asian Sub-Continent – Middle East

1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (147) ◽  
pp. 291-299
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
North America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
The Government

Mr. Marcel A. Naville, President of the ICRC, and Mr. M. Borsinger, ICRC Delegate-General for Europe and North America, recently were in Romania from 5 to 18 May as guests of the Government and the Red Cross of the Socialist Republic of Romania.

Africa — Latin America — Asia — Middle East — Europe and North America

1984 ◽  
Vol 24 (239) ◽  
pp. 102-119
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
North America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
East Europe ◽  
The Government

The fate of displaced persons in Angola continued to be of grave concern to the ICRC during the first weeks of the new year, all the more so as its efforts to provide food aid to the victims of the conflict situation were seriously hindered by the danger to which transport is exposed and by the impossibility of obtaining the authorities' agreement to allow the ICRC to work according to its customary procedure. The ICRC put forward concrete proposals both to the Government (in particular during the mission by the ICRC delegate-general for Africa, at the end of 1983) and to the directors of the “Angolan Red Cross”, with a view to resuming its normal assistance programmes. Unfortunately, these proposals had not produced any result by the end of February.

Africa — Latin America — Asia — Middle East — Europe and Northern America

1980 ◽  
Vol 20 (216) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
East Europe ◽  
The Government ◽  
Phase Out

Under the London Agreements signed in December 1979, Zimbabwe became independent on 18 April 1980. With the end of the conflict the ICRC, which for many years had been active not only in the capital, Harare (formerly Salisbury), but also in the rest of the country and in a number of neighbouring States affected by the repercussions of the fighting, began gradually to phase out some of its activities (mainly medical and relief programmes), depending on developments of the local situation. Discussions are now taking place with the government, the National Red Cross Society and various welfare organizations on the practical measures to be adopted for handing over certain projects which had been until now under ICRC responsibility and are still necessary for the inhabitants' welfare.

Africa—Latin America—Europe—Asia—Middle East

1979 ◽  
Vol 19 (211) ◽  
pp. 204-213
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The People

At the beginning of June, the ICRC made a further appeal to governments and National Red Cross Societies for their material and financial support to continue its humanitarian activities for the victims of the conflicts in Africa. It requested, for the period from 1 July to 31 December,the sum of 35.8 million Swiss francs, equivalent to about 5 million Swiss francs per month. The ICRC warned prospective donors that, if no help was swiftly forthcoming, it would be compelled to reduce the activities of its delegations in various African countries, and that the consequences would mean considerable hardship for the people in need of ICRC aid.

Africa — Latin America — Asia — Europe — Middle East

1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (194) ◽  
pp. 264-270
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
General Law ◽  
The Subject

Presidential mission. —Mr. Alexandre Hay, President of the ICRC, visited South Africa from 19 to 26 April, in the company of Mr. Frank Schmidt, Delegate General for Africa. On 21 April, Mr. Hay met Mr. John Vorster, Prime Minister, Mr. R. F. Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. J. Kruger, Minister of Justice, Mr. P. W. Botha, Minister of Defence, and Mr. S. van der Merwe, Minister of Health. The talks dealt mainly with humanitarian problems in southern African and in particular with the subject of detention. In this connection, the ICRC, which visits sentenced political detainees, expressed the wish to extend such visits to other categories of detainees, especially those arrested under the “Terrorism Act” and the “General Law Amendment Act”.

Africa — Latin America — Asia and Pacific — Middle East — Europe

1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (253) ◽  
pp. 224-228
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
East Europe ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
And Storage

Mr. J.-M. Bornet, ICRC delegate-general for Africa, went to Khartoum where he was received on 3 June by the Sudanese Prime Minister, Mr. Sadiq el Mahdi. The discussions centred mainly on the ICRC's work in Sudan and in the Horn of Africa.The ICRC continued the operation undertaken from Kenya in April (ICRC office and storage depots in Lodwar-Lokichogio), involving the provision of relief supplies and the evacuation of the wounded in southern Sudan, continued. However, because of adverse weather and dangerous conditions, the operation was scarcely stepped up despite the increase in the number of displaced people in the Narus area (20,000 by the end of June).

Africa — Middle East — Latin America — Asia

1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (192) ◽  
pp. 134-145
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Assistance ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Government

On 20 December 1976, there were a number of serious clashes in Majunga, in the north-west of Madagascar, between Malagasy citizens and immigrants from the Comores who had been resident in Madagascar for many years. As a result of these incidents, the Government of the Comores decided, with the agreement of the Malagasy authorities, to repatriate the Comorian community in Majunga, numbering some 16,000 persons, who, in the interim, had been concentrated in camps provided by the army. The Government of the Comores called for international assistance, including that of the ICRC, to enable it to carry out this task.

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