Yemen can’t wait: A window into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, as told to Lauren La Rose After completing his post as UNHCR Canada Representative, Jean-Nicolas Beuze assumed his new role this year as UNHCR’s Representative in Yemen, where more than 80 per cent of the population depend on humanitarian aid...
300,000 people lose homes, incomes, food supplies and belongings due to catastrophic flooding in Yemen
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. An estimated 300,000 people in Yemen have lost their homes, crops, livestock and...
For Yemenis on the brink, aid funding gap spells disaster
Already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis after years of conflict and mass displacement, aid cuts due to lack of funds and arrival of COVID-19 put millions of lives at risk. By Shadi Abusneida in Sana’a, Yemen Having suffered through more than five years of...