Eight-year-old Sabry and his family fled conflict in Yemen’s Abyan region last year and sought refuge in Aden. They needed a safe place and better protection, especially for Sabry who is disabled.
More than 200,000 people from Abyan have been displaced by the conflict between armed groups and the Yemeni military...
The UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated almost US$5 million to support a national immunization campaign to protect 7.9 million Yemeni children under age 10 from a deadly measles outbreak.
Measles has re-emerged in epidemic proportions in Yemen, claiming the lives of more than 155 children under age 5 in...
Saleh Ali Showi and his family have lived in a camp in Al Mazraq in Hajjah Governorate, northern Yemen, since August 2009. They were forced to abandon their home after fighting broke out between the Government and Houthi-led separatist fighters.
It is a difficult life—one made even more complicated as Mr. Showi, 75...
2011 has been a deeply challenging year for millions of people around the world - and stretched the capacity of humanitarian aid organisations to the limit. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan, drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, and flooding in Central America, Pakistan and Southeast Asia, highlighted the...
The deepening crisis facing millions of Yemenis was highlighted this week with the launch of a powerful series of photos in Dubai.
The exhibition, “Facing Crisis: Yemen’s Deepening Humanitarian Challenges”, puts a human face on a highly complex crisis – in which hundreds of thousands of people have...
6 April 2012 - 12:57amEight-year-old Sabry and his family fled conflict in Yemen’s Abyan region last year and sought refuge in Aden. They needed a safe place and better protection, especially for Sabry who is disabled. More than 200,000 people from Abyan have been displaced by the conflict between armed groups and the Yemeni military...
27 March 2012 - 9:59pmThe UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated almost US$5 million to support a national immunization campaign to protect 7.9 million Yemeni children under age 10 from a deadly measles outbreak. Measles has re-emerged in epidemic proportions in Yemen, claiming the lives of more than 155 children under age 5 in...
9 January 2012 - 1:13pmSaleh Ali Showi and his family have lived in a camp in Al Mazraq in Hajjah Governorate, northern Yemen, since August 2009. They were forced to abandon their home after fighting broke out between the Government and Houthi-led separatist fighters. It is a difficult life—one made even more complicated as Mr. Showi, 75...
30 December 2011 - 2:11pm2011 has been a deeply challenging year for millions of people around the world - and stretched the capacity of humanitarian aid organisations to the limit. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan, drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, and flooding in Central America, Pakistan and Southeast Asia, highlighted the...
21 December 2011 - 12:16pmThe deepening crisis facing millions of Yemenis was highlighted this week with the launch of a powerful series of photos in Dubai. The exhibition, “Facing Crisis: Yemen’s Deepening Humanitarian Challenges”, puts a human face on a highly complex crisis – in which hundreds of thousands of people have...