Several confirmed and hundreds of suspected cases of Ebola have been detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak “a public health emergency of international concern.” EMERGENCY – which in Uganda operates the Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, 40 km from Kampala – has […]

EMERGENCY condemns the serious actions of the Israeli naval forces against the Global Sumud Flotilla 2.0, and has released the following statement: “EMERGENCY condemns the military action carried out during the night of 29–30 April by Israeli naval forces against the Global Sumud Flotilla 2.0 in international waters, 960 kilometres from Gaza, where 22 civilian […]

On Sunday 12 April, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support completed the disembarkation of 71 people at the Italian port of La Spezia. They had been rescued from an overcrowded rubber dinghy, lacking safety equipment, on Wednesday 8 April in the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. The rescued people were spotted in […]

At around 14:00 on 17 March, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel Life Support completed the disembarkation of 123 rescued people, in the Italian sport of Civitavecchia. The survivors had been rescued in three separate operations on 13 and 14 March, carried out in less than 48 hours, in the international waters of the central Mediterranean. […]

27 people were received at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul following air strikes that took place on Monday evening in the Afghan capital. Among the locations hit was an addiction treatment centre. “We have received 27 people at our hospital and it was necessary to activate the mass casualty protocol,” explains Dejan […]

When the Ebola virus broke out in West Africa in 2014, it hit a vulnerable region still suffering the consequences of decades of conflict and widespread poverty. Less than three years later, the disease had resulted in nearly 30,000 infections and more than 11,300 deaths. Half of all infections occurred in Sierra Leone,  one of […]

At around 5pm local time in Bari, Italy, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support completed its disembarkation of 14 people rescued last Friday in international waters in the Libyan SAR zone. The people had been rescued on the morning of Friday 27 February, when an unidentified fibreglass boat approached Life Support at high speed. At a […]

EMERGENCY expresses deep concern about the ongoing escalation between the United States, Israel and Iran. Once again, the international response to a political crisis is based on the use of military force, with devastating consequences for civilian populations. This latest resort to arms marks yet another step in the weakening of an international order based […]

At around 7:30 this morning, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel Life Support brought 14 people to safety on board in the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. Among the rescued was an unaccompanied minor. “Around 6 am, when it was still dark, an unidentified fibreglass boat approached Life Support at high speed. At a […]