83 children, aged between five and 19, were reunited with their families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The children had lost contact with their loved ones because of armed conflict and violence in the southeast of the country. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in coordination with the Red Cross Society of the DRC, worked to return the children to their families, some of whom had been apart for more than three years. This major operation is the culmination of extensive searches that were initiated between 2019 and 2021. The search process was quite protracted in some cases, either because there was very little information to go on or no family address, or because logistics and security concerns made it difficult to access some search areas.

Source: International Committee of the Red Cross