Yemen

A displaced woman stands in the doorway of her shelter with her young children in Ibb city, Yemen.
IOM/Olivia Headon

COVID-19 scapegoating triggers fresh displacement in Yemen, warns migration agency

21 July 2020
Migrants and Refugees

COVID-19 fears have prompted fresh displacement in war-torn Yemen, and forced many of those on the move to sell what little they have to survive, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.

(File photo) UN teams from the UNMHA mission in the crucial Yemeni port city of Hudaydah, close to where the stricken oil tanker FSO Safer, lies offshore, threatening an environmental disaster.
UNMHA

Yemen oil tanker wreck: Time running out to avert ‘looming environmental, economic and humanitarian catastrophe’

15 July 2020
Peace and Security

Time is fast running out for getting a UN team of experts aboard the Yemeni oil storage vessel Safer, before it spills its cargo of 1.148 million barrels of light crude oil into the Red Sea, triggering what would likely be a massive environmental and economic catastrophe, the Security Council heard on Wednesday.

IDP Women in Hodydah
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INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: Concerns and hopes of Yemenis at heart of UN plans for better future

15 July 2020
Peace and Security

In a wide-ranging interview for UN News on Wednesday, Martin Griffiths, the UN’s Special Envoy in Yemen, addresses the protracted peace process in the country, and the enormous challenges that still need to be overcome.

Migrants sleep in an abandoned, half-constructed building in Aden city, Yemen.
IOM/R. Ibrahim

In Yemen, thousands of Ethiopian migrants stranded, COVID-19 likely widespread

14 July 2020
Peace and Security

Tens of thousands of Ethiopian migrants have been stranded in war-ravaged Yemen where they continue to be subjected to arbitrary detention and exposure to COVID-19 infection, forcible relocation and abuse, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.

Rania and her eldest daughter, Amani, stand in the entrance to their home in a camp for internally displaced people in Lahj, Yemen.
WFP/Mohammed Awadh

Waiting to declare famine ‘will be too late for Yemenis on brink of starvation’

10 July 2020
Humanitarian Aid

In Yemen, fears of famine have resurfaced as UN humanitarians also warned on Friday that 360,000 severely malnourished children could die unless they continue to get treatment and aid is stepped up. In an urgent appeal for funding, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that it needs $200 million per month to maintain assistance in the war-torn country.

Jabra is seven years old, she lives in Sana, Yemen. She is learning the correct way to wash her hands and how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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Yemen: millions of children facing deadly hunger, amidst aid shortages and COVID-19

26 June 2020
Humanitarian Aid

Millions of children in the heart of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster could be pushed to the brink of starvation, due to huge shortfalls in humanitarian aid funding amid the coronavirus pandemic, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. 

A displaced family in Marib, Yemen, carries a winter aid package back to their shelter.
IOM

Yemen: ‘Hanging on by a thread’, UN chief requests funding to meet staggering humanitarian crisis

2 June 2020
Humanitarian Aid

More than five years of conflict have left Yemenis “hanging on by a thread, their economy in tatters” and their institutions “facing near-collapse”, the UN chief told a virtual pledging conference on Tuesday, calling for a demonstration of solidarity with some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. 

Millions of Yemeni are reliant on humanitarian aid to survive, like this woman in Abs in northern Yemen.
UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

FROM THE FIELD: COVID-19-related ‘tragedy’ unfolding in Yemen

2 June 2020
Humanitarian Aid

A “tragedy” fueled by the spread of COVID-19 which is unfolding in Yemen could affect millions of people there, an international UN-backed pledging conference is expected to hear on Tuesday.

A family from Amran Governorate in Yemen shares lunch (file)
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Yemen aid lifeline near ‘breaking point’: UN food agency

26 May 2020
Humanitarian Aid

Humanitarian aid projects to war-torn Yemen are reaching breaking point, and some $870 million is needed to continue giving life-saving assistance to millions of vulnerable people for the next six months, the World Food Programme (WFP), warned on Tuesday.

In the Omar Bin Yasser camp in Aden families are in short supply of soap, they have to line up for clean water and schools are closed. To compound the threat of COVID-19 they are now dealing with flooding and an increased risk of cholera.
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'Significant progress' made towards lasting ceasefire in Yemen, UN Special Envoy tells Security Council

14 May 2020
Peace and Security

UN Special Envoy for war-weary Yemen, Martin Griffiths, told the Security Council on Thursday, that he had been in intensive negotiations with the warring parties in Yemen over a lasting peace deal, with "significant progress" made, especially towards making the UN's call for a complete silencing of the guns, a reality.