Yemen Humanitarian Update - December 2025 [EN/AR]

HIGHLIGHTS

• Humanitarian response under strain: funding cuts disrupt lifesaving services across sectors
• 2025 in review: food security and nutrition situation
• Yemen’s health crisis in 2025: Health partners strengthen services and contain escalating disease outbreaks
• Marib flood response 2025: a blueprint for shock-responsive cash assistance and coordinated recovery
• Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF) drives life-saving assistance amid growing needs and unprecedented funding cuts
• Al-Khalil Site: from hardship to a more dignified life

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE UNDER STRAIN: FUNDING CUTS DISRUPT LIFESAVING SERVICES ACROSS SECTORS
In 2025, Yemen’s humanitarian response faced unprecedented funding shortfalls, with the Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan funded at only 25 per cent. The severe gap has forced all clusters to scale back critical services despite escalating needs. Health and protection clusters exemplify the devastating consequences of these cuts, leaving millions of people without essential care and exposed to heightened risks.
Health system on the brink
Yemen’s fragile health system is deteriorating rapidly as reduced funding and operational constraints threaten the continuity of care amid widespread food insecurity and malnutrition, poor water and sanitation conditions and disease outbreaks. Since January this year, 453 health facilities have faced partial or imminent closure, affecting hospitals, primary health centers, and mobile clinics across 22 governorates. These include 177 primary health centres (PHCs), 200 primary health units (PHUs), 76 hospitals, and 18 mobile clinics. In the DFA-controlled areas only, disruptions affect 53 hospitals, 130 PHCs, 144 PHUs, and one mobile clinic, while in the GoY-controlled areas, 23 hospitals, 47 PHCs, 56 PHUs, and 17 mobile clinics are impacted.