# Yemen Civil War
- Canonical dossier: [Web edition]()
- Markdown edition: [Plain-text edition]()
- Issue: Issue 004
- Rubric: Frozen Front / Famine
- Byline: Totally Fine Foundation editorial desk
- Reading time: 11 min
- Last reviewed: 2026-08-17
> The guns on the main fronts fell quiet in 2022, and combat deaths fell with them — by ninety per cent, on one count. The emergency did not leave: more than 22 million people in need, a hunger map split in two with the northern half switched off, the world's worst cholera burden, and the aid meant to answer it counted at fourteen per cent funded.
## Cover
- Kicker: Field dossier / MENA / protracted war
- Cover lines: The truce held. The hunger did not. / 18.3 million go hungry — and the sharpest count leaves out the north entirely / The world's highest cholera burden, in a health system barely three-fifths working / Seventy-three UN staff, all Yemeni, held by the authorities they came to help
#### Hero visual provenance
- Caption: Displaced children's schoolwork: the war that froze on the main fronts left more than five million people uprooted — a count kept strictly apart from every other figure in this file.
- Alt text: Displaced children's schoolwork laid out in Yemen.
- Credit: Julien Harneis
- Rights / license: CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
## Metrics
### 22M+ — People in need, 2026 (national)
- Category: humanitarian need
- Caveat: OCHA HNRP 2026 (22.3M in the plan headline); 12M targeted, 9.4M prioritized — targeted is a resourcing figure, not the need. National, not government-area.
**Source trail:** [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`); [US Congressional Research Service (with Security Council Report and CFR) — Yemen — In Focus IF12581]() (`yem-crs-2026`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: A plan, not a census.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: more than 22 million in need.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### 18.3M — Acute food insecurity
- Category: food security
- Caveat: National (OCHA). Separately ~5M in Crisis+ / 1.4M Emergency in government-controlled areas only (WFP/IPC, 47% of the IRG population); WFP paused in Houthi areas since Sep 2025 — the north is a data gap. Never present the IRG figure as national.
**Source trail:** [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`); [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The hunger map has two numbers measuring different countries.
- Alt text: Therapeutic-food distribution in Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### 35% — Share of the global cholera burden
- Category: health / disease
- Caveat: WHO 23 Dec 2024 statement: highest burden globally; 249,900 suspected cases / 861 deaths in 2024, 339,000 suspected in 2025. Suspected, not confirmed; two years kept apart.
**Source trail:** [World Health Organization — Cholera burden and the 2026 Health Emergency Appeal]() (`yem-who-cholera-2024`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: Disease runs into a health system at partial power.
- Alt text: A rural health centre interior in Yemen.
- Credit: Julien Harneis
- Rights / license: CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### 73 — UN staff held in Houthi detention
- Category: access / protection
- Caveat: All Yemeni nationals, plus dozens of other humanitarian workers (Feb 2026); the single largest concentration within 118 UN staff detained worldwide. An access figure attributed to OHCHR / HRW / Amnesty.
**Source trail:** [OHCHR — Rights, detention and the accountability gap]() (`yem-ohchr-detention-2026`); [Human Rights Watch — World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements]() (`yem-hrw-2026`); [Amnesty International — Yemen — detentions, deaths in custody and unfair trials]() (`yem-amnesty-2026`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The war counted in people the UN cannot reach.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: 73 UN staff detained in Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### 14% — 2026 appeal funded
- Category: funding
- Caveat: Of a US$2.16bn ask, as of the 14 Apr 2026 Security Council briefing; rolling on FTS (a newer ~13% on 6 May and a 17 Jun status exist but were access-blocked). WFP cut IRG beneficiaries 3.4M→1.6M for lack of funds, not need.
**Source trail:** [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`); [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`)
### ~158,000 — Reported fatalities from violence, 2015–2022
- Category: human cost / cumulative
- Caveat: ACLED, violence-only, deliberately conservative, excludes famine/disease. Separately a modelled ~377,000 total deaths 2015–early 2022 (~60% indirect, CFR/UNDP). Two methods, two windows — never merged; neither is a current toll.
**Source trail:** [ACLED — Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events]() (`yem-acled-2022`); [US Congressional Research Service (with Security Council Report and CFR) — Yemen — In Focus IF12581]() (`yem-crs-2026`)
## The war that stayed after the front lines.
### The war that stayed
Yemen's war is quieter than it was. The Congressional Research Service reads it as a war on pause — an uneasy truce has frozen conflict lines since 2022 — and the event monitors put a number on the quiet: ACLED logged a 90 per cent drop in front-line combat deaths against the six months before the April 2022 truce, and even after the formal agreement lapsed the large-scale fighting did not resume.
What the quiet did not do was end the emergency. OCHA's 2026 plan counts more than 22 million people — over half the country — needing humanitarian assistance, and asks US$2.16 billion to answer it. By the middle of April, OCHA told the Security Council, the plan was 14 per cent covered. The map stopped moving, and the deprivation kept spreading underneath it.
**Source trail:** [US Congressional Research Service (with Security Council Report and CFR) — Yemen — In Focus IF12581]() (`yem-crs-2026`); [ACLED — Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events]() (`yem-acled-2022`); [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The gap between a settling front line and a deepening crisis is the whole story.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: more than 22 million in need, US$2.16 billion asked, 14% funded.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### A hunger map split in two
The most important thing about Yemen's hunger figures is that there are two of them, measuring different countries. Nationally, OCHA puts 18.3 million people in acute food insecurity. The sharper recent classification — nearly 5 million in Crisis or worse, 47 per cent of the population, with 1.4 million at Emergency level — describes only the government-controlled areas, because the World Food Programme paused all of its activities in Houthi-controlled areas in September 2025.
