News type: Press release

Action Contre La Faim, ADRA, CARE, Danish Refugee Council, Intersos, Mercy Corps, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Relief Germany, as INGOs operating in Yemen, welcome the recent announcement by the UN’s Special Envoy to Yemen, Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, regarding the commencement of a 72-hour ceasefire on Wednesday 19 October at 23:59.

CARE and partners preposition relief supplies, distributed food packs.

CARE is worried about the new spread of fighting and insecurity to the Greater Equatoria region, an area previously largely unaffected by the conflict that has engulfed the country since December 2013.

Multi-sectoral experts will meet in Brussels today to discuss the urgent issue of gender-based violence that is prevalent worldwide, and gets particularly worse in conflict and among displaced populations. For example, in camps and host communities, lack of security and inadequate protection leave women and girls vulnerable to rape and harassment

CARE teams are on the ground in hard-hit areas scaling up the response, which includes distributing hot meals, clean water, tarps and hygiene kits.

An attack at a funeral gathering in Sanaa, Yemen yesterday claimed the lives of an estimated 140 people and injured hundreds of others. This is the most devastating attack on innocent civilians in the 18 month conflict in Yemen that has so far left 14 million people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

Amidst the horrors of the war in Syria, the humanitarian organization CARE International wishes to express its respect and admiration for the Syrian Civil Defence, commonly referred to as the White Helmets and one of CARE’s partner organizations.

CARE will be scaling up its response aiming to provide tarps and hygiene kits to some 50,000 people.

CARE is preparing to respond with clean drinking water, food assistance and emergency supplies such as tarps for shelter, blankets and hygiene kits.