uring the last dekad of May 2026, rainfall is expected to decline gradually to very low levels, with only occasional residual showers over the central highlands, particularly in Dhamar and Ibb governorates.
In 2025, the MENA region faced overlapping crises including conflict, displacement, economic collapse, disease outbreaks, and climate shocks, placing children at risk and disrupting access to services.
In Yemen's northern Hajjah and Hudaydah governates, shrinking humanitarian funding and the withdrawal of services is leading to the closure or reduction of health services, leaving families with fewer options for care.
Since early 2025, Yemen’s humanitarian response has faced acute funding shortfalls, leading to sustained reductions in operational capacity across multiple sectors, including CCCM.
The conflict in the Middle East and wider region is obstructing key delivery routes for humanitarian supplies, delaying lifesaving shipments for at least 130,000 people in Yemen.
The February 2026 airstrikes on Iran triggered a rapid escalation of risks across the region, intensifying gender-based violence (GBV) exposure in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, while further degrading already fragile protection systems and service delivery structures.
IOM Yemen DTM’s Rapid Displacement Tracking (RDT) tool collects data on estimated numbers of households forced to flee on a daily basis from their locations of origin or displacement, allowing for regular reporting of new displacements in terms of estimated numbers, geography, and needs.
Since the UN truce in April 2022, at least 339 children have been killed due to shelling, gunfire, landmines and other explosive remnants of war, while a further 843 have been injured.
Health care in the Middle East and wider region has come under attack about once every six hours on average since conflict escalated a month ago across Lebanon, Iran, and Israel, Save the Children said.
Yemen experienced seasonal improvement in food security in February 2026, primarily driven by increased religious charity during Ramadan, higher remittance inflows, appreciation of the YER in IRG areas, and the partial payment of public-sector salaries.
IOM Yemen DTM’s Rapid Displacement Tracking (RDT) tool collects data on estimated numbers of households forced to flee on a daily basis from their locations of origin or displacement, allowing for regular reporting of new displacements in terms of estimated numbers, geography, and needs.
Yemen continues to face an escalating food security crisis entring 2026, January data revealed that 63% of households nationwide struggling to meet their minimum food needs, including 36% facing severe food deprivation.
Yemen continues to endure a severe humanitarian crisis, with millions of people grappling with widespread food insecurity and high levels of malnutrition.
In 2025, Yemen’s displacement crisis continued to deepen rather than stabilize, layered on top of a decade-long emergency that has eroded services, livelihoods, and coping capacity. For millions of families, displacement was not a temporary disruption, but an ongoing reality shaped by rising poverty and weakened systems.
The second dekad of February 2026 is expected to remain cool, dry, and stable across most of Yemen, in line with typi-cal late-winter climatology. The continued occurrence of frost episodes is unusual, given that the winter season is usu-ally nearing its end.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is appealing for US$ 38.8 million to deliver life-saving emergency health assistance to 10.5 million people across Yemen in 2026, as the country enters another year of protracted conflict, disease outbreaks, climate shocks and deepening humanitarian needs.
In 2025, Yemen recorded its highest levels of inadequate food consumption. July was the peak, with prevalence of population with inadequate food consumption reaching 70%, marking the worst month of the year.
In January 2026, the IOM Yemen DTM tracked 21,050 migrants entering Yemen, representing a decrease of four per cent compared to the 21,996 migrants recorded in the previous month.
Yemen’s food security outlook remains extremely dire across all governorates, with severe challenges expected to persist through February 2026. In Government-controlled areas (GoY), recent central bank measures have briefly strengthened the Yemeni riyal and reduced food prices, but these gains appear fragile.
