His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai, has approved an emergency aid flight to support UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, who are assisting the victims of the devastating floods which have impacted various regions of Sudan and South Sudan. The aid flight, an Emirates Sky Cargo B777F, carrying approximately 100 metric tons of core relief items,...
From its global stockpile in the International Humanitarian City in Dubai, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) sent a shipment of aid to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, following recent floods that struck a camp housing more than a million Rohingya refugees. The air flight which left Dubai International airport in the early hours of this morning to Bangladesh...
Dubai’s International Humanitarian City air-bridge continued today by airlifting additional aid to assist the Lebanese population. Two Emirates SkyCargo aircrafts, chartered by IHC, left Dubai International airport today, the first 07:30am and second 03:00pm Dubai time, carrying approx. 30 metric tons of aid, with approximately 12 tons of medical supplies from the World Health Organisation (WHO), and 18Mt of hygiene kits...
Dubai’s International Humanitarian City today airlifted more aid to help emergency relief efforts in Beirut, with the approval of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. An Emirates SkyCargo plane left Dubai carrying 24.88 metric tons of medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE), including surgical masks, goggles,...
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has ordered an emergency aid flight to be sent to Beirut following yesterday’s deadly blast. A 747 jumbo jet will take off from Dubai today carrying approximately 30 tons of aid relief, including trauma kits, surgical supplies and personal protection equipment...
Thanks to the support of the United Arab Emirates, the World Food Programme (WFP) airlifted life-saving, high energy biscuits from its Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in the International Humanitarian City in Dubai to Bangui in Central African Republic (CAR). With a cargo of more than 52 metric tons of the nutritious high energy biscuits the plane facilitated by H.H Sheikh...
Dubai, UAE: The Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, has marked World Refugee Day by chartering a cargo plane to deliver urgent humanitarian aid to Burkina Faso in support of the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Destined for Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, the plane left this morning Dubai International Airport with around 100 tons of aid,...
Flight carries over 35 tons of life saving equipment and relief items from WHO and UNHCR. Government of Dubai Media Office – 12 May 2020: Dubai, UAE: Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has ordered an aid flight to support the delivery of ventilators and other critical...
A cargo of medical supplies in response to COVID-19, prepositioned within IHC by the World Health Organization, left Abu Dhabi airport for Ethiopia from where it will be distributed into 31 African Countries. WHO cargo valued over US$ 500,000 has been transported thanks to the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation generosity. ...
WHO, in collaboration with the IHC and Government of the UAE dispatched 7.5 tons of medical equipment and supplies via an emergency air charter. The WHO medical supplies include 200,000 surgical masks, 200,000 gloves, 70,000 N95 respirators and enough screening test kits to detect 100,000 cases. These infection prevention and control materials are intended to support health care workers and...
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