President Paul Kagame, on Tuesday, May 6, received the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, and the organization’s Regional Director for Africa, Patrick Youssef, to discuss the ICRC work in Rwanda and beyond. In Rwanda, the Red Cross Society was established in 1962 as a humanitarian organization with a mission to prevent and alleviate human suffering. ALSO READ: Relief as Rwanda Red Cross supports Covid-affected households Founded in 1863 in Switzerland, the ICRC is a humanitarian relief organization auxiliary to public authorities in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, with all its activities supposed to be undertaken with impartiality and without discrimination based on nationality, race, gender, class, religion, political opinion, among others. The organisation facilitates humanitarian operations in Rwanda and in the Great Lakes region, including during conflicts, climate disasters and crises, healthcare, trauma counselling and emergency management.
