News Releases & Alerts

News Alert: Mercy Corps Ready to Respond as Flores Earthquake Toll Rises

JAKARTA — Three days after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Flores, in Indonesia, 70 people have been killed and 305...

DRC Ebola Outbreak Reaches Historic Scale in Three Months

Confirmed cases now sit just 35 kilometers from the South Sudan border, along high-risk travel corridors. As the Ebola...

“Stay Home or Feed Your Family”: Nepal’s Heat Crisis Is Now an Income Emergency

As extreme temperatures hit Nepal this season, above 42 degrees Celsius for multiple days, Mercy Corps warns that heat...

DRC Ebola Cases Near 2018–2020 Outbreak Total in Just Over Ten Weeks as Insecurity Disrupts Response in Ituri

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached 3,200 confirmed cases and more than 1,400 deaths...

Statement on Release of Latest IPC Hunger Report in Gaza

Rachel Norris, Gaza Response Director for Mercy Corps says: “The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification...

Mercy Corps Statement on new UK Minister of State for Development and Africa

Mercy Corps Vice President of Institutional Donor Engagement, Nick Jones-Bannister says: “Mercy Corps welcomes the...