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The ICRC regional delegation in Niamey

Maps: Niamey regional delegation

The ICRC regional delegation in Niamey covers Mali and Niger. The ICRC protects and helps people affected by armed conflict in both countries. It visits detainees and provides them with material aid where necessary.
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Facts and Figures

  • Thanks to ICRC support, some 2.2 million animals were vaccinated and treated in areas in the north of Mali and Niger made inaccessible by violence and logistical difficulties. The ICRC also bought 45,000 head of cattle from local herders, thereby boosting their household income. The animals were then slaughtered and the meat distributed to those most in need.
  • In northern Niger, the ICRC facilitated the vaccination of some 13,000 women and children under the age of five against diseases such as measles and chicken pox, thereby helping to avoid an epidemic. Meanwhile, a health-care access programme in northern Mali led to the construction or refurbishment of five community medical centres.
  • In June and July 2011, during the lean season between the first rains and the harvest, around 25,000 families received food rations in northern Mali and Niger and in the Tillabéri region. A further 3,800 farming families were given ploughing tools and good-quality seed for growing vegetables and other crops, and support for training programmes.
  • The ICRC engaged communities from both Niger and Mali in initiatives to restore damaged farming land and to deepen watering holes, thereby boosting the income of 2,100 households.
  • Since April 2011, over 4,500 returnees have received assistance in Agadez, in northern Niger. At the height of the conflict in Libya (between June and August 2011), more than 1,500 migrants received aid upon reaching Tinzaouatène, on the border between Mali and Algeria. They were given food, access to transport and the means to contact their families.

The ICRC has 208 members of staff in Niger and Mali.

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Reference documents

International Review of the Red Cross More articles

Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine

  • Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine Niger: the high price of hunger

    Movement efforts to stem the food crisis in the Sahel focus on the economic roots of the crisis: lack of cash and sky-high prices.


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