Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says Red Cross inactive on prisoners of war
Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of inaction in upholding the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war and urged it to undertake a mission to a camp in the Russian-occupied east of the country. His chief of staff issued an ultimatum to the ICRC to launch a […]
Resume aid to Taliban-run Afghanistan, Red Cross urges
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The Red Cross on Monday appealed to states and donors to set aside their political objections to the Taliban and resume aid flows to Afghanistan’s state institutions to ease an “unbearable” humanitarian situation there. The hardline Islamist Taliban marked a year in power on Monday with small scale celebrations as the country struggles […]
Children find lost families as Congo conflict rages
Manono, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Jason Kandeke and his sister Esther got out of the van and rushed into the arms of their weeping uncle and grandmother – the children’s first contact with their family since Congolese fighters killed their parents six years ago. Militias raided their village of Mingele in south-eastern Democratic Republic […]
Many Ukrainian fighters remain in Azovstal, commander says operation going on
London, UKReuters Russia’s siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol stuttered towards its end on Thursday, with hundreds of fighters still holed up in the Azovstal steel works and some 1,700 who have already surrendered facing an uncertain fate. A full abandonment of the bunkers and tunnels of the bombed-out plant would end the most […]
Ukraine, UN and Red Cross renew efforts to evacuate civilians from Mariupol
Reuters A convoy of buses left Mariupol on Wednesday in a new attempt by Ukraine, the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate civilians from the southern Ukrainian city, the regional governor said. The convoy was heading for the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said. A view shows […]
Russia bombards and US imposes sanctions as Ukraine urges decisive help
Lviv, Ukraine/Dublin, IrelandReuters Russian forces bombarded cities in Ukraine as the United States imposed more sanctions on Wednesday after civilian killings widely condemned as war crimes and Ukraine’s President urged a decisive Western response amid divisions in Europe. Russia’s 42-day-long invasion has forced more than four million people to flee abroad, killed or injured thousands, […]
Red Cross heads again for Mariupol as Russia shifts Ukraine focus
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Reuters A Red Cross convoy travelling to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol will make another attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged port on Saturday as Russian forces looked to be regrouping for new attacks in the south-east. Mariupol, encircled since the early days of Russia’s five-week-old invasion, has been Moscow’s main target […]
Nicaragua expels Red Cross representative without giving reason
Managua, NicaraguaReuters Nicaragua has expelled a top representative from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) without giving any reasoning, the humanitarian group said on Friday. The expulsion comes days after a similar decision in which Nicaragua ordered Vatican ambassador Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag to leave, which the Holy See called “incomprehensible”. Members of the […]
“We are lost”: Yemenis face eighth year of struggle as war grinds on
Sana’a, Yemen Reuters Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger. Rmeishi, who is in the ninth grade, helps his family by working at his father’s car repair […]
Violence to spur more migration from Mexico, Central America – Red Cross
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Waves of migration through Mexico and Central America, and people who go missing will increase in 2022 due to high levels of violence in the region, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. “In many countries, violence is wreaking more and more havoc, and that’s why there are more and more […]