The IFRC’s Africa regional office works in support of 49 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in sub-Saharan Africa. Through its country cluster support teams and country offices, it provides coordination, financial, and technical support for disaster operations and longer term development programmes throughout the region.
Latest news from Africa
A new cash transfer programme is helping families reestablish their lives after been displaced by conflict in Nigeria.
By Matthew Rwahigi, Rwanda Red Cross Hundreds of families whose homes and sanitation facilities were badly damaged during heavy storms in April are rebuilding a safer community with support from the Rwanda Red Cross. During a rapid assessment following …
Red Cross staff and volunteers are frantically working alongside emergency officials to rescue survivors and assist desperate communities that have lost their homes and loved ones in yesterday’s mudslides in and around the capital Freetown.
We are receiving awful reports out of Sierra Leone, where hundreds of lives have been lost in flooding and mudslides.
Babies born in remote parts of Liberia’s Bomi county are to have a brighter start in life, thanks to a Red Cross project to provide solar-powered lighting in health centres that currently have no electricity.
A Kenya Red Cross Society programme in Northern Kenya is putting families in charge of their own recovery using cash transfer and mobile phones.
Africa videos
- Director
- Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré
Country cluster support teams
- Central Africa – Cameroon Andrei Engstrand-Neacsu
- Eastern Africa – Kenya Getachew Ta’a
- Southern Africa Lorraine Mangwiro
- The Sahel – Senegal Anne LeClerc
- West Africa – Nigeria Momodou Lamin Fye
Country representatives
- Central African Republic – Richard Hunlede
- Guinea – Daniel Sayi
- Liberia – Younos Abdul Karim
- Sierra Leone – Paul Jenkins
- Somalia – William Babumba
- South Sudan – Dr Michael Charles
- Sudan – Stefano Cordella
Recent press releases
Recent documents
Hunger in East and Central Africa
Millions of people in East and Central Africa are facing a severe food crisis. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is responding to bring life-saving support to the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach communities.
Africa National Societies
- Angola Red Cross
- Red Cross of Benin
- Botswana Red Cross Society
- Burkinabe Red Cross Society
- Burundi Red Cross
- Cameroon Red Cross Society
- Red Cross of Cape Verde
- Central African Red Cross Society
- Red Cross of Chad
- The Comoros Red Crescent
- Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Congolese Red Cross
- Red Cross Society of Côte d’Ivoire
- Red Crescent Society of Djibouti
- Red Cross of Equatorial Guinea
- Red Cross Society of Eritrea
- Ethiopian Red Cross Society
- Gabonese Red Cross Society
- Gambia Red Cross Society
- Ghana Red Cross Society
- Red Cross Society of Guinea
- Red Cross Society of Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya Red Cross Society
- Lesotho Red Cross Society
- Liberian Red Cross Society
- Malagasy Red Cross Society
- Malawi Red Cross Society
- Mali Red Cross
- Mauritanian Red Crescent
- Mauritius Red Cross Society
- Mozambique Red Cross Society
- Namibia Red Cross
- Red Cross Society of Niger
- Nigerian Red Cross Society
- Rwandan Red Cross
- Sao Tome and Principe Red Cross
- Senegalese Red Cross Society
- Seychelles Red Cross Society
- Sierra Leone Red Cross Society
- Somali Red Crescent Society
- South African Red Cross Society
- South Sudan Red Cross
- The Sudanese Red Crescent
- Baphalali Swaziland Red Cross Society
- Tanzania Red Cross National Society
- Togolese Red Cross
- Uganda Red Cross Society
- Zambia Red Cross Society
- Zimbabwe Red Cross Society