by Badr Al-Qahtani | Jul 13, 2017 | Middle East
London– UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed announced on Wednesday five new incentives for a solution to the crisis in Yemen, which would begin in Hodeida port city. Those incentives include, according to the international envoy, guarantying the...
by Jordan Dakamseh | May 31, 2017 | Middle East
New York – The United Nations has warned that Yemen was heading towards “total collapse”, stressing that the Yemeni people were facing a triple threat, represented by war, famine and the cholera outbreak. Speaking during a Security Council briefing on the situation in...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 27, 2017 | Middle East
Aden- Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien started a visit on Saturday to Yemen to be briefed on humanitarian situation. O’Brien met with Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi as they discussed ways to promote UN...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 22, 2017 | Middle East
Aden – Seven million Yemenis are closer than ever to starvation, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the country warned on Tuesday, almost two years since a conflict escalated between the government and rebels. “Seven million Yemenis do not know where their...
by Jordan Dakamseh | Dec 1, 2016 | Middle East
New York– The United Nations Security Council convened on Wednesday in an emergency session to discuss the deteriorating situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo. The U.N. Envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, called on the warring parties to allow the unconditional...