IFRC

Yemen

18 June 2009

Yemen Red Crescent on climate-change front line

Abdul Azayn says he feels safer since the government, helped by local people using only shovels, recently completed an earthwork to protect his village alongside Wadi Murr from the kind of flash flood that last autumn claimed the lives of two neighbours.
Yemen floods: remembering a forgotten disaster
28 December 2008

Yemen floods: remembering a forgotten disaster

Increased donor support is vital to allow the Yemen Red Crescent to bring continued assistance to the survivors of flash floods, caused by torrential rains which ...
11 November 2008

Yemen: Situation “critical” for flood-affected families

Thousands of families remain in a critical situation after flash floods affected a third of Yemen in late October.

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