Yemen

Two children, who recently returned home after they and their family fled fighting in 2017, look out over the Al Gamalia neighborhood of Taiz City.
Giles Clarke for UNOCHA

You can’t just walk in and start taking pictures: War photographer on Yemen crisis

12 March 2021
Interviews

War photo-journalist Giles Clarke speaks about his latest trip to Yemen, a country ravaged by six years of conflict. He based himself in an abandoned school, that’s home to hundreds of displaced people. 

The photographs he took and the stories he heard feature in a campaign to raise awareness about their plight. It’s called Inside Yemen, Portraits of Resilience, and it wasn’t easy, as he explained in this UN News interview. 

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World Food Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley visits Al-Sabeen Maternity and Children Hospital in Yemen.
WFP/Mohammed Awadh

‘Hell’ in Yemen, with millions ‘knocking on the door of famine’ WFP’s Beasley warns 

10 March 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Over half the Yemen population is facing acute food shortages “with millions knocking on the door of famine”, the UN food relief agency chief said on Wednesday, wrapping up a two-day visit to the country with an urgent plea for peace and funding to help feed vulnerable families.

Sultan, 2 years old received treatment from WFP for malnutrition in Sana's City, Yemen. He is no longer malnourished.
WFP/Mohammed Awadh

News in Brief 10 March 2021

10 March 2021
News in Brief
  • World Food Programme chief issues urgent plea for peace in Yemen’s ‘hell’ 
  • ‘Global Champions’ call for urgent action on clean energy for all, by 2030 
  • COVID contributed to ‘starvation’, executions in DPR Korea, Rights Council hears 
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The IPNA immigrant holding facility in Sana'a, Yemen has suffered from overcrowding. (file)
United Nations

Yemen: UN migration agency calls for urgent humanitarian access after ‘horrific’ fire  

8 March 2021
Migrants and Refugees

The UN migration agency (IOM) on Monday called for “urgent humanitarian access” to an overcrowded migrant detention centre in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, where a deadly fire reportedly led to multiple deaths at the facility at the weekend. 

Women and girls in Timor-Leste.
UNRCT/RCO Timor-Leste

News in Brief 8 March 2021

8 March 2021
News in Brief
  • Shift mindsets that deny equality for women in all walks of life, urges UN chief 
  • Blaze kills migrants, guards in Yemeni capital Sana’a  
  • 10 million additional girls at risk of child marriage because of to COVID-19 
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Migrants rescued from a vessel off the coast of Djibouti are accommodated at a rescue centre. (file)
IOM/Alexander Bee

20 die after human traffickers force migrants into sea en route to Yemen

4 March 2021
Migrants and Refugees

At least 20 people have drowned after smugglers threw dozens of migrants overboard as they sailed from Djibouti to Yemen, UN migration agency IOM said on Thursday.

Displaced from the city of Taiz, a family lives in a tent in Al Turah, Yemen. (file)
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

Yemen pledging conference: Severity of suffering ‘impossible to overstate’ says Guterres 

1 March 2021
Humanitarian Aid

The international response to Monday’s High-Level Pledging Event on Yemen has been described as “disappointing” by the UN chief, announcing that pledges totalled less than last year’s humanitarian response, and a billion dollars less than the figure raised in 2019.  

 

Two young girls who have been displaced due to conflict are now living in a UNHCR-supported settlement in the outskirts of Aden, Yemen.
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

News in Brief 1 March 2021

1 March 2021
News in Brief
  • Time running out to help 16 million Yemenis avoid disaster: Guterres 
  • Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana begin COVID-19 vaccinations for key healthcare workers 
  • Fate still unclear of ‘tens of thousands’ of civilian detainees in Syria 
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A woman, carrying her child who suffers from severe malnutrition and health complications, walks to a health centre in Hudaydah governorate, Yemen.
UNICEF/Taha Almahbashi

Yemen: UN ceasefire monitoring mission condemns attack on civilians in Hudaydah

1 March 2021
Humanitarian Aid

The United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA), on Sunday, strongly condemned an attack in Yemen that killed five civilians, including a woman and child. 

Some displaced people in Yemen have become scapegoats for the COVID-19 pandemic.
© UNHCR/Jean-Nicolas Beuze

First Person: Yemen ‘cannot even afford to worry about the coronavirus’

28 February 2021
Humanitarian Aid

In Yemen, whose people are living through a long-running, brutal war, which has led to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, COVID-19 is far from being a top priority, says the top UN refugee agency (UNHCR) official in the Arabian Peninsula country.