'Double disaster' in Yemen as funding runs dry during COVID-19 outbreak - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

May 15, 2020

Children wearing protective masks look from behind a window during a 24-hour curfew amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RC25JG9G88PF — Children wearing protective masks look through a window during a 24-hour curfew amid concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus in Sanaa, Yemen, May 6, 2020. — REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

A man wears a protective face mask outside a shop amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen May 13, 2020. Picture taken May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RC2WQG97P6Y8

Health care system collapses as COVID-19 races across Yemen

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

People sit at a market's cafe amid novel coronavirus spread concerns in the old quarter of Sanaa, Yemen June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RC241H9ZK3EW

Intel: US offers no new funding at Yemen donor conference

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

Volunteers for a coronavirus awareness campaign wearing protective face masks attend lecture in preparation for any possible spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen March 28, 2020. Picture taken March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RC2XUF93UGU1

Trump administration touts aid that meets small fraction of Yemen’s COVID-19 needs

In Washington, reporting on Congress

A man carries a sack of wheat flour he received at a camp for people recently displaced by fighting in Yemen's northern province of al-Jawf between government forces and Houthis, in Marib, Yemen March 8, 2020. Picture taken March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Ali Owidha - RC29GF9R1PMN

US slashes millions in Yemen aid despite pandemic

In Washington, reporting on Congress