Just 46 percent of Yemen's rural population has direct access to an adequate water supply and the number is only slighter better in cities, according to the German Development Service (GDS), which ...

More than 70% of the population is living in rural areas, but 70% of NGO’s are working in urban areas with little or no access to rural areas. And even in the areas where they do have access, it ...

Yemen ranks at the bottom of the UN gender equality index and there are very limited work opportunities for women, especially in rural areas. Advertisement But for the group managing this project ...

The United Nations calls Yemen the site of the worst humanitarian suffering in the world. Years of war have caused widespread starvation and disease; supply routes are blocked by fighting, and ...

Yemen’s future conflicts will be over water. ... the percentage of the population that lives in rural Yemen has decreased from 91 percent to 61 percent between 1960 and 2020.

April 15, 2013-- Like many girls in rural Yemen, Raysa Al-Kholani was married off early—in grade 7—and faced long odds in continuing her studies.Her in-laws insisted she stay home and care for a ...

Since the outbreak of Yemen's civil war in 2015, residents of many cities have been forced to flee to rural areas to start a new life, leaving some urban areas almost deserted.

ANKARA. The ongoing blockade due to conflict in Yemen is causing a significant financial loss to rural farmers who are unable to sell their livestock due to restricted market access.

Photographer Alex Potter arrived in Yemen in 2012 as it was going through an uprising, part of the broader Arab upheaval. Since then, she's grown deeply attached, even as it has fallen into chaos.

Women hold their malnourished children at the Hays Rural Hospital in Hodeida, Yemen, Oct. 11, 2022. For years starvation has been an everyday threat for Yemen’s children. Now, as the war ...