Yemeni Crisis

UN: Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis to face famine this year

“More and more children are going to bed hungry in Yemen,” says Catherine Russell, UNICEF's executive director.

Violence spikes in Yemen amid Covid-19 crisis

Fighting in the Middle East's poorest country, war-torn Yemen, steps up between the Houthi rebels and the Western-backed Saudi coalition forces, who have been criticised for commonly targeting civilians, mostly children.

UN's Yemen coronavirus efforts may end in June as it runs out of cash

The warning comes a day after a UN appeal for countries to fund emergency aid in the Arab world’s poorest nation fell a billion dollars short of what agencies need to cover essential activities from June to December.

Yemen world's worst humanitarian crisis - UN

The war between Houthi rebels and pro-government forces escalated in 2015 when a Saudi-led military coalition intervened against the rebels who control large parts of Yemen including the capital Sanaa.

UN forced to cut aid to Yemen, even as Covid-19 increases need

Some 75 percent of UN programmes in Yemen have had to shut their doors or reduce operations, including cuts on food rations as well as health services in 189 out of 369 hospitals.

UN urges $2.4 billion in aid for war-torn Yemen

UN humanitarian chief and the heads of 10 UN agencies and several officials and humanitarian organisations issue a joint statement saying “Covid-19 is spreading rapidly across the country already experiencing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis”.

UNHCR: Child labour, marriages on rise in Yemen as Covid-19 spreads

UNHCR said Yemen's health care system "has in effect collapsed", with the virus thought to be spreading throughout the country, and appealed for urgent funding last week.

Yemen's health system "has in effect collapsed" as Covid-19 spreads – UN

The spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said aid workers reported having to turn people away because they do not have enough medical oxygen or sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment.

Pentagon claim of zero civilian deaths in Yemen is divorced from reality

There are innumerable accounts from local sources and media as well as rights organisations that contradict the US claim.

Coronavirus probably circulating in Yemen, UN says, amid funding shortage

The war-damaged nation, whose population has been weakened by widespread hunger and disease, has reported one laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 case but due to inadequate testing and a shattered health system aid groups fear a devastating outbreak.

UAE-backed separatists: Two-state solution for Yemen should not be feared

Cracks between Saudi and the UAE appear on the battleground of Yemen as their ground allies are at loggerheads.

War-hit Yemen struggles to trace Covid-19 infection

Split into rival power centres, its medical infrastructure shattered by war and seen by the United Nations as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, Yemen is handicapped by its own destitution in its fight against the new coronavirus.