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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.
Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 07:15
United Nations Special Envoy Martin Griffiths. Washington - Ali Barada
United Nations Special Envoy Martin Griffiths said Tuesday it was urgent now more than ever for warring parties in Yemen to stop fighting, warning of a dramatic deterioration of the conflict following Iran-backed Houthi militias’ offensive on the Marib province, which puts civilians, including an estimated one million internally displaced persons, at risk.
“That there should be no preconditions for resuming the political process, if we fail on these other matters. Resuming the process, and engaging seriously in it, is an obligation upon the warring parties anywhere,” the envoy said in virtual meeting to the UN Security Council.
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Syria s decade of despair as conflict churns on
Posted : 2021-03-11 16:13 By John J. Metzler
A decade ago, winds of change and calamity blew across the Middle East. From Tunisia to Egypt, Syria, and later Libya, entrenched autocracies were challenged politically by what became known as the Arab Spring, a series of popular and quasi-democratic uprisings which shook the status quo and smashed the old order.
Sadly the Arab Spring soon evolved into the Arab Winter as most of the countries with the exception of Tunisia, saw these popular uprisings hijacked by hardline Islamic fundamentalists and a motley gaggle of militant terrorist groups.