International Committee of the Red Cross Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/international-committee-of-the-red-cross/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 International Committee of the Red Cross Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/international-committee-of-the-red-cross/ 32 32 Sahel facing explosive mix of violence and climate change https://jjcornish.com/2019/01/sahel-facing-explosive-mix-of-violence-and-climate-change/ Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/01/sahel-facing-explosive-mix-of-violence-and-climate-change/ The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for a radical change of approach towards the strip of land between the Sahara and North Africa. The organisation’s president, who’s visiting this area known as the Sahel,  says it’s experiencing an explosive mix of conflict and climate change. ICRC President Peter Maurer says violence and […]

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]]> The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for a radical change of approach towards the strip of land between the Sahara and North Africa.

The organisation’s president, who’s visiting this area known as the Sahel,  says it’s experiencing an explosive mix of conflict and climate change.

ICRC President Peter Maurer says violence and climate change are weakening public services in the Sahel and disrupting the peoples’ traditional survival methods.

Added to the endemic poverty, traditional conflict between farmers and herders and widespread criminality there are the growing  problems of diminishing land and unreliable access to water because of climate change.

The world needs to adopt a new strategy, he says to help Mali and Chad withstand the climate shock.

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]]> Ebola health volunteers wounded in DRC attack https://jjcornish.com/2018/10/ebola-health-volunteers-wounded-in-drc-attack/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/10/ebola-health-volunteers-wounded-in-drc-attack/ The International Committee of the Red Cross has suspended burial of Ebola victims in the area of the the Democratic Republic of Congo where  volunteer health workers were attacked. At least 106 people have died since July in the latest Congolese outbreak of this deadly haemorrhagic disease. Persistent violence in  the Kivus area of the […]

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]]> The International Committee of the Red Cross has suspended burial of Ebola victims in the area of the the Democratic Republic of Congo where  volunteer health workers were attacked.

At least 106 people have died since July in the latest Congolese outbreak of this deadly haemorrhagic disease.

Persistent violence in  the Kivus area of the DRC, where the outbreak has occurred, and community resistance to preventive measures and treatment  are major obstacles to fighting Ebola.

The World Health Organization says there’s a very high risk of the disease spreading to other areas and across the DRC border into Uganda and Rwanda.

Three volunteers where injured when an ambulance taking Ebola victims for burial was attacked.

Locals charge the health workers with enriching themselves in treating Ebola victims.  

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