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In Mali, the ICRC is working to help local communities, visiting detainees and assisting internally displaced people, refugees and migrants.

In Nigeria, the ICRC helps people affected by armed conflict and violence, particularly in the North-East. We promote international humanitarian law and other rules that protect people during armed violence and we support the emergency-response work of the Nigerian Red Cross Society.

In Somalia, the ICRC provides emergency assistance, boosts self-reliance, promotes and monitors IHL, visits detainees and restores contact between family members separated by conflict.

The Lake Chad region is undergoing a crisis with over 2.4 million men, women, and children in need of food, water, shelter and access to health care.

In the Central African Republic, the ICRC provides emergency assistance, promotes IHL, visits detainees and restores contact between family members.

The ICRC helps people affected by armed conflict in Northern Mozambique by distributing much-needed emergency relief provisions and providing livelihood support to displaced and host communities. We also improve access to health care and water, restore family links, visit places of detention, promote respect for international humanitarian law and support the Mozambican Red

While approximately 570,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have now returned to their homes, mainly in Mocímboa da Praia, they have found abandoned villages lacking basic services, such as clean drinking water, access to healthcare and livelihoods.

Statement by Patrick Youssef, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Director for Africa, following his visit to Burkina Faso

Nearly 100,000 people, more than half of them children, have been displaced in one month due to an escalation of armed violence in Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique.

The upsurge in armed conflict and other situations of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is taking a devastating humanitarian toll, especially in the east of the country. Read our report for an update.