Yemen

A woman and children wait as UNICEF-supported emergency humanitarian supplies are distributed in Hudaydah, Yemen, in June 2018.
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Yemen: Attacks on water facilities, civilian infrastructure, breach ‘basic laws of war’ says UNICEF

1 August 2018
Peace and Security

Ongoing violence and attacks on civilian infrastructure in Hudaydah directly threaten hundreds of thousands of children and their families in Yemen, according to the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in a statement released on Wednesday

The port in the city of Hudaydah is a major lifeline for Yemen, bringing in food and humanitarian assistance. These cranes have been out of service since mid-2015, with little hope of repair anytime soon. (file)
OCHA/Giles Clarke

UN agency warns conditions around Yemen’s key port city of Hudaydah still ‘very bad’, as staff rush to deliver aid

20 July 2018
Humanitarian Aid

United Nations migration agency staff in Yemen say the key port city of Hudaydah remains “a difficult environment” for the delivery of aid to thousands of people displaced by heavy fighting this week.

A suspected cholera patient lies on a wooden bed in a hospital in Hodeida. 15 April 2017.
UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

Health conditions for citizens of Yemen’s key port city ‘remain critical’ says UN agency

10 July 2018
Peace and Security

Even before the escalation of conflict in Hudaydah, conditions in Yemen’s port city were some of “the most dire in the country,” according to the United Nations health agency on Tuesday.

A suspected cholera patient lies on a wooden bed in a hospital in Hodeida. 15 April 2017.
UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

UN Envoy ‘confident’ deal can be reached to avert further violence around key Yemeni port city

21 June 2018
Peace and Security

The United Nations envoy for Yemen expressed confidence on Thursday that a solution can be found to prevent further violence in and around the port city of Hodeida.

Cars and trucks wait in line to pass over a bridge that was hit by an airstrike in 2016. This road is one of four roads linking Hodeida (Al Hudayda) with the rest of the country.
UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

UN rushes to deliver aid as key Yemeni port city is ‘shelled and bombarded’

14 June 2018
Peace and Security

As the Yemeni port city of Hodeida continues to come under attack from Saudi-led coalition forces on Thursday, seeking to drive out Houthi rebels who control the city, the United Nations and humanitarian partners are rushing to provide life-saving assistance to thousands of vulnerable families there.

The port in the city of Hudaydah is a major lifeline for Yemen, bringing in food and humanitarian assistance. These cranes have been out of service since mid-2015, with little hope of repair anytime soon. (file)
OCHA/Giles Clarke

Assault on key Yemeni port would endanger 300,000 children and ‘choke off’ aid for millions more: UNICEF chief

12 June 2018
Humanitarian Aid

Any attack on the key Yemeni port of Hodeida would deepen one of the world’s worst malnutrition crises and put the lives of an estimated 300,000 children at risk, said the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday.

A man and his sons travel to collect water underneath the Hajjah Road Bridge, in Hodeidah, Yemen, which was damaged in an airstrike in mid-2016. (file)
OCHA/Giles Clarke

250,000 people ‘may lose everything - even their lives’ in assault on key Yemeni port city: UN humanitarian coordinator

8 June 2018
Humanitarian Aid

Any attack on the key port city of Hodeidah in Yemen “will impact hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians” and would entail around 250,000 civilians losing everything - “even their lives” - the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the war-torn country said on Friday.

A suspected cholera patient is rushed into Al Joumhouri Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen.
Giles Clarke for UNOCHA

Deadly combination of cholera, hunger and conflict pushes Yemen to 'edge of a cliff' – senior UN official

1 August 2017
Humanitarian Aid

Describing the situation in Yemen as “very bleak,” with “no end in sight,” a senior United Nations official envoy today said the war-torn country, already reeling from malnutrition and dwindling health care, is plummeting into further distress amid a deadly cholera outbreak and looming famine.

UNICEF UK Ambassador Eddie Izzard with Jawaher and her brother Ziad, at Caritas Educaction Centre, in Obock, Djibouti.
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In Djibouti, UNICEF Ambassador Eddie Izzard visits Yemeni children refugees fleeing war

16 July 2015
Humanitarian Aid

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) United Kingdom Ambassador Eddie Izzard has met child refugees in Djibouti who have fled the devastating war in Yemen, the country of the comedian's birth.