Yemen

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Yemeni children return to school amid war and pandemic

As the new academic year begins, dozens of students sit on the ground of a house that has been converted into a school in war-torn Taiz, Yemen. In this poverty-stricken country, millions of children rarely get to sit in a chair or at a desk, or even go to school.

01/09/2021

Earth News

The inspiring women providing solar power to war-torn Yemen

Electricity is almost non-existent in parts of the country after 6 years of war, but these women want to change that.

27/03/2021

Yemen

Yemen faces famine as deadly as Ethiopia's in 1980s, says NGO chief

Jan Egeland called on the nations that had fought in Yemen, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to join Europe and the United States in funding the humanitarian response.

01/03/2021

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Yemenis displaced as push to capture city of Marib continues

Earlier this month, the Houthi rebels resumed a push to capture the city of Marib, located 120 kilometres east of the rebel-held capital Sanaa.

22/02/2021

Yemen

Yemen: At least 16 dead and 60 wounded in blast at airport in Aden

Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, has been engulfed in civil war since 2014.

30/12/2020

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Footage emerges of deadly blast at airport in Yemen

The blast happened just moments after a plane carrying a newly formed government cabinet landed in Aden, security officials said.

30/12/2020

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Yemenis light candles on Christmas Day to shine light on ongoing war

Yemeni citizens of Al-Jahmiliya neighbourhood, the most destroyed neighbourhood in Taez, light hundreds of candles on Christmas Day to draw the world's attention to end the war in their city.

26/12/2020

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Yemen's disabled basketball players overcoming adversity on court

In Yemen's war-torn capital Sanaa, women in long-sleeved athletics shirts raced down a basketball court in wheelchairs, dribbling and passing as a small crowd cheered them on.

15/12/2020

Travel News

Yemen's oldest cities at risk of complete collapse

The historic cities of Shibam and Sana'a have survived wars and are now at risk of collapse due to torrential rains.

07/11/2020

Travel News

"The treasure of Yemen" International Coffee Day celebrated in Sana'a

Mired in civil war since 2014 and one of the Arabian Peninsula's poorest nations, Yemen was once best known for its coffee industry

02/10/2020

Yemen

UN: Yemen's warring sides to swap more than 1,000 prisoners

This marks the first phase of a prisoner-release plan reached earlier this year.

27/09/2020

Yemen

97 medics die from COVID-19 as humanitarian crisis worsens in Yemen

The healthcare system of the war-ravaged country has been left in tatters. Even before coronavirus struck, Yemen had just 10 doctors for every 10,000 people.

25/07/2020

Yemen

'This virus makes it a double burden' for children in Middle East

The UN children's agency has called for an extra €85 million to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa. Euronews spoke to Juliette Touma, the Regional Chief of Communication for UNICEF, in the Middle East and North Africa.

21/04/2020

World

How is a Yemeni school using music to help children in wartime?

A school in the southwest of Yemen is implementing music lessons, in the hope of easing the stress of children living within the community.

17/01/2020

Yemen

Euroviews. The EU must push for peace in Yemen to avoid a decade of humanitarian disaster ǀ View

As we enter 2020, if the openings for peace are to set Yemen on a path to stability, the EU must be at the forefront of efforts to make the next ten years the decade of delivery, not the decade of disaster. For Yemen, that will require peace.

12/12/2019

The Cube

Can Saudi-brokered ‘peace deal’ really help end Yemen war?

Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and southern separatists signed a deal. But what change will the agreement actually bring?

07/11/2019

Yemen

France, UK & US 'may be held responsible for Yemen war crimes'

A panel of UN experts found that all sides of the Yemeni conflict have committed war crimes and said that third states providing aid or assistance could be complicit.

04/09/2019

Yemen

Houthis claim responsibility for missile attack in Yemeni city of Aden

The Houthi movement said it was behind the attack. Their official channel Al Masirah TV said the Iran-aligned movement had launched a medium-range ballistic missile and an armed drone at the military parade.

01/08/2019

Yemen

Yemeni tanker threatens oil spill ‘four times worse than Exxon Valdez’

Yemeni tanker threatens oil spill ‘four times worse than Exxon Valdez’

24/07/2019

Yemen

Yemen's Houthis target two Saudi airports with multiple drone attacks

Yemen's Houthis target two Saudi airports with multiple drone attacks

16/06/2019

Yemen

Houthi's begin withdrawing from Yemen ports

Yemen's Houthi movement has begun withdrawing forces from the country’s port of Saleef in Hodeidah province, finally invoking the terms of a United Nations-sponsored peace deal five months after the agreement was made.

12/05/2019

World

Hospital airstrike marks four years of Yemen Civil War

At least seven people have died in an airstrike on a hospital in Yemen, marking the end of the fourth year of the country's conflict.

27/03/2019

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UN: Yemeni civilians caught in fierce clashes

A UN humanitarian agency has warned that thousands of Yemeni civilians caught in fierce clashes between warring factions are trapped in an embattled northern district, an area that has become another flashpoint in the country's bitter civil war.

14/03/2019

Yemen

Euroviews. Ceasefire hasn't stopped bullets and starvation claiming Yemeni lives

When a ceasefire in Hodeida came into force in December last year, there was hope for people living through the nightmare of Yemen's civil war. But hope has been short-lived as stray bullets and starvation continue to claim lives.

05/02/2019

Yemen

Yemen crisis: How the battle at Hodeida port played out over 2018

The lifeline port of Hodeida has been at the centre of the ongoing Yemeni war this year — here are the key events.

27/12/2018

Yemen

Children as young as 10 fight, kill and die in Yemen's war

Some said they joined the Houthi rebels willingly, mainly because of promises of money or the chance to carry a weapon. But others described being coerced.

19/12/2018