Major UN push for peace to end Yemen’s ‘hot war’ begins in Geneva
Sep 06, 2018, at 09:26 am
New York, Sept 6 (IBNS): Efforts are under way to bring a “flickering signal of hope” to war-weary civilians in Yemen with UN-organised consultations between the Government and the Houthi opposition in Geneva set to begin, the UN’s Special Envoy Martin Griffiths, said on Wednesday.
Truck carrying WFP food hit in Yemen's Hodeidah Governatorate
Aug 31, 2018, at 03:44 pm
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gravely concerned about an incident on 29 August involving a truck under contract to WFP that came under shelling while delivering life-saving food assistance in the war-torn district of Al Tuhayta in Yemen’s southern Hodeidah governorate.
All sides in Yemen conflict could be guilty of war crimes, UN experts find
Aug 29, 2018, at 08:17 am
New York, Aug 29 (IBNS):Parties on both sides of the conflict in Yemen have perpetrated – and continue to perpetrate – possible war crimes and other violations with a “total disregard” for the suffering of millions of civilians, United Nations-appointed human rights investigators said on Tuesday.
Yemen: United Nations experts point to possible war crimes by parties to the conflict
Aug 28, 2018, at 04:33 pm
Geneva, Aug 28 (IBNS): Information documented by the Group of Regional and International Eminent Experts on Yemen strongly suggests that parties to the armed conflict have perpetrated, and continue to perpetrate, violations and crimes under international law.
UN agency chiefs condemn Saudi-coalition led air strike that killed dozens in western Yemen
Aug 25, 2018, at 07:48 am
New York, Aug 25 (IBNS): The UN humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, and the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, have condemned the deadly air strike in Hudaydah governorate, in western Yemen, that killed at least 26 children and four women on Thursday.
UNICEF appeals for end to ‘war on children’ in Syria and Yemen
Aug 14, 2018, at 09:08 am
New York, Aug 14 (IBNS): Attacks against children caught in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen must stop, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, appealed on Monday.
UN should never be a target, Baghdad bombing survivors stress, 15 years after deadly attack
Aug 11, 2018, at 08:20 am
New York, Aug 11 (IBNS): On 19 August 2003, a suicide bomber drove a truck full of explosives to the United Nations headquarters in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Iraq, and blew it up, killing 22 people – among them Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the head of the UN mission in Iraq.
Yemen bus attack just the latest outrage against civilians: UN agencies
Aug 11, 2018, at 08:02 am
New York, Aug 11 (IBNS): An air strike on a busy market area in Yemen that reportedly killed scores of people including more than 20 children on a bus, is likely the worst attack on youngsters in the conflict so far, and the latest in a recent spate of violence targeting civilians, UN agencies said on Friday.
UN chief condemns air strike that hit school bus in northern Yemen, killing scores of children
Aug 10, 2018, at 09:02 am
New York, Aug 10 (IBNS): UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday condemned an air strike by pro-Yemini Government coalition forces, which killed scores of children who were on board a bus travelling through a busy market area in the northern province of Saada.
Aug 08, 2018, at 08:32 am
New York, Aug 8 (IBNS): As conflicts and natural disasters have sharply deteriorated living conditions in the Horn of Africa and Yemen, more and more people have been crossing the Gulf of Aden in both directions, leading the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to appeal for $45 million to provide critical aid to 81,000 people over three years.
UN to convene Yemen talks early next month in Geneva, envoy tells Security Council
Aug 03, 2018, at 08:21 am
New York, Aug 3 (IBNS): The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen announced on Thursday that after two years of stalled talks on resolving the crisis in the country, he plans to invite the warring parties to Geneva on 6 September for a round of peace consultations.
Aug 02, 2018, at 09:03 am
New York, Aug 2 (IBNS): Ongoing violence and attacks on civilian infrastructure in Hudaydah directly threaten hundreds of thousands of children and their families in Yemen, according to the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in a statement released on Wednesday
Jul 21, 2018, at 07:21 am
New York, July 21 (IBNS): United Nations migration agency staff in Yemen say the key port city of Hudaydah remains “a difficult environment” for the delivery of aid to thousands of people displaced by heavy fighting this week.
Health conditions for citizens of Yemen’s key port city ‘remain critical’ says UN agency
Jul 11, 2018, at 09:25 am
New York, July 11 (IBNS): Even before the escalation of conflict in Hudaydah, conditions in Yemen’s port city were some of “the most dire in the country,” according to the United Nations health agency on Tuesday.
