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By Ika Koeck, IFRC It was just another typical Friday evening for 17-year-old Eliza, who was in the shower preparing for a calm, quiet night at home, when her whole house began to shake. “I knew it was an earthquake,” said Eliza. “But I couldn’t get ou …

Amidst the destruction and ruin in the city of Palu, family members embrace each other, weeping tears of joy as they were reunited in the aftermath of Sulawesi’s double disaster. One of them, Andi Satar, is a volunteer with the Indonesian Red Cross (Pa …

According with the first report of the Haitian National Risk and Disaster Management System, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded on Saturday.

By Gennike Mayers, IFRC “Nothing is more joyful than hearing a baby cry in the maternity ward.  It means the baby is alive and well!” says smiling Australian midwife Janet Gorrell, as she emerges from the maternity ward with a new-born baby girl to get …

Nearly a quarter of a million households in Nigeria are at risk after heavy rains caused flooding that has inundated more than half the country. The rainfall began in July and has continued into September, causing Nigeria’s two main rivers – the Niger …

By Mary Joy Evalarosa James Dean Dait, 22, was on duty as a Philippine Red Cross volunteer when Typhoon Mangkhut hit very early on 15 September. Just hours before it made landfall, he had attended a pre-disaster meeting at the Ilocos Norte chapter on t …

By Mary Joy Evalarosa If there’s anything good about a typhoon, it’s that people have time to prepare and responders are primed to act. In the days and hours before Typhoon Mangkhut swirled its deadly path towards Luzon – home to nearly 50 million peop …

It has now been over six weeks since the first earthquake struck Lombok, Indonesia, and people have endured more than 1,500 aftershocks. 

Marshall Islands Red Cross volunteers are working with the government to conduct a mass tuberculosis and leprosy screening in the North Pacific nation where it is estimated that one in four people are positive with tuberculosis.

On the evening of 23 July 2018, a flash flood, caused by the failure of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Dam, released five billion cubic metres of water down a tributary of the Mekong river. Six villages were completely leveled and, while official figures put the death toll at 39 people, a further 97 people remain unaccounted for.