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Yemen: “Just living has become more difficult”
Monia Khaled is water and sanitation supervisor for MSF in Yemen. This is her account of the dramatic changes in everyday life she has witnessed over the past two and a half years.
"I was on annual leave when the clashes and airstrikes…
From cholera to diphtheria: Yemen’s shattered health system battles a new threat
MSF
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 — Cases of cholera may have declined in Yemen, but the ongoing war and blockade are now creating a new threat to public health, as a suspected diphtheria outbreak takes hold.
By 4 December, 318 suspected…
Yemen – Diphtheria and Cholera (DG ECHO, WHO, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 8 December 2017)
REPORT from European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Diphtheria is making an alarming comeback in Yemen, with 318 clinically-diagnosed cases and 21…
Yemen: 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview
REPORT from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Country Team in Yemen
NEEDS & KEY FIGURES
More than two and a half years since the escalation of the conflict, Yemeni people continue to bear the brunt of…
UNITED NATIONS LEADERS CALL ON THE SAUDI-LED COALITION TO FULLY LIFT BLOCKADE OF YEMENI RED SEA…
Joint statement by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, WFP Executive Director David Beasley, IOM…
Yemen: Impact of the closure of seaports and airports on the humanitarian situation –…
Situation Overview
Following the announcement on 22 November by the Saudi-led coalition (SLC) that Sana’a airport and Al Hudaydah seaport will be reopened for humanitarian and relief efforts, the United Nations has submitted a…
Millions of Yemenis days away from losing clean running water
Millions of Yemenis days away from losing clean running water
REPORT
from Oxfam
Published on 24 Nov 2017
Danger of Cholera comeback as four in five people will be without steady water supply
Eight million people in Yemen will…
Dispatch from Yemen: We’re Cut Off and Starving 20/11/2017
SANN’A, YEMEN—Yemen has been upside down for three years. Hunger, epidemics, and a blockade are all getting tighter. But the misery has escalated following the ballistic missile which was fired from Yemen at the King Khalid International…
Saudi airstrikes kill 6 children, 3 women in Yemen’s Jawf Province
At least eight children and three women have been killed after Saudi fighter jets targeted a residential area in Yemen's northern province of Jawf as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its ruthless bombardment of its southern neighbor.…
Security Council-appointed panel says no missiles sent to Houthis, refuting Saudi Arabia claim
A United Nations Security Council-appointed panel has said in a confidential memo that it has seen no evidence to support Saudi Arabia’s claims that missiles have been transferred to Yemen’s Houthis fighters by external sources.…