U.S. Yemen envoy says ceasefire plan before Houthi leadership, urges response
FILE PHOTO: Houthi soldiers march during a funeral procession for Houthi fighters killed in recent fighting against government forces in Marib province, in Sanaa, Yemen February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah reuters tickers
This content was published on March 12, 2021 - 19:47
March 12, 2021 - 19:47
By Jonathan Landay and Daphne Psaledakis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sound plan for a nationwide ceasefire in Yemen has been before Houthi leadership for a number of days, but it appears the group is prioritizing a military offensive to take Marib, the U.S. special envoy on Yemen, Tim Lenderking, said on Friday.
Fire at migrant facility in Yemen kills at least eight, U.N. says
This content was published on March 7, 2021 - 23:26
March 7, 2021 - 23:26
ADEN (Reuters) - A fire at a holding facility for migrants in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, killed at least eight people, including guards, and injured more than 170 others on Sunday, the United Nations Migration Agency (IOM) said.
The total death toll from the fire, whose cause remains unclear, could be higher, the IOM regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, Carmela Godeau, said in a Twitter post.
It was not immediately clear how many people were being held at the facility.
By Mohammed Ghobari and Aziz El Yaakoubi ADEN (Reuters) - Hundreds of fighters have been killed in a weeks-long Houthi offensive on the Yemeni region of Marib, military sources and a local official said on Monday, in the conflict s most deadly clashes since 2018. The attack by Iran-aligned Houthi forces on government-held Marib city comes amid renewed diplomacy to end the six-year war, and as the United States said it would end support for a Saudi-led coalition backing the internationally recognised Yemeni government. The United Nations has urged the Houthis to return to negotiations, and said the offensive threatened mass displacement. Hundreds of fighters from both sides have been killed in clashes in the gas-rich Marib region, the sources said. They were not authorised to speak publicly about operational matters. The sources added that the Houthis may have lost more fighters than the government during the offensive, with coalition forces boasting air supremacy. It is a blood bath, s
DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 400,000 Yemeni children under 5 could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic, four U.N. agencies said on Friday. The warnings come nearly six years after the outbreak of war that rendered 80% of the population reliant on humanitarian aid. In a report published on Friday, the agencies projected a 22% increase in severe acute malnutrition among children under 5 in Yemen, compared to 2020. Severe acute malnutrition means there is a risk of death from lack of food. Aden, Hodeidah, Taiz and Sanaa are among the worst-hit areas, the report said. These numbers are yet another cry for help from Yemen where each malnourished child also means a family struggling to survive, World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley said in a joint statement with the Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO), UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO). Another 2.3 millio