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UN Envoy encouraged by Yemen truce deal efforts, warns against ‘piecemeal approach’

The United Nations Envoy for Yemen said, on Monday, he was encouraged by intensified efforts for an expanded truce deal but stressed they should seek an inclusive process for a sustainable political settlement, Reuters reports. Hans Grundberg, addressing a UN Security Council briefing more than three months after an initial truce pact expired, said "we are witnessing a potential step change" in the conflict's trajectory though the situation remained "complex and fluid". […]

today17 January 2023

International

UN envoy urges Libyan rivals to end differences ‘in a week’

UN Special Adviser on Libya Stephanie Williams on Sunday urged the country's rivals to establish a constitutional framework within one week for holding elections in the conflict-ridden nation, Anadolu reports. "This final round comes at a critical juncture for your country. After eleven long years of division, dysfunction, conflict, chaos and polarization, the Libyan people are exhausted," Williams said at the opening session of the third and final round of talks in […]

today13 June 2022

International News

UN envoy pushes for end to foreign fuelling of Libya conflict

The acting UN Libya envoy urged the Security Council on Tuesday to pressure foreign actors to stop helping the North African country’s warring parties, warning that the flood of weapons and mercenaries will only intensify fighting. The oil-producing state descended into chaos after the NATO-backed overthrow of leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Since 2014, Libya has been split with the internationally recognised government controlling the capital Tripoli and the northwest, […]

today20 May 2020

International News

Rohingya crisis: UN envoy says refugees facing ‘forced starvation’

Myanmar has not stopped its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Rakhine state, a United Nations human rights official said on Tuesday. The UN envoy's assessment of a continued "campaign of terror and forced starvation" comes six months after a military crackdown caused a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims. Some 700,000 people have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh since August. They have since told of murder, rape and arson by […]

today6 March 2018

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