Seven children were killed in an attack on the city of Taiz last week, the United Nations’ agency for children said in a statement on Sunday. The victims, aged between 4 and 14, were killed on Friday in an attack on the Mawiyah district, UNICEF said. Taiz, in southern Yemen, is under siege by the …
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that “every two hours, a mother and six newborns die in Yemen due to complications in pregnancy or childbirth.” The data was included in a report issued by the organisation, Monday. UNICEF explained that “the years of war in Yemen have led to worsening the condition of women …
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A total of 335 Yemeni children have been killed in Yemen in the past year, Oxfam said Wednesday. The international humanitarian group said the “children have been killed by violent attacks including airstrikes, mines and shelling since 9 August 2018,” and that almost 600 have been injured during that time. On Aug. 9, a Saudi-led …
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More than 7,500 civilians, including almost 2,000 children, died in Yemen between March 26, 2015 and September 5, 2019, said United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet. “By September 5, 2019, our employees in Yemen confirmed the death of 7,508 civilians, including 1,997 minors,” Bachelet said when speaking at the 42nd session of …
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Health officials in Aslam, in Yemen’s Abs district, warn that more than six million children could be at risk of malnutrition if the war in the Arab world’s poorest country continues. But this not the only reason behind the high mortality rate among children in Yemen. There is also the conflict, now in its fifth year. …
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that around 12 million children in Yemen need urgent humanitarian assistance. UNICEF Representative in Yemen Sara Beysolow Nyanti, in a written statement on the occasion of World Children’s Rights Day, stated that Yemen is one of the worst countries for children in spite of the UN Convention on …
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned Saudi Arabia and Saudi-backed forces in war-torn Yemen for carrying out a series of abuses against Yemeni civilians in the furthermost eastern province of al-Mahra. In a report published on Wednesday, the New York-based group said the abuses included arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances and illegal transfers of detainees from Yemen to …
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Hand-washing to combat the spread of coronavirus is the order of the day, but it’s an unaffordable luxury for millions in war-ravaged Yemen where clean water is dangerously scarce. Yemen’s broken healthcare system has yet to register any cases of the disease, but if the pandemic does hit, the impact will be unimaginable in a …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that there is a possibility of about 113 thousand people suffering from a cholera epidemic in Yemen. WHO Yemen Office has announced that the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen since January has been approximately 113 thousand. It was noted that 56 of the cases were confirmed …
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The United Nations humanitarian chief has warned that Yemen will “fall off the cliff” without massive financial support. Mark Lowcock told a closed Security Council meeting on Wednesday that many more people will starve to death, succumb to COVID-19, die of cholera and watch their children die because they have not been immunised for killer diseases. He added that the coronavirus …
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