Yemen

The United Nations said that mines and other unexploded ordnance have caused 159 casualties, including martyrs or wounded, during the past six months in the city of Hodeidah, Yemen. The director of the United Nations Mine Action Service, Eileen Cohen,…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that since seven months, 15 children have died and 1,400 others have been infected with measles in Yemen. The organization said in a report, “15 children died of measles in Yemen during the…

The Executive Center for Mine Action in Sana’a on Wednesday announced the registration of 49 civilian casualties, including dead and wounded, as a result of mines, cluster bombs and remnants of war in seven provinces during November, 2022. The center…

The number of internally displaced persons in Yemen has increased to more than 5 million by the end of August 2022, amid an ongoing devastating Saudi war and worsening humanitarian conditions in the war-hit Arab country. The Yemeni Supreme Council…

Displacement is an inevitable and tragic consequence of any conflict, and it entails many threats, outbreaks of epidemics, lack of proper food and safe water, not to mention exposing people to dangers and depriving them of their homes and, in…

Human rights organizations and observers confirmed that large numbers of Yemenis are victims of unlicensed or expired medicines and counterfeit items circulating in the market. The Yemeni Ministry of Health indicated in a later statement that “(29 cases) received a…

The International Committee of the Red Cross revealed that 19 million Yemenis have lost food security, and that Yemen urgently needs to achieve economic recovery. The director of the committee’s operations, Martin Schweib, who is visiting Yemen, said, “A full…

The United Nations stressed that peace is the only option to end the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, which has been witnessing an eight-year war. “Today is United Nations Day, agencies and partners are doing their utmost to help the millions…

Local Yemeni media reported the death of 18 children on separate days after they were provided with expired medicine at the end of last September in the “Cancer Treatment Unit” at Kuwait Hospital, while the rest of the children were…

A recent report prepared by the ‘Famine Early Warning Network’ for the World Food Program showed that half of Yemen’s population earns a primary income from irregular sources, including daily wage labour. The report indicated that, on average, the worker…