Around 14 million people in Yemen, or half the total population of the country, are facing “pre-famine conditions,” said the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday. Mark Lowcock, who is also Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that the UN assessment, which revises September’s ...
Yemeni forces launched on Monday a wide-scale operation aimed at taking control of several areas in Saudi Jizan. Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network quoted a statement by Yemen’s army and popular committees as saying that heavy losses were inflicted upon Saudi-led forces during the operation. The allied forces managed to ...