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  • U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Lenderking’s Travel to the UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia

    U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia starting August 11, while members of his team travel to Jordan, as part of our vigorous diplomatic efforts to help secure an expansion of the UN-mediated truce and bolster peace efforts.  The Special Envoy and his team will focus on helping meaningfully expand benefits of the truce to all Yemenis and pave the way for a permanent ceasefire and an inclusive, durable Yemeni-led resolution to the conflict.  Special Envoy Lenderking will also discuss recent instability in Shabwa and the need for a return to calm.

  • An Oil-Spill Disaster is Looming in Yemen, and the World Can’t Afford to Wait

    The FSO Safer is a ticking time bomb. The U.N. has a plan to address the issue of the decaying oil tanker, but it must be resolved now before it becomes an environmental tragedy.

  • Yemen’s Houthis must act on Taiz to show commitment to truce, minister says

    War-scarred Yemen's internationally recognised government accused the Iran-aligned Houthi movement on Monday of failing to reopen roads to the besieged city of Taiz, a key element of a truce agreed between them. Yemen's warring parties, who have traded accusations of non-compliance with the two-month U.N.-brokered truce, agreed last week to renew it for a further two months.

  • Yemen swears in new governors for Hadhramout, Socotra

    Yemen's internationally recognised government swore in new governors for Hadhramout and Socotra, state media said on Monday, in a move political sources said was aimed at bolstering unity among an anti-Houthi alliance led by Saudi Arabia. Mabkhoot bin Mubarak bin Madhi was named governor of the oil-producing Hadhramout region in the south, and Raafat Ali Ibrahim was appointed governor of Socotra island in the Arabian Sea.

  • UN: Yemen’s warring parties extend truce for two months

    Yemen's warring parties agreed to extend a four-month long truce just hours before it was due to expire, the UN envoy announced Tuesday, vowing to "intensify" efforts to secure lasting peace. The two-month extension will run from 2 August to 2 October, and "includes a commitment from the parties to intensify negotiations to reach an expanded truce agreement as soon as possible", the United Nations special envoy on Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said in a statement.

  • Yemen swears in new governors for Hadhramout, Socotra

    Yemen's internationally recognised government swore in new governors for Hadhramout and Socotra, state media said on Monday, in a move political sources said was aimed at bolstering unity among an anti-Houthi alliance led by Saudi Arabia.

    Mabkhoot bin Mubarak bin Madhi was named governor of the oil-producing Hadhramout region in the south, and Raafat Ali Ibrahim was appointed governor of Socotra island in the Arabian Sea.

  • Team of 28 Saudi doctors successfully separate Yemeni Siamese twins

    This is apparently the 52nd time that Siamese twins have been successfully separated in the Kingdom, the head of the medical team Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rabeeah was quoted as saying by SPA.

  • EU ‘deeply regrets’ Houthi refusal to open roads to besieged Yemeni city

    The EU said on Wednesday it “deeply regrets” the refusal by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to reopen roads to the south-western city of Taez, where residents are on the verge of famine. A ceasefire between Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Iran-backed rebels at the start of Ramadan in April has largely held, but is due to end on August 2. UN special envoy Hans Grundberg has been shuttling between the two sides in an effort to extend the truce.

  • Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis say they will not extend truce despite Saudi pledge

    After Biden met with officials in his trip there this week, the White House in a statement said that Saudi Arabia had committed to extending and strengthening a UN-mediated truce in Yemen and will engage in talks to end the war that’s roiled the Arabian Gulf and triggered a humanitarian crisis.

  • UN envoy to seek longer, expanded truce in Yemen civil war

    Hans Grundberg said an extension could be a good step in moving toward a cease-fire in the country’s eight-year civil war. He didn’t provide details of the length or expansion he is seeking ahead of the Aug. 2 expiration of the current two-month truce extension. Grundberg told the U.N. Security Council that renewing the truce would provide time and the opportunity to start serious discussions on Yemen’s economy and security and to begin addressing priority issues such as revenues and payment of salaries.