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.
Andre Houllard
Till Kodar
From December 2012 until February 2015, one emergency.lu regular kit was deployed in Guasdualito, Venezuela. The system was providing internet connectivity to a UNHCR field office.
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) was activated in December 2013 in response to the escalating crisis. The recent escalation of violence in CAR in late 2018Â has brought the country towards the brink of a new, large-scale humanitarian crisis, increasing the protection risks in multiple new hotspots across the country.
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