Category: Africa

Ebola in DRC: behind the scenes of a complex opera...

Posted by Corrie Butler | Oct 23, 2018 | Africa, Ebola, Featured content, Lead | 0 |

“Mama Federation”: A woman dedicated to her commun...

Posted by Corrie Butler | May 13, 2018 | Africa | 0 |

“I knew I would be able to restart my life”: New h...

Posted by Corrie Butler | May 4, 2018 | Africa | 0 |

Coping with drought: Adália’s story

Posted by Léa Salwan | Oct 5, 2016 | Africa, Featured content, Food security, Mozambique | 0 |

Mozambique: Red Cross equipping villagers for plan...

Posted by Léa Salwan | Oct 5, 2016 | Featured content, Food security, Mozambique | 0 |

The humanitarian dilemma at the crossroads of Ebola and conflict

by Alison Freebairn | Nov 29, 2018 | Africa, Ebola, Featured content, Health, Uncategorised | 0 |

By Elhadj As Sy, IFRC Secretary General Responders to the current Ebola epidemic in North Kivu are...

Preparedness with Visual Storytelling

by Heather Leson | Nov 1, 2018 | Africa, data literacy | 0 |

The IFRC’s Eastern Africa Cluster Operations Unit held a 3-day Disaster Management meeting in...

Ebola in DRC: behind the scenes of a complex operation

by Corrie Butler | Oct 23, 2018 | Africa, Ebola, Featured content, Lead | 0 |

Even before the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), communities...

Guinea Bissau: recovering from the storm

by eulogeishimwe | Oct 22, 2018 | Africa | 0 |

By Moustapha Diallo, IFRC Under heavy rain, Ica Lopes Da Silva, accompanied by her son Julio...

Innovation: Kenya Red Cross empowers the youth through digital television

by eulogeishimwe | Oct 4, 2018 | Africa, Regions | 0 |

Kenya Red Cross has recently launched a television station (Switch TV), targeting the youth with a...

Red Cross responding to urgent needs of displaced communities following devastating floods

by Corrie Butler | Sep 30, 2018 | Africa, Nigeria | 0 |

Nigeria floods emergency appeal

1.4 million people in Nigeria affected by floods disaster

by Alison Freebairn | Sep 25, 2018 | Africa, Flood, Lead | 0 |

Nearly a quarter of a million households in Nigeria are at risk after heavy rains caused flooding...

“Many people fled their homes, but we have started to come back”: returnees face road to recovery in north-east Nigeria

by Corrie Butler | Sep 12, 2018 | Africa, Food security | 0 |

I ran out with my brother’s granddaughter. I fell so she left me on the ground. Then I heard a big...

Ebola outbreak: Volunteers on front line fight deadly disease

by Nicola Jones | Aug 10, 2018 | Africa, Lead | 0 |

July 2018, Red Cross volunteers talk with the community in the Democratic Republic of Congo At...

Ebola: fears grow of fresh outbreak in DR Congo

by Alison Freebairn | Aug 2, 2018 | Africa, Ebola, Lead | 0 |

Fears are growing that Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing its 10th outbreak of Ebola...

Mauritania: Gardens grow resilience against food insecurity

by Alison Freebairn | Jul 19, 2018 | Africa, Food security, Livelihoods | 0 |

By Moustapha Diallo, IFRC While thousands of food-insecure families in Magta Lajar, in southern...

DRC: Leading by example to stop the Ebola outbreak

by Alison Freebairn | Jul 16, 2018 | Africa, Ebola, Health | 0 |

By Mirabelle Enaka Kima, IFRC Democratic Republic of the Congo’s traditional leaders, the main...

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