The ICRC in Guinea

Conakry, Guinea. Personnel of the Red Cross Society of Guinea evacuate casualties during the September 2009 violence.

In Guinea, the ICRC seeks to protect people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence, restore family links, and improve water supply. It visits detainees, advises the detaining authorities on detention related matters, and promotes international humanitarian law among various audiences. The delegation in Conakry also provides support for the ICRC office in Sierra Leone. Read full overview.

Highlights

Facts and Figures

In 2011, the ICRC:

carried out 290 visits to around thirty places of detention;
connected Conakry’s Maision Centrale prison to the sewage system;
helped draw up emergency plans for two hospitals;
provided war-surgery training for 44 doctors at the faculty of medicine in Conakry;
drilled 40 boreholes in 30 villages for 38,000 people;
organized 36 awareness-raising sessions on IHL or human rights law for a total of over 2,300 members of the armed forces, the police and the gendarmerie;
organized five awareness-raising sessions on IHL in the universities in Conakry, and an IHL moot court competition in which eight universities took part;
organized a conference on Islam and IHL at Conakry’s international school;
supported Guinean Red Cross health operations involving assistance to almost 350 people and the evacuation of some 120 wounded.

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