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6 mln Somalis likely to face crisis or worse food insecurity: UN spokesperson
A UN spokesperson said Friday that some 6 million people in Somalia are likely to face crisis or worse food insecurity from April to June this year.
"The latest famine projections indicate that more than 6 million people are likely to…
United Nations: Millions of Yemenis do not have enough food during Ramadan
The United Nations announced, on Tuesday, that millions of Yemenis do not have enough food during the holy month of Ramadan, with the deteriorating living conditions, and stressed that the country's needs "go beyond imagination."
The…
Daily Noon Briefing Highlights: Somalia, Ethiopia, Ukraine
Somalia now faces a risk of famine (IPC Phase 5) in six areas through June 2022 if the April to June Gu season rains fails as forecast; food prices continue to rise, and humanitarian assistance is not scaled up to reach the most vulnerable…
The beheading of a diplomat’s daughter shows how badly Pakistan is failing its women
Few cases of femicide make headlines in Pakistan, but the beheading of an ambassador's daughter promises to test a legal system activists say has repeatedly failed victims of violence and needs urgent reform.
According to a police report…
Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Woman Near Bethlehem
Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead a Palestinian woman in her forties after she approached them in a "suspicious manner" in the West Bank town of Husan, near Bethlehem, on Sunday.
Ghada Ibrahim Ali Sabateen from Bethlehem, a widowed…
Suffering in silence: it’s time to step up action for the Sahel
As the world looks on in dismay at the violence in Ukraine, a slow-burning but deadly crisis continues out of the global spotlight in West Africa’s Sahel region. In an op-ed published in Le Monde, heads of several UN and non-UN entities…
Ukraine: UN Condemns Deadly Attack On Train Station, Dozens Of Civilians Killed
In eastern Ukraine, a reported Russian missile attack on a railway station that’s killed dozens of civilians including children, has been condemned by the United Nations. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement, that…
In Aden, Drinking Water Continues To Be Cut Off From Citizens’ Homes
Residents in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden expressed their deep dissatisfaction with the stifling water crisis that afflicts many residential neighborhoods in the city, local sources said
According to the sources, drinking water has…
YPC: Aggression coalition seizes diesel ship “Daytona”
The US-Saudi-Emirati aggression coalition on Wednesday detained the diesel-loaded ship "Daytona" and forcibly took it off Jizan.
Official spokesman for the Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC) Issam Al-Mutawakil said in a statement…
Aggression Forces Commit 116 Violations Of Hodeida Armistice
The US-Saudi-led aggression coalition forces continued to violate the Sweden agreement in Hodeida province, committing 116 violations over the past 24 hours, the operations room to monitor the violations reported on Wednesday.
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