Jul 02 Watch 11:33 Yemen’s spiraling hunger crisis is a man-made disaster By Jane Ferguson One of the poorest countries in the Middle East, Yemen's war has pushed it to the brink of famine. A Saudi blockade has slowed the flow of food and helped push prices up. Markets and businesses are ruined from airstrikes. Continue watching
Jun 13 Watch 8:33 ‘Catastrophic is becoming an understatement,’ aid groups lament as new Yemen battle begins The Saudi-led coalition that supports Yemen's government has begun an operation to retake the vital port city of Hodeidah, currently controlled by Houthi rebels who are aligned with Iran. Aid groups sounded alarms over the new escalation in the bloody… Continue watching
May 26 Powerful cyclone strikes Oman, Yemen; 5 dead, 30 missing By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Cyclone Mekunu caused flash flooding that tore away whole roadways and submerged others in Salalah, Oman’s third-largest city. Continue reading
May 22 5 important stories that have nothing to do with the Russia probe By Hannah Grabenstein, Dan Cooney, Joshua Barajas, Erica R. Hendry Inside the world's worst humanitarian crisis, why we're seeing more mega rain storms and other stories we're reading now. Continue reading
May 19 Watch 9:54 How food became a weapon of war in Yemen By Marcia Biggs Three years into its civil war, Yemen has become the site of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. A proxy war between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and a Saudi Arabia-led coalition has led to starvation and blocked supplies to the… Continue watching
May 19 Watch 26:44 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode May 19, 2018 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, May 19, authorities continue to investigate the Santa Fe school shooting in Texas that killed 10 people, and a sermon at the royal wedding invokes Martin Luther King Jr. Also, a look at severe malnutrition… Continue watching
May 18 Watch 10:07 Scarred by war, Yemen’s children carry burdens beyond their years By Marcia Biggs In Yemen, some of the most vulnerable victims are the 2 million children on the brink of starvation, or those who lost limbs during the fighting. In Aden, many children have been fit with prosthetic limbs, but with rudimentary materials… Continue watching
May 18 More than 22 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance every day. Here’s how you can help By Ryan Connelly Holmes Three years after a Saudi-led coalition began to bomb Yemen, the country is hanging on by a thread, workers for international aid organizations say. Continue reading
May 17 Watch 9:08 Survival is a struggle in the rubble of Yemen’s war By Marcia Biggs With its infrastructure broken, the constant threat of starvation and a failed state, Yemen is on the brink of collapse. Less than half of its health facilities are functional amid a health crisis that has seen epidemics of preventable and… Continue watching
May 16 Watch 9:53 Yemen was poor before, but ‘the war just finished us’ By Marcia Biggs It's being called the forgotten war. With access for journalists limited and dangerous, Yemen, home to the world's worst humanitarian crisis, goes largely ignored. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs was able to enter the country to learn how its people are… Continue watching