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Tag: International Committee of the Red Cross

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ISIS Prisoners Threaten U.S. Mission in Northeastern Syria

May 25, 2020May 25, 2020ERIC SCHMITTComments Off on ISIS Prisoners Threaten U.S. Mission in Northeastern Syria

Overcrowded, makeshift prisons and camps and fears of Covid-19 have led to two riots by hardened fighters.

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Jacinda Ardern Questions Red Cross’s Decision to Name Nurse Held by ISIS

April 15, 2019CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAYComments Off on Jacinda Ardern Questions Red Cross’s Decision to Name Nurse Held by ISIS

New Zealand’s view about releasing details of the captivity of Louisa Akavi is that it “increased the risks to her life.”

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ISIS Kidnapped Her 5 Years Ago. The Red Cross Thinks She May Still Be Alive.

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and ADAM GOLDMANComments Off on ISIS Kidnapped Her 5 Years Ago. The Red Cross Thinks She May Still Be Alive.

The abduction of Louisa Akavi, a nurse from New Zealand, was kept secret for years. Now the aid group is breaking its silence in hopes of saving her.

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Global Health: Cholera Is Spreading in Mozambique, and It’s Far From the Only Health Threat

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Global Health: Cholera Is Spreading in Mozambique, and It’s Far From the Only Health Threat

About two million people are displaced, cholera has broken out, and malaria is expected. But doses of cholera vaccine have arrived, and the humanitarian crisis may yet be contained, aid agencies say.

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Humanitarian Aid Stalls, Testing Venezuela’s Opposition

February 13, 2019NICHOLAS CASEY and ANATOLY KURMANAEVComments Off on Humanitarian Aid Stalls, Testing Venezuela’s Opposition

It had hoped to force a confrontation by transporting food and medical donations to Venezuela. The government reacted not with force, but with a crude, yet effective blockade.

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At War: The Relics of War Left Behind in an Afghan Clinic

January 25, 2019LAUREN KATZENBERGComments Off on At War: The Relics of War Left Behind in an Afghan Clinic

In this week’s newsletter: A look at Ross McDonnell’s photographs of homemade prosthetics, on display in I.C.R.C.’s orthopedic clinic in eastern Afghanistan.

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Quiet ‘Hero’ Marks 30 Years Restoring Limbs, and Dignity, in War

January 23, 2019MUJIB MASHALComments Off on Quiet ‘Hero’ Marks 30 Years Restoring Limbs, and Dignity, in War

An Italian physiotherapist, Alberto Cairo, has spent three decades in Afghanistan leading centers that have treated tens of thousands of disabled people.

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