Nigeria, Aug. 30 -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has disclosed that about 284,400 people remain officially registered as missing across the globe.
The organisation revealed this in a statement to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, commemorated annually on August 30.
The statement, which was obtained by The News Chronicle, reads "In 2024 more than 94,000 people were registered as missing by their families with the Family Links Network, bringing the current number of registered missing people to approximately 284,400.
"From our experience this is only a fraction of the true number of missing people out there," the statement read.
The Red Cross stressed the urgent need for greater empathy, noting that disap...
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