This morning, Kabul was hit by another attack: there was a strong explosion near a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers who had gathered for Friday prayers. The EMERGENCY Hospital received 27 injured. After the explosion, a few armed men entered the building and fighting is still under way. At the moment, the EMERGENCY Hospital received […]

The code of conduct for NGOs operating in the Mediterranean threatens the lives of thousands of people and constitutes an unprecedented attack on the principles that inspire the work of humanitarian organizations. EMERGENCY has been active for years in assisting migrants, refugees and IDPs in countries at war as well as in Italy; Although not […]

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, the European Union Delegation to the Republic of the Sudan and the EMERGENCY Organization announce the results of the first year of the activities related to the project carried out in Khartoum, Mayo area. The project, called “Health and nutrition for the vulnerable population in Mayo: an integrated multi-sectorial […]

The European Union proves once again that it doesn’t understand the humanitarian crisis it’s facing. Proposals to manage the flow of incoming migrants from North Africa are leaning towards the militarisation of the Mediterranean and the countries through which migrants pass. Funding migrant centres in Libya, which are in all respects areas of detention and […]

Closing Italian ports to NGO rescue ships will be another obstacle to the safety of thousands of people. We continue to ignore that, today, rescue operations at sea are the only real measure to avoid the deaths of men, women and children fleeing from their countries in search of protection from war, poverty and persecution. […]

Kabul car bombing: 69 injured hospitalised at the EMERGENCY Surgery Hospital. This morning, at 8:30 am, Kabul was hit by yet another attack: a car bomb explosion, at a time when the streets were very crowded, has caused tens of deaths and hundreds of wounded in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, the embassy area. The […]

The massacre in Idlib was the latest in a series of extremely extremly serious incidents during the war in Syria. Before the massacre, there were two choices: to stop and realise that we are accelerating down the road of self-destruction or to react to violence with more violence. The second choice was made. The decision […]

At 9 am local time an armed attack in the ‘SardarDaud Khan’ military hospital in Kabul began with a huge explosion. The attack in the capitals central Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood has killed 38 people and wounded more than 70. 18 of those wounded arrived at our Kabul Surgical Centre for War Victims. Sara Cattaneo, […]

On February 10, in Entebbe, Uganda, EMERGENCY NGO founder Gino Strada and architect Renzo Piano, in the presence of President Museveni and Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, laid down the first stone of a new project: an EMERGENCY Centre of excellence for Paediatric Surgery, which will be built at Lake Victoria, 35 kilometers […]

EMERGENCY opposes the European Council and Italian government’s recent measures regarding migrants and refugees.The number of people fleeing war and poverty increases around the world. Meanwhile, European leaders and the Italian government continue to respond by proposing a stop to the flow of people and the construction of barriers, without any plan to inhibit the […]