Beijing/Geneva, 10 August 2018 – A heatwave in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will have serious health consequences for children and elderly people unless urgent action is taken. There has been no rainfall in...
Read MoreLombok/Kuala Lumpur/Geneva, 8 August 2018 – The head of a Red Cross assessment team on the Indonesian island of Lombok has described Sunday’s magnitude 7 earthquake as “exceptionally destructive”, warning that it may still take...
Read MoreNairobi/Geneva, 7 August – A team of Red Cross experts has arrived in the town of Beni, close to the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). The 19-person...
Read MoreBudapest/Geneva, 3 August 2018: Red Cross volunteers are working across Europe to help keep the public safe as temperatures threaten to top 48C in some countries. Spain and Portugal could face their hottest day in history and...
Read MoreKinshasa/Nairobi/Geneva, 2 August – The response to the presumptive positive outbreak of Ebola in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will be “highly complex”, according to a senior public health expert at the...
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