Yemen faces “total” collapse, UN official warns Security Council
War-torn Arab nation Yemen is facing “total social, economic and institutional collapse”, a senior UN official has told the Security Council this week. Stephen O’Brien, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator, told the council on Tuesday that the people of Yemen “are being subjected to deprivation, disease and death as the world watches”. “This is not […]
Some 10,000 people a day fleeing western Mosul in Iraq as fighting continues
Some 10,000 people are fleeing west Mosul in Iraq every day as a military offensive to retake the city from the so-called Islamic State continues. The UN said on Friday that Iraqi Government figures showed the number of those fleeing peaked at a daily high of 16,100 on 18th May at the Hamam al-Alil screening site […]