In the early morning of 29 July, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, rescued 41 people from a boat in distress in the international waters of the Libyan SAR region. The small, overcrowded fibreglass boat was sighted from Life Support’s bridge just before 3:00 a.m. The rescue was completed when the 41 people, including three unaccompanied […]

Rome, Italy, 19 July 2024 – Under the European Union’s complaint mechanisms,¹ the European Commission (EC) has failed in its commitment to asses, within 12 months, separate complaints to investigate Italian law and practices which obstructs search and rescue activities in the Central Mediterranean.   In July 2023, five leading non-governmental organisations (NGOs) – the […]

Yesterday, Wednesday, 10 July 2024, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support completed three rescue operations in the central Mediterranean Sea, rescuing 178 people from four boats in distress. On the same morning, one of EMERGENCY’s mobile medical clinics assisted 378 migrants who disembarked at the Sicilian port of Pozzallo after being rescued off the […]

In the early morning of Wednesday, 10 July, Life Support – EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel – rescued 74 people from two boats in distress within the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. Forty-one people were on board the first vessel, and 33 on the second. The two boats were sighted around 5:00 a.m. […]

Today, Sunday 30 June, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support completed the disembarkation of 47 people, who were rescued in the central Mediterranean, in the port of Livorno at 11.30 a.m. The rescue took place on Wednesday 26 June in international waters, in the Libyan SAR zone. Among those rescued were three women and […]

This afternoon, around 15:30, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support rescued 47 people from a boat in distress in the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. The case was reported to EMERGENCY’s vessel shortly before 13:00 via a mayday relay on channel 16 by Sparrow 4, a Frontex aircraft. “As soon as we […]

Five people wounded in an armed attack in Bamiyan (approximately 200 km northwest of Kabul) were brought to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul yesterday evening (17 May). The group consists of nationals from Spain, Lithuania, Norway, Australia, and Afghanistan. According to accounts by authorities and the media, three Spanish nationals and one […]

87 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, disembarked at the port of Naples this afternoon, 6 May. The rescue took place on 3 May in the Libyan SAR zone. The people rescued include eight women and 17 minors. “The disembarkation operations were completed without any difficulties. It took us three days of […]

On the evening of 3 May 2024 at approximately 9:15pm, EMERGENCY’s Life Support vessel concluded a rescue operation of a boat in difficulty in the Libyan SAR zone. The operation resulted in the rescue of 87 people who had departed from Zawiya (north-western Libya) 20 hours earlier and were without food and water. The boat […]