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8 Oct 2020 AS-SALIF, Yemen

Security Council Demands Access To Decaying Oil Tanker Which Threatens Yemen Freshwater Resources, Ecosystems

This news article was updated 19 OctoberThe United Nations Security Council has called on Iran-backed Houthis to give experts immediate access to the stricken SFO Safer oil tanker in the Red Sea. The tanker has been stranded and unmaintained for five years north of Yemen's port city Hodeidah.The condition of the tanker, containing an estimated 1,148,000 barrels of light crude oil and anchored 4...

3 Sep 2020 RIYADH

Yemen Water Wells At Risk As Stricken Oil Tanker Remains Unattended

The SAFER Exploration & Production Operations Company (SEPOC), which owns the derelict Safer oil tanker that is anchored off Hodeidah’s coastline, confirmed the need to discharge the oil on board the rundown vessel before an environmental catastrophe takes place. Safer holds around 1.1 million oil barrels on board.

26 Mar 2018 AMMAN Jordan

Three Years Of Yemen War: “Let Us Not Fool Ourselves. Cholera Is Going To Come Back”: United Nations

Yemen Rainy Season Approaches; Time Is Lost as Aid Is Delayed; “Peanuts” Jibe At Trump; Three Years Of War Is “More Than Enough”The United Nations has warned that Yemen is likely to be hit by another cholera outbreak within a few weeks.As the third anniversary of the outbreak of the country’s civil war approaches, Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Middle East and North Africa director, said (March 25) “Let us not fool ourselves...

22 Jan 2018 KUWAIT CITY

Kuwait to Rehabilitate Water Stations in Yemen

Kuwait has announced the launch of a campaign aimed at rehabilitating the water sector in Yemen's capital Sana'a.  The project is expected to benefit more than 50,000 people living in 8 residential areas. 

1 Dec 2017 SANA'A

Red Cross Buys Fuel to Pump Yemen Water in "Exceptional and Unsustainable" Move

The International Committee of the Red Cross is buying 750,000 litres of diesel fuel to help provide clean water for a million people living in Yemen. Nine cities ran out of clean water this month because a blockade by a Saudi-led coalition prevented imports of fuel needed for pumping and sanitation.

31 Aug 2017 PITTSBURGH PA

UNICEF: Children in War Torn Countries Have Right to Safe Water

According to UNICEF, more than 180 million people are cut off from water in countries of conflict including Yemen, Syria and Nigeria. Generally, inhabitants of these countries are four times more likely to lack safe water than people in other countries. In such countries, UNICEF reports that water sources are either contaminated, in disrepair, or even deliberately destroyed as an act of war.

22 Aug 2017 KUALA LUMPUR

Climate Change and the Arab Spring

The Arab Spring broke out in 2011 with a wave of demonstrations and protests in Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. This was hailed as the outbreak of democracy against authoritarian regimes, but what went unnoticed were the underlying causes of three interconnected factors – a growing youth unemployment bulge from rapid population growth, the inability of existing governance structures to deal with growing social stresses and the catalyst for social breakdown – climate change.

26 Jun 2017 RIYADH

New Saudi Prince Orders Cholera Aid to Yemen

Saudi’s new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, who recently replaced his cousin as next in line to the throne, ordered a $67 million donation. Ironically, Saudi Arabia has contributed to the instability – and by extension the cholera outbreak – in Yemen as part of the Arab coalition participating in the military offensive.

23 Jun 2017 Geneva

Vaccines for Yemen as Cholera Death Toll Mounts

The World Health Organization (WHO) and some major partners have agreed to send 1 million doses of cholera vaccine to Yemen to help stanch a spiraling and increasingly deadly outbreak. Such a shipment and would amount to about half of the usual world stockpile. The WHO says that in just over two months, a cholera outbreak has taken over 1,100 lives and the caseload is rising, with peak levels unpredictable.

3 Nov 2016 NEW YORK, NY, United States

Colwell Accepts Saudi Water Prize as Yemen Bombing Continues, Cholera Spreads

Dr Rita Colwell was among eight scientists who this week accepted the prestigious, and lucrative biannual Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz International Prize for Water. A prize-giving ceremony was held at UN headquarters, and presided over by Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.Colwell, of University of Maryland at College Park, US, and Dr Shafiqul Islam of Tufts University, US, were awarded the “Creativity Prize” for their work using satellite data to predict cholera outbreaks...

25 Oct 2016 SANA'A

Emirates Red Crescent Builds Wells in Yemen

Construction on five water wells being built by the Emirates Red Crescent in Yemen’s Al Mukalla governorate started on Monday. The project is part of the organisation’s efforts to provide clean water to Yemenis and support infrastructure in the Hadramaut coastal region and will benefit more than 200,000 people.

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19 Sep 2016 MARRAKESH

Water Challenges for the Middle East

The United Nations World Water Development Report what many already know: hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) – especially in Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – have faced the worst water shortages in decades in 2016. This is the last thing the region needs, as it works toward economic growth and diversification.

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