The UN Special Envoy for Yemen, on Monday welcomed the resumption of commercial flights from the capital city's main airport after six years, as a potential game changer for citizens needing lifesaving medical treatment.
Hans Grundberg noted that (...)
The UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg arrived in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on Monday to boost the UN-brokered truce.
Grundberg is set to meet Houthi leaders to urge implementation of the remaining items of the truce.
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The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said on Tuesday that a recent military escalation in the country is "among the worst" in years and increasingly putting civilians in crosshairs.
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War-torn Yemen is among the poorest countries in the world, but recovery is possible if the conflict ends now, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report published on Tuesday.
Yemen has been mired in seven years of fighting between a (...)
A Houthi ballistic missile attack on the Yemeni province of Marib has killed and injured 29 civilians, including women and children, according to the country's information minister.
In a tweet on Monday, Muammar al-Iryani said two ballistic missiles (...)
Seven years into a brutal conflict, Yemen is heavily dependent on humanitarian assistance, but the UN is intent on avoiding a repeat of the worst periods of famine and malnutrition its citizens have suffered.
On a recent visit to UN headquarters in (...)
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is increasing the level of food assistance in Yemen's worst hunger hotspots in an effort to prevent a devastating famine. But the agency's ability to sustain the response to the end of the year remains (...)
The UN's top official in Yemen has warned of a "dramatic" deterioration in the country's ongoing conflict, telling the Security Council on Tuesday that fighting has expanded on several fronts amid the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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Parties to the conflict in Yemen must do more to protect civilians, a senior UN humanitarian official there has said, as the number of civilian deaths has witnessed a sharp rise over the last few weeks in the war-ravaged country.
"Innocent Yemenis (...)
Eleven Yemeni government troops, including a senior officer, were killed in a Houthi militia missile attack and clashes to the northeast and east of Sanaa, military and medical sources said Monday.
Gen. Mohammed Ali-Roqn, commander of the army's 122 (...)
Houses in the UNESCO-listed old city of Sanaa are collapsing under heavy rains, as months of floods and storms assail a country already reeling from war, food shortages and disease.
The distinctive brown and white mud brick houses of Sanaa's (...)
Aircraft carrying a total of 43 tons of laboratory supplies, ventilators, test kits, PCR machines and vital PPE to fight COVID-19 have arrived in Yemen, thanks to a donation to the World Health Organization (WHO) facilitated by Hayel Saeed Anam (...)
A plane chartered by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) landed at Sanaa airport on Saturday with lifesaving supplies to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in conflict-torn Yemen.
The agency said that the supplies include a range of medical assistance (...)
Yemen's internationally recognized government said the decision by the Southern Transitional Council in Yemen to establish self-rule in the regions under their control would have "catastrophic consequences" for a November peace deal.
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A court run by Yemen's Houthi militia on Saturday sentenced four journalists to death on for "treason" and espionage, a judicial official said.
The court in Houthi-held capital Sanaa "sentenced four journalists to death on charges of treason and (...)
The emergency nutrition clinics of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), continued to provide treatment services in Al-Khaniq Camp in partnership with Taybah Foundation for Development.
During the period of Jan. 1-8, 2020, all (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 1,500 cartons of frozen meat to 6,000 families, in Sanaa Governorate, Yemen.
This comes within the framework of the aid provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by (...)
Mobile nutrition clinics of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) continued to provide treatment services, in Sanaa Governorate, Yemen, in partnership with Tiba Development Foundation from 17 to 23 October 2019.
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Iranian experts and other Houthi militants were killed during a failed attempt to launch a ballistic missile from areas under its grip in the capital Sanaa.
The failed attempt took place Monday in Al-Daylami air base north of Sana'a.
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The Iranian-backed Houthi militias blocked a UN plane from delivering half a million doses of cholera vaccine in the summer of 2017 resulting in an outbreak of more than 1 million suspected cholera cases, Associated Press quoted officials as (...)
Food aid in a warehouse on the frontlines of the Yemen war is at risk of rotting, the UN said Monday, leaving millions of Yemenis without access to life-saving sustenance.
The Red Sea Mills silos, located in the western port city of Hodeida, are (...)
Conjoined twin boys born in Yemen are in urgent need of treatment abroad, but are unable to leave because the war there has closed the capital city's airport.
Doctors treating two-week-old Abd Al-Khaleq and Abd Al-Rahim said Yemen's war-ravaged (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) provided yesterday 40 electric powered wheelchairs for amputees and people with disabilities in Sanaa.
Governor of Sana'a, Major General Abdul Qawi Sharif, praised this humanitarian gesture, (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) distributed yesterday 890 food baskets for displaced people in Al-Khaniq Camp in Nihm Directorate, Yemen, with coordination with the Yemeni Legitimate Government.
This distribution comes (...)
Human Rights Watch said today that Houthi militias in Yemen violated the laws of war by launching ballistic missiles indiscriminately at populated areas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
"The Houthis should immediately stop their indiscriminate (...)
