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Yemen Herald is an independent English-language news site covering Yemen: the conduct of the war and its effect on civilians, the humanitarian emergency, the economy, the political institutions on both sides of the divide, and the shipping lanes of the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab. Articles are reported against a published sourcing standard, including a two-source rule for any claim involving death or injury, and each one carries a note naming the sources it rests on.

Yemen’s foreign minister asks German MPs to speed up Houthi terrorist designation Yemeni Foreign Minister Afrah al-Zouba sits with her delegation at a Bundestag committee table in Berlin

Yemeni Foreign Minister Afrah al-Zouba sits with her delegation at a Bundestag committee table in Berlin

Yemen’s foreign minister asks German MPs to speed up Houthi terrorist designation

Yemen Herald News November 6, 2026

Afrah al-Zouba asked members of the German-Arab Parliamentary Group and two Bundestag committees to accelerate a terrorist...

UNICEF says 110,000 children among more than 200,000 displaced in Yemen since September Illustration of tents, a displaced family and partly filled funding bars representing displacement and an unfunded aid response in Yemen

Illustration of tents, a displaced family and partly filled funding bars representing displacement and an unfunded aid response in Yemen

UNICEF says 110,000 children among more than 200,000 displaced in Yemen since September

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

UNICEF said an estimated 110,000 children were among more than 200,000 people displaced in Yemen between Sept....

Yemen’s foreign ministry welcomes EU statement, asks for steps to cut Houthi arms and funding Illustration of a European Union flag, a sealed statement document and the flag of Yemen

Illustration of a European Union flag, a sealed statement document and the flag of Yemen

Yemen’s foreign ministry welcomes EU statement, asks for steps to cut Houthi arms and funding

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

Yemen's foreign ministry welcomed the European Union's Nov. 2 statement on the war and asked the international...

Taiz health office says 12 hospitals and 18 centres risk closure as fuel and oxygen run low Officials seated around a conference table during a meeting at the Public Health and Population Office in Taiz, Yemen

Officials seated around a conference table during a meeting at the Public Health and Population Office in Taiz, Yemen

Taiz health office says 12 hospitals and 18 centres risk closure as fuel and oxygen run low

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

Taiz's first deputy governor says the governorate's health system is near collapse, as the local health office...

UNFPA says more than 13,000 pregnant women in Taiz lack essential care Displaced women and children carry an aid box at a camp in Yemen

Displaced women and children carry an aid box at a camp in Yemen

UNFPA says more than 13,000 pregnant women in Taiz lack essential care

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

The UN Population Fund says more than 13,000 pregnant women in and around Taiz are without essential...

ICRC delivers four trucks of medical supplies to hospitals in Taiz Red Cross medics load a patient into a marked ambulance outside a hospital in Yemen

Red Cross medics load a patient into a marked ambulance outside a hospital in Yemen

ICRC delivers four trucks of medical supplies to hospitals in Taiz

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

The ICRC says it delivered four trucks of medical supplies, including surgical kits for weapon-wounded patients, to...

Guantanamo jury selection in USS Cole bombing trial seats one juror in three days Blast damage to the hull of the USS Cole at the waterline after the October 2000 bombing in Aden harbour

Blast damage to the hull of the USS Cole at the waterline after the October 2000 bombing in Aden harbour

Guantanamo jury selection in USS Cole bombing trial seats one juror in three days

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

Jury selection in the trial of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused of planning the 2000 USS Cole bombing...

UN names Jordanian official Samer AbdelJaber as resident and humanitarian coordinator in Yemen Illustration of an official appointment document with a wax seal beside an outline map of Yemen and relief tents

Illustration of an official appointment document with a wax seal beside an outline map of Yemen and relief tents

UN names Jordanian official Samer AbdelJaber as resident and humanitarian coordinator in Yemen

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

The United Nations says Samer AbdelJaber of Jordan has become its resident and humanitarian coordinator in Yemen,...

Yemen’s deputy water minister urges more investment as national water strategy is updated Illustration of an elevated water tank, pipeline, tap and solar panel beside a rising bar chart representing water sector investment

Illustration of an elevated water tank, pipeline, tap and solar panel beside a rising bar chart representing water sector investment

Yemen’s deputy water minister urges more investment as national water strategy is updated

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

Deputy Minister of Water and Environment Mujahid bin Affrar asked development partners to raise investment in Yemen’s...

Germany adds 10 million euros in Yemen aid after Wadephul meets al-Zouba in Berlin Delegations seated at a long table with German and Yemeni flags during bilateral talks in Berlin

Delegations seated at a long table with German and Yemeni flags during bilateral talks in Berlin

Germany adds 10 million euros in Yemen aid after Wadephul meets al-Zouba in Berlin

Yemen Herald News November 5, 2026

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Berlin would raise its humanitarian aid to Yemen by 10 million...