Highlights

In November there have been several positive developments indicating the increasing engagement of Gulf countries in the international humanitarian system. On 24 November, His Highness Sheikh

- Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important Red Sea country. It is the poorest state in the Arab world, with high levels of unemployment, rapid population growth and dwindling water resources.

- President Saleh faces an intermittent civil war in the north, a southern separatist movement and resurgent terrorist groups. Yemen's jihadi networks appear to be growing as operating conditions in Iraq and Saudi Arabia become more difficult.

Roqaya sells sweets from a small box and makes about 300 riyals (US$1.5) a day. "Every time I have to decide whether to buy food or save it for the house rent. My mind cannot think any more," she said.

Roqaya is one of hundreds of Somali refugees

to over 4,600 persons left homeless by severe flash floods in the Hadramout Region of Yemen.

The team distributed food packages and household kits to 325 displaced families (over 1,900 persons) in the towns of Broum, Sheher and Tiwila, as well as to

families housed in the Siddiq School in the city of Al-Mukalla. In addition, Mercy-USA distributed food packages to 2,730 homeless persons in the Tareem area.

In response to a recent devastating flood in Yemen, LIFE for Relief and Development launched an Emergency Relief Campaign that has already provided 1,000 families each with a one month supply of food. Personal hygiene items such as soap and baby diapers were distributed to the families as well.

Yemen was soaked in late October by 30

(San'a, November 19, 2008) - Tens of thousands of civilians in northern Yemen have been displaced or cut off from aid in fighting between government and rebel forces, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Yemen's government as well as rebel forces should take immediate steps to ensure that they get the humanitarian aid they need in the aftermath of recent fighting.

The 50-page report, "Invisible

For this purpose, TRC has deployed a relief team consisting of 2 disaster response specialists to the area to conduct a need assessment in cooperation with Yemen Red Crescent Society(YRCS). In the wake of a quick evaluation, TRC has dispatched 500 food rations each of which weighs 20kgs to the flood victims in Hadramuot and distributed

This project is part of a larger UNHCR strategy to improve government and community protection capacities in Yemen and to develop a self-reliance strategy including skills/vocational training activities and provision of job to assist refugees in attaining self-reliance. Psychosocial counseling activities and risk assessment exercise are also part of the program.

As a consequence of the 1991 civil war

In a statement, the ministry said that 200,000 euros would be allocated for victims of the floods that recently hit the eastern parts of Yemen, while the remainder would go to those who were internally displaced as a result of this natural disaster.

The money would be used to provide the victims with food, medicine and blankets, it added.