Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi on Saturday rejected a peace proposal submitted by UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed aimed at ending the war in his impoverished country, a presidency source told AFP.
The United Nations' envoy for Yemen said on Friday after meeting with Houthi forces in Oman that he hoped to announce a ceasefire in the conflict in the next few days.
Saudi-led air strikes killed 20 civilians in the rebel-held Yemeni port city of Hodeida late on Wednesday just hours after the rebels celebrated the second anniversary of their seizure of the capital, a government official said.
At least 16 members of the extended family of a Yemeni mosque imam were killed in an air strike on their family home in northern Yemen by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, a Reuters witness, a medic and a resident said.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes have resumed air strikes on Yemen's capital for the first time in three months, killing 14 people on Tuesday and shutting the airport after UN-brokered talks were suspended.
The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthi rebels in Yemen has been quoted as saying major fighting in the country is drawing towards a close, one year after the military campaign began.
Saudi-led air strikes killed 41 civilians and wounded 75 in Yemen's northwestern province of Haja, a senior provincial health official said, a region largely controlled by the Iran-allied Houthi militia.
Gunmen who killed at least 15 people in an old people's home in Yemen last week also kidnapped an Indian priest, as Pope Francis condemned the attack and the "indifference" of the world's reaction to it.
Clashes between Yemeni forces and Al-Qaeda militants in Aden killed at least six people, including four members of the same family, security officials and witnesses said.
Authorities in Yemen's southern city of Aden imposed a curfew after violence blamed on suspected jihadists killed at least 17 people, pro-government media and security sources said.
The Altitude Dormitory facility at Aspetar, the most advanced orthopaedic and sports medicine hospital in the region, is one of the largest of its kind in the world
