UN analysis shows link between lack of vaccine equity and widening inequalities
Mar 28, 2022, at 10:14 pm
New York: Only a tiny proportion of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in developing countries, leading to a widening gap between rich and poor, says the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in a new study released this month.
UN chief condemns attacks on civilian facilities in Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Mar 27, 2022, at 11:10 pm
New York: Recent escalation of the conflict in Yemen drew strong condemnation from Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday.
$4.3 billion needed to help over 17 million people across Yemen
Mar 18, 2022, at 05:47 pm
New York: A “funding crunch” has put millions of people in Yemen at risk of catastrophe, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, in support of an urgent appeal to donors to fund the humanitarian response in the war-torn country.
Yemen war now ‘chronic emergency’ as millions face hunger
Mar 16, 2022, at 09:20 pm
New York: After more than seven years of war, Yemen is living in a chronic state of emergency, marked by hunger, disease and other miseries that are rising faster than aid agencies can reverse, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Tuesday, as the Special Envoy for the country called for joint efforts by Yemenis and the international community to break the entrenched cycle of violence.
Yemen: Three killed in suicide attack
Mar 16, 2022, at 01:57 am
Sanaa/UNI/Sputnik: Three soldiers accompanying one of the separatist commanders were killed and seven guards injured in a suicide attack in Abyan governorate, southern Yemen, a source in the government told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Yemen facing ‘outright catastrophe’ over rising hunger, warn UN humanitarians
Mar 15, 2022, at 06:41 pm
New York: Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is “teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe”, UN agency chiefs said on Monday, as new data analysis from the war-ravaged country indicated potentially record food insecurity.
Several UN staff abducted in Yemen’s Abyan province: Reports
Feb 13, 2022, at 02:44 pm
Sanaa/UNI/Sputnik: Six UN workers have been kidnapped in southern Yemen, the Yemen Press Agency (YPA) reports.
Yemen: Call for independent probe into deadly prison airstrikes
Jan 29, 2022, at 08:10 pm
New York: Airstrikes last week by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that hit a detention facility in the northern city of Sa’ada, killed some 91 people and injured dozens more, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday, citing preliminary figures.
January will ‘almost certainly’ shatter records for civilian casualties in Yemen
Jan 26, 2022, at 09:03 pm
New York: Violence in Yemen continues to escalate, raising casualties and spilling across the war-torn country’s borders, the Special Envoy for the country and the Humanitarian Coordinator warned on Tuesday.
Yemen: UN mission warns of ‘devastating’ loss of life, as Guterres condemns coalition airstrikes
Jan 22, 2022, at 11:20 pm
New York: The UN chief has condemned airstrikes launched early on Friday by the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi rebels in Yemen, that struck a detention centre in the rebel-held city of Saada, which have left at least 60 dead, and more than hundred injured.
UN rights office warns over violent escalation in Yemen and beyond
Jan 19, 2022, at 07:17 pm
New York: Escalating conflict in Yemen has seen an alarming number of air and drone strikes already this year, notably against civilians and non-military targets, the UN rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
Houthi drone strike: Saudi jets bomb Yemeni capital, residential area, in retaliatory strike
Jan 18, 2022, at 09:07 pm
Sana’a/Tehran/UNI: Saudi Arabian jets bombed the Yemeni parliament building and a military academy in Sanaa early on Tuesday morning, in retaliation for the Houthi drone attack on the Adnoc tanker area in Abu Dhabi on Monday in which three people, including two Indians, were killed.
Yemen: ‘Political will, responsible leadership' needed, to end 7-year war
Jan 15, 2022, at 01:11 am
New York: Seven years into the war in Yemen, UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg reaffirmed to the Security Council on Wednesday that no long-term solution can be found on the battlefield, urging the warring parties to “talk, even if they are not ready to put down their arms”.
‘Restraint, de-escalation and dialogue’ needed to stem war in Yemen
Dec 15, 2021, at 10:49 pm
New York: Yemen is teetering on a new “fragmented and bloody” chapter of war as military escalation and conflict escalates, Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Tuesday, calling for “restraint, de-escalation and dialogue”.
Yemen recovery possible if war stops now: UNDP report
Nov 24, 2021, at 08:58 pm
New York: War-torn Yemen is among the poorest countries in the world, but recovery is possible if the conflict ends now, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report published on Tuesday.
