Monday Movement update #12
Here’s your weekly update on what different members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement* are doing. Pakistan conflict: “Every time we entered a village, hundreds of people asked...
View ArticlePhoto gallery: our Disaster Fund helps people in crisis
Our Disaster Fund helps us respond to disasters as soon as we’re needed, anywhere in the world. Above, you can see photos from recent disasters in the Central African Republic, Mali, Mozambique,...
View ArticleThe Burundi Red Cross – a lifeline to the future
This is a guest blog by Sir Nicholas Young, chief executive of the British Red Cross, who recently visited the Burundi Red Cross. Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world. But with a...
View ArticleIn pictures – the journey to safety on a 100-year-old German warship
“It was bad, especially in terms of food,” said Augustino Ndaezee. “One time I even decided to go back home to Burundi to get us food, but when I got there the road had been blocked.” Augustino scraped...
View ArticleWhat hope in the refugee camp the size of Cambridge?
“I was born in a refugee camp here in Tanzania in 1984. This is already my third time fleeing my home country,” Ndayisimiye Mathias says wearily. He is one of thousands of Burundians waiting to be...
View ArticleListen: How do you help 144,000 refugees in a camp built for 50,000 people?
The Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania was built in 1997 to house 50,000 people. Today, it’s home to more than 144,000 people. Its population has swelled with the recent influx of refugees from...
View ArticleWatch: The moment a father and son are reunited after fleeing Burundi
The violence and civil unrest that has blighted Burundi in recent months shows no sign of abating. The volatile situation has seen more than 190,000 people flee the African nation since April....
View Article160,000 refugees, two ambulances and a man called Moses
In one of the world’s largest refugee camps, there is little rest for the man charged with running the Red Cross ambulance service. Even on a quiet day the demand can be non-stop, as Niki Clark finds...
View ArticleWhat’s going on in Burundi? The crisis explained
Violence and flooding have left thousands of people in need of help in Burundi. Alessandro Bini, an aid worker with the Norwegian Red Cross, has lived in the central African nation for six years. Find...
View ArticleBurundi refugee crisis: carrying scars from the past into an uncertain future
Her eyes hide behind dark glasses. Her head is covered in a red scarf. She speaks to no one as she winds her way back to her temporary home – a tent, pitched amid thousands of others, one virtually...
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