The north, where much of the population lives, has become a data-and-access blind spot rather than a lower number. Funding is the pressure behind the southern figures: short of money, WFP cut the people it plans to feed in government-held areas from 3.4 million to 1.6 million, a reduction it ties to resources, not to easing need. Present the ~5 million as national and you misread the crisis; present it without the northern gap and you erase most of the map.
**Source trail:** [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`); [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: Two numbers, measuring different countries.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: national 18.3M vs government-area ~5M food insecure.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### The health system, and the world's worst cholera
The war left a health system running at partial power: OCHA reports 59.3 per cent of facilities fully functional, and WHO adds that just one in five can provide maternal and child health services. Into that gap runs disease. In a statement dated December 2024, WHO called Yemen the country with the highest cholera burden in the world — 35 per cent of the global caseload and 18 per cent of reported deaths, on 249,900 suspected cases and 861 deaths through the first eleven months of that year.
The response was as much about money as microbes: a vaccination drive reaching 3.2 million people, set against 47 treatment centres and 234 rehydration points closed for lack of funding, with a US$20 million gap. By WHO's 2026 appeal the caseload for 2025 read 339,000 suspected cases. These are suspected cases, dated, and belong to two different years — the file keeps them apart.
**Source trail:** [World Health Organization — Cholera burden and the 2026 Health Emergency Appeal]() (`yem-who-cholera-2024`); [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: A health system barely three-fifths working.
- Alt text: A rural health centre interior in Yemen.
- Credit: Julien Harneis
- Rights / license: CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### The aid workers who cannot leave
The crisis has a second, quieter front: the people sent to answer it. Human Rights Watch documents that the Houthis have arbitrarily detained UN and humanitarian staff since raids began on 31 May 2024; by February 2026, HRW and Amnesty record, at least 73 UN staff — all Yemeni nationals — along with dozens of other workers, remained in detention, many accused of espionage. The UN's own count is grimmer in the round: the High Commissioner, Volker Türk, said 118 UN staff were detained worldwide, up from 52 a year earlier, and that Yemen was the single largest concentration.
The cells have proved lethal: a World Food Programme worker detained since January 2025 died in custody in February. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Cairo Institute have jointly called for the detainees' release. The detentions are recorded here as the monitors recorded them — attributed, and not turned into a verdict.
**Source trail:** [OHCHR — Rights, detention and the accountability gap]() (`yem-ohchr-detention-2026`); [Human Rights Watch — World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements]() (`yem-hrw-2026`); [Amnesty International — Yemen — detentions, deaths in custody and unfair trials]() (`yem-amnesty-2026`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: A count kept as a trajectory, not a single number.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: detention trajectory 13 to 69 to 73 UN staff.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### How to read a war on pause
The honest register here is arithmetic kept in separate columns, and dated. The national need is OCHA's — 22 million-plus, 18.3 million hungry — and it is a plan, not a census, resting partly on modelling for a north no agency now measures. The government-area hunger figure is the WFP's and covers only the south. The northern supply line is UNVIM's and counts tonnes, not meals. The detentions are the monitors' and the strike tolls the Yemen Data Project's.
And the war's cumulative dead have no single agreed number: ACLED's most recent published toll is about 158,000 killed by violence between 2015 and the end of 2022, a figure it holds deliberately conservative and warns excludes deaths from hunger and disease; a separate, older, modelled estimate carried by CFR reaches 377,000 dead by early 2022, some 60 per cent of them from indirect causes. This dossier publishes neither as current, and merges none of the columns.
**Source trail:** [ACLED — Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events]() (`yem-acled-2022`); [US Congressional Research Service (with Security Council Report and CFR) — Yemen — In Focus IF12581]() (`yem-crs-2026`); [UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism / UNOPS — Northern-ports import ledger — Situation Report, March 2026]() (`yem-unvim-ports-2026`); [OHCHR — Rights, detention and the accountability gap]() (`yem-ohchr-detention-2026`)
## Actors and positions
### Houthi authorities / Ansar Allah (Sana'a-based authorities)
- Role: De-facto authority in the most populous, Houthi-controlled north.
- Confidence: high
- Position: Present themselves as the legitimate national authority resisting foreign — Saudi, US, Israeli — aggression, and frame their Red Sea and Israel operations as solidarity over Gaza.
- Supporter framing: Supporters cast them as the only force resisting external intervention and Gulf-backed rule.
- Opposing account: The recognised government, Saudi Arabia and the US call them an Iran-aligned movement that seized the state by force.
- Independent assessment: Monitors credit them with de-facto control of the most populous areas but not legitimacy; HRW, Amnesty and OHCHR document their arbitrary detention of 73 UN staff and civil-society workers, torture and unfair trials, and WFP's pause in their areas since September 2025 makes northern needs a documented blind spot rather than a governance success.
**Source trail:** [OHCHR — Rights, detention and the accountability gap]() (`yem-ohchr-detention-2026`); [Human Rights Watch — World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements]() (`yem-hrw-2026`); [Amnesty International — Yemen — detentions, deaths in custody and unfair trials]() (`yem-amnesty-2026`); [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`)
### Internationally recognised government / Presidential Leadership Council
- Role: The UN-recognised authority, exercised through an eight-member council based partly in Aden and Riyadh; internally fractured.
