• Tag: UN
UN says forced to cut Yemen rations, compounding food crisis

UN says forced to cut Yemen rations, compounding food crisis

More than four million Yemenis will receive less food assistance as a result of funding shortages, compounding one of the world’s worst human…

Details
UN officials push for resolution amid prolonged strife in Yemen

UN officials push for resolution amid prolonged strife in Yemen

 Two senior United Nations (UN) officials emphasized on Wednesday the urgent need for progress toward peace in Yemen, given the persistent pol…

Details
Yemen’s envoy to UN thanks Saudi Arabia for its political, economic and development support

Yemen’s envoy to UN thanks Saudi Arabia for its political, economic and development support

Yemen’s permanent representative to the UN, Abdullah Al-Saadi, said on Wednesday that his country appreciates the ongoing political, economic…

Details
Yemen.. UN mediation between  government , Houthis to sell "Safer" oil

Yemen.. UN mediation between government , Houthis to sell "Safer" oil

UN coordinator for Yemen, David Gresley, confirms that the oil removed to a replacement vessel, amounting to about 1.1 million barrels, is "in very…

Details
UAE welcomes successful completion of oil unloading operation from tanker FSO Safer

UAE welcomes successful completion of oil unloading operation from tanker FSO Safer

The UAE has welcomed the United Nations' announcement of the successful operation of unloading oil from the decaying tanker FSO Safer off the coast…

Details
How ‘a monumental catastrophe’ was averted with offloading of Safer near Yemen’s Red Sea coast

How ‘a monumental catastrophe’ was averted with offloading of Safer near Yemen’s Red Sea coast

The news that the threat of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea has receded with the transfer of more than a million barrels of oil from the FSO Saf…

Details
Yemen : United Nations completes removal of oil from decaying tanker in Red Sea

Yemen : United Nations completes removal of oil from decaying tanker in Red Sea

"More than I.I million barrels of oil transferred to the replacement tanker over 18 days" At 1800 local time, the United Nations successful…

Details
UN welcomes release of five staff abducted last year in Yemen

UN welcomes release of five staff abducted last year in Yemen

The United Nations on Friday welcomed the release of five of its security personnel in Yemen who had been held in captivity for more than a year.…

Details
Five UN security personnel kidnapped in Yemen released after 18 months in captivity

Five UN security personnel kidnapped in Yemen released after 18 months in captivity

The United Nations said Friday that five staff members who were kidnapped in Yemen 18 months ago have walked free. In a brief statement, UN…

Details
Saudi Ambassador, UN Envoy discuss collaborative efforts to alleviate Yemeni crisis

Saudi Ambassador, UN Envoy discuss collaborative efforts to alleviate Yemeni crisis

The Saudi Ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed al-Jaber, met with the United Nations envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to discuss the ongoing Yemeni crisis…

Details
UN Special Envoy for Yemen concludes a visit to Riyadh

UN Special Envoy for Yemen concludes a visit to Riyadh

The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, concluded a two-day visit to Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During his visi…

Details
UN Sanctions Committee Team Holds Meetings with Yemeni Officials in Aden

UN Sanctions Committee Team Holds Meetings with Yemeni Officials in Aden

A team from the international sanctions committee concerned with Yemen is holding ongoing meetings in the city of Aden with civilian and military o…

Details
Yemen: Rescue Operation for ‘Safer’ Enters Final Stages

Yemen: Rescue Operation for ‘Safer’ Enters Final Stages

Roughly two weeks after its initiation, the final stages of the rescue operation for the derelict oil tanker Safer, moored off the coasts of Yemen,…

Details
UN operation to remove oil from decaying Yemeni tanker

UN operation to remove oil from decaying Yemeni tanker

UN operation to remove oil from the FSO Safer, a rusting tanker moored off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, has successfully removed much of the…

Details
UN says most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen

UN says most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen

Most of the oil on board a rusting super-tanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, t…

Details
Yemen: 20% of the Safer oil tank was unloaded into the replacement tanker

Yemen: 20% of the Safer oil tank was unloaded into the replacement tanker

It will take about three weeks, while the World Food Program has stated that it will suspend its interventions in the field of preventing malnutrit…

Details
UK, US Announce Aid to Support Women and Children in Yemen

UK, US Announce Aid to Support Women and Children in Yemen

The UK and the US, separately, announced new aid for Yemeni women and children, amounting to about $228 million. UN announced that more tha…

Details
WFP Suspends Activities to Prevent Malnutrition in Yemen

WFP Suspends Activities to Prevent Malnutrition in Yemen

The World Food Program (WFP) has stated that it will suspend its interventions to prevent malnutrition in Yemen starting next month, due to a sever…

Details
How unloading of oil from FSO Safer is defusing Red Sea’s ticking ecological time bomb

How unloading of oil from FSO Safer is defusing Red Sea’s ticking ecological time bomb

The risks of an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe happening off the coast of Yemen are receding as a UN-led operation to pump more than a mil…

Details
Yemen.. Taiz police seize weapons in the case of the assassination of  a UN Food Agency Worker

Yemen.. Taiz police seize weapons in the case of the assassination of a UN Food Agency Worker

Security authorities in Taiz revealed the seizure of a quantity of weapons, explosives, landmines, and wireless communication devices in the posses…

Details