At least 400,000 Yemeni children under five could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported...

Kuwait has contributed to the medical treatment of 35,000 cancer patients in Yemen, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Tuesday. "Thanks to the generous support from the state...

Yemen expects a first batch of 2.3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by March through the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility, and Saudi Arabia could separately finance shots for around 50 per...

The World Heath Organization is deploying teams across Syria for a vaccination programme that will be rolled out both in government-held areas and territory outside state control, perhaps as...

Dubai yesterday launched a new initiative to speed up the distribution of coronavirus vaccines around the world. The Dubai Media Office announced that the initiative was sponsored by UAE...

Hamas yesterday welcomed the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s decision not to agree to an Israeli proposal to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health...

The General Director of Association 302 to Defend Refugees Rights, Ali Huweidi, welcomed the Lebanese government's decision to provide COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon free of charge...

The occupation's crimes are committed without any moral, religious, legal or human deterrents. It executes its crimes against prisoners who are unlawfully imprisoned in Israeli prisons through the actions...

The World Health Organisation has used an aircraft belonging to the Syrian regime to deliver medical supplies to the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, making it the latest of...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday that due to lack of funding, it had been forced to stop financial support for about 10,000 health workers in Yemen....

It seems that what Brazil's current Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo said at the Brazilian Senate in February 2020: "There is unfortunately still vast anti-Israel bias in bodies...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday condemned Israel for its violations of health rights in the Palestinian territories and in the occupied Golan Heights during the coronavirus pandemic. Representatives...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has delivered five new coronavirus testing kits to the Health Ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip, the UN Middle East special envoy, Nickolay Mladenov,...

A few days after Gaza's Health Ministry warned against the shortage of COVID-19 testing swabs, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov hailed the World...

It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew's grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf...

The Houthi will close Sanaa International Airport to relief flights including the United Nations from today. The group's foreign ministry said in a letter sent to the United Nations...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday warned that the dialysis centres in Yemen suffer from a severe shortage of essential supplies such as medication and fuel to run hospital...

The UN on Monday voiced "total" solidarity with Lebanon, saying it will continue to support the country "in every possible way" following massive explosions that struck the Beirut port...

The World Bank will finance a project worth $26.9 million to confront the repercussions of COVID-19 in Yemen, the country's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Dr. Najib Al-Ouj,...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a stark warning about the spread of the coronavirus in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. "We are at a...

Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country's coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, U.N. aid...

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation yesterday warned that more than 50,000 children under the age of five could die this year in the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the already dire situation in Yemen for vulnerable communities like internally displaced people and migrants, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has warned. "The situation...

Doctors at Mounira General Hospital have resigned on mass to protest against the death of their colleague from coronavirus. The doctors said Walid Yahya, 32, was not given a...

There has been approximately 113,000 suspected cases of cholera in war-torn Yemen since January, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anadolu reports. A total of 56 cases were...

Yemen Information Minister Muammar Al-Iryani claimed today that the Houthi group seized medical equipment aid sent by the World Health Organization (WHO), Anadolu Agency reports. "Medical equipment aid provided...

Russia and Syria have accused the World Health Organization of serving the West's interest, especially the United State at the expense of the Syrian people, in light of the...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday lifted restrictions imposed on the activities of its staff in areas controlled by the Houthis in north and central Yemen. "WHO hasn't locked...

The coronavirus is "widely spreading" in Yemen while cases are not being detected by the official authorities, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned yesterday. "The coronavirus in Yemen could...

The representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Gaza, Dr Abdul Naser Soboh, said on Wednesday that the coronavirus Covid-19 is heading inevitably to Gaza as it has...

US President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he has seen evidence that the novel coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, Anadolu reports. Asked if he has seen...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has recorded more than 110,000 suspected cholera cases across 290 of Yemen's 331 districts since January, 25 per cent among children under the...