Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are entering into a cooperation agreement that will strengthen relations between the two organizations and enhance coordination of their activities.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the escalation of violence over the past week. "What we are seeing today is violence of a nature which is unbearable," says the ICRC's deputy head of operations for the Horn of Africa, Alexandre Liebeskind. "We are seeing too many violence which is indiscriminate and which doesn't seem to have any limits."

Geneva / Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the escalation of violence that has rocked Kenya over the past week.

Nairobi (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has provided Nakuru Provincial Hospital with enough medical supplies to treat some 100 weapon-wounded patients.

Geneva/Nairobi (ICRC) –In the wake of Kenya's post-election violence that forced large numbers of people to flee their homes, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has helped the Kenya Red Cross to set up tracing teams in all the main affected areas.

Geneva (ICRC) – In response to the violence in Kenya over recent days, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is increasing its support to the Kenya Red Cross Society by dispatching additional relief supplies and staff. Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed or injured in the clashes, while tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes.

A team of three students from the University of Zimbabwe trounced 12 other teams from across the continent to win the seventh International Competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Arusha, Tanzania.

Thirty motivated students from four Kenyan universities participated in the National Competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) on 13 March 2007 in Nairobi.

Over 500 schoolchildren in Orwa, West Pokot and Lorongon, Turkana District, will benefit from two new primary schools built by the ICRC.

Students from the University of Nairobi beat 11 other teams to emerge winners at the 6th annual International Humanitarian Law (IHL) competition. The competition was organized by the ICRC with the assistance of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 25 November to 2 December in Arusha, Tanzania.

Senior leaders of the International Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement from all Africa have adopted the draft of a 10-year “Strategy for restoring family links" at a regional conference in Nairobi.

Geneva/Nairobi (ICRC) – When disaster strikes, people are often separated, suddenly and totally, from loved ones swallowed up by crowds fleeing fighting or natural disaster. Or they are forced apart by political diktat or in migratory waves often prompted by economic need and exacerbated by conflict. Loss of contact means uncertainty and pain.

Press release issued by the ICRC regional delegation in Nairobi

Nairobi/Khartoum/Geneva (ICRC) – Today, the Lopiding hospital in Lokichokio (northern Kenya), which provided southern Sudan with war surgery and emergency medical care for 19 years, will be handed over to the Kenyan authorities by the ICRC.

The drought in the Horn of Africa is threatening the lives of millions of people with pre-famine conditions becoming apparent in southern Somalia, south-eastern Ethiopia and northern and north-eastern Kenya. The following is an update of ICRC activities on behalf of those affected.

Drought in the Horn of Africa - latest report on ICRC activities in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya

Nairobi/Geneva - The Horn of Africa's worst drought in a decade has led to acute shortages of water and food, decimated grazing lands and cereal production, and killed large numbers of cattle in the worst affected parts of southern Somalia and in the Somali Regional State in south-eastern Ethiopia.

Seven years after the Convention banning anti-personnel mines was adopted, the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World (29 November - 3 December) will bring together leaders of the 143 States party to the Convention to assess progress towards ending the suffering these abhorrent weapons cause.

The East Africa Landmines Workshop, organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Governments of Kenya and Canada, has just ended in Nairobi with an urgent call for renewed commitment to implementing the 1997 Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines.