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Officials: Migrant boat capsizes off Yemen, some 200 missing

By Ahmed Al-Haj Jun. 14, 2021 11:13 AM EDT
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — U.N. and Yemeni officials said Monday a boat capsized off the coast of war-torn Yemen a day earlier and some 200 migrants, mostly from the...

Yemen national soccer team coach dies from COVID-19

May. 16, 2021 09:16 AM EDT
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s soccer association said Sunday that the country's national team coach Sami al-Naash has died from COVID-19. The...

UN Security Council urges immediate cease-fire in Yemen

By Edith M. Lederer May. 12, 2021 09:26 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council called for an immediate halt to fighting in Yemen on Wednesday, saying that only a lasting cease-fire and...

Yemen launches coronavirus vaccination campaign

By Samy Magdy Apr. 20, 2021 04:04 PM EDT
CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s internationally recognized government began a coronavirus vaccination campaign Tuesday as the U.N. warned the pandemic was “roaring back”...

Aid group reports spike in COVID-19 patients in Yemen

Mar. 25, 2021 12:24 PM EDT
CAIRO (AP) — The international aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Thursday it is witnessing “a dramatic influx” of critically ill COVID-19 patients in...

FILE - In this Mar. 7, 2021 file photo, smoke rises after Saudi-led airstrikes on an army base in Sanaa, Yemen. Saudi Arabia announced a plan Monday, March 22, 2021, to offer Yemen's Houthi rebels a cease-fire in the country's yearslong war and allow a major airport to reopen in its capital, the kingdom's latest attempt to halt fighting that has sparked the world's worst humanitarian crisis in the Arab world's poorest nation. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
Saudi Arabia offers cease-fire plan to Yemen rebels

By Jon Gambrell And Isabel Debre Mar. 22, 2021 10:34 AM EDT

Migrants demand international probe into deadly Yemen fire

By Samy Magdy Mar. 13, 2021 03:36 PM EST
CAIRO (AP) — A leader of the migrant community in the Yemeni capital on Saturday called for an international probe into a fire that tore through a detention...

Migrant community: Fire at Yemen hangar on Sunday killed 44

By Ahmed Al-Haj And Samy Magdy Mar. 10, 2021 02:15 PM EST
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A fire that earlier this week tore through an overcrowded detention center for migrants in Yemen’s rebel-held capital has killed at least...

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2020 file photo, World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to journalists about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. After a visit to Yemen Beasly warned that his underfunded organization may be forced seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a desperate bid to stave off widespread famine in the coming months. Beasley told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday March 10, 2021, that conditions in war-wrecked Yemen are “hell.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)
'This is hell': UN food aid chief visits Yemen, fears famine

By Maggie Hyde Mar. 10, 2021 06:58 AM EST

UN urges Yemen’s rebels to allow access to injured migrants

By Samy Magdy Mar. 08, 2021 02:43 PM EST
CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. migration agency Monday urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to allow access to dozens of migrants injured in a fire at an overcrowded detention...

UN says fire in Yemeni migrant detention center kills 8

By Samy Magdy Mar. 07, 2021 03:27 PM EST
CAIRO (AP) — A fire broke out Sunday in a detention center for migrants in Yemen’s capital, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 170 others,...

Groups: Yemen aid shortfall means more hunger, less care

By Samy Magdy Mar. 02, 2021 10:55 AM EST
CAIRO (AP) — Aid organizations working in Yemen said Tuesday their programs will be severely cut after a U.N. appeal for donations to alleviate the world’s...

FILE - In this June 27, 2020 file photo, a malnourished boy lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations is launching an appeal Monday, March 1, 2021, for countries to fund its response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where more than six years of war have created the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. The virtual pledging virtual conference will be co-hosed by Sweden and Switzerland. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
UN chief: Appeal for Yemen raises 'disappointing' $1.7B

By Samy Magdy Mar. 01, 2021 06:08 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018 file photo, a woman holds a malnourished boy at the Aslam Health Center, in Hajjah, Yemen. On Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that more than 16 million people in Yemen would go hungry this year, with already some half a million living in famine-like condition in the conflict-wrecked country. The stark warning comes a day before a pledging conference co-hosted by Sweden and Switzerland. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
UN warns of mass famine in Yemen ahead of donor conference

By Samy Magdy Feb. 28, 2021 02:56 PM EST

UN sanctions top Houthi police official in Yemen's capital

By Edith M. Lederer Feb. 25, 2021 08:13 PM EST
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions Thursday on a top police security official in Yemen's capital, which is controlled by Houthi...

FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2014 file photo, Hawthi Shiite rebels chant slogans at the compound of the army's First Armored Division, after they took it over, in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen’s war began in September 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other countries, entered the war alongside Yemen’s internationally recognized government in March 2015. The war has killed some 130,000 people and driven the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
Timeline: Yemen war began in 2014 when Houthis seized Sanaa

Feb. 11, 2021 01:04 AM EST

FILE - In this July 27, 2018, file photo, Kahlan, a 12-year-old former child soldier with Yemen's Houthi rebels, demonstrates how to use a weapon at a camp for displaced persons where he took shelter with his family in Marib, Yemen. President Joe Biden's announcement that the U.S. will end its support of a Saudi-led coalition's years-long war against Yemen's Houthi rebels likely will increase pressure on the kingdom to end its campaign there, though reaching an enduring peace for the Arab world's poorest country still remains in question. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
EXPLAINER: What US ending Saudi war support means for Yemen

By Jon Gambrell Feb. 05, 2021 06:12 AM EST

A malnourished girl Rahmah Watheeq receives treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday. Nov. 3, 2020. Two-thirds of Yemen's population of about 28 million people are hungry, and nearly 1.5 million families currently rely entirely on food aid to survive, with another million people are set to fall into crisis levels of hunger before the year end, according to aid agencies working in Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder

By Eissa Ahmed, Tameem Akhgar And Samy Magdy Nov. 20, 2020 01:06 AM EST

UN food chief: Yemen faces `looming famine,' needs millions

By Edith M. Lederer Nov. 11, 2020 02:41 PM EST
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program sounded an alarm Wednesday that war-torn Yemen faces “looming famine" and...

In this image made from UNTV video, Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi Mansour, President, of Yemen, speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday Sept. 24, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. (UNTV via AP)
Yemen's president urges Houthis to allow humanitarian aid

Sep. 24, 2020 12:34 PM EDT