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05-02-2016 | Article
Lebanon: ICRC and Rafik Hariri University Hospital in partnership to improve access to health care
Beirut (ICRC) –- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut and the Lebanese Ministry of Health today signed a memorandum of understanding that will set up a new hospital ward for reconstructive surgery…

Syria: How much longer will the fighting rage?
Before the war broke out, Syria was a middle-income country. But now, its development has been thrown back perhaps a generation, if not more.
04-02-2016 | Article

Syria Pledging Conference: ICRC President’s call to the international community
Speech given by Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the Syria Donors Conference 2016 in London.
04-02-2016 | Article

Syria: Food and medicine reach besieged town of Moadamiyeh
Joint teams of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) have managed to deliver food and hygiene items for more than twelve thousand people in the besieged town of Moadamiyeh near Damascus.
04-02-2016 | Article

The ICRC in Africa – key operations
Dropping food to hungry people in remote areas of South Sudan. Treating the injured in Mali. Supporting hospitals in Libya. All over Africa, the ICRC is helping people affected by war and other violence.
04-02-2016 | Article

Nigeria: ICRC helps families recover as they return from displacement
Thousands fled fighting in late 2014 between the Nigerian army and the armed opposition in Adamawa State, north-east Nigeria. Many homes were burned to the ground.
03-02-2016 | Video

Lebanon: Red Cross rescues snowbound Syrian families in mountains
During the harsh winter months, the treacherous journey on foot from Syria into Lebanon is fraught with even more danger than usual, as snow and ice leave people stranded with no food or shelter. Alaa Al Nabaa is head of the Lebanese Red Cross
01-02-2016 | Video

Myanmar: Helping people affected by floods – six months on
Monsoon rains, coupled with high winds and heavy rain from Cyclone Komen, caused devastating floods and landslides in several parts of Myanmar in July 2015. Together with the Myanmar Red Cross (MRCS), we focused our relief efforts on helping people
01-02-2016 | Article

Syria: Desperate population needs regular unimpeded aid, whatever talks outcome
Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The parties battling each other in Syria’s nearly 5-year-old conflict must allow a regular flow of aid to reach all those civilians suffering amid the fighting, whatever the outcome of peace talks getting under way in Geneva,
30-01-2016 | News release