Stephen O’Brien
UN Blames Yemen Warring Sides For ‘man-Made’ Cholera Crisis
The UN aid chief on Wednesday blamed Yemen's warring parties and their foreign backers for a 'man-made' cholera...
Yemen Facing ‘total Collapse’ As Fighting Continues, UN Warns
The United Nation's top humanitarian co-ordinator has said Yemen is facing "total social, economic and institutional...
World Watches As Yemen Descends Into Total Collapse
Yemen is descending into total collapse, its people facing war, famine and a deadly outbreak of cholera, as the world...
Iraqi Troops Push For Last ISIL Holdouts In Mosul
Iraqi forces have launched a broad assault on parts of Mosul, closing in on the remaining pockets of territory held by...
UN Braces For Up To 200,000 Iraqis To Flee Mosul
As many as 200,000 Iraqis may try in the coming days to flee areas of Mosul under the control of the Islamic State...
US Tells UN To Put ‘all Pressure’ On Russia Over Syria
US Ambassador Nikki Haley urged the UN Security Council on Thursday to ratchet up pressure on Russia to end sieges in...
Countries Pledge $1.1bn To Avert Yemen Famine
Countries around the world Tuesday pledged more than one billion dollars to help prevent a looming famine in war-torn...
Dozens of Children Dead In Syria Evacuees Bombing
Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from...
Third of Yemen Provinces On Brink of Famine
A third of Yemen's 22 provinces are on the brink of famine, the UN said Friday, warning that 60 percent of the...
UN Releases $22 Million To Fight Famine Threat In Somalia
The United Nations has approved an emergency loan of $22 million (20.3 million euros) in a bid to prevent another...
Dozens of Somali Refugees Shot Dead In Red Sea Attack
Dozens of Somali refugees including women and children have been shot dead aboard a boat on the Red Sea, Yemeni...
Yemeni Women Rally Against War Outside UN Offices
Dozens of women staged a sit-in outside UN offices in Yemen's capital Tuesday demanding an end to the country's war...
South Sudan ‘to Profit’ From Crisis With $10,000 Visas
International aid agencies on Saturday slammed South Sudan's decision to raise foreign worker visa fees to as much as...
World Faces Worst Humanitarian Crisis Since WWII
The United Nations is warning that the world is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II,...
World Facing Greatest Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945
The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the United Nation's humanitarian chief said as he...
48,000 Displaced By Battles Around Yemen’s Mokha
Fighting around the historic Yemeni port of Mokha has forced more than 48,000 people from their homes, a UN official...
Yemen’s Displaced Families Struggle To Survive
Wrapping their children in plastic sheets to stave off the winter cold, Yemeni families driven out of the historic port...
Shelling Blocks UN Aid Chief Visit To Yemen’s Taez
UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien on Tuesday cancelled a visit to Yemen's third city Taez when shelling and a rebel...
Yemen Faces ‘serious Risk of Famine’
UN humanitarian aid chief Stephen O'Brien warned Monday in Yemen that the war-torn and impoverished country faces...