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17 April 2012 - 3:24pmDeputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Catherine Bragg today called on the international community to help millions of people in Yemen facing a worsening humanitarian crisis, as she ended a two-day visit to Sana’a. The World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 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... -
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... -
31 January 2012 - 1:12pmOn 6 December 2011, two children drowned in a sewage cesspool in the Qatatwa neighbourhood of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Wesam Abu Sahlouh, 4, and his sister Malek, 2, lived in a small refugee house nearby the cesspool. They managed to crawl through a hole in the fence surrounding the... -
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...
