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IFRC delivers critical supplies to eastern DRC amid ongoing Ebola outbreak

Kinshasa/Nairobi/Geneva,04June2026-The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)has deliveredon 3 Junea critical shipmentofSafe and Dignified Burial (SDB) kits and body bagstoBunia, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the ongoing Ebola outbreak continues to claim lives and strain already fragile health systems.Thisshipmentwas airlifted from Dubai to Entebbe (Uganda) andthendepartedfor Bunia by road on 29 May 2026. Itcontained13 SDB kits, supportingapproximately 300 safe and dignified burials. The land route from Entebbe to Bunia takes approximately seven days, underscoring the logistical complexity of reaching affected populations in this remote part of the country.A second shipment, pre-positioned in Kinshasa, is scheduled to arrive in Bunia by air within the week. With the airport now reopened, operational goods can be delivered more quickly. The cargo includes 10 SDB kits and 300 body bags.Theseshipments, part of a broader CHF 2.2 million procurement effort, willprovideoperational equipmentneeded by Red Cross teams tocontinue performingsafe and dignified burials,one of the most vital tools incontainingthe spread of Ebola.“EverySafe and Dignified Burialkit that arrives, and every burial conducted safely and respectfully, helps break a potential chain of transmission. Our volunteers are working in extraordinarily difficult conditions, and they need all the support we can provide, including these supplies, now,” said Bruno Michon, IFRC Ebola response Operations Manager in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Safe and dignified burials are not just a logistical task — they are a frontline public health intervention and an act of respect for families in their most painful moments. Getting these supplies to our teams in eastern DRC is a race against the virus.The IFRC calls onthe international community,donorsand partners to support the regional emergency appeal to ensure that communities in DRC and across the region receive the full scope of life-savingassistancethey urgently need.Link to photos: https://shared.ifrc.org/collections/~2e8af4bc27For more information or to set up an interview contact:[email protected] Kinshasa: Catherine Kamatu, +254 728 815 266In Nairobi: Susan Mbalu, +254 733 827 654  In Geneva: Tommaso Della Longa +41 79 708 4367 | Paolo Cravero +41 79 894 8396

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IFRC dispatches critical medical supplies from Türkiye to support urgent needs in Iran; calls for scaled up support

Ankara/Geneva, 10 April 2026 – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in coordination with the Turkish Red Crescent, is delivering life-saving medical supplies and humanitarian relief items from Türkiye to Iran, as humanitarian needs in the country continue to grow sharply.The operation is underway, with a convoy departing Ankara on Friday April 10, which will proceed through eastern Türkiye and into Iran over the weekend (with timings subject to confirmation). The shipment includes trauma kits designed to provide immediate, life-saving care in critical situations, alongside additional humanitarian supplies including tents, blankets and hygiene items provided by the Turkish Red Crescent.The operation is critical as humanitarian supply chains into Iran have been severely disrupted in recent weeks due to the conflict, making it increasingly difficult and more costly for essential medical and relief items to reach those in need. As a result, the supplies are being transported overland from eastern Türkiye into Iran.The IFRC is mobilising 200 advanced trauma kits for the Iranian Red Crescent, marking one of the first cross-border shipments of medical supplies since the start of the conflict. These trauma kits contain essential equipment to treat serious injuries and stabilise patients, designed to provide immediate, life-saving care in critical situations.The operation highlights how humanitarian supply chains are adapting in real time under significant pressure, with sourcing shifted to Türkiye to prioritise speed and ensure that urgent medical needs can be met. Working through its global network, the IFRC is able to quickly identify suppliers, activate logistics capacity and use available corridors to move aid despite severe constraints.“These trauma kits are used by Iranian Red Crescent rescue teams in the most critical moments, when immediate care can mean the difference between life and death. This shipment is about ensuring that vital support reaches people as quickly as possible, despite the challenges to global supply chains. This aid will save lives, we will continue to scale it up. This operation demonstrates how the IFRC’s supply chain is adapting in real time under immense pressure,” said Cecile Terraz, IFRC Director of Global Humanitarian Services and Supply Chain Management.This coordinated effort with the Turkish Red Crescent highlights the role of the IFRC in mobilising support across borders to respond to urgent humanitarian needs.The IFRC and its partners continue to work closely with national authorities and humanitarian actors to support the delivery of assistance and respond to evolving needs on the ground.With humanitarian needs growing rapidly, the IFRC is calling for urgent international support to its CHF 120 million Emergency Appeal to sustain and scale up life-saving assistance for people affected across Iran.For more information or to request an interview, please contact: [email protected] At the Türkiye/Iran border:Scott Craig, +41 76 370 3575Sevil Erkus, +90 536 644 91 22In Budapest:Nora Peter, +36 70 265 4020

