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YemenExtra Y.A The United States announced on Wednesday that peace talks to end the war in Yemen would begin next month in Sweden. The announcement came amid growing global pressure to stop the bombing campaigns by a Saudi-led…

YemenExtra M.A. About 85,000 children under the age of five may have died of acute malnutrition during the three-year-old war in Yemen, Save the children British-based organization revealed on Tuesday. Save the Children, a…

YemenExtra Y.A The statement of UN, seen by Nthnews on Thursday, broadly expresses concern about civilian casualties and restrictions on commercial and humanitarian food, fuel and medical imports and calls on all parties to allow…

YemenExtra Y.A The Saudi-led coalition unleashed a barrage of air strikes on Yemen, slaughtering as many as 71 civilians (many of them children) within a period of 48 hours, reported the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera on…

YemenExtra Y.A “Let me be clear: The use of starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime.” – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, January 15, 2016, warning the warring parties in Syria “People are dying; children are suffering not as…

YemenExtra Y.A Despite a modest easing of the Saudi-led coalition’s blockade of Yemen over the last month, the civilian population is still being starved of essential goods: Thirty days after Saudi Arabia eased its crippling…

YemenExtra By Stephanie Nebehay | GENEVA The risk of mass starvation in four countries - northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen - is rising rapidly due to drought and conflict, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.…