You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

U.N. Envoy to Yemen Hopeful over Peace Talks

HeadlineJul 06, 2018

The United Nations is warning more than 120,000 people have fled fighting in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah, after U.S.-backed, Saudi-led forces began an assault on the strategic port city in early June. The warning came as the U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said he’d made progress toward brokering a peace deal between the Saudi coalition and Houthi rebels. Griffiths made the comment after warring parties agreed to a 2-day pause in fighting around Hodeidah during his visit.

Martin Griffiths: “I look forward to working with all the parties, urgently, to find a solution both that will restore security and stability in Hodeidah, but also create positive conditions for a rapid and urgent restart of political negotiations in the coming days.”

The United Nations has called Yemen’s humanitarian crisis the worst in the world, with a cholera epidemic that’s affected more than 1 million people, and millions more on the brink of famine amid shortages of food, medicine and potable water.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top