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Syria’s fragile economy has “suffered multiple shocks” over the past 18 months, with its currency plummeting and joblessness swelling as people struggle to cover their basic needs, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Thursday.
Citing “disturbing new food security data” published by the World Food Programme (WFP), Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock stated that some 60 per cent of the population “do not have regular access to enough safe and nutritious food”.
“The increase may be shocking, but it cannot be said to be surprising”, he said via video link.
Around 60% of Syrians – 12.4 million people – do not have regular access to enough safe & nutritious food.
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On February 12, two vessels were boarded and searched off the coast of Somalia. The boarding force, which had deployed from the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), searched the vessels and found a cache of weapons. According to a brief by the Department of Defense, the cache consisted of “thousands of AK-47 assault rifles, light machine guns, heavy sniper rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs), and crew-served weapons.”
According to the report, the Churchill’s VBSS (Visit, Board, Search and Seizure) team discovered the weapons while conducting a flag verification boarding. Such boardings are common in the Arabian Sea where smugglers use unmarked dhows local motorized boats with medium cargo capacity to move illegal weapons, explosives, and military equipment.
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US urges Yemen s Houthis to join peace talks, stop assault on government stronghold
State Department strongly urges Houthi movement to stop its attacks on oil-rich Marib, where deadly offensive threatens lives of millions of civilians
Forces loyal to Yemen s Saudi-backed government get into position during clashes with Houthi rebel fighters, northwest of Marib in central Yemen on 11 February (AFP) By Published date: 16 February 2021 17:38 UTC | Last update: 1 month ago
The United States has called on the Houthi movement in Yemen to stop its attacks on the government s northern stronghold of Marib, and instead turn to negotiations in order to settle a peaceful solution to the conflict.