International Committee Of The Red Cross

/ 4 March 2023

Mozambique turmoil takes toll on mental health

Communities and internally displaced persons are emotionally and physically bearing the brunt of decades of instability

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By Eunice Masson

National

/ 12 February 2023

Forensics the key to missing and dead on old and new battlefields

The fledgling Red Cross Military Identification Programme aims to collaborate with non-state and state military groups to establish DNA profiling of combatants before deployment

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By Eunice Masson

Coronavirus

/ 14 May 2020

Looking after the Covid-19 dead to protect the living

South Africa has largely escaped the fate of several European countries and the United States, but that doesn’t mean we can’t prepare, just in case

By Kiri Rupiah

Article

/ 2 April 2020

Lockdown heroes feed hungry kids

Feeding schemes inundated with requests to assist during Covid-19 lockdown

By Lester Kiewit

Article

/ 24 May 2019

‘Not every day is perfect, but it’s a bit better’

Humanitarian assistance doesn’t always work right away. That doesn’t mean we should stop trying.

By Ewan Watson and Bhekisisa Team

Africa

/ 27 April 2019

In South Sudan, illness is as deadly as war

70% of all illness deaths are due to easily treatable malaria, acute watery diarrhoea and respiratory infections in Udier Village

By Agency

Africa

/ 16 April 2019

New limbs, new life for South Sudan amputees

South Sudan’s five-year-long civil war has left possibly tens of thousands of people without limbs — a toll that may never be accurately established

By Fran Blandy

Analysis

/ 26 October 2016

Red Cross on ICC exit: Justice, negotiations and peace are not mutually exclusive

The Red Cross’s Peter Maurer told the Mail & Guardian his immediate concern with the withdrawal from the ICC was one of perception.

By Phillip De Wet

Article

/ 15 July 2012

Torture claims surface amid Syrian violence

As Damascus sees its heaviest fighting since Syria’s conflict began, reports suggest Al-Assad’s regime is not alone in committing human rights abuses.

By Staff Reporter