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A new study suggests that Red Cross volunteers potentially averted more than 10,000 cases of Ebola during the 2013-2016 West Africa outbreak.

With over 160,000 suspected cases of cholera since April, and over 1,100 deaths, communities across Yemen are in urgent need of assistance

In the chaos that follows a disaster, people often move quickly in search of safety. A new programme in partnership with Facebook is using data to improve disaster response.

More than 300 volunteers and staff from the Portuguese Red Cross are providing first aid, psychological support and emergency supplies to victims of devastating forest fires sweeping parts of the country.

What would you do if your country became mired in conflict? If the only way to protect your family was to put them in danger, to put them on a boat in the middle of the night? What would you do if there was no way back?

The Indonesian Red Cross Society (Palang Merah Indonesia) recently launched a campaign, along with the services, to promote safe travel in Jakarta.

The British Red Cross has launched an appeal to help people affected by a major fire that destroyed the Grenfell tower block in London.

The search and rescue operations may soon come to an end following the collapse of an eight storey residential building in Kware, Embakasi estate in Nairobi on Monday night killing two people. Before the collapse, residents noted cracks on some floors, leading to the quick evacuation of majority of the residents.

At least 75 people, most of them women and young children, have been reported dead after landslides triggered by days of severe rain swept down Chittagong Hills, just two weeks after Cyclone Mora battered the same region.

To mark World Blood Donor Day, celebrated each year on 14 June, the IFRC has published a small selection of historical posters used by National Societies around the world to promote voluntary non-remunerated blood donation. For decades, many National Societies have been involved in blood donation either directly, or in support of programmes by national authorities.