In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a 2025 study by the ICRC reveals a serious deterioration in the healthcare system, limiting access to care and medicines.

One year after its opening in Rafah, the Red Cross field hospital continues to play a crucial role in the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip.

In Mazar-e-Sharif, the Ariana Basic Health Center run by the Afghan Red Crescent is supported by the ICRC.

8 May 2025. World Red Cross Day and Red Crescent Day is an annual celebration of the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

May 8, 2025, World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. Each year, this day celebrates the humanitarian principles and unwavering commitment of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to alleviate suffering and protect human dignity, everywhere in the world.

Mandalay and Sagaing. The ICRC supports community kitchens that distribute food to people affected by the earthquake in March 2025.

North Kivu. Faced with the continuing dangers of explosive weapons in North Kivu, the ICRC is supporting victims and raising community awareness.

World Water Day: Water is life, and in war it is also a victim.

Atbara hospital. ICRC medical assistance to war wounded.

Back to the north of the Gaza Strip.

Three key points on the situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

South Kivu. Bukavu. Interview with Sabrina Denuncq, head of the Bukavu sub-delegation.

Erbil, ICRC physical rehabilitation centre. The story of Aram and Nasiba.

Goma, Ndosho hospital. Testimonial from Dr. Sidibé Boubacar Abdou Rahamane, an ICRC surgeon.

Bukavu, South Kivu Province. ICRC donation to REGIDESO in Bukavu to prevent a break in the water supply to the population.

Medical supplies sent to Goma to support the surgical team.

Goma. Interview with Myriam Favier, head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Goma.

Goma. Interview with Myriam Favier, head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Goma.

Goma, Ndosho CBCA hospital. Testimonial from Mariamu Kashindi, 22, mother of three, from Mubambiro, who lost her son when he was rushed to hospital.

North and South Kivu. The ICRC carries out numerous medical evacuations of injured patients in areas affected by armed violence.

Goma, Ndosho CBCA hospital. Testimonial from Ehouman Emmanuel Konin, ICRC hospital project manager.

Orthopaedic centre in Zinder. Testimony of Mariam, mother of a young boy seriously injured by an explosive device..

Romal, a young Afghan, was diagnosed and treated for his disability at a centre run by the ICRC's Physical Rehabilitation Programme, first in Afghanistan and then in Iran.

ICRC medical support for displaced communities in rural Somalia.

5 things you need to know about Lebanon.

Kharkiv, university clinic, ICRC-supported orthopedic rehabilitation center. A patient who lost his leg walking with a prosthesis.

Mubi stabilisation center. ICRC food assistance.

Imene Khsheish, head of the pharmacy department at the Marjaayoun government hospital.

Port-au-Prince, Cité Soleil. Dr Odans deplores the disastrous state of the health infrastructure following the upsurge in armed violence.

Port-au-Prince. The health system and access to essential services are severely disrupted by armed violence.