The ongoing airstrikes that started late last month in Yemen have caused more than 120, 000 people to be evacuated, a UN spokesman told reporters here Monday.
Saudi-led coalition has been bombing the Shiite Houthi fighters in Yemen for about three weeks, and experts believe that the military offensive would head nowhere if political solutions are left untried.
Sherin Fathimah Syed Abdul Ravoof, a Singaporean woman who has evacuated from Yemen with her four children via Chinese frigate Linyi, told Xinhua by phone that they are really grateful for boarding the Chinese vessel.
A UN envoy in charge of protecting children in armed conflict on Tuesday said that she was alarmed by the rising number of child casualties in Yemen, calling on all warring sides to "avoid creating new risks for children."
China is in the process of evacuating 449of its citizens from conflict-hit Yemen with the help of Chinese navy warships, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Days of Saudi-backed airstrikes against Yemen's Shiite Houthi group has seen accumulated chaos and bloodshed as more countries have moved to evacuate their nationals from the crisis-engulfed Middle East nation.
A Pakistani plane, carrying 503 nationals stranded in the war-torn Yemen, arrived in the country late on Sunday night.
The Yemeni foreign minister said Thursday that the legitimate leadership of Yemen seeks a peaceful national dialogue after settlement of the situation in the conflict-stricken country, Egyptian official news agency reported.
The Saudi-led coalition forces have conducted air strikes for the second night on Thursday in Yemen's capital and several other cities that destroyed military targets of the Shiite Houthi group and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh who was accused of allying the Houthis to overrun the country.
Three members of the Yemen-based Al-Qaida branch were killed when a U.S. drone strike pounded their car in southeastern Shabwa province late on Friday, a tribal leader told Xinhua.
Four al-Qaida militants branch were killed in a U.S. drone bombing in Yemen's southeastern province of al-Bayda on Monday, a military official told Xinhua.
Yemen is on the brink of a real economic disaster after the Shiite Houthi group tightened its grip on power and the government was paralysed by years of political struggle since the 2011 upheaval, analysts said Wednesday.
News Analysis: Yemen on brink of economic disaster as crisis escalates
U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday denounced the killing of an American hostage in a second failed rescue operation in Yemen, vowing to bring the killers to justice.
The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and two military commanders of the Shiite Houthi group for threatening peace and stability of the Arab country still under a political transition.
The United States on Wednesday threatened to slap sanctions on some of the Shiite rebels deemed to undermine Yemen's uneasy transition process.
Yemen, reeling from political instability and insecurity from jihadist attacks, is "on the brink of an economic collapse," a UN humanitarian official said here Wednesday, blaming the mild, but popular, drug khat, for much of the Aden Gulf nation's woes.
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