by Maged Sultan
Youth form more than 60 percent of the population in Taiz – estimated at just over 3 million in 2017. Taiz is currently undergoing its most violent phase of armed conflict since April 2015. Up until the end of 2016, the conflict had caused the displacement of 177,880 families, 3,371 deaths and 15,869 injuries, in addition to […]
by Ghaidaa Motahar
“We include women in all cash transfer activities, but this is not ‘gender work’. We all know that women give anything they receive to their male guardians.” So said one of the managers of a prominent humanitarian organisation in Yemen when discussing the role of women in aid distribution.
During emergency relief efforts, when the entire focus of national […]
by Salama Mubarak
#LSEYemen
According to a recent report by the UNOCHA, an estimated 21.2 million people – 82 percent of the total population of Yemen – need humanitarian assistance. This report was published one year after the armed conflict escalated across Yemen. The report noted that 14.4 million Yemenis are vulnerable to food insecurity, 19.4 million people do not have […]
by Reem Jarhum
#LSEYemen
Art is not something that comes to mind for an average Yemeni. The current situation has pushed Yemenis into survival mode with more than half the nation living under the poverty line. Trying to explain to people that you are an artist is as strenuous as trying to explain to them that the economy of Yemen could […]
by Mazen Al-Hebshi
#LSEYemen
Nowadays, it is somewhat difficult to write anything positive about Yemen given the mutual rage and animosity between the factious groups who have done nothing but to intensify the harrowing stories of the already insecure country. Not surprising, a plethora of news stories both on social media and traditional media about Yemen has continued to focus on abject […]
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