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Young mum, Nunek Handayam, thought it was safe. After the magnitude 6.4 earthquake cracked the roof of their house on 29 July, Nunek, her husband, their young sons and her mother all moved out to camp in the garden. As the aftershocks become less sever …

July 2018,  Red Cross volunteers talk with the community in the Democratic Republic of Congo   At the scene of a tragedy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a team of Red Cross volunteers faced a very sensitive dilemma. A resident of a remote vil …

On 5 August 2018, the island of Lombok, Indonesia, was struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the second one to hit the island just a week after a magnitude 6.4 quake killed 17 people and injured dozens more. 

It’s been two weeks since the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam collapsed sending floodwaters surging through south-eastern Laos. More than 13,000 people have been affected. These are some of their stories.

More than 90 people have been killed and hundreds more have been injured in a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that took place in Lombok, Indonesia on the evening of 5 August. The disaster followed a 6.4 magnitude quake in same area on 29 July. At least 91 peo …

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 record Europe’s highest temperature since 1977 according t …

When the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam in south-eastern Laos failed, families fled to save their lives, while floodwaters washed away homes, damaged basic infrastructure and inundated precious agricultural land. Here are two stories of survival.

Fears are growing that Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing its 10th outbreak of Ebola only days after the country’s health ministry announced the end of an outbreak in Equateur province. The Ministry of Health has reported that four sample …

On 23 July 2018, after days of heavy rainfall and floods, Laos’ Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower dam collapsed, releasing 5 billion cubic metres of waters down a tributary of the Mekong River.

The Asia Pacific region is currently facing a series of disasters. In Southeast Asia, a dam collapse in Lao PDR led to severe flooding, which extending to neighbouring Cambodia.