Yemen-based Jeel Albena Association for Humanitarian Development group has won the prestigious UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, a special prize that recognizes extraordinary humanitarian work aiding refugees, internally displaced or stateless people, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced on Wednesday

Severe rains and flash floods in Yemen have deprived some 300,000 people of their homes and livelihoods in the last three months, and many more may be impacted as the rainy season is expected to continue, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Andrej Mahecic said in a statement on Friday

The Shia Houthi rebels have suffered significant losses in an airstrike launched by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen's Houthi-held central province of Sanaa, the press service of the Yemeni Armed Forces said

The Arab coalition has intercepted four unmanned aerial vehicles launched by the Shia rebel Houthi movement from Yemen in the direction of Saudi Arabia, the coalition's spokesman said on Friday

The Saudi-led coalition has recently carried out over 30 intensive air raids on three western Yemeni provinces, the Houthi movement said

The Saudi-led coalition conducted at least a dozen air raids on Yemen's northwestern and central provinces in the early hours of Wednesday, the Houthi rebel movement said

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on Egypt to increase the number of COVID-19 tests, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) Director Rana al-Hajjah said on Tuesday