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The IFRC warns of the impact of the conflict in the Middle East: Moving humanitarian goods is becoming more expensive and slower

Geneva,23March 2026– The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns that one of the consequences of the conflict in the Middle East is its impact on the humanitarian supply chain.While the IFRC global supply chain hub in Dubairemainsoperational, disruptions to global transport have led to significant price increases and forced the organization to use longer overland routes.The direct impact is that moving goods is becoming more expensive and is taking more time. At a time when humanitarian budgets are shrinking, this will directly affect the most vulnerable communities around the world.Costs are changing daily, but the following examples illustrate current trends:Sea freight:approximately +70%, with spikes of up to 300% on specific routesCause:Schedule disruptions, rerouting, and congestion. Reduced UAE sailings are also forcing road repositioning to ports such as Jeddah (approximately $5,000 per container).Land transport (international/cross-border):+20% to +30%Cause:A general increase in cross-border trucking costs across GCC corridors, driven primarily by border delays, driver shortages, and tightening capacity, with fuel price volatility as a contributing factor.Air freight:approximately +50% to 70% (depending on the route)Cause:Modal shift from sea to air, limited capacity, and volatile fuel surcharges.IFRCsupply chain expertsare availablefor interviews.For more information or to set up an interview, please contact:[email protected] Geneva:Tommaso Della Longa,+41 79 708 4367

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Global humanitarian services

The IFRC is a recognized provider of global humanitarian supply chain services—both to members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, but also to humanitarian organizations and governments around the world.

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New shipment of IFRC humanitarian aid arrives in Port Sudan amid conflict

Khartoum/Nairobi/Geneva, 16 May 2023: A new batch of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) humanitarian supplies, weighing 17 tons, arrived in Port Sudan today from Dubai. Transportation of these supplies was made possible through a European Union humanitarian air bridge flight. The IFRC is hopeful that this air bridge will be maintained to ensure further aid is provided in the coming weeks. Among the household items delivered were blankets, jerricans, kitchen sets, mosquito nets, sleeping mats and tarpaulins for 500 families. This dispatch will be followed in the coming days by a second batch of medical supplies including Interagency Emergency Health Kits (IEHK) to increase access to much needed healthcare services for thousands of people affected by the conflict. Upon arrival, they will be handed over to the Sudanese Red Crescent Society. Mohammed Mukhier, IFRC Regional Director for Africa said: “Most of our aid supplies were already distributed to people in need, despite some being looted in Khartoum and Darfur. So, this international humanitarian shipment comes at a crucial time as it will help the Sudanese Red Crescent Society to assist people caught between the conflict and the next flooding, which is typical in the country.” Since conflict escalated, thousands of families have been cut off from basic services, including health services, food, water, and shelter and are in desperate need of help. Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers have been working tirelessly, right from the start, to provide lifesaving assistance to affected people, despite the dangers they face and the fact that they are also affected. They are running a broad range of humanitarian services, including first aid, psychosocial support, family reunification for people who have been separated from their loved ones, food and water distribution, shelter provision, and safe and dignified burials for those who lost their lives. On May 4, the IFRC launched an Emergency Appeal to support the Sudanese Red Crescent Society to deliver assistance to 200,000 people affected by the conflict. “Our volunteers will deliver the relief items wherever access and security allow. For that purpose, we renew our call for safe and unhindered access and passage to allow humanitarian help to reach those in need,” said Mr Mukhier. While supporting the Sudanese Red Crescent Society in assisting people in Sudan, IFRC is also scaling up its response to meet the urgent needs of those fleeing the conflict and crossing into neighbouring countries: Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan. For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact: [email protected] In Nairobi: Rita Nyaga, +254 722 527553, [email protected] In Geneva: Anna Tuson, +41 79 895 6924 Tommaso Della Longa, +41 79 708 4367 In Dakar: Moustapha Diallo, +221 77 450 10 04, [email protected]

