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Dec 1, 2020 · Yemen’s complex civil war began in earnest in 2015, foisting disease, hunger and economic collapse on an already impoverished population. In 2020 the violence escalated and the hardship deepened with torrential rains, a fuel crisis, COVID-19 and desert locust infestations that are expected to cause damage and loss worth $222 million to staple crops, animals and livestock.
HADRAMOUT, Yemen – When Mona began working as a midwife in her local health centre 30 years ago, she was the first in Yemen’s Hadramout Governorate.“Back then, our area was a world away from health care,” she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Now head of the midwifery department at the Shahir Health Centre in Hadramout, she explained hers was an impoverished community that lacked schools, medical facilities and health workers.“Women faced ...
Dec 23, 2023 · Yemen has been gripped with conflict since the Houthis took control of capital Sanaa in 2014, triggering a Saudi-led military intervention in support of the government forces the following year.
Apr 14, 2023 · The UN estimated that by the start of 2022, the conflict in Yemen had caused over 377,000 deaths, with 60% the result of hunger, lack of healthcare and unsafe water. It says more than 11,000 ...
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By the 16th century, Yemen was ruled by the Ottoman Empire and in 1892, the Ottomans moved the capital city to Sana’a. During Ottoman rule, the Portuguese occupied the port city of Aden though in 1832, it was taken by the British East India Company to use as a coaling station for ships heading to India. Eventually, the British and the ...
Apr 17, 2023 · 17 April 2023 Peace and Security. An expired truce still delivering positive results, and a recent mass prisoner exchange, are signs of hope in Yemen, but more work remains to end the war between the Saudi coalition-backed Government and Houthi rebels, UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Monday.
Apr 10, 2023 · Yemen’s war runs deeper than fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis, though, and a deal between the two groups would inevitably extend legitimacy to the Houthis.
