At 23:15 on Tuesday, 12 March, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support completed the disembarkation of 52 people rescued on 11 March in the international waters of the Libyan SAR region. The distress case had been spotted from the bridge of Life Support after an alert from Alarm Phone. “The disembarkation operations of the […]

On Saturday, 9 March, at 17:33 CET, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support received a mayday relay from SPARROW 4, a Frontex aircraft. The aircraft informed the NGO ship that it had spotted around 40 people on board the Tunisian gas platform MISKAR, located in the Gulf of Gabes, in the international waters of […]

Italy’s Obstruction of Search and Rescue Activities is Endangering People’s Lives Joint statement by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in search and rescue activities in the Central Mediterranean In light of the increasing death toll in the Central Mediterranean since early 2023, coinciding with the adoption of a new law by Italian authorities and the systematic […]

Fifteen injured people arrived at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul following two attacks. Yesterday, 11 January, two different attacks took place in Afghanistan’s capital city: one was caused by an explosive device placed near a market in a densely populated commercial area, and the other by an explosive device placed under a vehicle that reportedly […]

EMERGENCY has been forced to evacuate non-resident staff at its Cardiology Outpatient Clinic in Wad Madani and suspend the facility’s activities due to intensified fighting in the city, capital of Gezira state. The team of 10 people, which includes surgeons and pharmacists, are all Sudanese and are evacuating south. The clinic opened in August to […]

A Red Cross convoy came under armed attack on the morning of Sunday, 10 December, in Khartoum, Sudan. Nine people were on board. One person died immediately. The other eight wounded were taken to EMERGENCY’s hospital complex. Of the eight brought to the facility, one died on arrival from severe head injuries, three underwent surgery […]

Armed clashes and attacks on a military base and a prison took place on Sunday 26 November in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Following the clashes in the capital city, 11 injured people were received at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Goderich, a district in the western area of Freetown. “Since the beginning of the armed clashes on […]

At 19:10 on 23 November 2023, at the port of Marina di Carrara, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel Life Support completed the disembarkation of 21 people rescued earlier this week on 20 November in the international waters of the Libyan search and rescue zone. “The disembarkation operations were completed without difficulty. It took us three […]

At 9:20 a.m. on Saturday 11 November, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support completed disembarkation in Brindisi of the 118 people it had rescued in two separate operations in the international waters of the Central Mediterranean. The rescued people are finally safe on land after more than 48 hours of navigation in rough seas […]

Between 8 and 9 November, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel Life Support carried out two separate operations, rescuing a total of 118 people. The first rescue of 77 people ended at 3:30 a.m., while the second rescue of 41 people ended around 8:30 a.m. Both boats in distress were in international waters of the Central […]