- Confidence: high
- Position: Holds itself as the legitimate government of Yemen, working to restore state authority across the country.
- Supporter framing: Backers frame it as the internationally legitimate alternative to armed movement rule.
- Opposing account: The Houthis call it a foreign-backed shell; southern separatists contest its authority in the south.
- Independent assessment: Recognised, but domestically contested and externally underwritten: the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council briefly seized most of the south in December 2025 before a Saudi-backed counter-offensive reversed it, the STC dissolved, and its ministers were expelled from the council.
**Source trail:** [US Congressional Research Service (with Security Council Report and CFR) — Yemen — In Focus IF12581]() (`yem-crs-2026`)
### Saudi-led coalition and the United States
- Role: External military backers of the recognised government.
- Confidence: medium
- Position: Frame their role as restoring the legitimate government and protecting freedom of navigation in the Red Sea.
- Supporter framing: Present the intervention as countering Iran-aligned expansion and securing shipping lanes.
- Opposing account: The Houthis frame coalition and US strikes as aggression against Yemen; rights monitors record heavy civilian tolls.
- Independent assessment: The Yemen Data Project attributes tens of thousands of coalition air raids and, in 2025, at least 238 civilians killed to US strikes — figures attributed to the monitors, not court findings; HRW calls one strike an apparent war crime, its own assessment.
**Source trail:** [Human Rights Watch — World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements]() (`yem-hrw-2026`); [ACLED — Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events]() (`yem-acled-2022`)
### Civilians, IDPs and migrants
- Role: The population bearing the compound crisis across all controlled areas; not a belligerent.
- Confidence: high
- Position: Survival priorities are protection, food and medicine, safe routes, and accountability.
- Supporter framing: Humanitarian actors emphasise access and civilian protection ahead of any political-victory narrative.
- Opposing account: Both armed sides accuse civilians or communities of collaboration when perceived to belong to the other camp.
- Independent assessment: WHO and UN reporting shows mass displacement, acute food insecurity, the world's worst cholera burden, attacks on health care and aid obstruction at national scale; African migrants transit Yemen and were among the dead at Saada. Highest evidential weight as victims.
**Source trail:** [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`); [World Health Organization — Cholera burden and the 2026 Health Emergency Appeal]() (`yem-who-cholera-2024`); [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`)
## Claims and evidence
### Yemen is in a post-war stabilization phase — the fighting is essentially over.
- Claimant: Broad-brush shorthand off the frozen 2022 fronts
- Evidence status: disputed
- Counterclaim: The truce froze the main land fronts and ACLED logs 90% fewer front-line deaths, but the emergency deepened underneath it.
- Independent assessment: True of the fronts, misleading as a headline about the country: OCHA counts 22M+ in need and 18.3M food insecure, WFP paused all activity in the north from September 2025, 73 UN staff are detained, and the south saw open fighting in December 2025–January 2026.
**Source trail:** [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`); [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`); [Human Rights Watch — World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements]() (`yem-hrw-2026`); [ACLED — Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events]() (`yem-acled-2022`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: A frozen front is not a healed country.
- Alt text: War damage to buildings in Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### The ~5 million 'Crisis or worse' figure describes Yemen as a whole.
- Claimant: Common misreading of the IPC / WFP number
- Evidence status: disputed
- Counterclaim: That IPC analysis is explicitly a partial analysis of government-controlled areas only.
- Independent assessment: False as a national figure: nationally OCHA counts 18.3 million acutely food insecure, and the Houthi-controlled north is a blind spot after the WFP pause. Presenting the government-area figure as national is a documented error class.
**Source trail:** [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`); [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`)
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The government-area figure is not the national one.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: national vs government-area food insecurity.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### Yemen's food insecurity is caused by a single party.
- Claimant: Single-cause narratives from each side
- Evidence status: disputed
- Counterclaim: Food-security bodies name multiple drivers at once.
- Independent assessment: Disputed: the drivers named include economic collapse and currency depreciation, sharp funding cuts, import and access constraints, contested governance and climate shocks — plus Houthi detentions driving the northern pause. Any single-party attribution is unsupported.
**Source trail:** [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`); [Human Rights Watch — World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements]() (`yem-hrw-2026`)
### The Red Sea and Israel attacks are a separate maritime issue, unconnected to Gaza.
- Claimant: Freedom-of-navigation framing
- Evidence status: disputed
- Counterclaim: The Houthis tie the campaign to Gaza — pausing after the October 2025 ceasefire and resuming strikes on Israel in March 2026.
- Independent assessment: Disputed and linked: ACLED reads the vessel-attack drop from 150 in 2024 to seven in 2025 as strategic recalibration on Gaza triggers — a linked regional layer distinct from, but not separable from Gaza in explaining, Yemen's local crisis.
**Source trail:** [ACLED — Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events]() (`yem-acled-2022`); [US Congressional Research Service (with Security Council Report and CFR) — Yemen — In Focus IF12581]() (`yem-crs-2026`)
## Language record
### UN OCHA
- Role: Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026
- Context: The national scale of need, kept apart from the government-area IPC counts.
Quotation text is available in the web edition and the cited original source; it is not republished in this machine-readable edition.
**Source:** [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026]() (`yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`)
### WFP, FAO and UNICEF
- Role: Joint statement on government-controlled areas
- Context: An area-specific figure, explicitly not national — the north was paused from September 2025.
