Yemen has warned the United Nations against bowing to pressures by the Houthi rebel militia to replace representative of the OHCHR in Yemen Elobaid Ahmed Elobaid.

The Ministry of Public Health and Population received Saturday 16 tons of medical aids provided by the UNICEF to help control coronavirus pandemic.

KSrelief has extended the contract of the Demining Project in Yemen "MASAM" for one year at total cost up to $ 30 million and 495 thousand.

The initial results of financial pledges made during the supposed donor conference to Yemen have shown that more than USD 1.3 billion have been collected from the countries participate in the conference organized by Saudi Arabia and the UN here on Tuesday.

Yemen's Prime Minister on Tuesday told the donors participating in a Saudi and UN-organized virtual pledging conference in Riyadh that his country is facing the "world's strongest hardships due to the Houthi militia's coup, war and looting of state-owned resources in the territories they control."

A virtual pledging conference for Yemen has opened in the Saudi capital Riyadh as organized by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in partnership with the United Nations.

Vice President of the Republic (Lt Gen) Ali Mohsen Saleh described the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's call for holding Yemen's donor conference as a significant humanitarian gesture toward Yemen.

KSrelief Center reported that "it had carried out 474 projects distributed to 21 sector in Yemen with total cost estimated at over $ 3 billion and 5 million since it was established in May 2015".

The national Supreme Committee on Coronavirus confirmed on Sunday 11 new infections with the novel contagion in Taiz, which raises the confirmed toll to 54 in the southwestern Yemen city.

The Yemeni Government has called on the United Nations to rump up pressure upon Houthi rebels to act jointly against coronavirus pandemic.

Prime Minister Dr. Ma'een Abdulmalik and the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Marck Lowcock discussed on Friday through a telephone call the ongoing preparations for Yemen donors conference 2020 scheduled for next Tuesday.

Ministry of Public Health and Population received 16 tons of medicines and protection and safety requirements to control coronavirus pandemic.

Two of the activists held hostages by the Houthis in Sana'a have contracted the novel coronavirus in their detention place, local sources in the theocratic militia-held city anonymously told the NGO Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedom.

Deputy Health Minister Ali al-Walidi and the director of the humanitarian medical organization MSF discussed here today operating an isolation facility in the Republican Hospital in Aden.

Minister of Public Health and Population Dr. Nasser Ba-aum called on Houthi rebel militia to reveal information about the number coronavirus infection and died cases.

The Council of Ministers convened a session Monday via videoconference presided over by Prime Minister Dr. Ma'een Abdulmaik.

Yemen government officials said the Houthi cover-up on figures of coronavirus infections in the rebel militia-controlled areas has everyone in Yemen on the verge of catastrophe.

A Yemeni military commander leading one of the divisions of the Yemeni military, the First Military Region, said his division "won't allow for militias or "paramilitary units outside the regular military to be formed" in Wadi and Sahra Hadhramout in eastern Yemen.

Yemen's Health Minister warned of the worsening coronavirus crisis in Yemen saying "the situations are dangerous and require the cooperation of all."

President of Republic Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Commander-in-Chief, directed the Governor of Hadramout, Commander of the Second Military Region, Maj, General Faraj al-Bahssoni to get military measures tightened and keep high security alert.