Drone strike kills 3 allegedly linked to Al-Qaida in Yemen: Source
Nov 15, 2021, at 01:49 am
Sanna/UNI/Xinhua: Three people suspected of being members of the Yemen-based Al-Qaida branch were killed by an airstrike in Yemen on Sunday, a military official told Xinhua.
Yemen: UN Special Envoy calls for urgent end to fighting, as humanitarian needs escalate
Nov 12, 2021, at 10:45 pm
New York: Ahead of Thursday’s Security Council meeting behind closed doors on Yemen, the UN Special Envoy, Hans Grundberg, said that a UN-led political process could still be part of a sustainable solution to the conflict.
Yemen: Four children killed or maimed a day, as war grinds on
Nov 05, 2021, at 06:34 pm
New York: At least 8 children have reportedly been killed or injured in escalating violence in Yemen in the past five days.
Houthi missile attack leaves 29 dead, injured: Yemeni Information Minister
Nov 01, 2021, at 09:07 pm
Sanaa/UNI/Sputnik/IBNS: In total, 29 civilians were killed and injured in an airstrike carried out by the Houthi rebels in the Yemeni province of Marib, said Yemen's Information Minister Moammar Al-Eryani Monday.
Humanitarian assistance stepped up on Yemen's west coast, amid clashes
Oct 22, 2021, at 06:40 pm
New York: Humanitarian assistance has been ramped up on Yemen's west coast where ongoing violence has increased the needs of communities displaced by years of conflict, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday.
Yemen war reaches ‘shameful milestone’ - 10,000 children now killed or maimed
Oct 20, 2021, at 06:36 pm
New York: Another “shameful milestone” has been reached in the conflict in Yemen with 10,000 children killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
Yemen: Dialogue and compromise ‘only way forward’
Oct 15, 2021, at 07:39 pm
New York: A comprehensive negotiated political settlement is needed to end the violence in Yemen “once and for all”, UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Thursday.
Yemeni police officer die in explosion in country's east: Source
Oct 12, 2021, at 02:56 pm
Doha/UNI/Sputnik: A police officer was killed in an explosion in the city of Seiyun in eastern Yemen, a security service source told Sputnik.
Yemen: Endless suffering of children continues due to war, aid crisis
Sep 28, 2021, at 10:56 pm
New York: The Yemen conflict killed or maimed 2,600 children as hostilities intensified in 2019 and 2020; that’s according to a new report of the UN Secretary-General on Children and Armed conflict in the country.
Sep 28, 2021, at 10:49 pm
The war in Yemen has caused a human catastrophe, torn society apart, and triggered “waves of mass displacement, repression and enforced disappearance”, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Monday, the final day of the UN General Assembly’s annual debate.
Millions in Yemen ‘a step away from starvation’
Sep 24, 2021, at 12:19 am
New York: The crisis in Yemen, now in its seventh year of war, continues unabated, with thousands of people displaced and millions “a step away from starvation”, the UN Humanitarian Relief Coordinator said on Wednesday during a high-level side event on the margins of the 76th General Assembly.
Yemen: As conflict drags on, ‘no quick wins’: UN envoy
Sep 11, 2021, at 09:59 pm
New York: The complexities of the years-long war in Yemen “multiply as the conflict drags on”, the country’s new UN envoy told the Security Council on Friday, adding that he was “under no illusions about the difficulty of the task” at hand.
Yemen: UN agency helping stranded migrants to return home
Sep 08, 2021, at 09:54 pm
New York: Amid intensifying conflict in Yemen, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping nearly 5,000 Ethiopian migrants stranded in the country to return home, the UN agency reported on Tuesday.
Shelter needs soar for displaced in Yemen’s Marib region
Aug 25, 2021, at 05:06 am
New York: Humanitarian needs, including a lack of shelter, are soaring among displaced communities, as fighting continues in Yemen’s Marib governorate, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday.
Yemen: New World Bank funds offer lifeline to most vulnerable
Jul 30, 2021, at 07:12 pm
New York: Three UN agencies on Thursday welcomed $127 million in new funding from the World Bank to provide lifesaving support to some of the country’s most hard hit rural families, struggling under the impact of multiple crises.