Credit: CGDIS
Luxembourg's Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade and the Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (CGDIS) have reported that the Grand Duchy has sent two satellite communication systems to Mayotte.
In response to the damage caused by Cyclone Chido that hit Mayotte on 14 December 2024 and following a request from the French government through the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, Luxembourg has deployed two "emergency.lu" satellite communication systems to support humanitarian efforts on the archipelago.
The transport of the two devices to Paris, from where the French authorities will transport them to Mayotte, took place on the morning of Monday 30 December 2024 and was carried out by the CGDIS. The deployment of the two emergency.lu devices will be supervised by two French technicians who recently participated in a training course on humanitarian connectivity organised in and by Luxembourg.
The Luxembourg authorities recalled that emergency.lu is a mobile satellite telecommunications platform whose primary objective is to restore means of communication (internet, voice) after a disaster, to support the coordination efforts of humanitarian organisations on the ground and thus contribute to saving human lives in humanitarian emergency situations. It is a public-private partnership between the Luxembourg government and three Luxembourg companies (SES Telecom Services, Hitec Luxembourg and Luxembourg Air Ambulance SA). Luxembourg provides emergency.lu services as a free global public good to the humanitarian community. The same services are offered to the population and governments of the affected countries.
