SA’ADA, Yemen – Civilian fatalities are mounting in Yemen, with some of the deadliest episodes of violence taking place in the last two months. UNFPA estimates over 400,000 pregnant women are caught...
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Yemen: Death toll rises to 19 in airstrike on MSF-supported Abs hospital in Hajjah
Update 17 August: The death toll now stands at 19; more information to come. Update 16 August: According to the latest information gathered by the MSF teams in Hajjah, late last night three of the...
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UN Emergency Fund allocates US$50 Million to Neglected Aid Operations to Assist Two Million People in Dire Need
(New York, 16 August 2016) Today, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, released US$50 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for severely underfunded aid operations...
ERC delivers relief aid, shelter materials to Abyan Governorate population, Yemen
ABYAN: The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has provided the relief and shelter materials to the local authorities in the Abyan Governorate in Yemen, as part of its continued humanitarian efforts. The...
Kuwait's Yemen relief efforts will continue -- KRCS
By Arwa Al-Woqayyan KUWAIT, Aug 16 (KUNA) -- Kuwait is playing a key role in aiding displaced and Yemeni refugees affected by the ongoing civil war. As part of their role in providing humanitarian...
Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Yemen (15 August 2016)
The Secretary-General condemns the reported coalition airstrike on a rural hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Hajjah, Yemen, today. The Secretary-General notes that the parties...
Yemen: Humanitarian agencies condemn attack on MSF hospital
Joint press release For immediate release Oxfam, Care, Handicap International, Mercy Corps, Intersos and Save the Children condemn the Saudi-led coalition airstrike today on a hospital supported by...
Yemen: Collapse in peace talks claims innocent lives
Today’s targeting of an MSF facility in Hajjah brings up the number of civilian casualties since Yemen peace talks collapsed on 6 August to over 60. These included Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on a...
11 people dead and at least 19 injured after an airstrike hits Abs hospital (Hajjah), Yemen
Four MSF-supported facilities have come under attack in the last year Hajjah, 15 August 2016 – Abs hospital, in Hajjah governorate, northwestern Yemen, was hit by an airstrike this afternoon at 15.45...
Statement issued by the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Yemen, 12 August 2016
New York, 12 August 2016 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, strongly condemns the increasing violations to the cessation of hostilities in Yemen and...
Facts & Figures - The International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen (January- June 2016)
Focusing on most urgent needs of Yemenis as conflict enters its second year Yemen's dreadful conflict has entered its second year with huge and urgent humanitarian needs. Ordinary people have paid...
Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Yemen, 14 August 2016
The Secretary-General condemns the attack, reported to have been an airstrike, on a school in the Sa''ada governorate of northern Yemen on 13 August. The attack killed at least 10 children and...
Yemen – Conflict (ECHO, NGOs, Media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 14 August 2016)
Fighting continues in Nehm district of Sana’a. On Thursday 11 August , the spokesman of Sana’a resistance forces told media that the resistance artillery targeted for the first time targets in the...
Closure of Yemen's main airport puts millions of people at risk [EN/AR]
Twelve aid agencies today called on the Saudi-led coalition to lift restrictions on Yemeni airspace in order to allow for the reopening of the country’s main airport, Sana’a International, and to...
Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Volume 04, Issue 32, Epi week 32, 8 - 14 Aug 2016
Highlights During week no. 32, 2016; 90% (1104/995) health facilities from 22 governorates provided valid surveillance data. The total number of consultations reported during the week in 22...
UNICEF statement on the killing of children in Sa’ada, Northern Yemen [EN/AR]
SANA’A, 13 August 2016 –An airstrike this morning has killed at least seven children and injured 21 others in a religious school in the Sa’ada governorate in northern Yemen. The children killed, aged...
Yemen Red Crescent Society volunteer killed in Taiz - Movement statement
Sana’a / Geneva, 12 August 2016 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement mourns the death of another volunteer from the Yemen Red Crescent Society. Khalid Abdullah, a 65-year-old Red...
Statement of the Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, on the Intensification of Violence across Yemen [EN/AR]
Sana'a, 12 August 2016 - The Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen is deeply alarmed by the intensification of violence across the country. Local media reports indicate that children and women are being...
Water Supply System Improvements Aid Yemen IDPs in Conflict-Affected Areas
Yemen - With clashes intensifying across Yemen in recent weeks, access to safe and usable water sources is severely impeded, and more people, including those directly affected by the conflict, find...
ICRC statement concerning abducted staff member in Yemen
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would like to confirm that the video currently circulating in the media does indeed show its staff member, Nourane Houas. Nourane was abducted...