Yemen

Maghrabah district in Hajjah governorate in Yemen is one of 11 districts in the country with famine-like conditions.
© WFP/Mohammed Awadh

Millions in Yemen ‘a step away from starvation’

22 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid

The crisis in Yemen, now in its seventh year of war, continues unabated, with thousands of people displaced and millions “a step away from starvation”, the UN Humanitarian Relief Coordinator said on Wednesday during a high-level side event on the margins of the 76th General Assembly.

An elderly woman drags water back to her tent in a displacement camp in Abs, near the Saudi border in northern Yemen.
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

Yemen: As conflict drags on, ‘no quick wins’ – UN envoy

10 September 2021
Peace and Security

The complexities of the years-long war in Yemen “multiply as the conflict drags on”, the country’s new UN envoy told the Security Council on Friday, adding that he was “under no illusions about the difficulty of the task” at hand.

Migrants line up at the airport in Aden, Yemen, for a flight which will take them to Ethiopia.
IOM/Majed Mohammed

Yemen: UN agency helping stranded migrants to return home

7 September 2021
Migrants and Refugees

Amid intensifying conflict in Yemen, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping nearly 5,000 Ethiopian migrants stranded in the country to return home, the UN agency reported on Tuesday. 

Humanitarian needs in Yemen continue to grow in the conflict-ridden country.
© WFP/ Mohamemd Nasher

Shelter needs soar for displaced in Yemen’s Marib region

24 August 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Humanitarian needs, including a lack of shelter, are soaring among displaced communities, as fighting continues in Yemen’s Marib governorate, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday.

A seven-year-old girl watches as her mother make bread in Mokha, Yemen.
©WFP/Annabel Symington

Heavy rains and flooding push Yemenis to the brink

4 August 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Heavy rains and flooding in Yemen have affected at least 28,000 people, according to initial estimates released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Wednesday.

People in rural parts of Yemen are suffering from extreme hunger.
UNDP Yemen

Yemen: New World Bank funds offer lifeline to most vulnerable

29 July 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Three UN agencies on Thursday welcomed $127 million in new funding from the World Bank to provide lifesaving support to some of the country’s most hard hit rural families, struggling under the impact of multiple crises.
 

A family in the Al Dhale'e camp for people displaced by the conflict in Yemen.
UNOCHA/Mahmoud Fadel

Yemen ‘a tale of missed and then lost opportunities’, outgoing envoy tells Security Council

15 June 2021
Peace and Security

Yemen’s warring sides have been unable to overcome their differences, dashing hopes for peace, the UN Special Envoy for the country said on Tuesday in his final briefing to the Security Council in the role. 

Meeting at Hudaydah Port, Yemen. (file)
UN Photo

Yemen: Health, environment and economy remain under threat from stricken oil tanker 

3 June 2021
Peace and Security

There has been no further investigation into the state of the FSO Safer, a stricken tanker anchored just 4.8 nautical miles off the Yemen coast, meaning the risk of a massive oil leak continues to grow with each passing day, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Thursday.  

A three-year-old girl receives WFP food assistance at an IDP shelter in Taiz, Yemen.
© WFP/Annabel Symington

WFP scales up support in Yemen but fears response could be hampered

24 May 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Although the World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up support to people in Yemen’s worst hunger hotspots, in efforts to prevent famine, sustaining response through the rest of the year is uncertain, the UN agency warned on Monday.

Migrants who survived the capsizing of a smugglers boat in the Gulf of Aden were brought ashore in Obock in Djibouti.
© IOM/Olivia Headon

‘I am alive, but I feel like I am dead’: a migrant grieves the drowning of 3 children

9 May 2021
Migrants and Refugees

Misrah, an undocumented migrant worker, and her family, left their home in Ethiopia hoping for a better life. Instead, her three children are now dead, drowned during a perilous sea crossing across the Gulf of Aden, when the overloaded boat smuggling them into the country capsized.