Ali Ibrahim Al-Moshki (author)

SANA’A, April 17 — Confrontations over access to a natural spring erupted on Sunday, in Al-Mashana district of Ibb governorate, killing two men from the local families of Bani Salah and Bait Dhawi.

One bystander, unaffiliated with the feud, was also injured.

Security forces rushed to the scene of the fight on Sunday evening. An unspecified number of individuals have been detained and are being questioned in regards to the deaths and injury. Forensic investigations are underway.

Amal Al-Yarisi (author)

TAIZ, March 27 — Despite an increase in security measures announced earlier this month, two more men were killed on Friday in an ongoing dispute between the neighboring villages of Qurada and Al-Mirzah.

The villages—which are in the outskirts of the city, in Sabir district—have been fighting sporadically for nearly a decade over access to a natural spring which lies between the two. One man from each village was killed: Akram Abdulrahman Qatan, from Qurada, and Abdullah Sadeq Mohammad, from Al-Mirzah.

After her brother, two sisters and a niece were killed in a rocket blast, Um Ayham fled her home country of Syria. With her husband and daughter she made it across the border to Lebanon—passing through internal Syrian checkpoints—and then flew to Yemen. Now, along with around 1,000 other refugees, Um Ayham lives in Sana’a.

Syria’s civil war, which has been raging for the past two year, has claimed more than 60,000 lives and displaced nearly 1 million people.

What is the National Dialogue Conference?

The NDC represents the next step in Yemen’s transitional political process aimed at sustaining a peaceful transfer of power. It was designed to enable political parties and groups from all over Yemen to collectively draw a new vision for Yemen’s future.

How was the conference decided on and engineered?

Rammah Al-Jubari (author)

Yemen may have been one of the first signatories of the Landmines Ban Treaty in 1997, but victims of mines in this country number over 6,000. Since the 1960s, landmines have been used in conflicts, by both government and non-government forces. It’s unknown how many mines are still active and dangerous, scattered throughout mountains and fields.

The majority of those injured by landmines are children and women, Aisha Saeed, the head of the Landmines Awareness Association, said.

Published on 25 February 2013 in News

Mohammed Al-Samei (author)

SANA’A, Feb. 24 — More than 10 million residents in Yemen need food aid, half of them urgently, said Abeer Otaifa, spokeswomen of the World Food Program’s (WFP) regional office in the Middle East. Many among those in desperate need of food aid are children, she added.

Otaifa asserted the “malnutrition percentage among children in Yemen is one of the highest percentages of malnutrition worldwide,” citing data from the United Nations Information Center.

Published on 11 February 2013 in News

Sadeq Al-Wesabi (author)

SANA’A, Feb. 10 — More than 4,000 damaged houses, hotels, commercial shops and private hospitals in the Hasaba area, north of Sana’a, will be rebuilt after a damage control plan is carried out by the Secretariat of the Capital.

“The damage control report is ready and the compensation payment is included in the 2013 budget and will be distributed to the affected very soon,” said Mohammed Hamoud Othamn, the head of Al-Thawra District.

Rammah Al-Jubari (author)

In February, 2012, Ismael Qarsoos returned to his home in Al-Hazza village after being displaced for six months. He arrived home ahead of the hundreds of other internally displaced people who fled the area due to conflicts between armed groups.

Qarsoos was never given the chance to rebuild his life. As he reentered his abandoned home, he stepped on a land mine and was killed instantly as his home crumbled to the ground. News of his death quickly spread and convinced other displaced people not to return home.

Bassam Al-Ashmori

In recent years Yemeni families say they have been searching for ways to cut back their spending. While a family may be able to search for a market with cheaper tomatoes, there are certain things families cannot skimp on, and water is one of them.

Combined with Yemen’s deteriorating economic situation and decreasing wages for the majority of individuals, the lack of access to safe drinking and bathing water has placed an extra financial burden on many families.