Somalia - Thousands of People Still Looking for Relatives

14 March 2013
International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva)

Although the humanitarian situation in Somalia has improved slightly, there remain significant concerns: among them, the fate of more than 10,000 Somalis separated from their families. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is working to restore contact between family members.

"After two decades of conflict, the task of re-establishing contact between members of dispersed families and of establishing the whereabouts of people who are unaccounted for is immense," said Asha Ismael, the head of ICRC tracing activities for Somalia. Together with the Somali Red Crescent Society and other Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world, the ICRC has been conducting a major operation to reunite people separated by conflict.

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