Yemen war eight years on: Child killed or injured by explosives every two days in 2022

A child in Yemen was killed or injured by explosives every two days in 2022, new research has found, as the country enters its ninth consecutive year of conflict. Yemen is littered with landmines and unexploded ordinance such as mortars, Read More …

Yemen: Bomb explosion in Abyan province leaves two soldiers killed and four other people injured

Two soldiers were killed and 4 other people were wounded following a bomb explosion in Yemen’s Abyan province, news sources reported on Thursday night. The bomb exploded in the path of two armored vehicles belonging to the forces of the Read More …

Yemen: Two children killed in landmine explosion in Hodeidah

An explosion caused by a landmine killed two children and injured two others in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Tuesday, a local security official told Xinhua. “One of the landmines laid randomly by the Houthi rebel militia Read More …

Yemen: Children ‘badly hurt by landmine which exploded as one played with it’

Three children and a woman have been badly hurt in a landmine explosion in Yemen, medical officials said. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said the mine blew up on Thursday when one of the children began playing with the device. The group, Read More …

Yemen: Roadside bomb explosion kills 2 government soldiers in Shabwa

Two soldiers of Yemen’s government forces were killed and four others injured in an explosion in the country’s southeastern oil-rich province of Shabwa, a military official said. A local military officer told Xinhua news agency on condition of anonymity on Read More …

Yemen: 3 killed in landmine explosion in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah

Three people were killed on Wednesday in a landmine blast in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported. The victims were a woman and her two children, while her husband was critically injured in the blast Read More …

Yemen: Mine explosions kill 5 civilians in Nihm district, east of Sanaa

Five civilians were killed Wednesday in two landmine explosions in war-torn Yemen, according to a Yemeni observatory. A landmine exploded as three minors were grazing sheep in Nihm district, east of the capital Sanaa, killing two and injuring the third, Read More …