World disasters and emergencies

A view of the Balukhali refugee camp for people from Rakhine state/Myanmar, in Cox's bazar, Bangladesh

What is happening in Cox's Bazar?

People living in the world's largest refugee settlement face the threat of coronavirus

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A man driving an IFRC vehicle surveys the scene in the aftermath of Cyclone Batsirai

Madagascar: The aftermath of Cyclone Batsirai

On 5th February, Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on the eastern coast of Madagascar

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People are evacuated during the Charon heatwave in Greece 2023.

Europe heatwave 2023: extreme heat spirals into wildfires

Southern Europe has been at the centre of sustained and unprecedented heatwaves for more than two weeks.

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A Mongolian woman carries a young goat into her yurt to shelter it from brutal weather.

Faster than disaster: beating the white death in Mongolia

Increasingly, Mongolian herders endure some of the toughest winters on earth and risk losing everything. But a new Red Cross system may make all the difference

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Red Cross partners the Bangladesh Red Crescent sit at a table giving people cash grants to prepare for a cyclone.

Giving grants before cyclones strike saves lives

When we know a cyclone is coming, Red Cross cash grants help people prepare and recover.

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Man in Bangladesh holds two small ducks and smiles at the camera.

Grants, ducks and cyclones: seven lessons from Bangladesh

What would you do if your farmland flooded every single year? We teamed up with the Red Crescent and UCL, and found a solution

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A woman holds up a cash card distributed by the Polish Red Cross. It bears the IFRC logo.

“The value of being welcomed can’t be underestimated”: greeting families arriving in the UK from Ukraine

Tom and Christine have been there to support Ukrainian people arriving at Manchester airport since March

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A man on a motorcycle tries to navigate a rubble-strewn road in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti

Haiti Earthquake Appeal: the situation today

How the Red Cross is helping in the recovery efforts after the 14th August earthquake

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A man stands on a weir full of water in Ethiopia

Breathing life back into the land: how a new weir signals hope in Ethiopia

Droughts have ravaged land in the Somali region of Ethiopia

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Photograph of Tala supporting a woman in Beirut

“I really didn’t believe it could happen in Lebanon – or anywhere”

British Red Cross volunteer Tala, who is from Lebanon, talks about the moment she learned of the explosion in Beirut

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Ukrainian Red Cross staff and volunteers are providing food and other basic necessities to about about 8,000 people who are sheltering in a subway station in Kyiv.

“This is a big tragedy that fell on my relatives and the people of Ukraine"

Alexander, originally from Ukraine, left his country last year and moved to the UK. He has watched in horror as the events of recent weeks have unfolded.

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Photograph of Farzana Hossen which captures her side profile.

I’m a woman, I’m 65… and I scrap metal

Meet the Bangladeshi entrepreneur who’s a literal heavy lifter after a business grant

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