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Dubai's International Humanitarian City swiftly responds to humanitarian crisis in Sudan

Dubai,9 September 2022 - Additional aid has been dispatched out of Dubai’s International Humanitarian City (IHC) to Sudan this week as Dubai continues to respond to multiple humanitarian emergencies across the globe. A cargo flight made available by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, departed on Wednesday to Khartoum, following floods that have affected more than 200,000 people and claimed the lives of at least 112 individuals. His Excellency Mohammed Ibrahim Al Shaibani, Chairman of the Supreme Committee for the Supervision of IHC, said: “Dubai is a key international player in delivering and facilitating humanitarian assistance as exemplified by the recent response to humanitarian crises. Thanks to the vision, leadership, and generosity of the Dubai government and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed, the IHC, with its unique expertise and standing as the world’s largest humanitarian hub, is operating an effective and efficient flow of relief items to multiple countries this week on behalf of the United Nations and other international organizations, building on decades of experience and Dubai’s position as a global logistics hub.” As part of an ongoing humanitarian airbridge to the African continent, the first of multiple Khartoum-bound flights carried more than 90 tons of aid from the stockpiles of two of IHC’s members, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). A second plane loaded with additional aid and relief items, will arrive today in Khartoum, carrying 100 tons of additional relief items provided by the IFRC. Ilir Caushaj, IFRC Global Fleet and Logistics Hub Head in Dubai, added: “As a response to the heavy and continuous rains being experienced in six states in Sudan, IFRC is sending urgent humanitarian aid to those affected and displaced due to torrential rains and floods in the country, to help alleviate their suffering and improve their living conditions. The supplies and humanitarian aid include blankets, hygiene kits, foldable jerrycans, kitchen sets, mosquito nets, mats, tarpaulins, and water purification agents, supporting over 20,000 people with a total value of CHF 340,000. We thank the IHC and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for their long-standing support to humanitarian organizations and generosity in facilitating and expediting the transportation of aid to those who need it most.” Over the first week of September, following the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the IHC is facilitating two humanitarian air bridges in support of international humanitarian response efforts in Libya, Sudan, and Pakistan. For more information, please contact: Malak Atkeh, IFRC/GCC, [email protected], Mob +971 564780874 Magalie El Hajj,International Humanitarian City, Dubai,[email protected],M +971 56 477 6412

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Kuwaiti Red Crescent and Egyptian Red Crescent support people fleeing Ukraine

