SANA, Yemen – After two and a half years of war, little is functioning in Yemen. Repeated bombings have crippled bridges, hospitals and factories. Many doctors and civil servants have gone unpaid for more than a year. Malnutrition and poor sanitation have made the...

The Houthi militia, through the Houthi-controlled Ministry of Information, released a decree to impose further restrictions on the freedom of digital media in the country by criminalizing the practice of digital journalism unless a license has been obtained from the...

UNITED NATIONS, New York/TAIZZ, Yemen – “My husband and I agreed to use family planning and not have more kids, but he was pressured by our family and I got pregnant again,” said Ahlam, a mother of two in Yemen, earlier this year. When she went into labour, she was...

A journalist dies mysteriously in Yemen after receiving threats because of his work, and the resulting autopsy raises more questions than answers. A columnist in the same country is sentenced to death on espionage charges in an opaque trial. CPJ is unable to determine...

In first UNHCR-assisted spontaneous return movement, 133 refugees departed for Somalia ADEN PORT, Yemen – For nearly a decade, Yemen was a place of refuge for Abaya Mursal and her family who had fled their homes in Somalia owing to conflict. “We had a good life here...

(Sana'a/Geneva) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrived in Yemen today as the country's unprecedented cholera outbreak ravages an alarming – and growing - percentage of the population. ICRC experts expect the current number of...

26 JULY 2017 | ADEN/SANA’A - "As the heads of three United Nations agencies – UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP) and WHO – we have travelled together to Yemen to see for ourselves the scale of this humanitarian crisis and to step up our combined efforts to help...

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has released 2016’s report on the situation of press freedom in Yemen. The report, which was launched yesterday in the temporary capital of Aden, has documented violations against journalists and media workers during last year....

Houthi-Saleh Shelling of Neighborhoods Harms Dozens  (Beirut) – Houthi-Saleh forces have repeatedly fired artillery indiscriminately into populated neighborhoods of Taizz, Yemen’s third largest city, in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. Over...

Yesterday 1 August,  a patient with kidney failure died as a result of the electricity outage in Al-Thawrah hospital in Taiz. The local authority and WHO ceased their funding of diesel to the hospital, threatening the lives of 250 patients in the governorate,...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is saddened by the two tragic incidents reported off the coast of Yemen’s Shabwah Governorate this week, in which scores of refugees and migrants are feared to have drowned. The first incident was reported on 9 August and the second a day...

GENEVA - The total number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen this year hit the half a million mark on Sunday, and nearly 2000 people have died since the outbreak began to spread rapidly at the end of April. The overall caseload nationwide has declined since early...

17 August 2017 – In the midst of the cholera outbreak in Yemen, where an average 5,000 people fall sick every day, the United Nations population agency is warning about the dangers to pregnant and breastfeeding women. “Pregnant and breastfeeding women, especially...

The Houthi/Saleh forces kidnapped Mohammed Karman, the brother of the Nobel Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman, and two of his friends in the capital Sana'a for more than a month. Karman's family holds the Houthi and Saleh forces accountable of their son's and his...

Forty days after his death, family and friends have commemorated last Sunday Amjad Abdulrahman, 21, a vocal political activist from Aden. "My son is the martyr of freedom and enlightenment," said Mohammed Abdulrahman, the father of Amjad.  An anonymous armed man shot...