With at least 10 major conflicts ongoing around the world at the start of 2026 – and events in Iran, Venezuela and Greenland stealing the headlines in recent days – Yemen’s civil war, which began in 2014, too often falls under the radar.
Amid the carnage, the Yemeni people are caught in an escalating humanitarian crisis. Some 23 million people, or two-thirds of the population, required humanitarian aid at the end of 2025, and the country is facing the world’s second-biggest food crisis, with nearly half of all children under five considered to be chronically malnourished.
