(UNICEF) – “As the heads of three United Nations agencies – UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) – we have travelled together to Yemen to see for ourselves the scale of this humanitarian crisis and to step up our combined efforts to help the people of Yemen. This is the […]
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(The Independent) – As many as 600,000 people in Yemen are expected to contract cholera before the end of 2017 as the conflict-riven country struggles to contain the disease, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. Arriving in the government-controlled city of Aden on Sunday Peter Mauer warned that the “great tragedy is that […]
(Foreign Policy) – More than 90 civilians, including 25 children, died in a March 2016 Saudi airstrike on a market in Yemen. Months later, ten more children perished in another strike on a school in Saada. The next day, five children were killed when a bomb smashed into a hospital in Hajjah. Link
(Foreign Policy) – This southwestern Yemeni city has been battered for more than two years of urban battles. When I arrived there in March, the journey from the city’s outskirts to its center should have taken only 10 minutes; instead, it took us four hours, as we wound our way through mountainous roads and dozens […]
(The Guardian) – Charities have urged the UN to name and shame the Saudi-led coalition over child rights violations in Yemen after research showed more than 120 children were killed or maimed in airstrikes by the alliance last year. A briefing by Save the Children and Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict said the coalition committed “grave violations against children” […]
(Huffington Post) – Fatima Mohammed Ali and her two young sons were planting vegetables on her family’s farm in a remote region of northern Yemen last year when an airstrike suddenly hit the family’s home. The massive blast demolished the house, across from the fields where they were working, as well as a swing set nearby. […]
(Middle East Eye) – The UK will continue to export billions of pounds of weapons to Saudi Arabia after anti-arms trade campaigners lost a high-profile legal case in London on Monday. The high court ruled on Monday morning that arms sales to the oil-rich Gulf kingdom can continue after lawyers acting for Campaign Against Arms Trade […]
(iNews) – Last October Saudi forces in Yemen bombed a funeral. They turned what was meant to be a scene of mourning into a massacre, in a “double tap” strike that killed over 140 people and wounded hundreds more. This was only one of the terrible atrocities that Saudi forces have been accused of committing in a two […]
(New York Times) – The United Nations said on Tuesday that it was suspending plans for a cholera vaccination campaign in Yemen — reversing a decision made a month ago — because the disease’s rampant spread and the ravages of war there would make such an effort ineffective. Jamie McGoldrick, the United Nations aid coordinator […]
(Huffington Post) – A deadly cholera outbreak that has plagued Yemen since last year reached a grim milestone on Sunday as the number of suspected cases surpassed more than 300,000. More than 1,700 people in the war-torn country have died of cholera in the past months, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Monday, and 300,000 […]
