Tag: Red Cross

Red Cross has warned that the Ebola outbreak sweeping through eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has not yet reached its peak, raising concerns that the deadly disease could continue ...

More than two dozen buildings, many of them commercial establishments, have been damaged by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the southern Philippines. The quake struck off the coast of General ...

Hamas has freed Edan Alexander, the last known living American hostage in Gaza. Hamas announced Sunday, May 11, 2025, night that it had agreed to free Alexander, 21, after several ...

Hamas has released five Israeli captives from Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons in the final swap under the first phase of the ceasefire between ...

In what would be the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners under the ceasefire deal that came into effect last month, three hostages are set to be released tomorrow, ...

Ninety Palestinians have been freed from Israeli prisons in the first prisoner exchange of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire following the release of three Israeli captives in Gaza. At about 1am local time on Monday, ...

A strained global supply of cholera vaccines has obliged the International Coordinating Group (ICG)— the body which manages emergency supplies of vaccines— to temporarily suspend the standard two-dose vaccination regimen in cholera ...

According to the latest figures shared by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 64,000 cases of disappeared persons have been reported across Africa.  In Nigeria alone, over 25,000 ...

The International Federation of the Red Cross has;revealed that coronavirus cases have;exploded in Asia in the past two weeks with over 5.9 million new infections. The federation noted that more ...