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ICRC: Health-care workers suffer attacks every single week

Life in Ruins: Marawi, one year on

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I have never seen so many patients in one day

I have never seen so many patients in one day

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ICRC Myanmar ready to assist in prisoner transfer
25-05-2018
ICRC deplores loss of civilian life in airstrikes on densely populated neighbourhoods of Sana’a
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08-05-2018
Mali–Niger: Ending the alarming cycle of violence in border region
04-05-2018
ICRC: Health-care workers suffer attacks every single week
03-05-2018

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Displaced and uncertain: One year after armed clashes broke out in #Marawi, #Philippines, around 230,000 people rem… twitter.com/i/web/status/9… #ICRC_au
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