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 […]

DRAW YOUR FUTURE: HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF EMERGENCY AND DESALL’S INTERNATIONAL CONTEST TO IMAGINE A PEACEFUL FUTURE AND CELEBRATE THE NGO’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY THE TWO ILLUSTRATIONS WILL BE USED ON TWO T-SHIRTS IN THE SPECIAL “ARTIVISTS X EMERGENCY” COLLECTION, TOGETHER WITH ELEVEN OTHER PROFESSIONAL ILLUSTRATORS Milan, 2 May 2024. Two designs will be used […]

One year after the outbreak of war in Sudan, EMERGENCY’s interventions in the country face enormous difficulties that jeopardise the survival of the population and the viability of its projects. Among the obstacles are continuous electricity blackouts and interruptions to the internet and telecommunications networks; exponentially increased fuel prices; shortages of basic goods; and difficulties […]

This morning at the port of Ravenna, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, completed the disembarkation of 202 people rescued on 5 April in the Libyan SAR region. Nationalities of the survivors – including 15 women and 18 minors, eight of whom were unaccompanied – are Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghana, Pakistan, Palestine and Syria. […]

This morning, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, successfully concluded rescue operations for two closely situated boats in distress within international waters, in the Libyan SAR zone, with a total of 200 people aboard. Captain of Life Support, Domenico Pugliese, said: “At dawn, our radar detected two distressed boats. Upon investigation, we found them […]

EMERGENCY has opened a new Paediatric Outpatient Clinic in Khartoum, hosted within the same complex as the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery. The Outpatient Clinic will provide free healthcare to mothers and children up to 14 years old. Since conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) […]

At 11:00 on Thursday, 21 March, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel Life Support concluded the disembarkation of 71 people that were rescued on Saturday, 16 March, in international waters of the Maltese SAR zone.  “To arrive at the POS [place of safety] in Ravenna, it took us four days of navigation. The assignment of distant […]