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Yemen: Security Council backs new mission in support of key port city truce
mong other things, the newly adopted resolution establishes what will be officially known as the UN Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA).
Last month, after UN-brokered consultations in Sweden aimed at getting the warring…
On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia…
An unnatural disaster Yemen’s hunger crisis is born of deliberate policies, pursued primarily by a…
A currency crash
In their new analysis, the aid agencies found that more than 20 million Yemenis are “food insecure,” or unable to adequately feed themselves. Of those, 65,000 are in a “catastrophic” state. That figure is expected to…
Paris Yemen conference must bring cease-fire
The diplomats gathered in Paris on Wednesday for the French humanitarian conference on Yemen, co-hosted by Saudi-Arabia, must bring hope to hundreds of thousands of civilians that risk getting trapped in the crossfire of the escalating…
Twenty killed in air strike in southwest Yemen – residents
Adds coalition comment para 3)
DUBAI, April 20 (Reuters) - Twenty people were killed in an air strike by a Saudi-led military coalition in southwestern Yemen on Friday, residents said.
The attack hit a car transporting 20 passengers…
New Solar Project to Restore Electricity to Over One Million Yemenis – World Bank
Washington, April 13, 2018 - The World Bank announced today a new project to finance off-grid solar systems in Yemen to power vital basic services, and improve access to electricity for vulnerable Yemenis in rural and outlying urban areas.…