Quotation text is available in the web edition and the cited original source; it is not republished in this machine-readable edition.
**Source:** [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)]() (`yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`)
### World Health Organization
- Role: Statement, 23 December 2024
- Context: 35 per cent of the global caseload; every count is suspected, not confirmed.
Quotation text is available in the web edition and the cited original source; it is not republished in this machine-readable edition.
**Source:** [World Health Organization — Cholera burden and the 2026 Health Emergency Appeal]() (`yem-who-cholera-2024`)
### Volker Türk
- Role: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Context: March 2026, on the single largest concentration of detained UN staff worldwide.
Quotation text is available in the web edition and the cited original source; it is not republished in this machine-readable edition.
**Source:** [OHCHR — Rights, detention and the accountability gap]() (`yem-ohchr-detention-2026`)
### Human Rights Watch, citing the Yemen Data Project
- Role: World Report 2026
- Context: A monitor's count relayed by HRW; Airwars logged a lower figure of about 224.
Quotation text is available in the web edition and the cited original source; it is not republished in this machine-readable edition.
**Source:** [Human Rights Watch — World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements]() (`yem-hrw-2026`)
### ACLED
- Role: Yemen Conflict Monitor
- Context: A conservative, violence-only cumulative toll that excludes famine and disease.
Quotation text is available in the web edition and the cited original source; it is not republished in this machine-readable edition.
**Source:** [ACLED — Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events]() (`yem-acled-2022`)
## Timeline
### 2022-04-02 — UN-brokered truce takes effect — first nationwide ceasefire in years
- Event type: ceasefire
- Confidence: high
A UN-brokered truce between Houthi forces and the Saudi-led coalition came into effect in April 2022. It has been repeatedly renewed and largely held on major frontlines, representing the most significant de-escalation of active fighting since 2015.
**Source trail:** [UNOCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Crisis — UNOCHA]() (`src-yemen-ocha`)
### 2023-11-19 — Houthi forces begin attacks on Red Sea shipping in solidarity with Gaza
- Event type: conflict\_escalation
- Confidence: high
Houthi forces began launching missiles and drones at commercial vessels in the Red Sea, citing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The attacks triggered a US-led military response (Operation Prosperity Guardian) and significant disruption to global shipping.
**Source trail:** [ACLED — Yemen — ACLED Tracker]() (`src-yemen-acled`); [UNOCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Crisis — UNOCHA]() (`src-yemen-ocha`)
### 2026-08-06 — Houthi strike on Nation's Shield Forces camps in Hadramawt
- Event type: casualty\_update
- Confidence: medium
A Houthi strike on Nation's Shield Forces camps in Hadramawt killed approximately 30 people, according to the SARI Global estimate carried by ReliefWeb.
**Source trail:** [ReliefWeb (OCHA) — ReliefWeb reports ingested by editorial pipeline (Aug 2026)]() (`src-yemen-confli-editorial-2026-08`)
### 2026-08-06 — Houthi ballistic-missile and drone strike on Marib
- Event type: casualty\_update
- Confidence: medium
A Houthi ballistic-missile and drone strike on Marib killed 15 people, according to the SARI Global estimate carried by ReliefWeb.
**Source trail:** [ReliefWeb (OCHA) — ReliefWeb reports ingested by editorial pipeline (Aug 2026)]() (`src-yemen-confli-editorial-2026-08`)
### 2026-08-09 — Weekly incident and fatality totals recorded across Yemen
- Event type: casualty\_update
- Confidence: medium
From 3 to 9 August 2026, 119 operational incidents and 102 fatalities were recorded across Yemen, according to the SARI Global estimate/report carried by ReliefWeb. Ansar Allah (the Houthi movement) initiated 36 incidents causing 61 fatalities, and Yemeni Government forces aligned with the Presidential Leadership Council initiated 32 incidents. The two 6 August strikes killed approximately 45 people combined and drove the week's fatality total; ballistic missiles and drones were concentrated on the Marib and Hadramawt fronts, which the report characterized as a sharp escalation in conflict lethality.
**Source trail:** [ReliefWeb (OCHA) — ReliefWeb reports ingested by editorial pipeline (Aug 2026)]() (`src-yemen-confli-editorial-2026-08`)
## Visual essay
### Gallery image 01
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: A rural clinic: only 59.3 per cent of Yemen's health facilities are fully functional, and one in five can offer maternal and child care.
- Alt text: A rural health centre interior in Yemen.
- Credit: Julien Harneis
- Rights / license: CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### Gallery image 02
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: Therapeutic-food distribution: over 2.2 million children under five are acutely malnourished, 516,157 of them severely.
- Alt text: Distribution of ready-to-use therapeutic food in Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### Gallery image 03
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: Displacement is counted apart from every other figure: 5.2 million IDPs, distinct from migrants and refugees, never summed.
- Alt text: Displaced people in Yemen.
- Credit: Julien Harneis
- Rights / license: CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
## Linked visual references
### Hunger Ward
- Photographer: Skye Fitzgerald
- Publisher: MTV Documentary Films
- Recognition: Academy Award nominee, Best Documentary Short, 2021
- Why it matters: A field record of clinicians treating starving children in two Yemeni therapeutic feeding centres, filmed inside the famine the figures describe.
- Original: [Open reference]()
#### The famine, filmed inside the feeding ward.
Fitzgerald's film stays with its publisher; this issue reads its evidence value inside the dossier — a way to see the child-malnutrition figures as the wards where they are counted.
