On the international day of  missing persons, it reminded government of their international obligation to prevent this.

South Sudan plunged into civil two years after becoming Africa’s youngest state in 2011.

More than four million people have been displaced by the fighting.

The International Committee of the Red Cross supports families searching for missing relatives.

This year it has registered 451 cases, bringing to 4275 the number of people missing since the war began.

ICRC representative James Reynolds says each case represents a family facing the agony of not knowing what happened to their loved one.

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At a Southern Africa Liaison Office seminar, Bangui’s chief envoy to South Africa appeals for continued support from the international community.

Ambassador Andrè Nzapayeke says the people of the CAR will overcome their troubled past and build a peace.

But they cannot do this alone.

“We will need the help of the international community,” he says. “The road to the land of milk and honey is long and rough. So, please, all of you stand with us.”

He thanks those, including the United Nations, the South African Government and the International Committee of the Red Cross for their efforts in ending the suffering of his compatriots  who have become poor people in a country blessed with natural riches.

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The chief representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the diamond-rich dirt poor nation calls on all actors, including the  government, to live up to the expectations of the people.

ICRC delegation head Valerie Petitpierre tells a seminar in Pretoria the CAR poses the third worst humanitarian crisis on the planet behind Yemen and Syria.

“Two point nine million people depend on humanitarian assistance.One our of four people are displaced. Forty percent of the population is food insecure,” she says, adding that less than half the people have access to drinking water and more than three-quarters live in poverty.

There is hope after the February peace deal but government and other role players must see that the end of conflict also means an end to violence against civilians.

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The Nigerian terror group as Hauwa Mohammed Liman, who was killed yesterday, deserved to die because she had abandoned Islam by workin for the Red Cross.

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The International Committee of the Red Cross is  urging the Islamist terror group to spare the life of Alice Loksha, kidnapped from a Red Cross hospital in the town Rann in north-eastern Borno state last March.

Midwife Saifura Hussaini was executed last month and Hauwa Mohammed Liman yesterday.

It’s not known what demands Boko Haram has made for the releasing its hostages.

The ICRC says in its appeal than none of those kidnapped have anything to do with Boko Haram’s fight.

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The Somali government says it’s believed to be an inside job.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says armed men entered their compound in Mogadishu last night and took the nurse out through a rear door to a waiting vehicle

The ICRC says its greatly concerned about the safety of their colleague and are in contact with various authorities to try and secure her release.

Deputy Somalia head of the ICRC Daniel O’Malley the nurse works daily to save lives and improve the health of some of Somalia’s most vulnerable people.

Security ministry spokesman Abdiaziz Ali Ibrahim said initial investigations showed one of the security guards of the compound was involved in the kidnapping.

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