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Condemning Deadly Coalition Air Strike on Market, Secretary-General Calls upon All Parties in Yemen…
SG/SM/19161
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
The Secretary-General condemns the air strike today by the Coalition forces in Sa’ada, which hit a busy market area in…
Press briefing notes on Yemen civilian casualties
We deplore Thursday’s attack in Yemen, when a coalition air strike hit a bus carrying children in Dahyan market in Saada, reportedly killing 40 people and injuring another 60.
According to initial information our Office has gathered, at…
Yemen: Dozens of Young Children Among the Dead in Attack on School Bus
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (August 9, 2018) – Dozens of children aged between 6 and 14 are feared dead with many more injured, after the school bus they were travelling in was hit by a suspected airstrike in the town of Dhahyan in Saada governorate…
UNICEF chief ‘horrified’ at air strike that hit school bus in northern Yemen
The Head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has strongly condemned the airstrike against a school bus in northern Yemen on Thursday, which according to news reports has killed more than two dozen children.
“Attacks on children are…
IOM Yemen Hudaydah Response Bulletin: 8 August 2018, Situation Report: 22 – 28 July 2018
22.2 million People are in need of humanitarian assistance
2 million People are internally displaced
2.2 million People are aimed to be supported by IOM
Key Highlights
IOM initiated kitchens in four schools in Hudaydah where…
Regional Migrant Response Plan for the Horn of Africa and Yemen; 2018 – 2020
IOM: USD 45 Million Needed for 2018-2020 Migrant Response in Horn of Africa, Yemen
Nairobi – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and its partners launched, on 6 August, a Regional Migrant Response Plan (RMRP) for the Horn of Africa and Yemen…
“I felt I was in hell” – Escalating hostilities threaten thousands of pregnant women in Yemen’s…
HODEIDAH, Yemen – Escalating violence in Hodeidah, Yemen, threatens the city’s estimated 90,000 pregnant women and girls, UNFPA has announced. Some 14,000 of these women and girls are likely to encounter pregnancy-related complications…
More bombs than passengers dropped at Yemen’s main airport
Sana'a International Airport has been hit with an average of one bomb every fortnight, in the two years since it has been shut to all commercial traffic.
Restrictions imposed on Yemen's airspace by the Saudi-led coalition led to the…
Cordaid starts emergency aid in Yemen
8.4 million people in Yemen are at risk of starvation, making it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the eyes of the UN’s Secretary General. Despite severe difficulties in accessing the conflict-torn country, Cordaid is now…