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.
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Even before the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), communities in this province of over five million inhabitants had already been weakened and rendered vulnerable by an armed conflict that has lasted for 20 years. If t …
By Moustapha Diallo, IFRC Under heavy rain, Ica Lopes Da Silva, accompanied by her son Julio Cesar, tries to carry, towards a rented tricycle motorbike, the items she has just received from the Red Cross of Guinea Bissau. The 53-year-old woman lives wi …
Photo: Nwakpa O. Nwakpa/Nigerian Red Cross Chidera looks down at her newborn baby, delievered in a displacement camp in Delta, Nigeria. With more than 176,000 people displaced by the recent floods in Nigeria, at least 10,500 are pregnant and lactating …
A temporary shelter perched near the riverside in Patani displacement camp in Delta State, Nigeria By Lizzy Okoji Propped on the riverside is Patani – one of the communities hardest hit in Delta State by floods. Almost all its houses are submerged by w …
Kenya Red Cross has recently launched a television station (Switch TV), targeting the youth with a view to empowering them to solve humanitarian challenges in their communities. “Our vision is to be the most influential platform for educating and empow …
Nigeria floods emergency appeal
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Director
Country cluster support teams
- Central Africa – Cameroon Andrei Engstrand-Neacsu
- Eastern Africa – Kenya Getachew Ta’a
- Southern Africa – South Africa Lorraine Mangwiro
- The Sahel – Senegal Anne LeClerc
- West Africa – Nigeria (TBC)
- Indian Ocean – Madagascar Youcef AIT CHELLOUCHE
Country representatives
- Central African Republic – Heinz Henghuber (Acting)
- Liberia – Younos Abdul Karim
- Sierra Leone – (TBC)
- Niger – Alberto BOCANEGRA
- Somalia – William BABUMBA
- South Sudan – Dr Michael Charles
- Sudan – Getachew TAA (Acting)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo – MomodouLamin Fye
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’s 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
