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 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...

Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 hurricane, struck Haiti on 4 October 2016, causing hundreds of deaths, widespread damage, flooding, and displacement. The hurricane resulted in the largest humanitarian crisis in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Among the 2.1 million people who were affected, nearly...

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.

 

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...

emergency.lu provided vital connectivity services following the disastrous earthquake in Nepal that damaged the country’s telecommunications infrastructure in the most severely affected region, between Katmandu and Pokhara.

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake, which hit on 25 April 2015,...

Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu on 14 March 2015 with winds of up to 250 kilometers per hour and gusts up to 350 kilometers per hour, causing widespread devastation across the country.

At the request of the Government, the ETC responded to Cyclone Pam with services and...

During the West Africa Ebola outbreak 2014/2015, ermergency.lu provided internet connectivity in the two IHP camps in Port Loko and Moymaba.

On 23 March 2014, Guinea’s Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of a rapidly evolving outbreak of Ebola Virus...