Tag: International Committee of the Red Cross

Philippine authorities on Tuesday warned Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern city to surrender or die, as attack helicopters ...

Philippine authorities on Tuesday urged Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern city to surrender for the sake of trapped ...

Four hungry chickens clawed at rubbish in a deserted street that smelt of corpses as military helicopters skimmed the rooftops ...

Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking a brutal ...

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their mass protest under a ...

There were emotional scenes Saturday as 82 kidnapped Chibok girls released by Boko Haram Islamists earlier this month were reunited ...

A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 184 people in recent weeks with another 11,000 suspected cases across the ...

Four Malian Red Cross employees have been kidnapped in the country's restive centre, the organisation said Monday, while a local ...

Rebel authorities in Yemen's capital have sounded the alarm over a spreading cholera outbreak that has killed dozens in the ...

A state of emergency has been declared in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after an outbreak of cholera killed scores of ...

Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency in the Yemeni capital, where ...

A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with ...

A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with ...

The Red Cross visited the leader of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails on Thursday for ...

The United Nations on Monday welcomed the release of 82 Nigerian schoolgirls after years of Boko Haram captivity and appealed ...

The 82 schoolgirls released by Boko Haram Islamist militants have met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. They were escorted to the ...

A French mineworker who was kidnapped in Chad and taken to neighbouring Sudan has been freed after more than six ...

Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group have released 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 they abducted in north-eastern ...

Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group have released 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 they abducted in north-eastern ...

Scores of Nigerian schoolgirls who were among more than 200 kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 have been released, multiple ...