Yemen: UN agency provides emergency relief items to people displaced by Cyclone
Nov 07, 2015, at 03:29 pm
New York, Nov 7 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicated on Friday that prior to tropical cyclone Chapala making landfall on Yemen last Tuesday, the agency had moved 1,000 tents and 3,000 non-food items kits into a number of governorates to support people in affected areas.
Yemen: UN warns more than 1 million people could be impacted by flooding
Nov 05, 2015, at 03:01 pm
New York, Nov 5 (IBNS): While the United Nations is reporting that Cyclone Chapala – the rare tropical storm that slammed into Yemen's southern coast on Tuesday, dumping perhaps a year’s worth of rain in some areas – is expected to weaken to a tropical depression over the next 12 hours, the immediate concern remains the welfare of an estimated 1 million people, mainly in the two governorates of Shabwah and Hadramaut.