The Indian Ocean Regional Intervention Platform is transporting additional equipment to Madagascar in order to consolidate the Malagasy Red Cross’s activities. The Indian Ocean Regional Intervention Platform is transporting additional equipment to Madagascar in order...
On March 7, 2017, Intense Tropical Cyclone Enawo made landfall on Madagascar at full strength, traversing the island from north to south. The cyclone particularly impacted the districts of Antahala (Sava), Maroantsetra (Analanjirofo), Brickaville (Atsinanana) and...
Dineo, a Category 3 tropical cyclone, struck Mozambique on 15th February, and the southern province of Inhambane was particularly affected by high winds and heavy rainfall. Faced with this emergency Mozambique Red Cross (CVM) quickly responded with multiple resources....
The Regional Disaster Response Team (RDRT) training course specialising in emergency healthcare came to an end on Tuesday 6th December. For eight days, 25 participants from the Indian Ocean Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies (Union of Comoros, Madagascar,...
PIROI and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre recently signed an agreement to work together to prevent, prepare and respond to climate-related disasters. The new partnership was agreed just ahead of the regional training course on climate change, which was held...
From August 29th until September 2nd 2016, PIROI and Reunion’s weather service, Météo France, co-organised the first regional training course on climate change for the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies of the south-west Indian Ocean (Comoros, Madagascar,...
