Africa — Latin America — Asia — Middle East

1987 ◽  
Vol 27 (257) ◽  
pp. 210-217
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Set Up

In southern Sudan, relief supplies were distributed in January in the Narus region, where 10,200 persons received 145 tonnes of sorghum, 28 tonnes of beans and 18 tonnes of oil. Further distributions of foodstuffs were carried out in the first week of February (291 tonnes). On 18 February the recipients of the “seed and implements” project were once more registered systematically: 22,800 persons were registered in Narus and the three neighbouring camps. Distributions began at the end of February. The Narus feeding centre continued to admit children suffering from malnutrition: in January, 476 children were cared for at the centre. A surgical hospital, gift of the Finnish Red Cross, was set up at Lokichokio, in Kenya, to treat wounded persons arriving from southern Sudan. The despatch of food aid to Tigray and Eritrea was continued as in the past. In January, 1,230 tonnes were sent to Tigray and 730 tonnes to Eritrea.

Africa — Latin America — Asia and Pacific — Middle East

1985 ◽  
Vol 25 (245) ◽  
pp. 102-117
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Chief Medical Officer ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Special Fund ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Set Up

Dr. Athos Gallino, member of the ICRC, accompanied by Dr. Rémi Russbach, chief medical officer of the ICRC, went on mission from 20 January to 3 February, first to Mozambique and then to Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Sudan. As head of the “Special Fund for the Disabled”, created by the ICRC in 1983, — Dr. Gallino visited the centres for care of war amputees and paraplegics which have been set up in these countries by the ICRC with the support of local authorities and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The ICRC representatives went to Maputo (Mozambique), Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Debre Zeit and Asmara (Ethiopia) and Kassala (Sudan).Dr. Gallino and Dr. Russbach also visited the ICRC feeding centres in Axum and Mekele (Ethiopia).

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—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 — 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—Middle East

1989 ◽  
Vol 29 (271) ◽  
pp. 364-370
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Set Up

Following ethnic clashes in Mauritania and Senegal in April, the ICRC sent delegates to both countries.Initially, with the situation still unclear, the delegates carried out complete surveys on both sides of the border to ascertain medical needs and endeavoured to repatriate the injured and sick from Senegal to Mauritania and vice versa. At the same time they worked together with the two National Societies to set up a tracing network to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people who had crossed from one country to the other, often at night and in great haste. In addition, delegates visited Mauritanian and Senegalese prisons to provide protection for foreigners detained there.

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 — 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 — Middle East

1980 ◽  
Vol 20 (217) ◽  
pp. 208-222
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
African Countries ◽  
European Economic

On 30 June the ICRC appealed to several governments, National Red Cross Societies and a number of other donors—including the European Economic Community—to finance its humanitarian activities in Africa during the second half of 1980. At present the ICRC is engaged in a dozen African countries, and its outlays for the second half of this year are estimated at 23.4 million Swiss francs.

Africa—Latin America—Asia—Middle East

1989 ◽  
Vol 29 (272) ◽  
pp. 474-479
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Coup D'etat

ICRC activities continued under the new government following President Omer Hassan el-Beshir's coup d'état on 30 June. Contact was immediately established with the new authorities who gave their permission to the ICRC to pursue its activities.Prisoners in government hands were visited by the ICRC on 23 August in Wau and the following day in Juba. The three and five prisoners seen respectively wrote Red Cross messages. The 105 government soldiers held by rebel forces and visited in June were seen again on 24 August.

Africa — Latin America — Asia and Pacific — Middle East

1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (251) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Assistance Programme ◽  
Medical Teams ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Voluntary Agencies

In January and February, the ICRC reduced, as planned, the level of its relief activities in Ethiopia. This reduction was made possible, on the one hand, by an increase in food supplies for the population in the northern provinces of that country affected by conflict and drought and, on the other, by more intensive activity on the part of other voluntary agencies in the area. While leaving in place the structures which would enable it rapidly to set up a large-scale assistance programme if the need were to appear in a given region, the ICRC has lowered the volume of its general relief distributions. In December 1985, 10,700 tonnes were distributed to 830,000 persons. This was reduced to 5,000 tonnes for 424,300 persons in January, and further to 2,800 tonnes for 181,000 persons in February in the provinces of Eritrea, Tigray, Wollo, Gondar and Hararge. The last three therapeutic feeding centres were closed on 16 January (Wukro), and on 16 and 27 February (Idaga Hamus and Adwa). However, ICRC medical teams continued to monitor the health of the populations living in provinces which were receiving assistance, concentrating their activities on groups of displaced persons in Eritrea (in the region between Keren and Barentu), Tigray (in the region between Aksum and Adwa and the region of Mehony), Wollo (in the region of Sekota) and Hararge (Wobera Woreda; Habro Woreda), all areas with major security problems.

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