English News and Press Release on Yemen about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Epidemic, Flash Flood and more; published on 22 Jul 2020 by FAO …
Resistance to the Brotherhood in Yemen
Southern Yemenis took to the streets of the Hadhramaut province this week in protest against moves to court the Muslim Brotherhood in South Yemen, writes …
Can an environmental catastrophe in Yemen be averted?
Fighting has divided the cities, destroyed the economy and triggered a humanitarian crisis and Yemen is also on the verge of an environmental disaster. For five years, the oil tanker FSO SAFER has …
Time running out to prevent oil spill from ‘ticking time bomb’ tanker in Yemen, UN warns
Time is running out to prevent a decaying tanker off the coast of Yemen from dumping its load of 1.1 million barrels of oil into the Red Sea, sparking an environmental catastrophe, the United Nations …
UN Security Council concerned over decaying oil tanker off Yemen
The UN Security Council has expressed its deep concern about the increased danger posed by FSO Safer – a floating oil storage and offloading vessel moored in the Red Sea off Yemen. Image Credit: …
As if Yemen Needed More Woes, a Decrepit Oil Tanker Threatens Disaster
A rusting vessel used for years to store oil off Yemen’s coast poses what the United Nations has called a dire and entirely preventable threat of ecological catastrophe.
UN Yemen envoy calls for probe into civilian deaths
Envoy calls for investigation into Wednesday’s air strikes that killed at least 11 civilians in al-Jawf province.
Oil spill from Yemen tanker ‘would be four times worse than Exxon Valdez’ – UN
Spill from decaying vessel could wreck environment and livelihoods for decades …
Time running out to prevent huge oil spill off Yemen, UN official warns
Houthi rebels preventing access to rusting tanker containing 1.1m barrels of crude …
Air strikes kill civilians in Yemen’s al-Jawf province, residents say
Jawf killed at least seven civilians on Wednesday, residents and an official from the Houthi movement said, in the third such incident since June as violence resurges in the war-damaged country.