International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Africa

Press Release: IRC responds to drought / displacement crisis in Chad and Mali

05 Apr 2012

The International Rescue Committee is scaling up health and nutrition programs in Chad and dispatching emergency experts to Mali as millions of people in these countries and across the drought-ravaged Sahel region face a growing humanitarian disaster.

Photo Share: Baking bread, Burundi


April 4, 2012
By The IRC
Photo: Georgia B. Travers/IRC
MUYINGA PROVINCE, Burundi -
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In Africa: Conflict in Mali meets a worsening food crisis


April 2, 2012
By Bob Kitchen
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Domestic drama: Women in Congo using theater to end violence


April 2, 2012
By Sinziana Demian

IRC-supported women's organizations in Congo are using community theater to raise awareness about pressing issues like domestic violence. Women at an International Women's Day Celebration in Bunagana, North Kivu Province act the roles of a model family, where everyone gets along nicely.

Photo: Sinziana Demian/IRC
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IRC to respond to hunger and displacement crisis in Mali


March 29, 2012
By The IRC
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The little girl who danced across a bridge


March 29, 2012
By Sophia Jones-Mwangi

Annamore Chinyede (11) was so happy that her community got a new footbridge that she danced her way across it.

Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC
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Noted: Hip-hop, SMS and Facebook: A new way of tackling violence against women


March 28, 2012
By The IRC
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This is her day: Fatuma


March 28, 2012
By The IRC
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC
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Saadia’s new life


March 27, 2012
By The IRC

A woman carries a full jerry can after collecting water at a communal tap on the outskirts of Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp.

Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst, courtesy Trust.org - AlertNet
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To end domestic violence in West Africa, men "have to change"


March 22, 2012
By Susan Dentzer

IRC president George Rupp (back row, left) and other members of the IRC Commission on Domestic Violence meet with representatives of SOAP, or Servants Of All Prayer in Monrovia, Liberia. SOAP is an IRC partner focused on engaging spiritual leaders from throughout Liberia in ending violence against women.

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