Press releases

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 DPRK since early July and …

Lombok/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 days for the full impact …

Nairobi/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 multidisciplinary team is made up o …

Budapest/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 record Europe’s highest te …

Kinshasa/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 International Federation …

Geneva, 1 August 2018 – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) welcomes the decision taken by Tunisian authorities to allow 40 vulnerable migrants to finally disembark from the Sarost 5. The group was first picked u …

Geneva, 25 July 2018 – The following can be attributed to Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC): “We join the DRC Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, the DRC Red Cr …

Athens/Geneva 24 July 2018 – Red Cross teams are providing first aid and support as part of a huge search and rescue effort for people who have been caught in deadly wildfires that are raging across areas near Athens, Greece. More than 50 people are fe …

Cairo, 24 July 2018 – Following his nomination last week as Goodwill Ambassador for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) for the Middle East and North Africa, renowned Iraqi musician, Naseer Shamma donated blood y …

Kuala Lumpur/Geneva, 24 July 2018 – More must be done to protect women, men and children from sexual and gender-based violence after disasters, say the authors of a new report written by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societ …