Mark Lowcock

A health worker takes the temperature of people riding a taxi van

Yemen faces spread of COVID-19 ‘with no health care system at all’

COVID-19

Yemen, made vulnerable by more than five years of war, is ill-equipped to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The public health problem is exacerbated by warring factions, who downplay the threat of the pandemic even as Yemeni hospitals — and graveyards — are crowded with victims.

Saida Ahmed Baghili, second from left, 19, who is recovering from severe malnutrition, poses for a photograph with her father and her sisters Jalila, left, 12, and Amal, right, 7, and 4-year-old brother Omar at their hut in al-Tuhaita district of Hodeidah

UN official calls humanitarian conditions in Yemen ‘shocking’

Conflict