The reference matters because malnutrition statistics blur into abstraction fast. The film returns them to a scale, a weighing chart, a mother, a clinician deciding who is stable enough to send home.
The work remains a rights-controlled reference; this dossier links it rather than lifting it. It anchors the human scene beneath the 2.2 million acutely malnourished children without turning one film into the whole war.
## Media desk
### Yemen — areas of control
- Publisher: Wikimedia Commons
- Creator: Wikimedia Commons contributors
- Date: Maintained file
- Media type: map
- Rights mode: direct\_image
- Placement: Orientation map / contested geography
- Caption: The war needs a map before its numbers make sense: the north where WFP paused, the government-held south the IPC now measures, and the Red Sea ports UNVIM clears.
- Why it matters: Reusable orientation asset; geography context that explains why national, government-area and northern-ports figures cannot be added together.
The map belongs early because Yemen's entire measurement problem is territorial: a country cut into a counted south and a switched-off north, with a supply line offshore. A public map orients; it does not certify any single front line.
- Original: [Open media record]()
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: A maintained Wikimedia Commons map orients the reader between Houthi-held north and government-held south — the split that runs through every figure in this file.
- Alt text: Map of Yemen showing areas of control in the civil war.
- Credit: Ali Zifan
- Rights / license: CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### UNVIM Situation Report — northern-ports import ledger
- Publisher: UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism / UNOPS
- Creator: UNVIM
- Date: March 2026
- Media type: dashboard
- Rights mode: linked\_reference\_only
- Placement: Displacement / supply-line data surface
- Caption: UNVIM clears vessels bound for Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Isa — and only those. Aden runs on a separate government channel; this is the northern supply line alone.
- Why it matters: The one mechanism that scores what reaches the Houthi-held north; it measures clearance at the port, not distribution to beneficiaries.
The ledger belongs beside the hunger figures because the north is a data gap after the WFP pause, and UNVIM tonnage is the nearest available proxy — with the sharp caveat that cargo cleared is not food eaten.
- Original: [Open media record]()
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: UNVIM's northern-ports ledger: 888,557 tonnes discharged in March 2026 — a northern figure only, and a count of cargo cleared, not food that reached anyone.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: 888,557 tonnes discharged at Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Isa in March 2026.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
## Source readings
### The national figure, and only the national figure.
- Registry ID: `yem-ocha-hnrp-2026`
- Publisher: UN OCHA
- Source type: humanitarian
- Published: 2026-03-29
- Registry title: Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026
- Editorial note: The national planning ledger; keep strictly apart from government-area IPC counts.
- Original: [Open source]()
OCHA reads Yemen as an inventory of deprivation the truce did not touch: more than 22 million people in need, 18.3 million acutely food insecure, a health system barely three-fifths working.
The 2026 plan counts more than 22 million people needing humanitarian assistance — 22.3 million in its own headline — including 18.3 million acutely food insecure, 5.2 million internally displaced, over 2.2 million small children acutely malnourished, and 59.3 per cent of health facilities fully functional. It asks US$2.16 billion; by the 14 April Security Council briefing OCHA reported the plan 14 per cent covered.
These are national figures, and the discipline of this file is to keep them apart from the government-area IPC counts that measure only the south. The targeted figure — 12 million, 9.4 million prioritized — is a resourcing number, not the scale of need.
#### Takeaways
- Anchor source for Yemen's national need, displacement and health figures — never blended with the government-area IPC counts.
- IDPs (5.2M), migrants (329k) and refugees (63k) are distinct populations; SAM is a subset of the malnutrition total.
- The funding percentage is rolling; the quotable 14% is dated to the 14 April 2026 Security Council briefing.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: OCHA's 2026 plan: more than 22 million in need nationally, 12 million targeted, US$2.16 billion asked — and, by mid-April, 14 per cent covered.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: more than 22 million in need, 12 million targeted, US$2.16 billion asked, 14% funded.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### A hunger map split in two.
- Registry ID: `yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026`
- Publisher: WFP, FAO and UNICEF
- Source type: humanitarian
- Published: 2026-06-03
- Registry title: Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)
- Editorial note: A government-area figure only — never national; the north is a documented blind spot.
- Original: [Open source]()
The sharpest recent classification describes only the government-controlled south, because WFP paused all activity in Houthi-controlled areas in September 2025.
WFP, FAO and UNICEF record nearly 5 million people in Crisis or worse — 47 per cent of the population, 1.4 million of them at Emergency level — in Yemen's government-controlled areas, with projections climbing to 5.4 million through the June-to-September lean season. That figure is pointedly not national, because WFP paused all activity in Houthi-controlled areas in September 2025, leaving the northern half of the country a data-and-access blind spot rather than a lower number.
Funding is the pressure behind the southern figures: short of money, WFP cut the people it plans to feed in government-held areas from 3.4 million to 1.6 million — a reduction it ties to resources, not to easing need.
#### Takeaways
- An IRG-area figure only — never present the ~5 million as national; the national figure is OCHA's 18.3 million.
- The north is a data blind spot after the September 2025 WFP pause — flag it, do not read it as improvement.
- The beneficiary cut (3.4M to 1.6M) is funding-driven, not falling need; separate current figures from lean-season projections.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The hunger map split in two: 18.3 million acutely food insecure nationally (OCHA); a separate ~5 million in Crisis or worse in government-controlled areas only (WFP/IPC), with the north switched off.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: national 18.3 million food insecure vs government-area ~5 million, with the north a data gap.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### The world's worst cholera, in a half-working health system.
