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25 Jan 2021 DOHA

Qatar Red Crescent Society To Rehabilitate Yemen Drinking Water Projects

The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) announced Sunday that it recently launched a new project to dig wells and rehabilitate water projects in Yemen. About 120,000 people in five governorates – Taiz, Al-Dhalea, Saada, Hajjah, and Rayma – will benefit from the project, with a total cost of $1,097,870...

13 Jul 2019 ROME, Italy

UNFAO: Conflict And Climate Conditions Continue To Exacerbate Food Insecurity

Variable climate conditions and persistent conflicts contine to cause high levels of food insecurity in 41 countries, with 31 of these in Africa, UNFAO has reported. The Crop Prospects and Food Situation report issued by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization July 4, relates that these countries continue to be in food deficit and in need of external assistance, a situation that has not changed in three months...

8 Jul 2019 SANA'A, Yemen

Rainy Season Will Exacerbate Cholera Crisis In Conflict-torn Yemen

The battle against cholera in Yemen is far from over, the Save the Children charity has warned: the first six months of 2019 have already seen more suspected cases than the whole of 2018, including 203,000 children under 15. At least 193 children have died of cholera related illnesses in the country in 2019...

13 Mar 2019 EDINBURGH, Scotland

Water And Violence: Resources And Infrastructure Attacks Analyzed

Strategic Foresight Group (SFG), an India-based international think-tank engaged in crafting new policy concepts that enable decision makers to prepare for a future in uncertain times, has released a monthly Bulletin which covers attacks on water infrastructure in different parts of the world.OOSKAnews will share these informative Bulletins with our readers, starting with these links to 2019’s first reports under the SFG program:YemenThe Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace has called for the protection of water resources and infrastructure from violent conflicts and terrorist acts...

10 Apr 2018 ADEN

Emirates Red Crescent Supports Aden With Sewage Pumps

The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has handed over new equipment to the Water and Sanitation Foundation in the Yemeni governorate of Aden, including six control panels for sewage pumps. ERC has also paid the salaries for the employees of the Water and Sanitation Foundation for six months, worth around AED18,000,000.

27 Feb 2018 RIDAYH

Kuwait to Help Address Water Crisis in Aden

Officials from Kuwait and Aden signed an agreement to transport water from Abyan to Aden to permanently address the water supply problem in the Yemeni port city. The agreement is aimed at fixing the 58 kilometer pipeline designed to transport 13,000 -15,000 cubic meters of water every day.

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. 

17 Nov 2017 GENEVA, Switzerland

New Yemen Cholera Risk as Saudi Blockade Continues, Three Cities Stop Providing Clean Water

Three cities in Yemen have stopped providing clean water in recent days, putting close to a million people at risk of a renewed cholera outbreak and other water-borne diseases."The water and sewage systems in Hodeida, Sa'ada and Taiz stopped operating because of a lack of fuel", said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) head of delegation in Yemen, Alexandre Faite...

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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23 May 2016 NAIROBI, Kenya

New UNEP Report Warns of Rapid Pace of Environmental Deterioration

Environmental deterioration around the world is occurring at a faster pace than than previously thought, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) warned in a new report.Results from the latest Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6): Regional Assessments, released ahead of the UN Environment Assembly being held in Nairobi, Kenya this week, showed that a number of common environmental threats, among them climate change, loss of biodiversity, land degradation, and water scarcity, are rapidly intensifying in many parts of the world...

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24 Feb 2016 DOHA, Qatar

$2.5 Billion Needed for Relief Efforts in Yemen: Doha Conference

Some $2.5 billion USD is needed to support humanitarian relief work in war-torn Yemen, participants heard at a conference this week organized by Qatar Charity along with 13 regional and international organizations.The conference, themed “The Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: Challenges and Prospects for Humanitarian Response,” aimed to formulate a joint action plan for relief work in six main areas: education, health, water and sanitation, livelihoods and economic empowerment, shelter, and food security...

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19 Feb 2016 OAKLAND, CA

List of Water-Related Conflicts Worldwide Is Growing

Violent conflicts over water have been flaring in places from Yemen to Peru, and an updated global list shows a sharp rise in the number of water-related clashes reported over the past three decades. The list now includes 11 new examples from 2015, ranging from the bombing of a water pipeline in Syria to deadly clashes in Somalia.

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