This week's announcement by Niger's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to effectively ban the International Committee of the Red ...

“The ICRC confirms that it has seen the recent video in which our colleague Sonja Nientiet pleads for her release,” ICRC spokesperson Christian Cardon told the Keystone-ATS news agency.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a neutral, impartial and independent organization with an exclusively humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It ...