Yemen: UN envoy adjourns peace talks till January pending enforcement of a proper ceasefire
New York, Dec 21 (Just Earth News/IBNS) In the face of numerous violations of the cessation of hostilities in Yemen, the Special United Nations Envoy on Sunday decided to adjourn peace talks in Switzerland for a month to allow for bi-lateral in-country and regional consultations to achieve a ceasefire.
Yemen: UN-sponsored talks continue amid 'alarming' reports of ceasefire violations
New York, Dec 19 (Just Earth News/IBNS) As United Nations-sponsored consultations on Yemen continued today, the UN envoy facilitating the talks expressed deep concern at numerous reports of violations of the three-day-old ceasefire and urged the parties to respect that agreement and allow access to the country’s most-affected districts.
Yemen: Parties at UN-facilitated talks agree on delivery of humanitarian aid in Taiz
New York, Dec 18 (Just Earth News/IBNS) On the third day of the United Nations-sponsored negotiations on ending the crisis in Yemen, the participants, meeting in Switzerland, have reached an agreement which allows for a full and immediate resumption of humanitarian assistance to the central city of Taiz.
Yemen: UN-sponsored peace talks kick off as ceasefire goes into effect
New York, Dec 16 (Just Earth News/IBNS) After months of relentless violence in Yemen, consultations facilitated by the United Nations began on Tuesday in Switzerland aimed at finding a durable settlement to the crisis, including establishing a permanent ceasefire, securing improvements to the humanitarian situation and a returning to a peaceful and orderly political transition.
Yemen: UN delivers life-saving food aid to nearly 150,000 besieged residents in Taiz
New York, Dec 11 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Braving fighting, airstrikes and checkpoints to bring life-saving aid to Yemenis living in dire conditions under a virtual state of siege, United Nations convoys have reached the central city of Taiz with enough food for nearly 145,000 people for a month, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Thursday.
Yemen: Peace talks to start next week among warring parties, says UN envoy
New York, Dec 8 (Just Earth News/IBNS): After several weeks of intensive consultations with the warring parties in Yemen, as well as with regional and international players, the United Nations Special Envoy for the country on Monday announced that the parties have agreed to open on 15 December in Switzerland, a series of talks aimed at establishing a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire.
Yemen: Ban calls for investigation after Saudi-led airstrikes destroy health clinic
New York, Dec 4 (Just Earth News/IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the airstrikes carried out on Wednesday by the Saudi-led Coalition on a mobile health clinic run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Taiz city, Yemen, which injured seven people and destroyed the clinic.
Yemen faces dire health crisis with funding gap and 15.2 million lacking care: UN
New York, Dec 3 (Just Earth News/IBNS): More than 15.2 million Yemenis now lack access to health care services, well over half the war-torn country's total population, yet there is a 55 per cent gap in requested international funding to address the crisis, according to the United Nations health agency.
Yemen: UN warns humanitarian situation has deteriorated as conflict claims 5,700 lives
New York, Nov 19 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The United Nations said on Wednesday that the ongoing conflict in Yemen has resulted in over 32,000 casualties, with people 5,700 killed, including 830 women and children, alongside a sharp rise in human rights violations – nearly 8,875 or an average of 43 violations occurring every day.
Yemen: UN warns humanitarian situation has deteriorated as conflict claims 5,700 lives
New York, Nov 19 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The United Nations said on Wednesday that the ongoing conflict in Yemen has resulted in over 32,000 casualties, with people 5,700 killed, including 830 women and children, alongside a sharp rise in human rights violations – nearly 8,875 or an average of 43 violations occurring every day.
Refugees flee Yemen for strife-riven Horn of Africa, UN reports
New York, Nov 14 (Just Earth News/IBNS) :In a reversal of a multi-year boat exodus that has seen hundreds of thousands of Somalis risk death at sea to flee their strife-riven land to seek refuge in Yemen, thousands of Yemenis are now fleeing from their own war-torn country to Djibouti, Somalia’s neighbour, across the Gulf of Aden.
Yemen: UN agency provides emergency relief items to people displaced by Cyclone
New York, Nov 7 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicated on Friday that prior to tropical cyclone Chapala making landfall on Yemen last Tuesday, the agency had moved 1,000 tents and 3,000 non-food items kits into a number of governorates to support people in affected areas.
Yemen: UN warns more than 1 million people could be impacted by flooding
New York, Nov 5 (IBNS): While the United Nations is reporting that Cyclone Chapala – the rare tropical storm that slammed into Yemen's southern coast on Tuesday, dumping perhaps a year’s worth of rain in some areas – is expected to weaken to a tropical depression over the next 12 hours, the immediate concern remains the welfare of an estimated 1 million people, mainly in the two governorates of Shabwah and Hadramaut.
'Severe impact' feared in Yemen due to rain potential of cyclone Chapala
New York, Nov 4 (IBNS): As cyclonic storm Chapala made landfall on Tuesday morning in the southwest of Riyan in Yemen with a surface wind speed of 120 to 130 kilometres per hour, United Nations agencies reported that although it had weakened rapidly, the impacts could be severe and challenging.
Despite raging conflict, scores of refugees continue to arrive in Yemen by sea: UN
New York, Oct 28 (IBNS): The ongoing conflict and the widening humanitarian crisis in Yemen has not deterred nearly 70,000 refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants to reach the country by sea causing the Yemini population to 'bear the brunt,' said the United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday.