The warring parties in Yemen have agreed a cease-fire agreement in the strategic port city of Hodeida on the Red Sea. That said Secretary-General António Guterres of the United...
Hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen are on the verge of starvation. Their situation is deteriorating by the day. The country still has food supplies for two to three months, while fighting for Hodeida, the most important port city in the country, threatens to put food imports to a standstill.
The coalition fighting the Houthi rebels in Yemen under the leadership of Saudi Arabia has killed one of the leaders of the movement. According to the Al Arabiya news channel, it is Ali Hussein Sheiba Bazli, one of the co-founders. He was killed on the Friday south of the city of Saada.
A large fire destroyed several sheds in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida in which relief supplies were stored. According to eyewitnesses, the warehouses of the World Food Program, among other things, went up in flames.
The donor countries pledged almost 1.1 billion dollars (1 billion euros) for humanitarian aid to Yemen during the Geneva conference. That was announced by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday after the meeting. The United Nations assumes that approximately twice is needed to fight the famine in Yemen, where every child dies for a period of 10 minutes through malnutrition and disease.
In an air raid on a market in the Yemeni city of Hodeida at least 22 civilians have been slain Friday and eight injured. Which published a security officer of the city.
The warring parties in Yemen to ensure greater access to the United Nations to ports in the country. There must urgently more food, fuel and medicines are in place to prevent an impending famine. That said Stephen O'Brien, emergency coordinator of the United Nations.
A prison in Hodeida, a city in Yemen, was bombed three times so far by the Arab coalition. At least 33 prisoners and guards lost their lives. The prison is located in the district of al-Zaydiyah. There were 84 captives when the building Saturday night (local time) three times was bombed by warplanes.
Certainly nineteen civilians Wednesday in Yemen killed when a house was hit by an air strike. Dozens of people were injured, local sources reported.
