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Yemen: Famine Prevention Plan – January – June 2019
The conflict in Yemen has escalated dramatically since nearly four years ago and is compounding an already severe protracted humanitarian crisis. Some 67 percent (20 million people) of the country’s total population of 29.9 million would be…
Humanitarian Action for Children 2019 – Yemen
The conflict-driven humanitarian crisis in Yemen has been described as the largest emergency in the world, with more than 22 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Conflict has led to the internal displacement of 2.2 million…
UNFPA Response in Yemen: Monthly Situation Report #12 – December 2018
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH
At the end of 2018, Yemen remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with nearly 22.2 million people - 75 per cent ofthe population - in need of humanitarian assistance. Preliminary results of a Integrated…
Hajjah Flash Update 1 | 27 January 2018
Situation Overview
Hostilities in Hajjah Governorate over the last three years have had a major humanitarian impact. In the last two months, escalated hostilities have killed tens of civilians and displaced hundreds of families from…
Yemen UNHCR Operational Update, 25 January 2019
Key figures:
24M people in need
3.9M displaced in the last three years
81% of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) displaced for more than one year
1M IDP returnees
1.2M IDPs given in-kind or cash assistance in 2018…
One in ten children forced from their homes because of conflict and violence in Yemen
Half a million children displaced by fighting in Hodeidah in just six months
SANAA, 31 January 2019 – At least one in ten children across Yemen (1.5 million) have been forced from their homes because of the four-year-long brutal war,…
Urgent Action Needed To Help Millions Of Yemenis Facing Starvation
Rafi is 18 months old, he lies listless on a bed in the only functioning hospital in the city of Abyan in Yemen. The little boy is severely malnourished and has been ill with diarrhoea for a month. His young mother fears she will not be…
In Yemen more than 15 million people are threatened by famine
Yemenis are experiencing the worst catastrophe in contemporary history. Julian, ACTED country director, reports on the humanitarian situation in an interview in January 2019.
ACTED has been present in Yemen since 2012…
Despite setbacks, ‘political will’ to end Yemen war stronger than ever: top UN envoy
The ceasefire in Yemen’s crucial port city of Hudaydah is “generally holding” and deadlines have had to be extended, but the UN’s Special Envoy said on Monday that “more than any time in the past” the political will remains to end years of…
Emergency Grant Aid in response to the deteriorating hunger crisis in Yemen
On January 25, the Government of Japan decided to extend an Emergency Grant Aid of 12 million US dollars, in response to the deteriorating hunger crisis in Yemen, through World Food Programme (WFP).
This Emergency Grant Aid is to…