Requested via the EU civil protection mechanism, emergency.lu deployed two volunteers with one e.lu rapid deployment kit to the area affected by Hurricane Dorian – a category 5 hurrican.



Hurricane Dorian – a category 5 hurricane – made landfall over the Bahamas...

On March 14th 2019 Cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique with winds of up to 115 mph/185 kph and more than 150mm of rain in 24 hours, destroying around 90% of Beira and affecting more than 600.000 people

Following an official request from the World Food Program and via the...

At UNICEF's request, one emergency.lu regular kit has been deployed in Pibor, South Sudan, providing connectivity to a UNICEF field office.

Continuing conflict, compounded by natural disaster, has exacerbated Yemen's prolonged humanitarian crisis, rendering an estimated 21.2 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
Given this context, the ETC was activated in Yemen in April 2015
to provide the humanitarian...

On Tuesday, 7 March 2017, Cyclone Enawo made landfall in north-east Madagascar, with heavy rains and winds reaching up to 300km/h. Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes due to damage caused by the cyclone.

The ETC has not been activated in Madagascar but...

emergency.lu re-established critical connectivity in the Caribbean following hurricanes Irma and Maria, in September 2017. Disaster Response Kits provided critical connectivity for the coordination center in Dominica and restored connectivity for the airport in Saint Martin.
The...

On 30 August 2017, UNICEF requested the support of emergency.lu for their operations in the Kasai region in DRC. Decades of armed conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), political unrest and insecurity have resulted in a complex humanitarian crisis.

One emergency.lu regular deployment kit has been deployed in the Tshikapa office providing connectivity to UNICEF, OCHA and FAO. The system was installed by trained UNICEF staff

emergency.lu was first deployed in January 2012 to respond to the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.
Following the country’s independence in 2011, the Emergency  Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) was activated in South Sudan, under the leadership of the World Food Programme (WFP), to...

On 30 March 2016, UNICEF, working on containing a new case of EBOLA outbreak in the eastern part of Guinea, requested the support of emergency.lu.

There was no local GSM or ISP coverage in the area, a situation that was hampering the overall response capacity.

Luxembourg dispatched a team of two Civil Protection volunteers to the area to install an emergency.lu rapid deployment kit in Koropara.