In pictures: Red Cross volunteers bring assistance to Gambian refugees

2 min readJan 22, 2017

Senegalese Red Cross staff and volunteers preparing to distribute food and relief items to Gambian refugees in Karang, the main Senegalese town bordering Gambia. Nearly 15,000 refugees have sought refuge there, following the Gambia’s electoral crisis. Photo credit: Senegalese Red Cross

Senegalese Red Cross staff and volunteers preparing to distribute food and relief items to Gambian refugees in Karang, the main Senegalese town bordering Gambia. Nearly 15,000 refugees have sought refuge there, following the Gambia’s electoral crisis. Photo credit: Senegalese Red Cross

Senegalese Red Cross staff and volunteers in Karang, the main Senegalese town bordering Gambia. Photo credit: Senegalese Red Cross

Senegalese Red Cross staff and volunteers preparing to distribute second hand clothes to refugees who fled the Gambia’s post-electoral crisis and sought refuge in Dakar, the Senegalese’s capital. Around 89 refugees have been hosted in the premises of the Olympic swimming pool. Photo: Moustapha Diallo/IFRC

A refugee receiving second hand clothes from a Senegalese Red Cross volunteer in the site of the Olympic swimming pool in Dakar which hosted 89 refugees. Photo credit: Moustapha Diallo/IFRC

Serandu Sohna, a refugee from The Gambia who fled the post-electoral crisis. She fled with her husband and two daughters. Photo credit: Moustapha Diallo/IFRC

Hasinatu Camara and her husband Hakim Camara. They fled the post-electoral crisis in Gambia and sought refuge in Dakar. They are currently hosted in the site of the Olympic swimming pool which hosted 89 fellow refugees from the Gambia. Photo credit: Moustapha Diallo/IFRC

People displaced by the Gambia’s post-electoral crisis hosted in the premises of the Olympic swimming pool of Dakar. Photo credit: Moustapha Diallo/IFRC

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