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The Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, met with the delegation of the Government of Yemen, headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled al Yamani Thursday in Geneva in a bid to reactivate the peace process. Read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) donated Yemen’s second city, Aden, a power station of 120-megawatt at a price tag of $100 million, reports say. The station was shipped to the conflict-hit country Wednesday through the city’s port. The station powered Read more
Created last year by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen analyzed violations and abuses of international human rights law, humanitarian law and criminal law, making more than a dozen visits to the war-torn Read more
Emirati authorities Monday dismissed reports of a drone attack on Dubai airport by Yemeni Houthi rebels fighting the international coalition shoring up the regime of President Mansour Hadi in Yemen. The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) debunked claims by the Read more
Attacks against children caught in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen must stop, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, appealed on Monday. In a tightly worded statement, UNICEF pointed out that since Sunday, 28 children were reported killed in Idlib and Read more
The Malaysian government has closed down the Saudi-funded anti-terrorism center, in a new move underlining the new government’s intents to move away from claws of the Middle East major power. Mohammed Sabu, Malaysia’s minister of Defence, Monday announced the closure Read more
The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen announced on Thursday that after two years of stalled talks on resolving the crisis in the country, he plans to invite the warring parties to Geneva on September 6 for a round of Read more
Ongoing violence and attacks on civilian infrastructure in Hudaydah directly threaten hundreds of thousands of children and their families in Yemen, said the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in a statement released on Wednesday. “Attacks against civilian Read more
Authorities at Abu Dhabi airport Thursday brushed off statement by Yemen-based Shia Houthi rebels that they hit the airport of the Emirati capital in a drone attack, one day after they attacked two Saudi oil tankers. “Operations at the airport Read more
Saudi Arabia’s largest company Aramco Wednesday said a minor fire that erupted at one of its storage containers was quickly put off. “No personnel are injured and no impact on operations,” Aramco said in an update on its official Twitter Read more