- Registry ID: `yem-who-cholera-2024`
- Publisher: World Health Organization
- Source type: humanitarian
- Published: 2024-12-23
- Registry title: Cholera burden and the 2026 Health Emergency Appeal
- Editorial note: The world's highest cholera burden; two documents, two years, kept apart.
- Original: [Open source]()
In a statement dated December 2024, WHO called Yemen the country with the highest cholera burden in the world — and the response was as much about money as microbes.
WHO put Yemen at 35 per cent of the global cholera caseload and 18 per cent of reported deaths, on 249,900 suspected cholera and acute-watery-diarrhoea cases and 861 associated deaths through the first eleven months of 2024. It documented a vaccination drive reaching 3.2 million people, set against 47 diarrhoea-treatment centres and 234 rehydration points closed for lack of funding, with a US$20 million gap in the response budget.
By WHO's 2026 appeal the caseload for 2025 read 339,000 suspected cases, the ask for Yemen US$38.8 million, and the framing had softened to one of the top reporting countries. These are suspected cases, dated, and belong to two different years — the file keeps them apart.
#### Takeaways
- Two documents, two years — the 2024 'highest burden' statement and the 2026 appeal are not merged.
- Every cholera count is suspected, not lab-confirmed; the DTC figures are closures, not operational capacity.
- Health-facility functionality (~59-60%) and cholera are read together as one system of collapse, not as ideology.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: WHO's December 2024 statement: Yemen carries 35 per cent of the world's cholera burden — 249,900 suspected cases and 861 deaths that year; a separate 339,000 suspected in 2025.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: 35% of the global cholera burden; 249,900 suspected cases and 861 deaths in 2024.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### A crisis logged as a manifest.
- Registry ID: `yem-unvim-ports-2026`
- Publisher: UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism / UNOPS
- Source type: primary\_document
- Published: 2026-03-31
- Registry title: Northern-ports import ledger — Situation Report, March 2026
- Editorial note: The northern supply line alone — cargo cleared, not food distributed.
- Original: [Open source]()
A single UN mechanism keeps score of what reaches the Houthi-held north: UNVIM, which clears vessels bound for the Red Sea ports of Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Isa — and only those.
In March 2026 UNVIM cleared 34 vessels and recorded 888,557 tonnes discharged at the three northern ports, 737,239 of it food. The mechanism's mandate restricts it to ports not under government control, so this is the northern supply line alone; Aden runs on a separate channel through the government's Ministry of Transport.
It is a northern figure, not a national one, and it counts cargo cleared and discharged at the quay, not food that reached anyone, in the same north WFP had already left. Single-month fuel figures swing sharply — more than halved between February and March.
#### Takeaways
- A northern-ports figure only, never national; Aden and the southern ports sit outside UNVIM's scope.
- 'Cleared' and 'discharged' are different metrics, and neither confirms distribution to beneficiaries.
- Single-month, volatile — read as an access proxy for the northern data gap, not a food-security outcome.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The northern ports are the one place the war's supply line can be counted — and counting cargo at the quay is not the same as food reaching a table inland.
- Alt text: The Red Sea port area in Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### The people sent to answer the crisis cannot leave.
- Registry ID: `yem-ohchr-detention-2026`
- Publisher: OHCHR
- Source type: human\_rights
- Published: 2026-03-25
- Registry title: Rights, detention and the accountability gap
- Editorial note: The war counted in people the UN cannot reach.
- Original: [Open source]()
OHCHR counts the war in people it cannot reach: UN and humanitarian staff held by the Houthi authorities, some for five years.
The High Commissioner, Volker Türk, said in March 2026 that 73 UN staff were detained in Yemen — eight from his own office, some held five years — the single largest concentration within a worldwide total that had risen from 52 to 118 in a year. One detained WFP colleague died in custody. Since the Human Rights Council let the Group of Eminent Experts lapse in October 2021, no independent international body has monitored Yemen at all.
The office is careful about parity: it records that all parties — the Houthis, the government, the UAE and Saudi Arabia among them — have arbitrarily detained, disappeared and tortured. The detentions are recorded as the monitors recorded them, attributed, not turned into a verdict.
#### Takeaways
- 'Arbitrary detention' is OHCHR's characterization, disputed by the Houthis — attribute it, and pin each count to its date.
- The 73 Yemen figure is a subset of the 118 detained worldwide; no false parity — violations by all parties are each attributed.
- The accountability gap since the 2021 end of the Group of Eminent Experts is the structural fact under the numbers.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: 73 UN staff, all Yemeni, held in Houthi detention as of early 2026 — the single largest concentration within a worldwide total that rose from 52 to 118 in a year.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: 73 UN staff detained in Yemen within a worldwide total that rose from 52 to 118.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### The strikes, and the courts, attributed.
- Registry ID: `yem-hrw-2026`
- Publisher: Human Rights Watch
- Source type: human\_rights
- Published: 2026-01-16
- Registry title: World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements
- Editorial note: Detentions and the 2025 US airstrike toll, attributed to the monitors who kept it.
- Original: [Open source]()
Human Rights Watch documents both the Houthi detention campaign and a 2025 US airstrike toll — every figure attributed to the monitor, never adopted as the file's own verdict.
