The recent Israeli attacks and airstrikes on the Port of Hodeida are exacerbating the humanitarian suffering and economic difficulties faced by Yemeni citizens due to a nearly decade-long war. The Israeli strike targeted the Port of Hodeida, an oil refinery, ...
The Yemeni government's Crisis Management Committee continues working with international organizations to find solutions to the environmental crisis caused by the sunken ship Rubymar. Abdul Salam Al-Jaabi, the Undersecretary of the Public Authority for Environmental Protection in...
Cholera cases keep spreading in Yemen at an alarming rate, causing serious diseases and deaths in several Yemeni provinces. Twenty out of Yemen’s 22 governorates have seen a surge in the number of people with acute watery diarrhea. Reports have revealed that more than 63,000 cases have b...
Landmines and explosive devices continue to pose life-threatening risks to millions of civilians in several Yemeni provinces. Every week, deaths and injuries in landmine explosions are reported. Yemeni families have lost their loved ones, causing them to lead a miserable li...
Dengue fever keeps spreading in Yemen, claiming lives and weakening the health of people in several Yemeni provinces. Over the past few weeks, hundreds of new dengue fever cases have been reported in Al-Matoun district of Al-Jawf in North Yemen. Health officials in Al-Jawf said 311 d...
Yemen marked the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22 amid the ongoing war and climate change consequences, which keep posing threats to the country's ecosystem. The International Day for Biological Diversity is an occasion to raise awareness of the importance of p...
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 ...
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