UN official warns against further escalation amid attacks in Yemen ...
1 day ago · Briefing the Security Council in New York, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Khaled Khiari, warned the Middle East was witnessing another dangerous escalation.. He said that attacks in Israel and Yemen, as well as in the Red Sea, are of grave concern, and warned that further military escalation could jeopardize regional stability, with adverse political ...
UN chief condemns escalation in Yemen as airstrikes hit Sana ... - UN News
5 days ago · The UN Secretary-General on Thursday condemned the deadly escalation between Yemen and Israel, following Israeli airstrikes that reportedly killed at least three people, injured dozens, and struck critical civilian infrastructure, including Sana’a International Airport.
‘I saw the blood on the tarmac’: top UN official in Yemen ... - UN News
4 days ago · Fresh details of the Israeli airstrike on Sana’a airport, which occurred as Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) was preparing to fly out of the country, have been provided by Julien Harneis, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen.
Statement by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director …
5 days ago · Our mission to negotiate the release of the United Nations staff detainees and to assess the health and humanitarian situation in Yemen concluded today. We continue to call for the detainees' immediate release. As we were about to board our flight from Sana’a, about three hours ago (around 5 pm local time), the airport came under aerial bombardment. One of our plane’s crew members was ...
Yemen | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases - United Nations
Dec 11, 2024 · Despite escalating tensions in the region and continued fighting in Yemen, a political solution for peace in the country is still possible but requires the Security Council’s unity and decisive...
UN is cutting back on Yemen activities after ... - Associated Press News
Sep 12, 2024 · UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is cutting back its activities in Yemen in response to a crackdown by Houthi rebels on staff working for the U.N. and other humanitarian, human rights, development and education organizations, the …
Briefing by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to …
Feb 14, 2024 · The United Nations roadmap under discussion presents an alternative future. Instead of the zero-sum mindset of war and extraction, the parties can cooperate to generate transformative benefits...
Acting UN relief chief warns Security Council that Yemen crisis ...
Oct 15, 2024 · We are very alarmed by the ongoing attacks from and on Yemen, which has damaged critical infrastructure, including energy and port infrastructure in Hodeidah and Ras Issa. Both ports remain operational and able to receive commercial and humanitarian imports.
WHO chief recounts narrow escape at Yemen airport hit by Israeli …
3 days ago · The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he and his United Nations colleagues "escaped death narrowly" at Yemen's main airport when Israeli airstrikes targeted ...
Despite regional escalation, peace is still possible in Yemen: UN …
15 October 2024 — Yemen is at risk of being dragged further into the rising conflict in the Middle East, UN Special Envoy for the country Hans Grundberg warned the Security Council on Tuesday.
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