Houthi authorities in Yemen have given long-awaited approval for a United Nations plan to visit and assess a deteriorating oil tanker off Yemen’s coast that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels …
FSO Safer: New deal to secure oil tanker abandoned off Yemen
Houthi rebels have agreed to allow a UN mission to inspect and secure an abandoned oil tanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, the UN has announced. The FSO Safer is loaded with more than a million barrels …
Yemen: Houthis give UN permission to inspect stranded oil tanker
The safer tanker repair mission is meant to prevent a potential oil spill that could shut Yemen’s key port of Hodeidah.
U.N. Gets OK to Aid Crippled Yemen Tanker After Months of Waiting
Officials have been waiting since July to inspect and repair the FSO Safer, a stricken tanker off the Yemen coast. Houthi rebels have finally given approval, the U.N. said.
United Nations: Looming Famine in Yemen Comparable to 1980s Africa
In 1984 and 1985, about a million people died in Ethiopia in a famine that was widely broadcast on international television. Eventually, rock stars and royals swooped onto the world stage, raising …
Iran-backed Houthi Rebels Attack Saudi Oil Facility One Day After Reported Secret MBS-Pompeo-Netanyahu Meeting
The Yemeni rebel group used a cruise missile to strike an oil site near the city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast.
No time to waste, as Yemen inches towards famine: UN Children’s Fund
Raising alarm over “an imminent catastrophe” in war-ravaged Yemen, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reiterated the urgent need for combatants to stop the fighting. Henrietta Fore, …
To avoid another Yemen, the Red Sea needs fresh governance
To ensure the safety of all actors in the Red Sea basin, a framework of collaboration is a must and it must be done now, not later.
US keeps ‘all options’ open for Yemen’s Houthis
Adviser Robert O’Brien criticised the Iran-backed Houthis of failing to engage in a “good-faith peace process” to end the conflict …
‘Children’s lives at risk as Yemen on verge of famine’
SANAA The lives of millions of Yemeni children are at “high risk” as the country moves closer to famine, UNICEF warned on Monday. “Chronic poverty, …