Six weeks after a major new disaster, calls are growing to find new ways to address a host of access, funding, and structural ...

Yangon, Myanmar, April 28, 2025 — One month since the devastating ... The IRC initiated an emergency response in Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis in 2008. The IRC has worked with local partners to ...

Flooded villages are seen in this aerial view near an airport in Yangon, May 5, 2008, after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar's main city on Saturday, ripping off roofs, felling trees and ...

At least 15,000 people have been killed in two divisions of Yangon and Ayeyawaddy in a violent cyclone storm Nargis that swept Myanmar's five divisions and states on last Friday and Saturday ...

Mandalay — with an estimated population of approximately 1.6 million, the country’s second-most populated city after Yangon — is ... disasters, with Cyclone Nargis in 2008 exposing the ...

"The time window for critical search and rescue is narrowing," OCHA's Humanitarian Coordinator for Myanmar Marcoluigi Corsi told reporters in Geneva via video link from Yangon. "Shelter ...

In the midst of the Cyclone Nargis recovery efforts, the ruling regime held a constitutional ... There was a USAID mission in the Yangon Embassy, but cuts and “realigning” the agency and assistance ...

This storied second city of Myanmar (behind Yangon) was near the epicentre of the quake ... This cost them back in 2008 when Cyclone Nargis brought about the death of more than 100,000 people in ...

In 2008, Cyclone Nargis caused devastating floods ... In the past, international aid agencies have routed their aid through Yangon. “The danger is that if they do this, it won’t get to ...

A Red Cross spokesperson in Yangon told reporters that the damage ... He noted that in 2008, when Cyclone Nargis killed more than 130,000 people in Myanmar, the government took days to accept ...

Yangon, Myanmar, March 28, 2025 — A major earthquake ... The IRC initiated an emergency response in Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis in 2008. The IRC has worked with local partners to expand its ...