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How Sewing Face Masks is Helping Displaced Women in Yemen

How Sewing Face Masks is Helping Displaced Women in Yemen

Six years of conflict, disease outbreaks and extreme weather conditions have crippled Yemen’s economy. According to the World Bank, more than 40 pe…

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Yemen launches door-to-door polio immunization for over 4 mln children

Yemen launches door-to-door polio immunization for over 4 mln children

 Yemen's health authorities on Saturday launched a polio vaccination campaign for more than 4 million children in the north of the war-torn co…

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Cyclone kills Yemeni fishermen in Somalia

Cyclone kills Yemeni fishermen in Somalia

Seven Yemeni fishermen died when their boat was destroyed by gale-force winds as tropical Cyclone Gati lashed Somalia. The seven fisherme…

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Solar Energy Micro-Businesses in Yemen are Saving Lives

Solar Energy Micro-Businesses in Yemen are Saving Lives

Conflict and food insecurity continue to be prevalent in Yemen. Since 2015, Yemen has been experiencing a civil war that has taken a seemingly irre…

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Irish dairy farmers' milk donations raise over €100k for famine-hit Yemen

Irish dairy farmers' milk donations raise over €100k for famine-hit Yemen

A campaign to encourage Irish dairy farmers to raise funds for those affected by war and famine in Yemen has so far raised more than €100,000.…

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Yemeni parents build straw hut classrooms for children after schools bombed

Yemeni parents build straw hut classrooms for children after schools bombed

 Pupils line up in long queues in the morning in front of straw hut classrooms built by their parents in the courtyard of a school that was de…

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Yemeni Methyl Dealer Got Cooperation Deal Then Untaxed Cigarettes So SDNY Sentencing

Yemeni Methyl Dealer Got Cooperation Deal Then Untaxed Cigarettes So SDNY Sentencing

Redhwan Alzanam was charged with conspiracy to distribute methyl ester / 5F-ABD. Then he became a government cooperator - until that was…

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By the women, for the women: A new milestone in Yemen

By the women, for the women: A new milestone in Yemen

Yemen: A café in Yemen is shyly trending on social media for all the good reasons. The usually traditional, conservative attitude of the Yemenis, i…

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Desert locust is killing agricultural crops in Yemen, inflicting heavy losses on farmers: FAO

Desert locust is killing agricultural crops in Yemen, inflicting heavy losses on farmers: FAO

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has reported that the livelihoods of farmers in Yemen have been severely affected by the continuous…

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8 schools opened in Yemen's Mahra with Saudi support

8 schools opened in Yemen's Mahra with Saudi support

The Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) has inaugurated eight schools in Yemen’s Mahra governorate with the start of the…

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Mayo rapper and teacher seeking to raise €1m. for Yemen humanitarian crisis

Mayo rapper and teacher seeking to raise €1m. for Yemen humanitarian crisis

West Coast rapper and Ballina primary school teacher Mich Duffy has launched a fundraising campaign with the target of raising €1 million for the Y…

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Yemen Appeal Charity Tournament: What, when and where to watch

Yemen Appeal Charity Tournament: What, when and where to watch

The UBC Esports Association and the UBC Red Cross Club have teamed up to host a charity esports tournament to benefit the Canadian Red Cross Yemen…

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Community Health Workers Are Yemen’s Superheroes

Community Health Workers Are Yemen’s Superheroes

Staying alive in Yemen, now in its sixth year of civil war, is not easy. More than 24 million people — some 80 percent of the population — is in ne…

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Skaneateles woman freed after 16 months as hostage in Yemen following U.S.-brokered deal

Skaneateles woman freed after 16 months as hostage in Yemen following U.S.-brokered deal

Skaneateles, NY -- A Skaneateles woman is flying home today after being held hostage in Yemen for 16 months, her family confirmed to Syracuse.com |…

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Yemen officials say man has killed 12 in family dispute

Yemen officials say man has killed 12 in family dispute

 A Yemeni man killed at least a dozen people, including his wife and three children, in a family dispute in the country's central province of…

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Kidnapping and raping 92 people .. Details of a Yemeni execution..

Kidnapping and raping 92 people .. Details of a Yemeni execution..

On Saturday, the Specialized First Instance Criminal Court in Sanaa ruled to execute a person named Abdul Rahman Muhammad Hammoud Al-Shuja (25 years),…

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Yemen’s Houthi rebel group bans WhatsApp

Yemen’s Houthi rebel group bans WhatsApp

Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has banned and criminalized using WhatsApp application in the southwestern Ibb province which is under its control.…

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Twitter suspends account of Al Masirah TV run by Yemen's Houthi rebles

Twitter suspends account of Al Masirah TV run by Yemen's Houthi rebles

The Twitter account of Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement, was suspended on Wednesday.…

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Yemeni patients return to their country after receiving medical care in Jordan

Yemeni patients return to their country after receiving medical care in Jordan

Yemeni patients have returned back to their country after receiving medical care in Jordan for diseases that cannot be treated in Yemen, local dail…

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Egypt's Alexandria Airlines cleared for flights to southern Yemen

Egypt's Alexandria Airlines cleared for flights to southern Yemen

Egypt’s Alexandria Airlines will to start flights between Cairo and southern Yemen this week, increasing international travel options from the gove…

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