Yemen

Hudaydah port (file)
UNMHA

Questions and answers about the UN mission to the SAFER oil tanker in Yemen

30 December 2020
Peace and Security

1. What is the SAFER oil tanker?

SAFER is a Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) oil vessel moored off Yemen’s west coast, approximately 8 kilometers (4.8 nautical miles) South West of the Ras Isa peninsula on the West coast of Yemen, permanently anchored at the same location for more than 30 years without any dry-docking or shipyard repairs.

Aden International Airport in southern Yemen (file)
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

UN chief and Yemen Envoy condemn deadly Aden airport attack

30 December 2020
Peace and Security

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, and the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, have strongly condemned Wednesday’s deadly attack on Aden airport, which is reported to have resulted in the deaths of at least 26 people, and injured more than 50.

A seven-month-old child, in Yemen, has their upper arm measured to check for malnutrition. Ongoing conflict has triggered widespread food insecurity across the country, leaving thousands of children severely and acutely malnourished.
UNICEF/Motaz Fuad

Millions of children in crisis hotspots ‘on the brink of famine’, warns UNICEF

30 December 2020
Humanitarian Aid

More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday, warning that without urgent action, the numbers could rise further. 

An eighteen-month -baby, who has lost an eye due to disease, is treated at a hospital in Sana’a, Yemen.
© UNICEF/Areej Alghabri

Yemen: food insecurity a ‘ticking timebomb’, warn aid agencies

11 December 2020
Humanitarian Aid

UN humanitarians issued a fresh alert on Friday for war-torn Yemen, warning that time is running out to avoid famine in the country. Out of two million children who need treatment for acute malnutrition, 360,000 are at risk of dying if they do not receive medical care, the World Food Programme (WFP) said.

Young girls in the Al Dhale'e camp for people displaced by the conflict in Yemen.
YPN for UNOCHA

Yemen: Unchecked violations ‘may amount to war crimes’, Security Council hears

3 December 2020
Peace and Security

UN experts called on the Security Council on Thursday, along with the international community at large, to put an end to the “surreal and absurd dimension” of human rights violations engulfing war-torn Yemen, where abuses continue unchecked.  

 

A man holds his child at the Al-Dhale’e Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in Yemen.
YPN for UNOCHA

No time to waste, as Yemen inches towards famine: UN Children's Fund

23 November 2020
Humanitarian Aid

Raising alarm over “an imminent catastrophe” in war-ravaged Yemen, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reiterated the urgent need for combatants to stop the fighting. 

An internally displaced family living in an IDP settlement in Al-Dhale’e Governorate, Yemen.
YPN for UNOCHA

‘Act urgently’ to stave off catastrophic famine in Yemen: Guterres

20 November 2020
Humanitarian Aid

Yemen is in “imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades”, the UN chief warned in a statement released on Friday, calling for urgent action on the part of the international community to “stave off catastrophe”.

A mother visits a health centre in Yemen to seek treatment for her youngest daughter (red hat) who is suffering from malnutrition.
© WFP/Alaa Noman

Yemeni children suffer record rates of acute malnutrition, putting ‘entire generation’ at risk 

27 October 2020
Humanitarian Aid

Yemeni children are suffering acute malnutrition at unprecedented rates as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis grinds on and funding falls far short of what is needed to offset the effects of conflict and  economic collapse, UN agencies said in a statement on Tuesday.  

Tents and makeshift shelters at an IDP camp in Yemen. Years of conflict has left millions at crisis levels of hunger, with some facing starvation due to COVID.
UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

Yemen: Combatants ‘have to find strength’ to end fighting, says UN humanitarian official

18 October 2020
Humanitarian Aid

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. 

A family sits in the tent they live in at the Al Dhale'e Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in Yemen.
YPN for UNOCHA

An ‘airlift of hope’ in Yemen, UN envoy tells Security Council

15 October 2020
Peace and Security

An “airlift of hope” agreed by Yemen’s warring parties to return more than 1,000 detainees to their families has been welcomed by UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths, who has urged both sides to agree to further peace-building measures.