The U.S. and its allies confiscated 17 ships loaded with food and fuel heading for Yemen.
An oil tanker held off the coast of Yemen. April, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @Hispantv
10 April 2020 (teleSUR)* — The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Friday confiscated 17 ships loaded with food and fuel heading for Yemen, even though the vessels had the necessary permits to arrive in that country.
Although 14 ships carrying oil and three vessels carrying food had permits issued by the United Nations to enter Yemen, the coalition’s marine forces prevented them from doing so.
(UN News)* — The UN Special Envoy for Yemen told an emergency session of the Security Council on Tuesday [28 January 2020] that a recent upsurge in violence between pro-Government and rebel forces following weeks of relative calm, had to end “before it’s too late”.
Since the beginning of the year, the UN Migration Agency has carried out over one million health consultations for displaced and conflict-affected Yemenis and migrants struggling to reach the help they need, the organization announced on Friday [15 November 2019]. (*)
IOM/Olivia Headon | A young child is attended to by an IOM worker in Yemem. IOM are providing lifesaving health care to conflict affected communities, displaced people and migrants in Yemen, while strengthening public health facilities.
2 September 2019 — Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, described Sunday’s deadly airstrikes in Dhamar City as a “horrific incident”, and the scale of the casualties, as “staggering”. “These are very dark times for Yemen,” said Ms. Grande. “There have been days of fighting and strikes in the south and hundreds of casualties”.
UN Photo/Isaac Billy | UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande at a press conference. (file)
The strikes hit a former community college compound on the northern outskirts of Dhamar City. According to sources on the ground, as many as 170 prisoners were being held in a detention facility within the compound.
The Yemen UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has confirmed that 52 detainees are among the dead. At least 68 detainees are still missing. Casualties are most likely to increase as rescue efforts are still on going.
The United Nations announced on Wednesday [21 August 2019] that it is being forced to close down several humanitarian programmes in Yemen because money pledged by Member States to pay for them has “failed to materialize”.
OCHA/Giles Clarke | This baby boy weighed 2.5 kg when he was born in Yemen. Now at four months old he suffers from severe acute malnutrition. (file)
.“We are desperate for the funds that were promised,” said Lise Grande, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen. “When money doesn’t come, people die.”
At a pledging event for Yemen held in February, the UN and humanitarian partners were promised $2.6 billion to meet the urgent needs of more than 20 million Yemenis. To date, less than half of this amount has been received.
One month ago, the United Nations top Yemen envoy told the Security Council the country was facing “a crucial moment” in the course of its long and bloody conflict, and on Tuesday [20 August 2019], he again urged members to acknowledge that recent infighting around the Government stronghold of Aden were “a clear sign” that the conflict must be brought to a swift, peaceful end.
ROME (FAO)* – Desert Locust summer breeding, amplified by heavy rains, can pose a serious threat to agricultural production areas of Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia and northern Somalia during the next three months, FAO on 25 July 2019 warned.
A mature swarm flying over a village near Abyan, Yemen, looking for suitable areas to lay eggs that will hatch after about two weeks.
With Yemen once again at a “crucial moment” the UN Special Envoy trying to facilitate peace there told Security Council members on Thursday [18 July 2019] that despite the dangers of being over optimistic, he could not help thinking the country could finally be “nearing the end of its war.”
More than four years of conflict have taken a devastating toll on children – and their parents.
UNICEF/UN0318233/Aljaberi | Newborn girl born on 31 Dec 2018 lies in nursery at 22 May Hospital in Dolaa Hamdan, Sana’a Governorate.
SANA’A, Yemen, 14 June 2019 (UNICEF)* – More than four years of armed conflict have brought Yemen’s essential public services to the brink of total collapse. The first to feel the effects are, invariably, the nation’s most vulnerable: mothers and babies.
2 July 2019 — Food aid is being tripled for troubled Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to respond to what the World Food Programme (WFP) has described as the world’s second largest hunger crisis in the world, after Yemen.
WFP/Jacques David | The World Food Programme (WFP) held massive food distributions in the Ituri provice, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where thousands of persons had fled from their villages due to ethnic clashes. 21 March 2018.
In addition to worsening hunger, communities in north-east DRC face a deadly Ebola outbreak and inter-ethnic clashes that claimed at least 117 lives between 10 and 13 June, according to a recent report by the UN human rights office, OHCHR.
An oil tanker held off the coast of Yemen. April, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @Hispantv
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