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Several children among the killed and injured by strikes in Sana’a
Sana’a, 16 May 2019 – Today, several people were killed, and dozens injured when strikes hit Sana’a City. Preliminary reports indicate that five children have died and 16 more are wounded; additional causalities, including health workers,…
UN is racing against time to salvage food stocks in Hodeidah [EN/AR]
Sana’a, 7 May 2019 – On 5 May, a UN technical team led by the World Food Programme (WFP) gained access to the Red Sea Mills on the eastern outskirts of Hodeidah City as part of initial efforts to salvage a stock of 51,000 metric tons of…
Yemen: More bombs and weapons will only mean more suffering and death
Statement by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Policy Director, Ole Solvang, on the US President's veto to a bill to end military support for the war in Yemen
"President Trump said that withdrawing from the war in Yemen would 'negatively…
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock…
As delivered via VTC
Thank you very much, Mr. President.
While the ceasefire in Hudaydah has, as Martin has just said, largely held, we have seen, as he has also indicated, a pronounced escalation of violence in other parts of the…
Focusing on children’s safety and a need for enhanced political process in Yemen
Statement by Ambassador Karen Pierce, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the Security Council Briefing on Yemen
Delivered on: 15 April 2019 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Thank you Mr President and thank…
Tens of civilians wounded and killed in Sana’a [EN/AR]
Sana’a, 8 April 2019 –Preliminary reports indicate that on 7 April as many as eleven civilians, including five students, were killed and scores of civilians injured in Shu’aub District in Sana’a City.
“These are terrible, senseless deaths…
Statement attributed to the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen Martin Griffiths
Amman, 09 April 2019 - I am deeply saddened to hear of the tragic deaths of civilians, the majority of whom were young female students attending school, in Saewan area in Sana’a, on 7 April.
I would like to offer my sincere condolences…
Statement on yesterday’s deadly attack in Sana’a, Yemen
Statement by Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland on yesterday's deadly attack in Sana'a: "The Norwegian Refugee Council is profoundly disturbed by attacks that killed and maimed school children in Sana'a…
UNFPA Statement on the recent attacks on hospitals in Yemen
Cairo, 28 March 2019 - We are dismayed about the latest escalation of violence in Yemen, most recently the deadly incidence near the Kitaf rural hospital in Sa’ada governorate and the closure of key public hospitals in Taizz city following…
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…