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Current Feed ContentCOTE D'IVOIRE: Malnutrition concerns in country’s prisonsDAKAR Tuesday, September 02, 2008 (IRIN) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a nutritional feeding programme at the main prison in Abidjan after the incidence of beriberi, a sickness linked to vitamin deficiency, reached epidemic levels. The ICRC says it first detected the illness in Abidjan’s Maison d’arrêt et de correction d’Abidjan (MACA), the largest prison in the city housing 5,400 prisoners in a space intended for 1,500, in 2002. An emergency programme...SENEGAL: Landmines claim new victims in CasamanceThe Association of landmines' victimes in Ziguinchor stands up for the rights of landmine victims.One man was killed and 20 passengers injured when a bus drove over a landmine near the village of Lefeu, 70km north of the Casamance capital Ziguinchor on 1 May police said. The Gambian registered bus was driving the passengers north from Bignona 30km from Ziguinchor towards the Gambia according to Talla Diop, an officer with the Ziguinchor police force. A Senegalese army officer who wished to...Senegal: ICRC resumes work in Fogny, CasamanceEighteen months aftersuspending field operations, the International Committee of the Red Cross isonce more present on the ground in Fogny, northern Casamance.Inpreparation for this move, the organization assessed the security situation bymaking a number of trips along the region’s roads and visiting villages. TheICRC also built up contacts with the civilian and military authorities,beneficiaries and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance. The ICRC had suspended all field operations in...SOMALIA: Displaced families surviving on less than one meal a day, says ICRCLarge numbers of families displaced by violence in Somalia are surviving on less than one meal a day and spending large proportions of their meagre income buying drinking water, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). "We visited places where the displaced population had little food and scarcely any possessions," Daniel Gagnon, an ICRC relief specialist in Somalia said in a statement issued on 11 March. "People told us that the shelling in [the capital] Mogadishu was...Democratic Republic of the Congo: Humanitarian crisis spills over into South KivuThe ICRC has begun a distribution of essential items – clothing, blankets, mats, soap and kitchen sets – to over 500 displaced families who have taken refuge in South Kivu after fleeing the fighting in the neighbouring province of North Kivu. The distribution is being carried out together with the Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the towns of Chebumba and Kitembo, some 50 km north of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. It will be supplemented by food parcels delivered...SUDAN: Thousands more flee violence in Darfur - UNViolence in Sudan's remote western region of Darfur has forced nearly a quarter of a million people to flee their homes this year, increasing the pressure on the humanitarian effort, the United Nations said in a report. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also expressed concern over worsening security conditions in Darfur. "Over 240,000 people have been newly displaced or re-displaced during 2007," according to the report prepared by the UN Office for the Coordination of ... |
