Geopolitics

UN receives nearly $1 billion from Saudi Arabia and UAE for humanitarian response to Yemen crisis

New York: Ahead of the upcoming international fundraising conference for Yemen, the United Nations has received nearly $1 billion contributions from Saudi Araba and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and urged other donors to follow suit and help tackle the world’s worst humanitarian crisis there. more

UN renews push for political solution as Yemen marks three years of all-out conflict

New York: Three years after a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemen war, and hours after reports that Houthi rebels fired missiles at cities in Saudi Arabia, United Nations Secretar ...

UN Security Council calls for all Yemen’s ports to remain fully open to all aid imports

New York: The Security Council has urged warring parties in Yemen to allow humanitarian convoys to safely reach all conflict-affected governorates without hindrance, while also asking tha ...

UN can help, but Yemen’s warring parties must make concessions, commit to peace – outgoing UN envoy

New York, Feb 28 (JEN): A destructive pattern of zero-sum politics has plunged Yemen into ever deeper poverty and desolation, the United Nations envoy for the war-torn country said Tuesda ...

Yemen: UN chief welcomes measures by Saudi-led coalition to ease access for humanitarian aid

New York, Jan 26 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed news that five tankers carrying 180,000 litres of fuel reached Yemen’s northern provinc ...

Record 22.2 million people need humanitarian assistance in Yemen – UN aid chief

New York, Jan 24 (JEN): The top United Nations relief official has expressed his deep concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen, noting that a record 22.2 million pe ...

Yemen: As threat of famine looms, UN urges Saudi-led coalition to fully lift blockade of Red Sea ports

New York, Dec 3 (Just Earth News): Top officials from across the United Nations system called on Saturday for the Saudi-led coalition to fully lift its blockade of Yemen's Red Sea por ...

Yemen facing largest famine the world has seen for decades, warns UN aid chief

New York, Nov 9(Just Earth News): Yemen will be gripped by famine – one the likes of which the world has not seen in years – if the blockade on basic supplies into the country imposed by ...

Wrapping up visit to Yemen, UN aid chief stresses need for all parties to facilitate humanitarian work

New York, Oct 29 (Just Earth News): At the end of a five-day mission to conflict-torn Yemen, the United Nations humanitarian chief on Saturday stressed the need for more funding and better h ...

Millions in Yemen on brink of famine, situation ‘close to a breaking point,’ warns UN agency

New York, Apr 12(Just Earth News): The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up its emergency operations in war-torn Yemen to provide urgently needed food assistance to some n ...