Yemen

Displaced women prepare food at an informal camp in Bagoundié, Mali.
© UNOCHA/Michele Cattani

FROM THE FIELD: Humanitarian crises of concern in 2021

27 February 2021
Humanitarian Aid

The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated much of the world’s attention over the last 12 months, but many other crises will continue to require the urgent attention of the UN and the international community in 2021.

Years of conflict in Yemen has had a unique impact on women and girls, exacerbating pre-existing vulnerabilities and adding new challenges.
UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

In Yemen’s man-made catastrophe, women and girls pay the price

26 February 2021
Women

Midwife Lena Al-Shurmani, remembers meeting Abia at Al Mawa Camp in Yemen’s Ibb Governorate. Abia was 15 years old and eight months pregnant. “I was very worried,” Ms. Al-Shurmani recalled. “She had a prolapsed uterus, and she was severely malnourished.” 

An internally displaced family living in an IDP site in Al-Dhale’e Governorate, Yemen.
YPN for UNOCHA

FROM THE FIELD: Millions of Yemenis facing ‘death sentence’

25 February 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and the situation for the millions of affected people is deteriorating, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

A father stands with his children outside their tent in a displacement site outside Marib City, Yemen (file photo).
IOM/Olivia Headon

Yemen: UN rights office calls for de-escalation in Marib governorate

19 February 2021
Human Rights

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, appealed on Friday for a de-escalation in hostilities in Marib Governorate in northern Yemen as Houthi forces, also known as Ansar Allah, attempt to seize the area from Government control. 

A two-month-old baby suffering from servere malnutrition is weighed and measured by a nurse in a hospital in Aden, Yemen.
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

Five million Yemenis ‘one step away from famine’– UN relief coordinator tells Security Council

18 February 2021
Peace and Security

Malnutrition rates in Yemen are at “record highs” as the country is “speeding towards the worst famine the world has seen in decades”, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Thursday, citing newly released data. 

Children gather under the house they have fled to after being displaced due to the war and conflict.
© UNICEF

News in Brief 12 February 2021

12 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Human Rights Council hears call for immediate release of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi 
  • Constellation’ of post-COVID symptoms will impact global healthcare, says WHO 
  • Starvation risk for Yemen’s children threatens 400,000 without urgent treatment: UN agencies 
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A three-month-old baby is treated for severe acute malnutrition at the UNICEF-suppported Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen.
© UNICEF/Ahmed Haleem

Yemen: ‘Toxic mix’ imperils lives of under-fives with acute malnutrition 

12 February 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Since the escalation of conflict in 2015, severe acute malnutrition is among its highest levels in Yemen, threating the lives of half of the country’s children under the age of five, four UN agencies warned on Friday.

An internally displaced child plays at an IDP settlement in Al-Dhale’e governorate, southern Yemen.
OCHA/Mahmoud Fadel

US decision will provide ‘profound relief’ to millions in war-torn Yemen: UN spokesperson

7 February 2021
Peace and Security

The US announcement revoking the previous administration's terrorist designation of Yemen’s Houthi movement, formally known as Ansar Allah, will provide “profound relief” to millions in the country, who depend on international assistance and imports for their survival, the UN Spokesperson said on Saturday. 

A local man stands next to a missile casing in a former government building in Saada City, Yemen. (file)
UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

UN welcomes US decision to ‘strengthen its diplomatic engagement’ towards Yemen peace deal 

5 February 2021
Peace and Security

The UN on Friday told journalists that it welcomed the decision by the United States “to strengthen it’s diplomatic engagement” and support efforts led by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, to ends years of conflict there. 

A gas station in the outskirts of Aden destroyed by airstrikes. (file)
OCHA/Giles Clarke

The decision to designate the Houthis (Ansar Allah) a foreign terrorist organization, and how it’s impacting the United Nations

2 February 2021
Peace and Security

On 10 January, the former United States Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, announced the designation of the Houthis (Ansar Allah) as a foreign terrorist organization and a specially designated global terrorist entity. The designation entered into effect on 19 January.