HRW records that, since raids began on 31 May 2024, the Houthis had by February 2026 detained at least 73 UN staff — all Yemeni nationals — and dozens of other humanitarian workers, many accused of espionage. Citing the Yemen Data Project, it reports US airstrikes on Yemen between 15 March and 6 May 2025 killing at least 238 civilians and injuring at least 467, including 84 at Ras Issa Port, which it calls an apparent war crime.
The number is the Yemen Data Project's, relayed by HRW; a second monitor, Airwars, logged a somewhat lower toll of about 224. The 'war crime' language is HRW's assessment, not a court's finding, and this dossier keeps it that way.
#### Takeaways
- An advocacy monitor — attribute throughout; the airstrike toll is the Yemen Data Project's via HRW, with Airwars lower.
- 'Apparent war crime' is HRW's assessment, not a court finding; single-incident tolls are subsets of the 238, never additions.
- HRW documents violations by all parties — no false parity between belligerents.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: Civilian harm in this period also came from the air; the record belongs to the monitors — the Yemen Data Project, relayed by HRW — not to a court.
- Alt text: War damage to buildings in Sana'a, Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### The north as a ledger of disappearances.
- Registry ID: `yem-amnesty-2026`
- Publisher: Amnesty International
- Source type: human\_rights
- Published: 2026-06-07
- Registry title: Yemen — detentions, deaths in custody and unfair trials
- Editorial note: Testimony and court records from the Houthi-held north; a second monitor corroborating HRW.
- Original: [Open source]()
Amnesty, with Human Rights Watch and the Cairo Institute, reads the Houthi-held north as detention, torture and unfair trials — corroborating the detention record from a second monitor.
Amnesty records 73 UN staff and dozens more aid workers still detained as of February 2026, held incommunicado, with torture the monitors say is used to extract confessions. Its country report catalogues Houthi-court verdicts: on 20 January 2025 the Specialized Criminal Court in Sana'a sentenced 18 men to death and 113 others to prison on charges including 'prostitution,' 'posing as women' and 'immoral acts,' and in May it jailed a journalist for 18 months for 'spreading false and misleading news.'
Amnesty, HRW and the Cairo Institute have jointly and repeatedly called for the detainees' release. The account is an advocacy source, read with method in mind, but testimony is one of the ways bureaucracy is forced back to a human scale.
#### Takeaways
- An advocacy monitor that corroborates the HRW detention record from a second source.
- The 73 (Feb 2026) and 69 (since 2021, by December) figures are distinct snapshots, never merged.
- The Specialized Criminal Court is a de-facto-authority body; its charge labels are its own, reported as such.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The detention count as a trajectory: 13 UN staff at the outset in May 2024, 69 by December 2025, 73 by February 2026 — each snapshot distinct, none summed.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: detention trajectory 13 to 69 to 73 UN staff.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### The quiet has a number, and the dead do not.
- Registry ID: `yem-acled-2022`
- Publisher: ACLED
- Source type: research
- Published: 2023-02-08
- Registry title: Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events
- Editorial note: The war as an event ledger; a violence-only toll that must never be merged with need figures.
- Original: [Open source]()
ACLED turns Yemen's war into an event ledger, and is candid that its cumulative toll is conservative and violence-only.
ACLED counts about quotation omitted from the machine-readable edition, including over 15,700 civilians killed in direct attacks — a figure it holds deliberately conservative and warns excludes deaths from hunger and disease. The 2022 truce shows in the data as a 90 per cent drop in front-line combat deaths; the Red Sea layer as a fall from 150 attacks on shipping in 2024 to seven in 2025.
That last figure belongs to a different clock. ACLED reads the Red Sea drop as strategic recalibration tied to Gaza, not lost capability — a linked regional layer the file keeps in its own lane, distinct from Yemen's local humanitarian crisis.
#### Takeaways
- The 158,000 is a January 2015–December 2022 figure, not current — label the window.
- It is violence-only and must never be summed with OCHA need figures or the modelled 377,000 total-death estimate.
- The Red Sea attack drop is ACLED's read of recalibration, a Gaza-linked layer separate from the local crisis.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: Two tolls, two methods, never merged: ACLED's ~158,000 from violence (2015–2022, conservative) beside a modelled ~377,000 total deaths (2015–early 2022, ~60% indirect).
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: ACLED ~158,000 violence deaths (2015–2022) beside a modelled ~377,000 (2015–early 2022).
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### A war on pause, dispersed rather than ended.
- Registry ID: `yem-crs-2026`
- Publisher: US Congressional Research Service (with Security Council Report and CFR)
- Source type: research
- Published: 2026-02-20
- Registry title: Yemen — In Focus IF12581
- Editorial note: A war on pause; analytical secondary source, attributed, not primary UN data.
- Original: [Open source]()
The Congressional Research Service reads Yemen as a frozen front beside a live power struggle in the south — an analytical source, attributed, not a primary casualty tracker.
CRS describes an uneasy truce that has frozen the main conflict lines since 2022, with intermittent cross-line fighting but no return to full war. Beneath it sits a January power struggle in the south, where the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council seized Aden and the eastern governorates before a Saudi-backed counter-offensive reversed the gains, the STC dissolved, and its leader was charged with treason. The Security Council, meanwhile, voted on 27 January 2026 to wind up UNMHA, the mission that had watched the 2018 Hodeidah ceasefire.
CFR carries a separate, older, modelled estimate of 377,000 dead by early 2022, some 60 per cent of them from indirect causes. The file publishes neither cumulative toll as current, and merges none of the columns.
