40 people were killed and injured in heavy rains and massive floods in Al-Mahra province to the east of Yemen, where hundreds of homes were also exposed to damage, local authorities said yesterday. A meeting of the Emergency Committee in Al-Mahra was held in the presence of Governor ...
The lax control on pesticide importation to Yemen has been in the dark over the past few years. Merchants and smugglers capitalized on the war-created chaos and brought millions of liters of unlicensed pesticides. This has put the health of millions of Yemenis in peril. Lately, a documen...
Several Yemeni provinces have seen heavy rains, causing floods and raising concerns about the repercussions of buried landmines in conflict-stricken areas. Since Yemen’s civil war erupted in 2015, the parties to the conflict have planted thousands of landmin...
Over 17 million Yemenis need help to have access to water, the United Nations said on Friday. On World Water Day, which falls on March 22 every year, the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, stated, "17.4 million people in Yemen, half children, r...
The Yemeni government said Wednesday that the owner of the sunken ship, Rubymar, in the Red Sea is responsible for the consequences that occur to the Yemeni marine environment or the international shipping lines in countries bordering the Red Sea. Tawfiq Al-Sharjabi, Yemeni Minister o...
As warnings of a U.S.-Russia clash rose after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, US President Joe Biden warned on March 21, 2022, that Russia was "considering attacks on critical US infrastructure." One of the scenarios that has been put forward since th...
The Red Sea escalation has sparked new troubles for Yemen, adding to the suffering of millions of people across the country. Presently, food insecurity and environmental catastrophe are the fresh challenges for a country beset by a nine-year-old civil war. The United Nations Food and...
A Belize-flagged ship has caused an 18-mile (29-kilometer) oil slick in the Red Sea, causing serious concerns about an environmental disaster amid rising escalations between the U.S. forces and Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) group. The oil slick from the Rubymar, a British-register...
Smugglers in Yemen still find room to operate and illegally transport medicines from other countries to several Yemeni provinces, risking the lives of thousands of Yemenis. On Tuesday, the Supreme Authority for Medicines and Medical Supplies in Taiz destroyed 2 tons of smuggled medic...
Police authorities in several Yemeni provinces controlled by the UN-recognized government documented 150 cases of suicide in 2023 and 23 cases of attempted suicide. According to the annual statistics issued by the police departments, 44 suicide cases happened in Taiz, 25 cases in Mari...
The conflict in Yemen created an army of people suffering from mental issues across the country. Roughly 7 million people, about a quarter of Yemen's population, endure psychological trauma and stress, the World Health Organization said in a report on Monday. ...
Landmines in several Yemeni provinces remain a deadly danger for civilians and livestock. The end of war cannot wipe out the thousands of mines planted in valleys, mountains, and farms overnight. Despite the continued demining efforts over the past years, clearing Yemen of all mines is s...
Yemen's civil war has created armies of food-insecure people over the past years, and climate change has exacerbated the food insecurity crisis in the country. The Minister of Water and Environment in the internationally recognized Yemeni government, Tawfiq Al...
Qasim Ali, 27, from Dhamar, died after a treatment journey that lasted for over eight months. He had been addicted to methamphetamine, which he used in large quantities, which led to developing seizures and ...
Cyclone Tej, which recently struck Yemen's Al-Mahara, Socotra and Hadramout provinces, killed and wounded the death and injury of more than 150 people, displaced thousands of people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of houses, Yemeni official sources and UNICEF have said. Local au...
The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS) Cyclone 'Tej', in the Arabian Sea, transformed into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm (ESCS) on Sunday and is likely to cross between Al Ghaidah (Yemen) and Salalah (Oman) in the early hours of October 25, according to the India Meteorologic...
The Ministry of Public Health and Population Tuesday announced the success of the immunization campaign against measles and rubella in all government-controlled provinces. The deputy minister for the Primary Care Sector, Dr. Ali Al-Walidi, said that the teams could vaccinate 1,155,00...
Some individuals in Yemen claim to work for relief organizations that offer financial and in-kind support to needy families in multiple Yemeni provinces. They use deceptive approaches to collect money from families in return for registering them as beneficiaries. On Thursday, the Int...
Since the outbreak of war nine years ago, millions of Yemenis have been living under challenging conditions, especially having access to health and medical services, due to the collapse of state institutions and the exposure of many health facilities to damag...
Lightning strikes continue to claim lives in Yemen in line with the continued rainfall in different provinces nationwide. The latest lightning strike killed seven people Al-Luhiyah and Al-Zahra district in Al-Hodeida province to the west of Yemen. The thunderbolt killed one man and s...
