U.N. Yemen envoy says warring parties refuse to talk as violence escalates

Yemen’s warring parties are refusing to discuss U.N.-brokered peace efforts, the United Nations’ envoy for the country said on Tuesday, amid an escalation in violence that he said was having a “dramatic” impact on the civilian population.

At least 10,000 people have been killed in nearly two years of war between a Saudi-led Arab coalition and the Iran-allied Houthi movement. Already desperately poor even before the war, Yemen is now in the throes of a major humanitarian crisis.

“We know today that a solution is close because we know it. We know that a solution in Yemen will be

source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/14/u-n-yemen-envoy-says-warring-parties-refuse-to-talk-as-violence-escalates/