World News in Brief: Aid suspension in Yemeni governorate, Gaza humanitarian update, UN welcomes summit on DR Congo crisis

The UN Secretary-General has instructed all agencies, funds and programmes to pause all activities in Sa’ada governorate in Yemen for security reasons, the global body said on Monday. 

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World News in Brief: Aid suspension in Yemeni governorate, Gaza humanitarian update, UN welcomes summit on DR Congo crisis

Yemen: Call for independent probe into deadly prison airstrikes

28 Jan 2022

Airstrikes last week by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that hit a detention facility in the northern city of Sa’ada, killed some 91 people and injured dozens more, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday, citing preliminary figures.   

Guterres calls on US to exempt development and humanitarian funds from aid ‘pause’

Guterres calls on US to exempt development and humanitarian funds from aid ‘pause’

27 Jan 2025

The UN Secretary-General on Monday called on the US Government to consider “additional exemptions” to a directive which pauses nearly all foreign aid for 90 days.

Yemen: ‘Fear of a return to full conflict is palpable’, says UN envoy

Yemen: ‘Fear of a return to full conflict is palpable’, says UN envoy

06 Mar 2025

After several years of fragile truce, there is a “palpable” fear of a return to all-out war in Yemen, said Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Thursday, briefing the Security Council.