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Japan grants $3m aid to Yemen to help repair Aden’s roads

Japan grants $3m aid to Yemen to help repair Aden’s roads

Japan has granted $3 million in aid to Yemen to help repair damage to Aden’s roads. Marino Ishibashi, charge d’affaires ad inte…

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Bahrain prisoners end hunger strike after authorities meet demands

Bahrain prisoners end hunger strike after authorities meet demands

Hundreds of inmates at the Jau Reform and Rehabilitation Center have ended their monthlong hunger strike in Bahrain after the government fulfilled…

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V&A to look after ancient Yemen stones found in London shop

V&A to look after ancient Yemen stones found in London shop

The V&A is to look after four ancient carved funerary stones that were found by police in a shop in east London in a historic agreement with Ye…

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Yemen’s explosives contamination among world’s worst: ICRC

Yemen’s explosives contamination among world’s worst: ICRC

Yemen has one of the world’s highest rates of contamination with land mines and other deadly explosives, the International Committee of the R…

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GCC secretary general visits Yemen for first time in eight years

GCC secretary general visits Yemen for first time in eight years

GCC Secretary General Jasem Albudaiwi is in Yemen on an official visit to the city of Aden, the first such undertaking by the head of the group in…

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Huge fire destroys 70 IDP camp tents in Yemen's Marib

Huge fire destroys 70 IDP camp tents in Yemen's Marib

A huge fire has destroyed 70 tents in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Yemen's central province of Marib…

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Egypt backs UN role in settling Yemeni crisis, completing the political solution: FM Shoukry

Egypt backs UN role in settling Yemeni crisis, completing the political solution: FM Shoukry

Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry reiterated Cairo's commitment to supporting the United Nations' role in Yemen to consolidate a ca…

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Houthi Wave of Property Seizures Hits Sanaa, Al-Mahwit, Ibb

Houthi Wave of Property Seizures Hits Sanaa, Al-Mahwit, Ibb

Houthi leaders in Yemen have escalated their acts of property theft in various regions under their control, especially in Sanaa, Al-Mahwit, and Ibb…

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Saudi Arabia’s border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants: Human Rights Watch

Saudi Arabia’s border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants: Human Rights Watch

Saudi border guards fired “like rain” on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross through Yemen into the Gulf kingdom, killing hundreds since…

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Oman, UN envoy discuss establishing peace in Yemen

Oman, UN envoy discuss establishing peace in Yemen

H E Khalifa al Harthy, Undersecretary for Political Affairs in Foreign Ministry, held discussions with Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of Secretary-G…

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Yemeni forces drive Al-Qaeda militants from Abyan valley

Yemeni forces drive Al-Qaeda militants from Abyan valley

Yemeni military forces have driven out Al-Qaeda militants from a valley in the country’s southern province of Abyan, shortly after seizing co…

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Yemen Defense Ministry Warns of Houthi Collusion with ISIS, Qaeda

Yemen Defense Ministry Warns of Houthi Collusion with ISIS, Qaeda

Yemen’s Defense Ministry has issued a stern warning about the peril of the ongoing aggressive actions by the Iran-backed Houthi militias agai…

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Guterres appoints an Egyptian to the Panel of Experts on Yemen

Guterres appoints an Egyptian to the Panel of Experts on Yemen

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Jasser Al-Shahed, an Egyptian, to the Panel of Experts on Yemen. The…

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Yemen speciality coffee 'wave' sweeps war-hit capital

Yemen speciality coffee 'wave' sweeps war-hit capital

The Arabian Peninsula's most impoverished country, locked in an eight-year conflict between Iran-backed Huthi rebels and forces supporting the inte…

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WFP Yemen Situation Report #6, June 2023

WFP Yemen Situation Report #6, June 2023

Highlights • WFP food security data show that inadequate food consumption rates bounced back to pre-Ramadan levels in…

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Yemen Reinforces Security Around Offices of Int’l Organizations in Southern Taiz

Yemen Reinforces Security Around Offices of Int’l Organizations in Southern Taiz

Authorities in the Yemeni city of Taiz and surrounding areas have stepped up security measures around the offices of international organizations an…

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