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Yemen: Aden’s collapsed health system grapples with COVID-19
A car drives up to the low, white building that houses the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) COVID-19 treatment center in Aden, the capital of Yemen. Inside a man around 60 years old coughs and struggles to breathe. He…
QRCS rehabilitates 14 water wells for 12,250 beneficiaries in Al-Hudaydah [EN/AR]
June 1st, 2020 ― Doha: The representation mission of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) in Yemen has begun the civil and construction works for digging and deepening water wells in the Al-Marawi’ah and Al-Sukhnah districts of Al-Hudaydah…
IOM Releases Crisis Appeal to Support over 5.3 Million Yemenis and Migrants
Geneva – The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the already dire situation in Yemen for vulnerable communities like internally displaced people and migrants. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched an appeal for USD 155…
Yemen – Covid-19 (DG ECHO, UN, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 15 May 2020)
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is rapidly deteriorating due to compounded effects of Covid-19 and existing needs in a country, qualified as the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis.
While number of Covid-19 cases formally…
Statement by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen calling for de-escalation of violence
Amman, 22 January 2020 - The UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, is deeply alarmed by the latest round of violence in Yemen which resulted in the death of many innocent civilians.
Mr. Griffiths has been in contact with the…
Note to Correspondents: UN Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA)/Statement by the Chair…
Hudaydah
The members of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) will hold their fifth joint meeting on 14 and 15 July aboard a UN vessel on the high seas.
The Chair of the RCC, Lieutenant General Michael A. Lollesgaard, will…
Protection interventions ensure a decent life for displaced women
NFDHR:Adel Othman: - Thursday, 11 July, 2019
The war came to eliminate everything: her home and property. She found herself forced to migrate to Al Baydh city. .
The details of MHA and her four children is a painful story as a result of…
Yemen Briefing and Consultations
On Monday (15 April), the Security Council will hear briefings on Yemen from Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock, both by videoconference. Virginia Gamba, the Special…
UK’s twisted logic: Selling arms in name of peace in Yemen
In his recent article, “Yemen crisis won’t be solved by UK arms exports halt,” U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt makes an impassioned plea for continued arms sales to Saudi Arabia. He argues that suspending British military exports would…
Adopting Resolution 2452 (2019), Security Council Establishes Special Political Mission to Support…
SC/13664
16 JANUARY 2019
Permanent Representative Says Text Reaffirms Support for Yemen’s Independence
The Security Council today decided to establish a special political mission to support implementation of the ceasefire agreement…