Yemen's government and the Houthi rebels have agreed on the first stage of a mutual pullout of forces from the port city of Hodeida, a key entry point for humanitarian aid, the United Nations said.

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United Nations (UN) Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and UN Emergency Relief Chief Mark Lowcock issued a joint statement warning about the risk of food aid being spoiled because it is too difficult to access.

In early 2018, fighting intensified along the frontline between the cities of Taïz and Hodeidah by Ansar Allah troops and forces supported by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition, writes Agnes Varraine-Leca.

The evidence from Northern Ireland and elsewhere suggests a lasting solution is more likely if females play a prominent part in peace processes, say Jamille Bigio and Rachel Vogelstein

Ahead of a Seanad motion on Yemen, Dominic MacSorley, CEO of Concern Worldwide, has cautiously welcomed the Hodeidah ceasefire announcement and UN Special Envoy Martin Griffith’s critical involvement in the peace talks.

While the global trend in forced marriage and child brides has seen numbers fall in recent years, the picture emerging from America is more disturbing, writes Bette Browne

Brexit, the Russian spy poisoning in Britain, the Facebook privacy scandal, the extraordinary cave rescue in Thailand and the ongoing fallout from the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are just some of the stories that made the headlines in 2018.

Though it is more than 170 years since our Great Famine — an Gorta Mór — began its evisceration, it persists as a powerful presence in our consciousness.

How much do we know about water beneath our feet? Parts of Ireland had bouts of parching in 2018. Soil, on being dug up, was found to have become dust.

In 1847 the Choctaw Indians donated $170 toward famine relief in Ireland.

Trocaire is hitting out at the Government for not responding after a horrific attack on a school bus in Yemen just last week.

At least 20 people, including children, have died after air strikes in northern Yemen targeted a busy market and a bus, Yemeni tribal leaders said.

In Yemen, more than three years of war have left millions of people without enough income to meet their basic needs.

Here is what is happening in Yemen, now in the fourth year of a civil war, writes Kelly McFarland.

Since December 2017 the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has intensified its airstrikes against the Houthis in northwest Yemen, leaving the inhabitants more exposed than ever.

Since December 2017 the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has intensified its airstrikes against the Houthis in northwest Yemen, leaving the inhabitants more exposed than ever.

A Saudi-led coalition's offensive against Shiite rebels along Yemen's west coast has displaced tens of thousands of Yemeni civilians, according to an international rights group.

On any given day, Yemen, Syria, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, the Kurds, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, and the US are involved in armed conflicts in the Middle East, writes Carlos Pascual

Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has described the latest attack on civilians in Yemen as a "serious violation of international humanitarian law".

Heart breaking footage has emerged of a young boy clinging to his dead father following the Saudi bombing of a wedding in the northern region of Yemen yesterday.

At least 20 people were killed after an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding party in northern Yemen, health officials said, as harrowing images of the bombing emerged on social media.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Houthi rebels have attacked a Saudi oil tanker, causing "minor damage".

A fire has broken out at storage facilities for the World Food Programme in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have given 930 million dollars (€577.34m) to US humanitarian efforts in Yemen.

Our capacity to inflict savagery on each other is a never-ending mystery. Every society, no matter how exceptional it imagines itself, is at one stage or another complicit in the most bestial behaviour.

A Saudi-led coalition air strike has killed at least 10 people and wounded 25 others in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.

Around a million people in war-ravaged Yemen are believed to have been infected in a cholera outbreak that began last year, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The UN human rights office says has verified the killings of 136 Yemeni civilians and other non-combatants in air strikes carried out over 11 days this month by the Saudi-led military coalition batting Yemen's Shiite rebels.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels says a missile fired over Riyadh has been intercepted.

The ongoing war and blockade are creating a new threat to public health in Yemen, as a suspected diphtheria outbreak takes hold, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have warned.

Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled the country for more than three decades and played a pivotal role in the country’s ongoing civil war, has been killed, the country’s Houthi rebels have said.

Yemenis in the war-torn country's capital crowded into basements overnight as Saudi-led fighter jets pounded the positions of Houthi rebels.

Millions of Yemenis face the risk of death as aid deliveries cannot get to those in need because of the continuing blockade of the war-ravaged country by the Saudi-led coalition, the head of the World Food Programme in the country has said.

The British Government is foolish to back Saudi Arabia, including with arms sales, while it is carrying out "clearly illegal acts" in Yemen, Liberal Democrat former leader Paddy Ashdown has said.

The UN and more than 20 humanitarian groups have condemned a blockade by the Saudi-led coalition on airports, seaports and land crossings into Yemen, saying it could bring millions of people closer to "starvation and death".

The missile was fired across Saudi Arabia's southern border by Yemen's Houthi rebels, who are at war with the kingdom.

A suspected Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Yemen has killed at least 26 people, including children in the country’s north.

The Saudi-led coalition waging an air campaign against Houthi rebels in northern Yemen is killing children in what amounts to war crimes, according to an international rights group.

Air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition have hit a small hotel near Yemen's capital Sanaa, killing dozens of Shiite Houthi rebels and civilians, Yemeni security officials said.

Smugglers have thrown some 280 migrants into the sea off the coast of Yemen in the last two days, causing more than 50 to drown and leaving over 30 missing, the UN migration agency has said.

The United Nations migration agency says up to 50 migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia have been "deliberatelydrowned" when a smuggler forced them into the sea off Yemen’s coast.

The crisis in Yemen that has left millions hungry and on the brink of famine is "a man-made disaster" driven in part by an economic strangulation being used as a tactic of war, a UN development chief has said.

Plans to ship as many as one million doses of cholera vaccine to Yemen are likely to be shelved over security, access and logistical challenges, UN officials said.