Almost a quarter of a million people have died in Yemen's war, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on its website on Tuesday, confirming the huge toll from a co
A landmine victim (C) works at a farm in Midi District of Hajjah Province, Yemen, Feb. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Mohammed Alwafi) Lives of thousands of Yemeni people living in various areas affected b
Michèle Flournoy, a top contender to be President-elect Joe Biden's secretary of defense, got a round of public endorsements on Wednesday from progressive-minded lawmak
VCG Image The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has suspended the issuance of visas to citizens from 13 mostly Muslim countries, including five from Africa.The document was sent to companies operatin
The Desert Locust crisis which struck the greater Horn of Africa region earlier this year threatening food supplies for millions, could re-escalate as recent strong winds carried mature swarmlets
Saudi Aramco said on Tuesday its domestic fuel supplies had not been affected by an attack the previous day by Yemen's Houthi group on a petroleum products distribution plant in Jeddah, with operatio
A man holds his child at the Al-Dhale'e Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in Yemen. /AFP Raising alarm over "an imminent catastrophe" in war-ravaged Yemen, the head of the UN Children's
A helicopter stands guard in the southernmost area of Naqoura, by the border with Israel, Naqoura, Lebanon, October 14, 2020. /Getty Images Editor's note:Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visi
A child smiles while receiving a Measles and Rubella vaccination during a UNICEF-supported mobile vaccination campaign in Aden, Yemen, February 2019./AFP Globally, millions of children are at
People lining up to receive relief food amid COVID-19 in Burkina Faso. /AFP People in four food insecurity "hotspots" inside Burkina Faso, north-eastern Nigeria, South Sudan, and Yemen, need h
The U.S. State Department sent Congress an informal notification of plans to sell $10 billion of defense equipment, including precision-guided munitions, non-precision
Editor's note: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is the executive director of UN Women. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.During the COVID-19 pandemic, public
Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister on Wednesday ordered the military to confront the country’s Tigray regional government after he accused it of carryi
Should we start thinking about the recent eruption of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan as part of the wider Middle East region? If so, what are the reasons behin
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh on outline geographic map. /Getty Images Editor's note:Guy Burton is an adjunct professor at Vesalius College, Brussels. The article reflects th
The COVID-19 pandemic quickly swept the world, escalating the need for food — and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says it is still not under control. /AFP Even before COVID-19 became an
The global public health crisis reached a grim milestone this week with the death toll topping one million. This woeful number is fast approaching that of the world's biggest infectious-disease ki
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