Violence in Somalia scares investors, aid workers
A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about ...
Yemen: 3 Red Cross workers, 2 Egyptians released
Three Red Cross workers and two Egyptian technicians who were abducted by armed men in Yemen's southern province of Abyan have all been released, ...
Red Cross visits 12 kidnapped by Senegal rebels
The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement that they visited 12 employees of a South African bomb disposal firm currently being ...

Red Cross: At least 187 killed in Nigeria violence
Fighting between soldiers and Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria killed at least 187 people, the worst single incident of violence in the region ...

Red Cross: Security deteriorating in Afghanistan
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned on Thursday that security was deteriorating across Afghanistan as militants flood the battlefield ...

Once-doubted tourniquet seen as Boston lifesaver
As people lay badly bleeding in the smoke of the Boston Marathon bombings, rescuers immediately turned to a millennia-old medical device to save their ...
2 children die in Kenya landslide; 41 flood deaths
Kenya's Red Cross says two children buried in a landslide overnight have died, as the country's death toll from heavy flooding rose to 41. The Red ...
Red Cross: 17 dead in C. African Republic violence
Local Red Cross officials in the capital of Central African Republic say at least 17 people are dead after fighting between rebels and residents.
Striking Guantanamo prisoners say water denied
Prisoners taking part in an expanding hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay leveled new complaints about their military jailers Wednesday as a team from the ...
Yemeni gunmen open fire, wound Red Cross employee
A Yemeni security official says an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross was wounded when gunmen opened fire at her car in the ...
More than 60 wounded in fighting in South Sudan
The International Committee of the Red Cross says that more than 60 people have been wounded in fighting between South Sudan's army and a rebel group.

Philippines: Syrian rebels want to release troops
Syrian rebels who seized 21 Filipino U.N. peacekeepers in the Golan Heights want the Red Cross to escort them out of the area because of fighting with ...
Swiss Red Cross cuts blood supply to broke Greece
The Swiss Red Cross is slashing its supply of donor blood to Greece because the financially stricken country has failed to pay its bills on time, the ...

Displaced who stay in Syria get little aid
Turki Abdel Qadir, a burly villager from the northern countryside, fled to this muddy camp amid olive groves three months ago after his 13-year-old ...

Mexico's government pledges hunt for disappeared
Mexico said Thursday that it will work with the International Red Cross on the search for thousands of people who have disappeared during the ...
Red Cross: 200 dead from violence in Kenya's south
The Kenya Red Cross says at least 200 people have been killed in violence in Kenya's southeast since August in fighting that could be related to ...

UN says it can't feed 1 million hungry Syrians
The World Food Program said Tuesday it is unable to help an estimated 1 million Syrians who are going hungry, blaming a lack of security in the ...

Survivors of Ore. bus crash prepare to go home
Some of the survivors of a fatal bus crash on a rural Oregon highway retrieved their passports and other belongings Tuesday so they can finish their ...

Crowd-funding draws donations for Sandy relief
In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, some who lost their homes or businesses have turned to crowd-funding websites to elicit a faster and more direct ...

Kenya Red Cross: 39 people killed in clashes
At least 39 people were killed when farmers raided a village of herders in southeastern Kenya early Friday in renewed fighting between two communities ...

Syrian FM blames West for nation's suffering
Syria's foreign minister blamed the suffering of his country's people on U.S. and European sanctions imposed on his country, telling a top U.N.