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Progress made but challenges remain in life-saving cholera vaccination campaign for Hudaydah: UNICEF

6 August 2018
Interviews

The key Yemeni port city of Hudaydah is facing a new deadly cholera outbreak. To mitigate the risks, the Ministry of Health and the UN launched a week-long cholera oral vaccination campaign to target the most vulnerable. Grant Philip Leaity, UNICEF’s Deputy Director for Emergency Programmes, told Yasmina Guerda about the progress made so far and the challenges teams still face on the ground.

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UNICEF/Sadeq Al-Wesabi

UN targets half a million Yemenis in battle-scarred Hudaydah with cholera vaccine - UNICEF

6 August 2018
Humanitarian Aid

Over a year after cholera broke out in Yemen, killing more than 2,000 people, the disease is back and spreading fast in the Houthi-held port city of Hudaydah; a target of continued air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition to regain control of the city.

OCHA/Giles Clarke

News in Brief 03 August 2018

3 August 2018
News in Brief
  • Fresh Yemen hospital attack raises risk of new cholera epidemic
  • Conflict in new Ebola outbreak zone of DR Congo exacerbates complexity of response: WHO
  • Brazil urged to refocus economic policies to avoid ‘harsh consequences’ on most vulnerable
  • UN refugee agency beefs up assistance to nearly 1 million displaced in Ethiopia
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OCHA/Giles Clarke

Fresh Yemen hospital attack raises risk of new cholera epidemic

3 August 2018
Health

A deadly attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in Yemen in the key port city of Hudaydah has put hundreds of thousands of people at risk and damaged efforts to prevent a third cholera epidemic in the war-torn country, top UN officials warned on Friday.

UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

UN to convene Yemen talks early next month in Geneva, envoy tells Security Council

2 August 2018
Peace and Security

The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen announced on Thursday that after two years of stalled talks on resolving the crisis in the country, he plans to invite the warring parties to Geneva on 6 September for a round of peace consultations.

UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

Damage to civilian infrastructure ‘jeopardizes everything we’re trying to do’ in Yemen: UN coordinator

1 August 2018
Interviews

Damage to the civilian infrastructure in the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah could “jeopardize everything” relief operations are trying to do, said UN Special Humanitarian Coordinator Lise Grande. The severely malnourished might be too weak to survive a cholera outbreak, which could spread quickly if water and sanitation facilities are not kept safe from contamination.

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News in Brief 01 August 2018

1 August 2018
News in Brief
  • Attacks on Yemen’s water facilities, infrastructure, breach ‘basic laws of war’, says UNICEF
  • FAO seeks urgent humanitarian response to “severely underfunded” crises
  • Bodies of three Russian journalists killed in Central African Republic recovered by UN Mission
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Yemen: Attacks on water facilities, civilian infrastructure, breach ‘basic laws of war’ says UNICEF

1 August 2018
Peace and Security

Ongoing violence and attacks on civilian infrastructure in Hudaydah directly threaten hundreds of thousands of children and their families in Yemen, according to the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in a statement released on Wednesday

UNHCR/Bassam Diab

News in Brief 05 July 2018

5 July 2018
News in Brief
  • Syria: Civilians continue to suffer in crossfire, UN officials speak out
  • Yemen’s UN envoy reassured by warring parties’ ‘strong desire’ for peace
  • All countries falling short in delivering quality health care, says UN report
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Yemen parties underscore ‘strong desire’ for peace, UN Envoy reports

5 July 2018
Peace and Security

Warring parties in Yemen have expressed their “strong desire” to achieve peace, the United Nations Envoy for the country has reported.