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YEMEN – COMPLEX EMERGENCY
HIGHLIGHTS
Conflict intensifies in northern and western Yemen, resulting in civilian casualties, water infrastructure destruction, and additional displacement
Low commercial imports contribute to high prices and shortages,…
Yemen: MSF-supported hospitals treat more than 70 injured by airstrikes in San’a, six killed
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 — Sana'a / Amman / London: At least 72 injured people have been treated in two hospitals supported by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Sana’a, Yemen, following a series of airstrikes carried out…
Yemen risks new cholera outbreak as rainy season begins
Yemen's epidemic has been exacerbated by years of conflict which has damaged health services and water supplies, uprooted more than 2 million people and driven the country to the brink of famine
By Emma Batha
LONDON, May 3 (Thomson…
Yemen Humanitarian Fund – Annual Report 2017
2017 IN REVIEW
HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT
A deepening humanitarian crisis
The year 2017 was marked by a steady deterioration of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The unabating conflict, the steady economic decline and the resulting…
WHO responds to the cancer care crisis in Yemen
Sana'a, 7 May 2018 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered over 7 tons of various life-saving anti-cancer medicines and chemotherapy medications to the country’s National Oncology Centre in Sana’a, Yemen.
The anti-cancer…
UN Migration Agency Calls for Greater Protection of Migrants, Yemenis Following Visit to Yemen
Sana'a – Following a visit to Yemen this week (02-06/05) Mohammed Abdiker, Director of Operations and Emergencies at IOM, the UN Migration Agency, said that he is "extremely concerned about the appalling and inhumane situation migrants are…
NRC Reaction to Saudi-led coalition bombing of Sana’a city
Statement by Suze van Meegen, acting country director for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Yemen
"The Norwegian Refugee Council is appalled by Saudi-led coalition strikes on a highly-populated business district in Sana'a earlier today.…
ICRC deplores loss of civilian life in airstrikes on densely populated neighbourhoods of Sana’a
SANA'A (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the intensive airstrike campaign on densely populated neighbourhoods of Sana'a since the beginning of this week, claiming the lives of scores of civilians.
At…
Cholera vaccination campaign starts in Yemen after year delay – WHO
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, May 7 (Reuters) - The first vaccine campaign against cholera in Yemen has started, 18 months after war and a sanitation crisis triggered an epidemic, but the World Health Organization said it did not yet have…