Yemen

15 March 2022; MEMO: Houthi forces in Yemen have killed at least 80 Sudanese and 15 Saudi soldiers fighting within the Saudi-led Arab coalition during a military operation in the city of Haradh, Hajjah Governorate, a pro-Houthi channel reported yesterday.

ADEN, Yemen, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced Saturday that 10,200 children were killed or injured since the conflict escalated in Yemen nearly seven years ago.

"The actual number is likely much higher," UNICEF Representative to Yemen Philippe Duamelle said in a statement.

"Following the intensification of the conflict in 2021, violence has continued to escalate this year and as always children are the first and most to suffer," Duamelle said.

ADEN, Mar 12 (NNN-YPA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), warned that, millions of Yemeni people are at risk of famine, as a result of the country’s years-long military conflict and sharp deterioration of its economy, calling for urgent action.

“Children in Yemen are starving not because of a lack of food, but because their families cannot afford food,” the UNICEF said in a statement posted on Twitter.

The UN organisation said, “The impact of the economic collapse on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen cannot be understated.”

10 March 2022; MEMO: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday warned that the war in Ukraine could reduce Yemenis' access to their basic needs due to the possible increase in food prices.

"In a country where food insecurity is already threatening over 16.2 million people, the severity of food and water needs is dangerously acute in Taiz and other nearby areas highly impacted by ongoing violence," the ICRC said in a report on its official website.

ADEN, Mar 10 (NNN-YPA) – UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, continued yesterday, his consultations with Yemeni political parties, in a bid to resume peace talks.

The envoy’s office said in a statement that, he held bilateral meetings in Jordan’s capital, Amman, with representatives of Yemeni parties, aiming to create a framework for a comprehensive solution to end the protracted civil war.

SANAA, Mar 9 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s Houthi militia announced yesterday, they shot down a drone above Harad city, in the north-western province of Hajjah, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV quoted a statement by Houthi military spokesman as saying.

The Houthis said, the drone “was believed to be made in the United States and belongs to the Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen.”

The coalition has made no comment yet.

The coalition-backed Yemeni government forces have been fighting the Houthi militia for nearly seven years, and Hajjah is among the critical frontlines.

06 March 2022; MEMO: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited the southern city of Aden on Sunday to draw attention to the catastrophic consequences of the 8-year conflict in Yemen, Anadolu Agency reported.

"She will be visiting Yemeni families, including displaced families and refugees, to hear directly from them how the conflict has ripped their lives apart," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement.

ADEN, Mar 6 (NNN-YPA) – Two workers of the international medical charity, Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres/MSF), were kidnapped by gunmen, in Yemen’s south-eastern province of Hadramout yesterday, a security official said.

The aid workers, nationals of Germany and Mexico, were intercepted, when travelling in the western part of Hadramout, the local security source said.

“The unidentified gunmen set up an armed ambush and kidnapped two MSF’s aid workers, driving them to unknown whereabouts,” the local source said.

SANAA, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi militia has reached an agreement with the United Nations (UN) to deal with a rusting oil tanker carrying over 1 million barrels of crude oil off the war-torn country's Red Sea coast.

"A memorandum of understanding has been signed with the United Nations for the Safer tanker," Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, said on Twitter on Saturday.

HAJJAH, Yemen, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's government forces have burned 1,100 kg of hashish and 8,000 narcotic pills seized from smugglers in the past four months in the northwestern province of Hajjah, a security official said Friday.

The destruction was carried out on Thursday in the government-controlled Red Sea city of Midi, in the presence of representatives of the court, public prosecution and the security services.