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Tue, 15/03/2011 - 10:22
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), its United Nations partners and the government of Chad launched a massive four-day campaign earlier this month aimed at giving meningitis inoculations to 33,000 refugees from Darfur in the Bredjing camp and...
Mon, 14/03/2011 - 18:31
Ivory Coast/Liberia — While the world's attention is focussed on Japan and North Africa, violence and chaos in Côte d’Ivoire are worsening by the day—causing an escalating humanitarian emergency, mass internal...
Mon, 14/03/2011 - 10:24
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is on standby to lend assistance in Japan in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami and a nuclear plant explosion that have wreaked havoc on northern areas of the country.
"The IRC is...
Fri, 11/03/2011 - 14:12
The International Rescue Committee's Emergency Response Team is on standby alert should its assistance be needed in the aftermath of Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the resulting Pacific tsunami.
Gillian Dunn, the IRC'...
Thu, 06/01/2011 - 17:21
By Peter Biro 5 January 2011 - The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to a rare outbreak of yellow fever which has so far claimed almost 50 lives in northern Uganda. To help curb the spread of the disease and treat those already...
Wed, 29/12/2010 - 10:42
Nimba County, Liberia 24 December 2010 — International Rescue Committee health teams and local and government partners in Nimba County, Liberia, are providing medical services to thousands of newly arrived Ivorian refugees fleeing post-...
Fri, 24/12/2010 - 12:26
Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo After a brief disruption on Friday 7 November as gunfire was heard around Kibati camp and its residents fled in panic, the IRC emergency response team returned to the camp on Sunday. Most of those who...
Tue, 07/12/2010 - 11:26
The International Rescue Committee is saddened to report the tragic news that Dr Dominic Mutisya, a member of the IRC's staff in Kenya, died 2 December, 2010, when the IRC vehicle in which he was traveling rolled over on a road 25 miles outside...
Fri, 29/10/2010 - 11:39
Yangon, Myanmar - The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is mobilising as part of a coordinated humanitarian effort to offer assistance to communities affected by Cyclone Giri, which struck the northwestern coast of Myanmar last week. According to...
Thu, 26/08/2010 - 17:19
One year ago the Pakistani military launched an offensive to drive Taliban militants from Pakistan's Swat Valley. More than two million people fled the fighting, provoking a massive humanitarian crisis. Now, the worst floods in Pakistan's...