Yemen War

UN assistance for Yemen children 'at risk' due to funding shortfall

UNICEF says it needs $484 million in funding to be able to continue its work in the war-torn Arab country, adding one child in Yemen dies every 10 minutes from "preventable causes."

Donors pledge nearly $1.2B to help millions of people in war-torn Yemen: UN

The United Nations had appealed for $4.3 billion to deliver aid this year to 21.7 million people going hungry in the war-ravaged country — and urged warring parties to turn a fragile truce into lasting peace.

UN: Truce in Yemen renewed for two months

Both sides of the conflict also agreed to try to arrive at a “an expanded truce agreement as soon as possible.”

WFP further cuts food rations in war-torn Yemen

The United Nations World Food Programme said that resilience and livelihood activities and school feeding and nutrition programmes will cease for 4 million people due to funding gap and inflation.

Yemen's Houthis announce three-day ceasefire after Saudi attacks

The Houthi rebels said the peace initiative could be a lasting commitment if the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen stopped air strikes and lifted port restrictions.

Houthi rebels attack oil depot in Saudi Arabia ahead of F1 race

The Saudi-led coalition says an Aramco petroleum products distribution station in Jeddah was targeted by an attack, but that a fire in two tanks at the oil facility had been brought under control.

Deadly bomb attack targets militia commander in Yemen's Zinjibar

Brigadier General Abdel Latif el Sayed survived the assassination attempt but at least four people were killed by the car bomb.

Houthi rebel strike kills several Sudanese soldiers in Yemen's Hajjah

The attack targeted a military camp in Midi, in Hajjah province near the border with Saudi Arabia, a Yemeni Defence Ministry source says.

Unknown gunmen kidnap UN staff members in southern Yemen

UN officials say they are in close contact with the authorities in Yemen to secure the safe release of their staffers.

Fighting eases in Yemen's Marib as Saudi-led forces consolidate

Marib is vital because it is the internationally recognised government's last stronghold in North Yemen, and the country's sole gas producing region with one of its largest oilfields.

Weapons lobbying in the US is corruption by another name

When politicians profit from the sale of arms, then wars become sold to voters as new products.

Greenpeace warns neglected oil tanker off Yemen poses 'grave threat' to aid

A new report by Greenpeace has cautioned that a possible oil spill from an abandoned vessel would prevent access to crucial ports and affect food aid supply to 8.4 million people.