#### Takeaways
- Analytical and parliamentary sources — attribute; the national 22.3M / 18.3M figures here are national, not government-area.
- The 377,000 is a cumulative modelled figure mixing direct and indirect deaths through early 2022 — not current, not combat-only.
- The southern power struggle (STC seizure, Saudi reversal, STC dissolution) is a distinct lane from the human-cost spine.
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: A war on pause is not a war ended: the fronts froze in 2022, but the south saw open fighting again in the winter of 2025–26.
- Alt text: A public gathering in solidarity with Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
## Analysis shelf
### Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026
- Publisher: UN OCHA
- Type: report
- Why it matters: The national baseline for need, displacement, malnutrition and health-system functionality.
- Position note: Humanitarian source; national figures, not a belligerent narrative.
- Original: [Open source]()
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: National figures begin where the plan meets displacement.
- Alt text: Displaced people in Yemen.
- Credit: Julien Harneis
- Rights / license: CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas
- Publisher: WFP / FAO / UNICEF (IPC)
- Type: report
- Why it matters: The sharpest recent hunger classification — and the clearest example of why it must not be read as national.
- Position note: Humanitarian source; a government-area figure with a documented northern blind spot.
- Original: [Open source]()
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: One figure for the south, a blind spot for the north.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: national vs government-area hunger.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### World Report 2026 — Yemen
- Publisher: Human Rights Watch
- Type: investigation
- Why it matters: The detention record and the 2025 US airstrike toll, each attributed to the monitor that kept it.
- Position note: Advocacy monitor; documents violations by all parties, no false parity.
- Original: [Open source]()
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: Civilian harm attributed, never adopted as verdict.
- Alt text: War damage in Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### Northern-ports import ledger (Situation Report)
- Publisher: UNVIM / UNOPS
- Type: dataset
- Why it matters: The one mechanism that scores what reaches the Houthi-held north — cargo cleared, not food distributed.
- Position note: Technical UN mechanism; northern ports only, never a national import figure.
- Original: [Open source]()
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: A supply line counted at the quay.
- Alt text: Editorial data surface: 888,557 tonnes discharged, northern ports.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
## Media shelf
### Yemen — areas of control
- Publisher: Wikimedia Commons
- Type: media
- Why it matters: The territorial split — counted south, switched-off north, offshore supply line — that shapes every figure.
- Position note: Reusable orientation map; geography context, not proof of any single front line.
- Original: [Open source]()
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The map behind the arithmetic.
- Alt text: Map of Yemen showing areas of control.
- Credit: Ali Zifan
- Rights / license: CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
### Hunger Ward
- Publisher: MTV Documentary Films
- Type: media
- Why it matters: A field record from inside two Yemeni therapeutic feeding centres — the wards where malnutrition figures are counted.
- Position note: Rights-controlled reference; linked, never rehosted.
- Original: [Open source]()
#### Visual provenance
- Caption: The malnutrition figure has a weighing chart behind it.
- Alt text: Therapeutic-food distribution in Yemen.
- Credit: Totally Fine Foundation
- Rights / license: Project editorial graphic; original source linked
- Asset: [View image]()
- Original / provenance: [Open source]()
## Open questions
- Keep national (OCHA), government-area (WFP/IPC) and northern-ports (UNVIM) figures visibly separate, and always flag the northern data gap from the September 2025 WFP pause; never present a government-area figure as national.
- Refresh the funding percentage at publication day (the quotable 14% is dated to 14 April 2026), and re-date the IPC windows, cholera counts, detention totals and Red Sea tallies.
- Hold every belligerent statement as own-position and every strike, detention and reported-fatality figure as attributed (Yemen Data Project / HRW / Amnesty / OHCHR / ACLED); keep the ACLED 158,000 and the modelled 377,000 dated and unmerged, and publish neither as current.
- Present the Red Sea as a linked escalation layer on the Gaza timeline, not as Yemen's humanitarian crisis; keep it in its own lane.
- Consider an event-level northern-imports lane (cleared ≠ discharged, distribution ≠ access) and a southern-power-struggle lane (STC seizure of Aden → Saudi reversal → STC dissolution) alongside the human-cost spine.
## Source registry
- `yem-ocha-hnrp-2026` — [UN OCHA — Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026](); humanitarian; 2026-03-29
- `yem-wfp-ipc-irg-2026` — [WFP, FAO and UNICEF — Acute food insecurity in government-controlled areas (WFP / FAO / UNICEF, IPC)](); humanitarian; 2026-06-03
- `yem-who-cholera-2024` — [World Health Organization — Cholera burden and the 2026 Health Emergency Appeal](); humanitarian; 2024-12-23
- `yem-unvim-ports-2026` — [UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism / UNOPS — Northern-ports import ledger — Situation Report, March 2026](); primary\_document; 2026-03-31
- `yem-ohchr-detention-2026` — [OHCHR — Rights, detention and the accountability gap](); human\_rights; 2026-03-25
- `yem-hrw-2026` — [Human Rights Watch — World Report 2026 (Yemen) and detention statements](); human\_rights; 2026-01-16
- `yem-amnesty-2026` — [Amnesty International — Yemen — detentions, deaths in custody and unfair trials](); human\_rights; 2026-06-07
- `yem-acled-2022` — [ACLED — Yemen Conflict Monitor — political-violence events](); research; 2023-02-08
- `yem-crs-2026` — [US Congressional Research Service (with Security Council Report and CFR) — Yemen — In Focus IF12581](); research; 2026-02-20