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The United Nations-supported Yemeni peace talks under way in Kuwait have progressed “slowly, yet constructively,” over the last two months, with agreement still to be reached on the sequencing of the various steps proposed, including the timing of esta…

Global forced displacement reached 65.3 million in 2015, the highest level ever recorded, the UN said Monday.The findings from the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, mark the first time the threshold of 60 million people has been crossed.It means that one in ev…

Refugee team competing at Rio Olympics “sends message of hope”The participation of 10 refugee athletes in the Rio Summer Olympic Games sends a strong message of support and hope for refugees globally, the UN says.It’s the first time such a team has com…

United Nations Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed declared on Thursday the UN had received initial reports about number of detainees, names of whom had been provided by the Yemeni Ansarullah movement and the General People’s Congress.In a stateme…

Yemen’s nearly two-month-old ceasefire has improved humanitarian access but civilians are still facing an “immeasurable” crisis, the United Nations said Thursday.The fragile truce was declared on April 11, 10 days before Houthi Shiite rebels and the go…

Social Affairs Minister, Rashid Derbas, said, “We are not in a clash with UN, but we admonish its failure to take a decision prone to put terms to the crime in Syria.” Derbas’s words came Wednesday in the context of opening the regional forum for aidin…

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders, commended efforts exerted by the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, aiming to render the success of the current peace talks among the Yemeni warring parties, in Kuwait, said GCC Secretar…

Saudi Arabia and Britain expressed appreciation to Kuwait’s efforts and support to the Yemeni talks, currently taking place in Kuwait between the Yemeni government, Ansarullah movement, and General People’s Congress (GPC).In a joint press conference, f…

Britain Representative to the UN urged the Yemeni parties to stay in the negotiating table and to reach a final agreement, in order to give the people of Yemen the most “stable and prosperous” future they desperately deserve.Speaking to the press, prio…