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Heavy rain in Yemen leaves 40 dead, five missing

Sana’a, Yemen Reuters The death toll in western Yemen from heavy rains earlier this week has risen to 40, with five others missing, Houthi officials and aid workers said on Wednesday. Children push a motorcycle on a flooded road following rains in Sana’a, Yemen, on 7th August, 2024. PICTURE: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah. More than 500 homes […]

Yemen’s Houthis free more than 100 prisoners

Sana’a, Yemen Reuters Yemen’s Houthi group freed more than 100 detainees in Sana’a on Sunday, calling the move a “unilateral humanitarian initiative” to pardon prisoners and return them to their families. “Most of them are humanitarian cases, including the sick, the wounded, and the elderly,” said Abdul Qader Al-Murtada, head of the Houthi-run prisoner affairs […]

Yemen stampede: At least 78 killed in surge for Ramadan donations

Clothes are pictured on the ground after a stampede in Sanaa, Yemen, on 19th April, 2023.

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

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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, […]

Lick of paint for Yemen’s historic Sana’a as truce holds

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Sana’a, Yemen Reuters 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 […]

Truce offers glimmer of hope to Yemenis battered by seven-year war

Yemen Sanaa fruit market

Sana’a, Aden/Yemen Reuters 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 […]

Yemen’s warring parties agree two-month truce in major breakthrough

Yemen Sanaa air strike damage

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

Yemen Sanaa IDP camp

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 […]