Yemen

In many areas of Yemen, devastated by conflict, ongoing insecurity hampers WFP’s efforts to get food to the people in need.
WFP/Ammar Bamatraf

Yemen: UN agency appeals to all sides to allow food in for hundreds of thousands under siege

31 December 2015
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed to all parties to the conflict in Yemen to allow food in for hundreds of thousands of hungry people under siege in the central city of Taiz, who have been deprived of supplies for many weeks.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered more than 100 tonnes of medicines and medical supplies for more than one million beneficiaries in eight districts of Taiz governorate, Yemen.
WHO Yemen

UN delivers medicine for 1.2 million people in war-ravaged central Yemen

28 December 2015
The United Nations health agency has delivered more than 100 tonnes of medicines and supplies for 1.2 million people in strife-torn Yemen’s central Taiz governorate, where over 3 million people, almost 400,000 of them internally displaced, are in dire need of humanitarian aid.
Homes in Yemen destroyed by coalition airstrikes.
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Yemen: Security Council deeply concerned by cessation of hostilities’ violations

23 December 2015
The Security Council today expressed “deep concern” over the number of violations of Yemen’s cessation of hostilities agreement and urged all parties to adhere to the accord and exercise maximum restraint following the adjournment of peace talks until January 2016.
Yemenis in Sana’a search for survivors after a bombing by the Saudi-Arabia led coalition.
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With parties ‘deeply divided over path to peace,’ Yemen faces Balkanization, Security Council warned

22 December 2015
The Security Council must act now to end the fighting in Yemen or face the irreversible Balkanization of the country, creating safe havens for terrorists and potentially shattering regional stability, the United Nations human rights chief warned today.
A displaced mother in Sana’a, Yemen, gets her newborn child vaccinated.
WHO Yemen

Amid dire humanitarian situation, some 2.5 million now internally displaced in Yemen – UN

21 December 2015
The situation in Yemen has substantially deteriorated since the conflict broke out in early 2015, with a nine per cent increase in the internally displaced persons (IDPs), which have reached 2.5 million, according to a recent United Nations-backed report on the issue.
Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheik Ahmed.
UN Photo/Elma Ocik

Yemen: UN envoy adjourns peace talks till January pending enforcement of a proper ceasefire

20 December 2015
In the face of numerous violations of the cessation of hostilities in Yemen, the Special United Nations Envoy today decided to adjourn peace talks in Switzerland for a month to allow for bi-lateral in-country and regional consultations to achieve a ceasefire.
In some parts of Yemen, the conflict has crippled the health system, making the delivery of services and supplies extremely challenging.
WHO Yemen

Yemen: UN-sponsored talks continue amid ‘alarming’ reports of ceasefire violations

18 December 2015
As United Nations-sponsored consultations on Yemen continued today, the UN envoy facilitating the talks expressed deep concern at numerous reports of violations of the three-day-old ceasefire and urged the parties to respect that agreement and allow access to the country’s most-affected districts.
Yemeni internally displaced persons (IDPs) line up to receive WFP food assistance.
WFP/Ammar Bamatraf

Yemen: parties at UN-facilitated talks agree on delivery of humanitarian aid in Taiz

17 December 2015
On the third day of the United Nations-sponsored negotiations on ending the crisis in Yemen, the participants, meeting in Switzerland, have reached an agreement which allows for a full and immediate resumption of humanitarian assistance to the central city of Taiz.
Funding is urgently needed as the Yemeni health system has collapsed, leaving millions of vulnerable people without the care and medications they urgently require.
WHO Yemen

Urgent support needed to provide health services for 15 million people in Yemen – UN

16 December 2015
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners today appealed for $31 million to ensure the continuity of medical services for nearly 15 million people in Yemen affected by the ongoing conflict, following the collapse of the country’s health system.
Yemen peace talks get underway in Switzerland.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Yemen: UN-sponsored peace talks kick off as ceasefire goes into effect

15 December 2015
After months of relentless violence in Yemen, consultations facilitated by the United Nations began today in Switzerland aimed at finding a durable settlement to the crisis, including establishing a permanent ceasefire, securing improvements to the humanitarian situation and a returning to a peaceful and orderly political transition.