On Friday, 21 March 2025, an explosion took place in a market in Grishk, in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, just one hour north of Lashkar-Gah. Immediately following the explosion, two ambulances were sent from EMERGENCY’s nearby First Aid Posts in Shoraki and Nad Ali to enable prompt transfers to the NGO’s Surgical Centre in Lashkar-Gah. […]

21 March 2025 – At 23:00 on 20 March, the 35 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support disembarked in the Italian port of La Spezia. The rescued people had been travelling on an overcrowded dinghy that was taking on water, and were brought to safety on Monday 17 March with a […]

18 March 2025 — Following the attacks last night in the Gaza Strip, EMERGENCY has temporarily suspended the movement of its personnel pending a better understanding of how to guarantee the safety of its national and international colleagues. As a result, activities at the Primary Healthcare Clinic in al-Qarara (Khan Younis), first opened in January […]

The sea rescue organizations EMERGENCY, Louise Michel, Mediterranea Saving Humans, Sea-Watch, SOS Humanity, and SOS MEDITERRANEE, are ready to join the criminal trial in the Cutro shipwreck to act as a civil party. The trial seeks justice for the shipwreck that occurred off the coast of Calabria, Italy, on February 25-26 2023. The alliance calls […]

At least one person has died and five injured following an explosion in Kabul PD 9, at 9:30am local time on Thursday, 13 February. Six patients have been received at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul, four of whom remain seriously injured. One man has died from his injuries. “We received six patients at our Kabul […]

EMERGENCY has opened a new primary healthcare clinic in the Gaza Strip, in al-Qarara (Khan Younis), within the so-called ‘humanitarian zone’ defined by Israeli forces at the beginning of the conflict. The clinic, operating in a catchment area of 10,000 people, provides first aid, basic medical and surgical care for both adults and children, outpatient […]

On the morning of Thursday 16 January, an explosion broke glass and tiles in the living quarters of EMERGENCY’s Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum. The explosion took place less than two kilometres from the hospital, and shrapnel was also found in the hospital parking lot. “This is the second time in the last […]

At 8:55am on 17 December, the 34 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support disembarked in the Italian port of Ancona. They had been rescued from a rubber boat on 12 December in the central Mediterranean, within the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. “We arrived in Ancona after five days […]

On the morning of 12 December, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support rescued a boat in distress in the Mediterranean sea, within the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. On board were 34 people, including one unaccompanied child. Before the rescue, at about 1:20 a.m. on Thursday 12 December, two boats – one […]

75 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, disembarked in the port of Vibo Valentia early this morning at 1:15am. The people rescued had been brought to safety in two separate operations carried out on Thursday 28 November, in international waters in the Maltese SAR zone. “We have completed the disembarkation of […]