Jul 04, 2018, at 07:50 am
New York, July 4 (IBNS): The relentless conflict in Yemen has pushed a nation already on the brink “deep into the abyss,” said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief on Tuesday, after returning from a four-day visit to the war-torn country.
Jun 29, 2018, at 03:21 am
New York, June 29 (IBNS): “Events on the battlefield” are the main spoiler to the peace process in Yemen, but political negotiations are the top overall priority for resolving the conflict, according to the UN’s envoy for the country.
UN Envoy ‘confident’ deal can be reached to avert further violence around key Yemeni port city
Jun 22, 2018, at 07:33 am
New York, June 22 (IBNS): The United Nations envoy for Yemen expressed confidence on Thursday that a solution can be found to prevent further violence in and around the port city of Hodeida.
UN rushes to deliver aid as key Yemeni port city is ‘shelled and bombarded’
Jun 15, 2018, at 08:44 am
New York, June 15 (IBNS): As the Yemeni port city of Hodeida continues to come under attack from Saudi-led coalition forces on Thursday, seeking to drive out Houthi rebels who control the city, the United Nations and humanitarian partners are rushing to provide life-saving assistance to thousands of vulnerable families there.
Jun 14, 2018, at 08:44 am
New York, June 14 (IBNS): An attempt by a Saudi-led military coalition to take control of the Yemeni port of Hodeida from opposition Houthi forces “will have serious consequences” on an already “dire” situation for millions of civilians, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen said on Wednesday.
Jun 13, 2018, at 05:27 pm
New York, June 13 (IBNS): Any attack on the key Yemeni port of Hodeida would deepen one of the world’s worst malnutrition crises and put the lives of an estimated 300,000 children at risk, said the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday.
Jun 09, 2018, at 08:19 am
New York, June 9 (IBNS): Any attack on the key port city of Hodeidah in Yemen “will impact hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians” and would entail around 250,000 civilians losing everything - “even their lives” - the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the war-torn country said on Friday.
Cyclone Mekunu hits Oman, Yemen, kills five
May 27, 2018, at 03:55 pm
Sana'a, May 27 (IBNS): A powerful cyclone named Mekunu has hit the Gulf country of Oman and neighbouring Yemen, media reports said.
Yemen: Human suffering at risk of further deterioration, warns UN aid chief
May 25, 2018, at 05:50 pm
New York, May 25 (IBNS): An escalation in fighting, increasing obstacles to aid delivery and lack of food and fuel, is compounding Yemen’s dire humanitarian crisis, the United Nations top relief official warned on Thursday, calling on all parties to the conflict to end the violence.
'Uphold international humanitarian law' UN chief tells parties to Yemen conflict
May 10, 2018, at 08:52 pm
New York, May 10 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep concern on Wednesday over the “recent and sharp escalation” in the Yemen conflict, calling on all parties to make civilian protection a priority.
Smugglers see thousands of migrants in Yemen as ‘a commodity’, UN agency warns
May 09, 2018, at 02:14 pm
New York, May 9 (IBNS): With an estimated 7,000 migrants entering Yemen each month, most of them seeking to reach Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, the United Nations migration agency on Tuesday called for greater efforts to protect them from smugglers and other criminals.
Yemen: President's assassination will not break the will of the Yemeni people, says Houthi leader
Apr 24, 2018, at 10:26 pm
Sana'a, Apr 24 (IBNS): Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement, said in a televised speech that the assassination of party President Saleh al-Sammad will not break the will of his countrymen.
UN chief condemns airstrikes on civilians in Yemen; calls for prompt, transparent investigation
Apr 24, 2018, at 02:00 pm
New York, Apr 24 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a prompt, effective and transparent investigation into recent airstrikes on civilians in Yemen, which claimed at least 50 lives, including children, and injured many others.
UN chief condemns fatal shooting of International Red Cross staffer in Yemen
Apr 23, 2018, at 01:47 pm
New York, Apr 23 (IBNS): The United Nations Secretary-General has condemned Sunday’s killing of a senior staff member working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen, who was attacked while travelling in a vehicle on the outskirts of Taiz.
Apr 04, 2018, at 01:32 pm
New York, Apr 4 (JEN): An appeal that raised some $2 billion to help millions of people in Yemen was a “remarkable success of international solidarity” for the country’s war-weary people, but aid alone will not provide a solution to the conflict, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday.
Yemen: UN Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks targeting Saudi cities
Mar 30, 2018, at 01:55 pm
New York, Mar 30 (JEN): Reiterating the need for warring parties in Yemen to resume dialogue, the Security Council has condemned the latest missile attacks by the Houthi rebels targeting several cities of Saudi Arabia, including its capital, Riyadh.