Following a coup d’état in Bamako, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) was activated on 5th April 2012 to provide vital security communications and internet connectivity services to the community responding to urgent humanitarian needs.
emergency.lu supported the cluster with one system deployed in Mopti. A second kit was on standby in Bamako.
After two years of operations, ETC functions were mainstreamed into normal operations of the humanitarian systems.
Over 226,559 Nigerians had been forced to flee their home country by the end of July 2018, seeking refuge in Chad, Cameroon and Niger. Chad currently hosts more than 10,300 Nigerian refugees. Building on the shared accomplishment of the Diffa connectivity project, UNHCR requested emergency.lu support for its operations in Baga-Sola.
In support of the Refugee Emergency Telecommunications Sector (RETS) led by UNHCR in Niger, the Governement of Luxembourg deployed one emergency.lu kit in Diffa, supporting UNHCR and its partners.
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