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SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS • Prevent hunger and famine: as millions of Yemenis are pushed to the brink of famine, parties to the conflict must refrain from using hunger as a weapon of war, and instead...

Number of War-Wounded Patients Received Increases in Panjshir In the last 24 hours, the number of wounded people arriving at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul has stabilised. The...

ALBERTO ZANIN, MEDICAL COORDINATOR: “WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE ROOM FOR MORE BEDS.” There are currently 115 patients hospitalised at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul. “Normally, the...

After conducting a rescue mission on Saturday and spending Sunday assessing the area, the Open Arms vessel, with EMERGENCY personnel on board, has just completed another rescue operation of two other...

Kabul was hit by heavy attacks this morning with approximately 23 missiles landing in the city. “It all happened very quickly: there was a rocket attack at just before 9am. Four or five landed near...

The fighting that has erupted as a result of an attempted advance by the Taliban in Helmand province continues. "We are on the sixth consecutive night of attacks and our Surgical Centre for War...

‘The Pact on Migration and Asylum has disappointed our hopes for a sharp change in direction by the European Commission. Migrants’ right are the last thing this document is worried about, and it...

An explosion hit the Sher Shah Suri mosque in the west of Kabul today during Friday prayers. “The bomb resulted in four deaths, including the mosque’s Imam. EMERGENCY’s Kabul Surgical Centre for War...

After 18 years, EMERGENCY’s work at the Paediatric Centre in Goderich is drawing to an end. On 29 February 2020, EMERGENCY will end its paediatric work at the centre. Opened in 2002 to provide free...

EMERGENCY’s programme – SAFOES, Health, Training and Health Promotion for the most vulnerable people in Sierra Leone – financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), was created...

2019 is the 41st year of war in Afghanistan. The country has been devastated by a never-ending conflict that has caused huge damage, left hundreds of thousands of casualties, and created an even...

Since 2016 in Khartoum, Mayo Area, EMERGENCY has promoted a three-year programme entitled ‘Health and Nutrition for the vulnerable population in Mayo: an integrated multi-sectoral project’, where...

Gul Ahmad and Musa Khan, two colleagues at EMERGENCY’s First Aid Post in Andar, an easterly district in the province of Ghazni, were killed on Sunday. Gul Ahmad, the supervisor of the First Aid Post,...

On 4 November 2018 in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of EMERGENCY’s Maternity Hospital in Panjshir, Anabah, an outbreak of an unknown and as yet not determined origin was registered. Twelve...

The death toll of this morning’s suicide bombing in Kabul amounts to at least 26, according to the Afghan Ministry of the Interior. Yesterday, on 20 March, was ‘Nowruz’, the Persian New Year; today,...

Kabul. An explosion near the government’s former Ministry of the Interior building caused more deaths in the Afghan capital just a few days after the attack at the Intercontinental Hotel. 78 wounded...

Kabul car bombing: 69 injured hospitalised at the EMERGENCY Surgery Hospital. This morning, at 8:30 am, Kabul was hit by yet another attack: a car bomb explosion, at a time when the streets were very...

As the conflict in Mosul, Iraq, intensifies and the humanitarian crisis worsens, EMERGENCY has started working since January 15 on the Emergency Hospital, in cooperation with Iraqi Kurdistan's Health...

6th June 2016 A joint operation by EMERGENCY NGO, humanitarian organisation which provides medical care, and Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) is leaving Malta today aboard the Topaz Responder, a...