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Hunger; insecurity; displacement; remoteness; natural disasters; disease – the challenges that face the people of South Sudan are immense. And, after almost half a century of civil war, even the most basic infrastructure to assist expanding humanitarian operations is virtually non-existent...
Plagued by violence, political instability and famine, the exodus of South Sudanese refugees into neighbouring countries continues at an alarming rate.
“You northern hemisphere guys get so excited about stars. At home we get this every night,” says Ryan Twittey, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) Coordinator for the Cyclone Idai response in Mozambique in his usual say-it-like-it-is way.
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Jointly managed by Start and CDAC Networks, the DEPP Innovation Labs is a two-year £10 million programme, funded by UK Aid, which will set up a network of labs to identify and suppor
In May 2025, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) in the Pacific, led by the World Food Programme (WFP), kicked off a series of intensive, week-long training sessions to strengthen national disaster response capabilities across the region.
The ETC is supporting the telecommunications response to the conflict in Gaza which broke out on 07 October 2023.
Sudan’s communications infrastructure has been heavily impacted since the outbreak of conflict on 15 April 2023, as a result of direct damage to telecommunications towers, electricity outages and fuel shortages, and severe congestion in areas where internally displaced people are gath
Since the outbreak of conflict on 15 April 2023, Sudan’s communications infrastructure has been heavily impacted.
Local capacity building is a priority area for the ETC heading into 2019 as the situation in Yemen becomes more complex.
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) was formally activated in January 2013 to provide common telecommunication services to the humanitarian community responding to the crisis in Syria and surrounding countries.
Since the fall of the Government in Damascus on 08 December 2024, clashes have been reported in Menbij (Aleppo Governorate) and Deir-ez-Zor, with less fighting reported in other areas.
- The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) delivered two sessions of Let’s Comm training in October 2016 to 28 inter-agency participants in Damascus.
- Approval from local authorities was granted to import Information Technology (IT) and telecommunications equipment into Syria.
Highlights
- The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) delivered a Let’s Comm Digital training on deployment Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) in Dubai in December 2016 to 12 inter-agency participants from Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Algeria and Sudan.
- The ETC team installed a radio r