The UN special envoy for Yemen announced the end of peace talks on Saturday without any major breakthrough, but also said a new round of negotiations would begin after one month. The United Nations ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is naming Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to replace his outgoing special envoy to Yemen, who resigned after his peace plan to halt the war there ...

UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismaïl Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Friday, revealed that a close meeting between the United Nations and representatives of the coup will take place in Geneva or in the region. He ...

KUWAIT CITY, April 23, (Agencies): Yemeni warring parties ended their evening session on Saturday with reports of differences over maintaining of the ceasefire. Representatives from the Yemeni ...

The World Health Organisation says at least 7,000 people have been killed in Yemen’s 20-month civil war, and the UN peace envoy warns that the country is teetering on the “brink of the abyss”. In a ...

NEW YORK, April 25 (KUNA) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad of Mauritania as his Special Envoy for Yemen. The ex-Special Adviser to Ban on ...

United Nations special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has embarked on a new journey to initiate peace negotiations, starting from Omani capital city of Muscat. Ahmed referred to his meeting ...

Abu Dhabi: Dr Anwar Mohammad Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, received yesterday (Monday) Esmail Ould Cheikh Ahmad, UN Special Envoy to Yemen. During the meeting, they discussed ...

The special envoy is the second U.N. mediator in less than three years to leave the post. Yemen is in the grip of a devastating war. By Rick Gladstone The rebels known as the Houthis said they would ...