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In close collaboration with the Burkinabe Red Cross, in areas affected by armed violence, the ICRC assists displaced people, organizes cattle-vaccination campaigns and facilitates access to health care and clean water. We also visit detainees and promote respect for international humanitarian law.
Latest Update
In numbers
Facts & figures
- 222,384Displaced people provided with food and essential household items
- 445,073People received healthcare support
- 51,000People have better access to drinking water
- 400Tracing requests submitted to the ICRC and the CRBF for people separated from their families and missing persons
- 3,700Detainees were visited in 14 permanent and provisional places of detention
- 5COVID-19 isolation facilities were built in 5 detention centres
- 1,020,899Animals vaccinated for the benefit of 24,028 livestock and agro-pastoral households
- 1,700Weapon bearers, local authorities, students and community leaders received training on the ICRC's humanitarian action and the rules of IHL