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Help to War Victims in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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Material relief action undertaken by the ICRC in Nigeria and in the secessionist state (Biafra) has made it possible to feed almost one and a half million people. The size of the operation has overshadowed the International Committee's activities of protection and information in these regions: visiting prisoners of war, mail routing via the Central Tracing Agency, evacuation of the seriously wounded and of foreigners. Nevertheless, all these are presenting the ICRC with very real problems.

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International Committee of the Red Cross
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 9 , Issue 96 , March 1969 , pp. 119 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1969

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Footnotes

1

Under this chapter heading, in our January issue, we gave lists of contributions in cash and in kind received from National Societies in 1968. This information did not truly reflect the full efforts exerted by some National Societies. We have, for instance, since been advised of the figures for the Swedish Red Cross which amounted, according to a communication from that Society, to 9,033,578.97 Swedish Crowns, or 7,497,870.—Swiss francs.

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page 123 note 1 Plate.—A wounded Biafran arriving in Zurich by an ICRC aircraft, for treatment in a European hospital.

As well as distributing emergency supplies, the Red Cross tends the wounded.

page 128 note 1 See International Review, 12 1968.CrossRefGoogle Scholar