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Early marriage, child recruitment and prostitution levels are on the rise in Yemen as a direct result of poverty caused by war. (AFP/ File)

April 22nd, 2017 - 08:43 GMT

Civilians continue to pay highest price in Yemen war

In Yemen, people are not able to pay their rent, utilities and hospital bills or for groceries.

The United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (AFP)

March 19th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

UN Special Envoy to Yemen calls for political settlement and humanitarian support

The UN has called repeatedly for a ceasefire in Yemen to allow the delivery of relief supplies. (AFP/File)

February 13th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

UN calls for ‘resurrection’ of Yemen peace talks

A Yemeni man stands on October 24, 2016 at the site of a Saudi airstrike on a funeral ceremony that killed 140 people and wounded 525 others earlier this month. (AFP/File)

October 30th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Embattled president Hadi rejects UN peace plan for Yemen

UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. (AFP/File)

October 28th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

UAE hails new UN peace plan for Yemen

Yemeni women supporting the Houthi rebels demonstrate against Saudi-led coalition air strikes, outside a hotel where the United Nations envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, is staying, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on October 25, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)

October 26th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

UN envoy to Yemen puts forth new peace plan to Houthi rebels

Tribal gunmen loyal to the Houthi movement brandish their weapons in the capital Sanaa. (AFP/File)

October 23rd, 2016 - 08:50 GMT

UN pushing for ceasefire extension in Yemen

Yemeni fighters from the separatist Southern Movement, loyal to the government forces, arrive for a rally marking the anniversary of the south's revolt against British colonial rule on October 13, 2016, in the southern city of Aden. (AFP/Saleh al-Obeidi)

October 20th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Temporary ceasefire in Yemen already breached with heavy shelling in Taiz

US Secretary of State John Kerry, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed make a joint statement on Yemen at Lancaster House in London on October 16, 2016. (AFP/Justin Tallis)

October 18th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Yemen’s President al-Hadi approves three-day ceasefire

A fighter loyal to Yemen's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi walks with crutches in Yemen's second city of Aden on July 30, 2015. (AFP/File)

October 18th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

UN announces ceasefire in Yemen

Smoke billows from buildings following a reported air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on October 5, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)

October 8th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Yemen: Houthis agree ‘in principle’ to three-day ceasefire

Spokesman of Yemen's Houthi movement Mohammed Abdulsalam (L) arrives for a meeting with United Nations (UN) special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, in the capital Sana’a on July 14, 2016. (AFP/File)

August 1st, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Houthis reject UN peace plan for Yemen

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed at an earlier peace talk in Kuwait. (AFP/File)

July 16th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Yemen peace talks slated to begin despite threat of Hadi boycott