U.N. envoy appeals for truce extension in war-damaged Yemen
The U.N. envoy to Yemen on Sunday called on a Saudi-led military coalition and its adversaries to extend a humanitarian truce due to expire at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. ET), to allow for more aid to be delivered to Yemenis. Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed made his appeal at the opening of a conference of Yemeni parties that convened in the Saudi capital Riyadh to discuss ways of ending political turmoil in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country. Since Tuesday Saudi-led forces and Yemen's Houthi militias have largely observed a ...
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