UNITED NATIONS: The seven-time war in Yemen has witnessed a dangerous escalation, with January’s mercenary casualties the loftiest in at least three times and eight million Yemenis probably to lose all philanthropic aid coming month without critical new finances, UN officers said on Tuesday.
UN special envoy Hans Grundberg and UN philanthropic principal Martin Griffiths painted a worsening picture of the formerly dire situation in the Arab world’s poorest nation. They said the once month brought an addition of combat zones and the end of January saw nearly two-thirds of major UN aid programs being gauged back or closed.
Yemen has been jiggled by civil war since 2014, when Iran- backed Houthi revolutionists took control of the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north, forcing the government to flee to the south, also to Saudi Arabia. A Saudi- led coalition entered the war in March 2015, backed by the US and the United Arab Emirates, to try to restore President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to power.
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Grundberg advised the UN Security Council that recent attacks by the Houthis on the UAE and Saudi Arabia indicate how this conflict pitfalls twisting out of control unless serious sweats are urgently made by the Yemeni parties, the region, and the transnational community to end the conflict.
He said a coalition airstrike on a detention installation in Houthi- controlled Saada was the worst mercenary casualty incident in three times, and he refocused on an intimidating increase in airstrikes in Yemen, including on domestic areas in Sanaa and the harborage area of Hodeida.
Griffiths said further than 650 civilians were killed or injured in January by airstrikes, shelling, small arms fire, and other violence, by far the loftiest risk in at least three times.
