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Yemen risks return to ‘full-scale conflict,’ warns UN rights chief
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Flames and smoke rise from the port of Mokha during a strike in Yemen, August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)
The UN rights chief voices alarm at the rising civilian toll of escalating hostilities in Yemen, urging restraint and an immediate de-escalation to avoid plunging the country back into a full-scale war.
“I urge all parties to halt immediately any actions that risk returning Yemen to full-scale conflict,” Volker Turk says in a statement, as renewed fighting between the Houthi rebels and the government undermined a 2022 truce.
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