Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 5:26 pm
The UN’s top official in Yemen has warned of a
“dramatic” deterioration in the country’s ongoing
conflict, telling the Security Council on Tuesday that
fighting has expanded on several fronts amid the world’s
worst humanitarian crisis.
Special Envoy Martin
Griffiths
reported that “the war is back in full force”, with
Ansar Allah, commonly referred to as the Houthis, continuing
an offensive in Marib. The northern governorate had
previously been relatively unaffected in the fighting, now
in its seventh year, but the violence is putting civilians,
including more than one million displaced people, at
risk.