Britain will spend £140 million in the coming year to help starving people in Yemen as they suffer "one of the world's worst humanitarian crises", the Foreign Secretary has said. Lord David Cameron announced aid funding for the country will increase by 58% for 2024-20...
The United Nations on Monday expressed fears at what it called a "rapidly worsening" outbreak of cholera in war-ravaged Yemen, with more than 40,000 suspected cases since October, mainly in areas controlled by Houthis. "We are also deeply concerned about a rapidly worsenin...
A Chinese envoy on Monday urged Yemen's Houthi group to respect the right of commercial vessels of all countries to navigate in the waters of the Red Sea and to immediately stop the harassment. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on Yemen, Geng Shuang, China's deputy perman...
A product tanker was targeted by a suspected pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, leading to the apprehension of six individuals by the European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR). The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported the vessel had been approached by a small cra...
The EU on Tuesday announced $125 million for NGOs and UN agencies helping people in Yemen, a day after aid groups appealed for billions to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the country. The money is directed at the "most vulnerable in Yemen", the European Commission said aft...
Yemen's Houthis have claimed attacks on two ships in the Gulf of Aden and one in the Indian Ocean. The MSC Diego and the MSC Gina were attacked with ballistic missiles and drones in the Gulf of Aden, the Iran-aligned group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree said on Thursday. The...
Full repairs to three submarine internet cables damaged in the Red Sea in February are being held up by disputes over who controls access to infrastructure in Yemeni waters. The Yemeni government has granted permits for the repair of two out of three cables, but refused the third b...
The collective naval drill "Red Wave-7" has kicked off at King Faisal Naval Base in the Western Fleet, with the participation of countries bordering the Red Sea, including Jordan, Egypt, Djibouti, and Yemen, in addition to the Royal Saudi Naval Forces, the Royal Saudi Land Forc...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of negative effects on Yemen due to the escalation in the Red Sea, affirming that the halt in oil exports has deprived the government of half its revenues. The IMF said growth in Yemen is estimated to have contracted by 2 percent in 2023 w...
Forty-five journalists have been killed in Yemen since the fighting erupted between the internationally-recognized Yemeni government and the Houthi group in 2015. The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate on World Press Freedom Day said 165 press platforms stopped working and 200 local and Arab n...
The Yemeni group Houthi said Thursday that at least 40 Yemenis were killed and 35 others injured since the beginning of the American-British airstrikes on the country in January. "The U.S. and Britain launched 452 attacks against Yemen since January 12, killing 40 people and injurin...
A planted explosive device detonated and killed six soldiers belonging to a south Yemen-based successionist force on Monday. Mohamed al-Naqib, a spokesman for the Southern Armed Forces, the armed wing of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), said the explosion targeted a military vehi...
Yemen is nearing a licensing agreement with Elon Musk's Starlink to provide satellite internet service to the war-torn country, a Yemeni government official has said. Yemen's internationally recognized government approached Starlink for satellite internet to potentially improve c...
Yemen's Prime Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak said on Saturday that disagreements within the anti-Houthi national forces are a "strategic mistake," calling for unity of ranks and mobilizing efforts to restore the Yemeni state. This came during a meeting held by the Prime Ministe...
Authorities in Yemen's Aden province on Monday destroyed a shipment of medicines, including 425 cartons of Oral rehydration solutions, nutritional supplements, and vitamins belonging to an organization operating in Yemen. Authorities said shipping the medicine was not done according ...
Five civilians were killed in a shelling in Taiz province, southwest of Yemen. The shelling targeted a water well in Maqbna district of Taiz, killing three women and two girls, according to local sources. The parties to the conflict in Yemen, the government and the Houthi group ...
Yemen's Houthi group said Thursday that it had targeted 102 Israeli, US and British vessels since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict last October. "Some 102 Israel, US and British ships were attacked during 202 days of Israeli aggression on Gaza," Houthi movement chief Abdul...
A ship near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait observed an explosion in the distance Wednesday, marking what may be a new attack by Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) group. The explosion, reported by the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) center, comes...
Tim Lenderking, the US special envoy to Yemen, said today peace in Yemen will not be possible without the support of Gulf countries. Lenderking indicated that a diplomatic solution must be found to Yemen's decade-old civil war. He added, "The Gulf countries are all united in the...
Save the Children has said that 28 Yemeni children have been killed and injured in mine and explosive ordnance accidents since the beginning of this year. It called for the protection of children in Yemen, stressing that children deserve a safer future. According to the organization, a c...
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