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Yemen: Food supply chain Update - Thematic report, 2 August 2023

Yemen: Food supply chain Update - Thematic report, 2 August 2023

OVERVIEW Yemen’s dependence on imported food and fuel to meet local demand exposes its citizens to sudden a…

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UN operation to remove oil from decaying Yemeni tanker

UN operation to remove oil from decaying Yemeni tanker

UN operation to remove oil from the FSO Safer, a rusting tanker moored off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, has successfully removed much of the…

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Gov't forces repel Houthi rebel attack in Yemen's port city: state TV

Gov't forces repel Houthi rebel attack in Yemen's port city: state TV

Yemen's government forces repelled Houthi rebels' overnight attack in the south of the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, state TV reported Wednesday.…

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UN says most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen

UN says most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen

Most of the oil on board a rusting super-tanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, t…

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6 gov't soldiers killed in al-Qaeda attack in S. Yemen

6 gov't soldiers killed in al-Qaeda attack in S. Yemen

At least six soldiers of Yemen's government forces were killed in an attack carried out by al-Qaeda militants in the turbulent southern province of…

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Yemen: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict

Yemen: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict

A new report (available in Arabic and English) by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 24 incidents of violence against…

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Saudi approves $1.2 bln in Yemen aid: Officials

Saudi approves $1.2 bln in Yemen aid: Officials

Yemen's finance minister and central bank governor as well as the Saudi ambassador were expected to disclose details of the grant at a signing cere…

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FSO Safer: Ship-to-ship transfer of oil underway

FSO Safer: Ship-to-ship transfer of oil underway

The ship-to-ship transfer of more than 1.1 million barrels of oil from the decaying floating storage and offlading unit FSO Safer to a replacement…

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How unloading of oil from FSO Safer is defusing Red Sea’s ticking ecological time bomb

How unloading of oil from FSO Safer is defusing Red Sea’s ticking ecological time bomb

The risks of an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe happening off the coast of Yemen are receding as a UN-led operation to pump more than a mil…

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Yemen.. Taiz police seize weapons in the case of the assassination of  a UN Food Agency Worker

Yemen.. Taiz police seize weapons in the case of the assassination of a UN Food Agency Worker

Security authorities in Taiz revealed the seizure of a quantity of weapons, explosives, landmines, and wireless communication devices in the posses…

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How the UN ended up rescuing a stranded vessel in the Red Sea

How the UN ended up rescuing a stranded vessel in the Red Sea

A 47-year-old tanker rusting off the Yemeni coast in the Red Sea is the scene of a delicate UN-led operation to transfer a million barrels of crude…

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Child killed by Houthi drone attack in western Yemen

Child killed by Houthi drone attack in western Yemen

A 10-year-old child was killed and another was injured on Wednesday when Houthi rebels launched a drone attack on a village in Yemen's western Hode…

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Yemen Reinforces Security Around Offices of Int’l Organizations in Southern Taiz

Yemen Reinforces Security Around Offices of Int’l Organizations in Southern Taiz

Authorities in the Yemeni city of Taiz and surrounding areas have stepped up security measures around the offices of international organizations an…

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Eight civilians, seven soldiers died in separate blasts in Yemen

Eight civilians, seven soldiers died in separate blasts in Yemen

Eight people, most from one family, were killed when an unexploded projectile from Yemen’s years-long war detonated inside a house, while sev…

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2 soldiers killed in blast in SW Yemen

2 soldiers killed in blast in SW Yemen

Two soldiers of Yemen's government forces were killed on Tuesday in a bomb blast in the southwestern province of Taiz, a military official said.…

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High-stakes UN operation underway in Yemen to avert catastrophic oil spill

High-stakes UN operation underway in Yemen to avert catastrophic oil spill

The UN on Tuesday began siphoning one million barrels of oil from a decaying supertanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen, a crucial step in the rac…

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Yemen's Houthi group says peace talks stalled over payment dispute with Saudi Arabia

Yemen's Houthi group says peace talks stalled over payment dispute with Saudi Arabia

 Yemen's Houthi rebel group said that peace talks with Saudi Arabia have been put on hold because of a dispute over the payment of Yemeni civi…

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Team Set to Start Siphoning Oil Out of Rusting Tanker Moored Off Yemen, UN Says

Team Set to Start Siphoning Oil Out of Rusting Tanker Moored Off Yemen, UN Says

An international team is set to begin siphoning oil out of the hull of a decrepit tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen this week, a U.N. o…

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Yemen police arrest 21 suspects in the murder of UN World Food Program local office head in Taiz

Yemen police arrest 21 suspects in the murder of UN World Food Program local office head in Taiz

Yemen police have arrested 21 suspects in the killing of a local office head of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Taiz, according to Y…

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Yemen : UN food agency worker killed in Taiz province , Minister says

Yemen : UN food agency worker killed in Taiz province , Minister says

A UN food agency staff member has been killed in an attack in Taiz province in southern Yemen, the health minister of the internationally recognize…

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