Since the onset of the conflict in Ukraine, Kuwait Red Crescent Society and Egyptian Red Crescent Society teams have rushed to provide humanitarian relief to the neighbouring countries of Ukraine. The Kuwaiti Red Crescent has provided food, medical aid, and necessary supplies to fleeing people affected by the conflict. While the Egyptian Red Crescent has assisted and evacuated Egyptians from Poland and Romania, and provided humanitarian support to others affected alike, including Arabic-speaking people. Dr. Hilal Al Sayer, President of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) said after meeting his Polish counterpart, Jery Bisek: “Kuwaiti aid includes medicines, medical supplies, food, milk for children and other necessities, and it reflects the Kuwaiti leadership and people’s solidarity with affected people living under such difficult circumstances.” Al-Sayer affirmed his country’s keenness to participate in humanitarian relief in all parts of the world, in line with the Kuwaiti humanitarian obligations. He stressed the need to further explore all ways to enhance cooperation and joint coordination to help alleviate the suffering of refugees from Ukraine, with partner organizations in the humanitarian field and with the Polish Red Cross. In turn, the President of the Polish Red Cross expressed his appreciation and gratitude after a Kuwaiti military aid plane loaded with relief materials and medical aid, estimated at 33.5 tons, arrived at Warsaw Airport in Poland. Bisek said: “The Kuwaiti Red Crescent is one of the first National Society responders that stepped in to provide the necessary support and assistance for those fleeing Ukraine”, adding that "the needs are still massive". In parallel, the Egyptian Red Crescent Society continues to provide aid and support to the Egyptian students and families it helped evacuate safely home after they had fled to Poland and Romania. Volunteers have worked tirelessly to ensure transportation for Egyptians fleeing from Ukraine across the borders of Poland and Romania to the airport. They also provided them with free hotel accommodation and food, travel documents, cash assistance, medical services, and psychological support. Students and their families expressed deep gratitude to the Egyptian Red Crescent Society for standing by their side in this ordeal, meeting their needs, and ensuring their safe return to their home country. The Egyptian Red Crescent Society, in collaboration with Polish and Romanian Red Cross Societies, has also established two relief centres at the Ukrainian-Romanian and Ukrainian-Polish borders to provide aid to Egyptians, Arabic speakers and others fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, especially women and children. The Egyptian Red Crescent Society also published a slogan on its Facebook page “Safety and Relief Without Discrimination’. Prior to the conflict, 6000 Egyptians lived in Ukraine, 3,000 of whom are students enrolled in the country’s universities.

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Red Cross set to launch a Humanitarian Logistics Hub in the Southern Cone of the Americas

Buenos Aires, 8 October, 2021 - The Argentine Red Cross (ARC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) will launch a Humanitarian Logistics Hub to expand the Red Cross humanitarian response across Southern Cone countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The Humanitarian Hub will have the capacity to pre-position sufficient humanitarian aid to address the needs of up to 10,000 people affected by emergencies and disasters. The Humanitarian Hub is located at Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Aires. It will operate with support from the Cargo Terminal of Argentina, a logistics unit for international trade led by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 (AA2000), the country’s largest private airport operator. Jagan Chapagain, IFRC Secretary General, said: "This Hub allows us to deliver humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable communities, faster and more efficiently. Argentina will be the point from which we will mobilize immediate assistance in water, sanitation, hygiene, shelter, and food security to support people affected by crises and disasters in Southern Cone countries. This strategic and innovative space joins our global network of humanitarian logistics centres and strengthen our collaboration with national authorities, the private sector, and other stakeholders.” The services provided by the Hub include procurement and transportation, warehousing and handling, contingency stock, specialized logistics support, and training and capacity building of the neighbouring National Red Cross Societies and other institutions. The Hub will also host the Humanitarian Innovation Laboratory, aimed at providing innovative solutions to the most urgent social, economic and development problems in the region. Diego Tipping, President of the Argentine Red Cross, said: "This space strengthens the role that Argentina is playing as a leader in the humanitarian field and fosters the bilateral and multilateral cooperation among national governments, regional mechanisms, and the United Nations system. Based on the multiple alliances that the Argentine Red Cross has with national companies and corporations, the Hub will also pay special attention to the local purchase of supplies, encouraging local production, which is crucial to support the economic growth of the country". The Presidency of Argentina has sponsored the agreement between AA2000, the IFRC and Argentine Red Cross. The Secretary General of the IFRC, Jagan Chapagain was in Argentina on Friday 8 October, to sign the agreement and visit the site of the new Hub. Since April 2020, AA2000 has provided a warehouse space to the Argentine Red Cross,for the storage of humanitarian supplies used by the National Society in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information and to arrange an interview, please contact: In Buenos Aires: Santiago Ramayo, [email protected] +54 9 11 4937 3134 In Panama: Susana Arroyo, [email protected] +507 69993199

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is currently seeking to procure the goods and services listed below.

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The IFRC is keen to widen our range of suppliers in order to find quality goods and services at competitive prices that will support us to deliverourmission.

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