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Yemen: Briefing and Consultations
Tomorrow morning (9 October), the Security Council will hold a briefing on Yemen. UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mohamed Yahya, and a civil society representative with a focus on child protection are the anticipated briefers. Closed consultations are scheduled to follow the open briefing.
Discussions concerning the growing hostilities in Yemen and cross-border attacks against Saudi Arabia are likely to feature prominently at tomorrow’s meeting. In September, the Iran-backed Houthis launched an offensive to expand their control over southwest Yemen and the Red Sea, while also targeting Saudi territory and Saudi-linked shipping with missiles and drones. Yemeni government-aligned forces and the Saudi-led “Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen” have countered their advances. (For more information, see the brief on Yemen in our October 2026 Monthly Forecast.)
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