• U.N. says 10,000 displaced as clashes escalate over key Yemen city

    U.N. says 10,000 displaced as clashes escalate over key Yemen city

    Oct 07, 2021 07:54 PM EST

    ... Yemeni city of Marib has displaced around 10,000 people in the past month, the U.N. migration agency said Thursday. The clashes escalated as Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels intensified their push to take the provincial capital from government forces. Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since ...

  • Yemen uses U.N. speech to call for more COVID-19 vaccines

    Yemen uses U.N. speech to call for more COVID-19 vaccines

    Sep 27, 2021 06:38 PM EST

    ... s poorest are not left behind. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak said the roughly 1 million doses Yemen was given are not enough to vaccinate even the most vulnerable portions of its population. Yemen has a long way to go toward vaccinating ...

  • 16 million Yemenis 'marching' toward starvation due to war, UN says

    16 million Yemenis 'marching' toward starvation due to war, UN says

    Sep 23, 2021 01:11 PM EST

    Yemen has been fighting a civil war since 2014, when Iran-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital of Sanaa and much of the northern part of the country, forcing the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia. A Saudi ...

  • Can Yemen exist as a unified state post-war? Here's what different forces want

    Can Yemen exist as a unified state post-war? Here's what different forces want

    May 10, 2021 10:40 PM EST

    Mr. Al Araby (through translator): Between us Yemenis, we are brothers. We are one Yemen. North, south all are Yemenis. Saudis and Emiratis, they don't want Yemen to be one country united, but as Yemenis, whether it's the north or the south, we are the same, we have ...

  • Stalked by death: How rising food insecurity is killing war-torn Yemen's children

    Stalked by death: How rising food insecurity is killing war-torn Yemen's children

    May 04, 2021 10:40 PM EST

    ... the recent push for peace here. Saleh Mohammed (through translator): We think the new president, Joe Biden, is much better than the last one towards Yemen. He wants to stop the war in Yemen, unlike the last one. We hope to be able to go back home, but thousands of ...

  • On the ground with Yemeni soldiers battling Iran-allied rebels

    On the ground with Yemeni soldiers battling Iran-allied rebels

    May 03, 2021 10:35 PM EST

    ... search of safety, in search of the promise of hope, hope for an end to this war. If efforts for a cease-fire do not succeed, these families will flee again. They are running out of places to go. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Jane Ferguson in Marib, Yemen.

  • U.N. says 40 civilians died in central Yemen in March

    U.N. says 40 civilians died in central Yemen in March

    Apr 16, 2021 09:31 PM EST

    ... casualties were 13 people residing in makeshift settlements for displaced families, added the UNHCR. The escalation in violence has so far displaced over 13,600 Yemenis in Marib, which already hosts a nearly one million of Yemen's internally displaced people, said the statement. Almost 80 percent of the newly ...

  • In Yemen's brutal ongoing war, ‘the weakest no longer survive’

    In Yemen's brutal ongoing war, ‘the weakest no longer survive’

    Mar 15, 2021 10:45 PM EST

    Nick Schifrin: From the outside, it seems that that momentum is negative. There have been 30 attacks by the Houthis into Saudi Arabia this month alone. The Houthis have launched a major offensive in Marib. It's one of the remaining strongholds in the north of the Yemeni government. Saudis ...

  • Yemen’s rebels say latest U.S. sanctions will prolong the war

    Yemen’s rebels say latest U.S. sanctions will prolong the war

    Mar 03, 2021 09:00 PM EST

    ... and commercial vessels in international waters,” the departments of State and Treasury said. They said the Houthis play “a significant role in the conflict in Yemen and exacerbate the dire humanitarian plight of the Yemeni people.” Mohammed Abdul-Salam, a spokesman for the Houthis, said the sanctions show the U ...

  • U.N. chief says appeal for Yemen raises 'disappointing' $1.7 billion

    U.N. chief says appeal for Yemen raises 'disappointing' $1.7 billion

    Mar 02, 2021 12:02 AM EST

    "We can only end the humanitarian crisis in Yemen by ending the war in Yemen. And so the United States is reinvigorating our diplomatic efforts to end the war," Blinken said. Other major pledges came from Germany ($241 million), the United Arab Emirates ($230 million), the United Kingdom ($123 ...