23 07 2020 | 2020, Comoros Red Crescent, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, Disaster Risk Reduction, La Réunion, Madagascar, Malagasy Red Cross, Maurice, Mauritius, Mauritius Red Cross, PIROI, PIROI Center, Préparation aux catastrophes, Réponse aux catastrophes, Seychelles, Seychelles Red Cross, Show, Union of the Comoros
PIROI-member National Societies have received assistance with their disaster preparedness and response work for a number of years already. Until now most of this support has been provided at central level, with capacity-building focusing on Red Cross/Red Crescent head...
2 12 2019 | 2019, 2019, Comoros Red Crescent, Disaster Preparedness, France, Show, Union of the Comoros
On Wednesday 20 November 2019, the French Red Cross delegation in the Comoros and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed an agreement strengthening their community healthcare partnership. Comoros Red Crescent (CoRC) works actively in the Union of the Comoros in...
9 08 2019 | 2019, Comoros Red Crescent, Disaster Response, Show, Union of the Comoros
Ngazidja is a volcanic island in the Comoros, an archipelago located in the Mozambique Canal. On the night of 24 April, this little-known island of the Indian Ocean was hit by Intense Tropical Cyclone Kenneth: the cyclone’s eye passed only 50 km off the coast....
19 07 2019 | 2019, 2019, Comoros Red Crescent, Disaster Response, PIROI, Show, Union of the Comoros
On the night of Wednesday 24 to Thursday 25 April 2019, tropical cyclone Kenneth swept past the Comoros archipelago, mainly affecting the island of Grande Comore and to a lesser extent the neighbouring islands of Anjouan and Mohéli. Given the large number of people...
7 06 2019 | 2019, 2019, Comoros Red Crescent, Disaster Response, Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR), PIROI, Post Emergency, Réponse aux catastrophes, Show, Union of the Comoros
On the night of Wednesday 24 to Thursday 25 April 2019 tropical cyclone Kenneth passed close to the Comoros archipelago, mainly affecting the island of Grande Comore, and to a lesser extent the neighbouring islands of Anjouan and Mohéli. Nationwide, the Comorian...
11 05 2016 | 2016, Comoros Red Crescent, French Red Cross, Union of the Comoros
Following several months’ preparation, a delegation of the French Red Cross in the Comoros is gradually setting up base alongside its national partner, the Comoros Red Crescent. A support programme to ‘strengthen the public and community health system for Comorian...
