Huambo, Chivela. Food and other essentials being distributed to 2,500 families, 1994
In the late 1980s, Angola was the scene of the ICRC's largest operation in Africa.
When two elephants battle - it's the grass that suffers.
“A huge crown of women and children were waiting for us. They were standing or sitting on the grass in the blazing sun. A few baobab trees and shrubs offer a bit of shade. Apart from a gentle breeze there was absolute silence. Then, from nowhere, arose an unearthly sound, a song growing ever louder, overwhelming. The singing victims of the Angolan civil war – whose words I didn't understand here thousands of miles from any choir that I knew – uplifted me. This mass of voices made me weep.”
Reto Meister, head of delegation 1986-1988
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