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...

The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Yemen Lise Grande warned that the World Health Organisation (WHO) could suspend about 80 per cent of its health care services in Yemen...

Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Egypt, Dr John Jabbour, said on Monday that the country needs more coronavirus tests, CNN reported. Jabbour said that increasing the number of tests...

The coronavirus Covid-19 has achieved what tyrants haven’t been able to by spreading fear and panic around the whole world, encompassing all creeds and ethnicities. The virus does not...

The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast said on Friday that the World Health Organisation had found the area’s first case of coronavirus earlier this month after samples were tested...

President Donald Trump is facing a backlash after he announced that he is halting US funding of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Accusing the UN body of having “failed...

Almost 100 per cent of coronavirus deaths in Egypt were people with chronic diseases, the local representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced yesterday. “Egypt is moving towards...

Coronavirus testing has resumed in the Gaza Strip after Israel allowed five testing kits purchased by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the enclave, a Gaza health ministry spokesman...

The World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Yemen, Dr Altaf Musani said Saturday that the organization has been working to prepare 37 hospitals in Yemen to wrestle with the...

People who contract coronavirus face a far greater risk of death than those who get the flu, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday. “The mortality...

President Donald Trump yesterday threatened to cut US funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), accusing it of bias towards China, where the authorities lifted a two-and-a-half-month travel ban...

African Union (AU) leaders must work together “in an integrated manner in preparation for an imminent storm of novel coronavirus infections on the continent,” the World Health Organisation (WHO)...

Governments in the Middle East need to act fast to limit the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned in a stark message to the...

Coronavirus-related deaths pushed past the 50,000 mark Thursday as the spread of the pandemic surges, Anadolu reports. The virus emerged in Wuhan, China last December and spread to at least...

The global effect of the coronavirus continued Wednesday as cases surpassed 905,200 globally, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University, Anadolu reports. The COVID-19 virus, which...

A UN human rights expert called on Tuesday for lifting international sanctions against countries ranging from Iran to North Korea and Venezuela to ensure that food supplies reach hungry...

Militants loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen are reported to have stormed into the southern port of Aden and stolen medical aid donated by the...

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) signed an agreement yesterday with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to support the organisation’s effort to combat the outbreak of the...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen carried out several airstrikes on Monday on the capital Sanaa, witnesses and media said, killing dozens of horses at a...