Yemen stampede: At least 78 killed in surge for Ramadan donations
Sana’a, Yemen Reuters At least 78 people were killed in a stampede in the Yemeni capital Sana’a as residents gathered at a school to receive cash donations distributed by merchants during Ramadan, witnesses and the Houthi administration said on Thursday. Hundreds of people crowded to receive the alms, which amounted to 5,000 Yemeni riyals, or […]
In Yemen, medical shortages compound suffering of cancer patients
Sana’a, Yemen Reuters Ali Jabri cradles his sobbing son Ayoub ahead of chemotherapy treatment at Yemen’s largest cancer hospital in the capital Sana’a where an eight-year war has led to shortages in life-saving medicine and equipment. The 12-year-old is one of 81,000 patients registered with the National Oncology Center from across Yemen seeking free treatment, […]
Postcards: In an empty kitchen, Yemeni family struggles with hunger
KHALID ABDULLAH and ABDULRAHMAN AL-ANISI, of Reuters, report from Sana’a…
Lick of paint for Yemen’s historic Sana’a as truce holds
Sana’a, YemenReuters Yemeni architect Zaid al-Kuhlani watched his workers dab white paint around stained glass windows from scaffolds, part of a large-scale restoration effort of UNESCO-listed historic Old Sana’a that has endured years of bombings during the war. Others used pulleys and ropes to lift the city’s distinctive brown mud to the top of its […]
Yemen’s conflict: Child soldiering continues despite Houthi promise
SAMY MAGDY, of Associated Press, reports on how, despite an agreement with the UN in April to halt the practice, the Houthis continue to recruit children into the military ranks to fight in the country’s ongoing civil war…
Truce offers glimmer of hope to Yemenis battered by seven-year war
Sana’a, Aden/YemenReuters Yemenis welcomed a nationwide UN-brokered ceasefire due to come into effect on Saturday evening as a glimmer of hope in a country ravaged by a seven-year conflict that has forced millions into hunger, poverty and homelessness. But after numerous failed attempts at peace and more than a year of escalating violence, Yemenis have […]
Yemen’s warring parties agree two-month truce in major breakthrough
Aden, Yemen Reuters The warring sides in Yemen’s seven-year conflict have for the first time in years agreed a nationwide truce, which would also allow fuel imports into Houthi-held areas and some flights operating from Sana’a airport, the UN envoy said on Friday. The UN-brokered deal between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi group aligned […]
“We are lost”: Yemenis face eighth year of struggle as war grinds on
Sana’a, Yemen Reuters Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger. Rmeishi, who is in the ninth grade, helps his family by working at his father’s car repair […]
UNICEF says 10,000 children killed or maimed in Yemen since 2015
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Ten thousand Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March, 2015, after the Iran-aligned Houthi group ousted the government, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. Artist Haifa Subay paints a mural about children’s suffering in the time of war as […]
Yemen’s children toil at dangerous work, not school
Sanaa, Yemen Reuters Instead of attending school, 15-year-old Harith Mansour spends his days wringing chickens’ necks, plucking feathers and bagging up fresh meat for customers of a small shop in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. He is one of an unknown number of Yemen’s children working to keep their families fed and housed as the toll of […]