Yemen

Maghrabah district in Hajjah governorate in Yemen is one of 11 districts in the country with famine-like conditions.
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Millions in Yemen ‘a step away from starvation’

22 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid

The crisis in Yemen, now in its seventh year of war, continues unabated, with thousands of people displaced and millions “a step away from starvation”, the UN Humanitarian Relief Coordinator said on Wednesday during a high-level side event on the margins of the 76th General Assembly.

King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

King of Saudi Arabia says peace is top priority for his country 

22 September 2021
UN Affairs

The King of Saudi Arabia, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, said on Wednesday that promoting peace is his Kingdom’s top priority in international affairs. 

Sustainable cities are helping in the battle against climate change.
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News in Brief 20 September 2021

20 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Getting sustainability back on track, only way to save planet: Guterres
  • Guterres condemns Yemen executions by Houthis  
  • R&D investment rose in many areas during COVID: UN report 
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Dateline Geneva Podcast (Cover)
United Nations

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Climate warning, Afghanistan, Burundi, Yemen

16 September 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, an appeal for support for Afghanistan’s people from António Guterres, who also warns that we’re at a “tipping point” for climate action; we also hear from the fifth and final Commission of Inquiry report on Burundi – it’s still talking of crimes against humanity…. And an interview with UN-appointed independent human rights expert Dr Ardi Imseis, on Yemen’s unrelenting conflict and its impact on the country’s most vulnerable people.

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Food supplies are lined up for distribution to people facing hunger and in need of humanitarian assistance in Herat in western Afghanistan.
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News in Brief 14 September 2021

14 September 2021
News in Brief

 

  • First humanitarian flight to Kabul marks ‘turning point’: WFP 
  • After 10 years of war in Syria, siege tactics make their return 
  • Unremitting suffering in Yemen in spotlight at Human Rights Council 
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An elderly woman drags water back to her tent in a displacement camp in Abs, near the Saudi border in northern Yemen.
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

Yemen: As conflict drags on, ‘no quick wins’ – UN envoy

10 September 2021
Peace and Security

The complexities of the years-long war in Yemen “multiply as the conflict drags on”, the country’s new UN envoy told the Security Council on Friday, adding that he was “under no illusions about the difficulty of the task” at hand.

Dateline Geneva Podcast (Cover)
United Nations

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Afghanistan, DR Congo, Tigray and Yemen

8 September 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, aid to Afghanistan in the international spotlight, a deadly bacterial meningitis alert in northeastern DR Congo, Yemen’s “unbearable” war drags on, and alarming developments in northern Ethiopia, where the “hungry season” has started, as conflict escalates across Tigray’s borders.

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Food and blankets are handed out to people in need in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. UNHCR warned that the world cannot allow this “to become a humanitarian catastrophe”
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News in Brief 8 September 2021

8 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan suffering, 'unimaginable' says UN chief
  • Yemen: climate of fear has worsened, all sides to blame - rights experts
  • DR Congo declares deadly meningitis outbreak in troubled northeast
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Migrants line up at the airport in Aden, Yemen, for a flight which will take them to Ethiopia.
IOM/Majed Mohammed

Yemen: UN agency helping stranded migrants to return home

7 September 2021
Migrants and Refugees

Amid intensifying conflict in Yemen, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping nearly 5,000 Ethiopian migrants stranded in the country to return home, the UN agency reported on Tuesday. 

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet addresses the Human Rights Council Special Session on Afghanistan.
UNOG

News in Brief 24 August 2021

24 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: women’s liberty a red line, says UN rights chief Bachelet
  • Shelter needs soar for displaced in Yemen’s Marib region
  • Rights experts condemn Cambodia’s crackdown on freedom activists
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