Cii Radio Cii Radio
  • Home
  • Listen Live
  • Podcasts
  • Africa
    Call for specialist mining police unit to prevent illegal mining

    Call for specialist mining police unit to prevent illegal mining

    Movement of cattle in SA halted due to F & M

    Movement of cattle in SA halted due to F & M

    14-year-old Eastern Cape learner facing arm amputation after allegedly taking COVID-19 vaccine

    14-year-old Eastern Cape learner facing arm amputation after allegedly taking COVID-19 vaccine

    African leaders extend messages of congratulations to Kenya’s President-elect Ruto

    African leaders extend messages of congratulations to Kenya’s President-elect Ruto

  • Middle East
    Germany’s Scholz rejects word ‘apartheid’ to describe Middle East conflict

    Germany’s Scholz rejects word ‘apartheid’ to describe Middle East conflict

    3 Syrian soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Turkish strike

    3 Syrian soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Turkish strike

    Kuwait’s Nayef Palace granted Islamic Heritage Site status

    Kuwait’s Nayef Palace granted Islamic Heritage Site status

    MHRSD: 43 companies to recruit Indonesian house workers through ‘Single Channel’ system

    MHRSD: 43 companies to recruit Indonesian house workers through ‘Single Channel’ system

  • World
  • Wacky news
  • Schedule
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
Go to...

    Yemen’s ‘Unfathomable pain and suffering’

    July 13, 2017
    Middle East
    0 Comments
    Views : 1072
    0
    Yemen’s ‘Unfathomable pain and suffering’

    Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 13 July 2017| 18 Shawaal 1438

    UN special envoy wants to restart talks as humanitarian chief warns that seven million are ‘on the cusp of famine’

    United Nations officials have warned that the conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation, Yemen, is intensifying daily, with armed groups expanding, thousands facing a cholera epidemic, and seven million “on the cusp of famine”.

    Speaking before the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, UN special envoy to Yemen, called on all parties “to act for the sake of peace,” saying “excuses are unacceptable…especially when the solutions are in plain sight.”

    “The opportunity to reach peace is not yet lost,” he said, urging political leaders to recognise that “the continuation of the war can only lead to more human and physical loss”.

    In the same meeting, UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien said the warring parties and their outside backers should feel “deeply guilty” at driving a worsening conflict that has exposed millions of Yemeni civilians “to unfathomable pain and suffering”, including seven million people now “on the cusp of famine.”

    He urged the Security Council to “lean much more heavily and effectively on the parties, and those outside Yemen who are leading this policy and action.”

    O’Brien said suspected cholera cases have been reported in nearly all the country’s districts and at least 1,740 people have already died.

    The $2.1bn humanitarian appeal for Yemen is only 33 percent funded, and the response to the cholera epidemic requires an additional $250m, of which just $47m has been received, he said.

    “This cholera scandal is entirely man-made by the conflicting parties and those beyond Yemen’s borders who are leading, supplying, fighting and perpetuating the fear and fighting,” O’Brien said.

    On Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported that suspected cholera cases have now surpassed 300,000.

    Restarting talks
    Yemen has been engulfed in civil war since September 2014, when Houthi rebels swept into the capital, Sanaa, and overthrew the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

    In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition, which is supporting the Hadi government, began a campaign against Houthi forces allied with ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

    Since then, the Houthis have been dislodged from most of the south, but remain in control of Sanaa and much of the north.

    In the southern part of the country the United Arab Emirates, which is part of the Saudi-led coalition, has set up its own security forces, running virtually a state-within-a-state and heightening the south’s independence movement.

    Cheikh Ahmed said he plans to invite the parties to restart discussions “as soon as possible” on agreements he proposed several months ago.

    The proposal calls for continuing the flow of commercial and humanitarian supplies through the Red Sea port of Hodeida, where there has been a threat of fighting, and ending the diversion of customs revenues and taxes.

    Those funds would be used to pay the salaries of government workers who have not been paid for many months and to preserve essential government services in all areas of the country.

    Cheikh Ahmed also said the Hadi government “has reacted positively and has agreed to negotiate” on the basis of his proposals.

    He said China played “an instrumental role” over the past few days in putting him in direct contact with the Houthis, who had refused to meet him on his last trip to Sanaa. He said this is “cause for optimism.”

    Source – Al Jazeera

    Tags : Cholera, Conflict, Famine, Starvation, War, Yemen
    Share :
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Google+
    • Pinterest
    • Linkedin
    • Email
    Twice rejected Afghan girls robotics team given US visa after outrage
    Next article
    Twice rejected Afghan girls robotics team given US visa after outrage
    Amnesty
    Previous article
    Amnesty’s report on Mosul “irresponsible” : US-led coalition

    Ayesha

    Related Posts

    • Middle East August 17, 2022

      Germany's Scholz rejects word 'apartheid'

      Germany’s Scholz rejects word ‘apartheid’ to describe Middle East conflict
      Middle East, Newsroom August 17, 2022

      3 Syrian soldiers killed, 6

      3 Syrian soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Turkish strike
      Middle East, Newsroom August 15, 2022

      Kuwait’s Nayef Palace granted Islamic

      Kuwait’s Nayef Palace granted Islamic Heritage Site status
    • Middle East August 15, 2022

      MHRSD: 43 companies to recruit

      MHRSD: 43 companies to recruit Indonesian house workers through ‘Single Channel’ system
      Middle East, Newsroom August 14, 2022

      77 people died due to

      77 people died due to heavy rains and floods in Yemen
      Middle East, Newsroom August 10, 2022

      Baghdad Weighs Possibility of Forming

      Baghdad Weighs Possibility of Forming Interim Govt

    Leave a reply

    You must be logged in to post a comment.

    FOLLOW US

    • 0 Fans
    • 29277 Followers
    • 0 Followers
    • 0 Followers

    Cii Radio You Tube Channel

    Recent posts

    • This Tortoise Attacks All the Black Shoes That Come Near Him
      This Tortoise Attacks All the
      August 17, 2022 0
    • 17-08-22 Yaum Un Jadeed With
      August 17, 2022 0
    • 17-08-22 Yaum Un Jadeed With
      August 17, 2022 0
    • Germany’s Scholz rejects word ‘apartheid’ to describe Middle East conflict
      Germany's Scholz rejects word 'apartheid'
      August 17, 2022 0

    Latest Tweets

    • channelislam Eid Mubarak May the Blessings of Allah be upon you and your family on this auspicious day and always. Ameen. From… https://t.co/hG0fPm8ViD
      about 39 days ago
    • channelislam Lessons from the final Hajj with Prof Sirajudeen Ellemdin. https://t.co/opQelOW1jG
      about 39 days ago
    • channelislam Don't forget to recite the Takbeerat. https://t.co/FzeYjpu2Kl
      about 39 days ago
    • channelislam Eid line up on cii this evening. https://t.co/tSyL938odd
      about 39 days ago

    Random News

    • New secretive deal between UN, Myanmar smells foul
      New secretive deal between UN,
      June 12, 2018 0

      Cii Radio|Ayesha Ismail|12 June 2018|27 Ramadaan 1439 One million Rohingya survivors of the Myanmar genocide, who took refuge across the borders ...

      Read More
    Copyright 2016 Cii Radio