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Yemen: Worrying increase in cholera cases
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 — As cases of cholera increase in Amran, Hajjah, Ibb and Taiz governorates, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is scaling up its response. More humanitarian assistance - particularly water and…
Yemen – Conflict & Cholera (DG ECHO) (ECHO Daily Flash of 27 March 2019)
The fourth anniversary of Yemen conflict on 26 March, coincided with a reported airstrike against a rural hospital in Sa’ada Governorate, supported by Save the Children, where four children and three adults were killed.
The…
Yemen: A renewal of fighting is endangering a tired, hungry and war-weary population
Yemen/Geneva (ICRC) – Four years after the beginning of the conflict in Yemen and only a few months after agreements that gave hope to a war-weary nation, a renewal in hostilities is again forcing people on the move and taking the country…
With YHPF Funding and CSSW Implementation, an Integrated Relief Project in Lahij Serves as a Model…
Special Report
War affects each community differently. Urban areas and contested regions may suffer the direct effects of fighting, but the damage is not limited to conflict zones. Yemen’s remote al-Musaimir district, in the rugged…
Two years since world’s largest outbreak of Acute Watery Diarrhea and Cholera, Yemen…
Statement by Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa and Dr Ahmed Al Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean
MUSCAT/AMMAN/CAIRO, 26 March 2019-“In Yemen, since the beginning of…
10 million Yemenis ‘one step away from famine’, UN food relief agency calls for ‘unhindered access’…
With Yemen now in its fifth year of conflict between pro-Government forces and Houthi rebels, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is calling for “unhindered access” to the most desperate areas in the frontline regions “to prevent the food…
Seven Killed in Bombing of Save the Children-supported Hospital in Yemen
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (March 26, 2019)—Four children were among seven people killed today when a hospital supported by Save the Children in Yemen was hit by an airstrike. Two other adults are unaccounted for.
A missile struck a gas station near…
Four years on, Yemen war leaves country reliant on humanitarian aid
24 March 2019 – 26 March marks four years since the escalation of conflict in Yemen in 2015. In four years the country has seen the worst cholera outbreak in history, a declaration of famine, and a crippled economy. There have been almost…
WFP Yemen Country Brief, February 2019
In Numbers
9.3 m people assisted in February 2019
106,645 mt of general food assistance dispatched
US$ 18.4 m cash-based and commodity transfers made
US$ 603.3 m six months (March - August 2019) net funding requirements
Operational…
Yemen Humanitarian Update Covering 7 – 21 March 2019 | Issue 5
KEY ISSUES:
• Suspected cholera and acute watery diarrhea cases increased; 108,889 suspected cases were reported between 1 January and 17 March.
• According to local authorities, more than 9,700 families were recently displaced to 18…