August 2002: IFRC contacted Ericsson Response asking for help with mobile communications in Southern Africa, heavily affected by food shortages after suffering the worst drought in Africa in a decade, poor harvests and a range of economic factors and government policies.

Tanzania refugee camps, May 2002

Afghanistan humanitarian relief, January - July 2002. The country is almost cut-off from the rest of the world. An unreliable land telephone network and an unstable electrical power system was all relief workers could count on.