The ICRC's regional delegation for Central Africa has been based in Yaoundé since 1992. It carries out its humanitarian activities in five countries: Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe.

The ICRC visits security detainees in Cameroon, the Congo and Equatorial Guinea to ensure that their living conditions and treatment comply with international standards. These visits also allow detainees to restore contact with loved ones by means of Red Cross messages (brief personal messages between relatives separated by conflict). The ICRC provides its family-links services (personal messages and tracing) to refugees as well, and helps reunite children with their families.

The delegation furnishes technical support for implementation of international humanitarian law in the countries that its covers and promotes awareness of and respect for the law among governments, armed forces, the military, the police, schools and the media.

The ICRC also helps the National Societies' build the capacity needed to restore family links, prepare for and respond to emergencies, and promote the basic rules of humanitarian law and the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent Movement. In the Congo it assists the National Society in the fight against cassava mosaic virus disease.

Personnel (2009): 30, including 6 expatriates