LONDON (AlertNet) - The U.N. food aid agency says a lack of funds is forcing it to cut rations for people driven from their homes by fighting in northern Yemen, endangering a fragile ceasefire between rebels and the government.

From May, the World Food Programme (WFP) will reduce food assistance for 270,000 displaced people by half until donors provide more money or the funds run out altogether, the organisation's Yemen director Gian Carlo Cirri said on Friday.

"WFP is really concerned about the

- The security situation in Mogadishu continued to worsen in April as major fighting occurred between rival groups, killing and injuring scores of civilians. Fighting was reported almost every week of the month with at least six major confrontations occuring between the government and AMISOM forces and the insurgent groups in Mogadishu. Sporadic mortar shells, targeted explosions and landmines remained major security concerns in the capital.

- The international community expressed concern over the human rights violations and flouting of International

* Clash is deadliest in north Yemen since truce

* Three tribal fighters, four rebels among dead

By Mohammed Ghobari

SANAA, April 29 (Reuters) - A gunfight between Yemeni Shi'ite rebels and pro-government fighters killed seven people in the deadliest clash since a February truce calmed a northern war, officials said on Thursday.

The clash broke out after dozens of armed rebels descended on a village -- said to be a pro-government stronghold -- for a rally in support of families of rebels killed in the war that

Yemen recently received a spot in the limelight thanks to the 'underwear bomber,' a Nigerian national who attempted to blow up a plane bound for the US on Christmas Day and who allegedly received training from Al-Qaeda elements in Yemen. Despite the fact that Yemen has been facing a myriad of challenges for some time now, the country rarely received media attention prior to the failed terrorist attack on the US airliner. People soon caught up though, and the recent confrontations

* Three killed, more wounded in northern clashes

* Armed group surrounds security base in south Yemen

(Adds details on incident in south)

SANAA, April 28 (Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite rebels shot dead three pro-government tribesmen, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, in violence that could strain a fragile truce aimed at ending a civil war that drew in Saudi Arabia last year.

Yemen's central government agreed a truce in February to halt the northern war, which has raged on and off since

The international human rights organization says that the list of states that have risen most prominently in the table this year are those which have all been the scene of past mass violence, and whose fall down the risk register in recent years has now suddenly been reversed - putting the lives of tens of thousands under threat.

'Those governments who are most likely

* Seven arrested earlier for al Qaeda links detained again

* Main road between rebel stronghold and Sanaa cut

* British embassy closes for rest of the week

SANAA, April 27 (Reuters) - Yemeni police arrested dozens of al Qaeda suspects in sweeps a day after a suicide bomber tried to kill Britain's ambassador to Yemen, security officials said on Tuesday.

At the 22-year-old bomber's home near Sanaa, his father told Reuters that he condemned his son's actions and that he had tried to get him to marry and find a job, before the young

Ambassador Timothy Torlot was in a convoy driving through an eastern part of the capital when the blast went off outside his car. Yemeni officials said the would-be assassin was killed in the attack.

There was no claim of responsibility, but authorities said the attack resembles others by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the local offshoot of the terror network.

It was not immediately clear how the

* Government says northern rebels have kidnapped Yemeni man

* Rebels also held Saudis for a few hours, then freed them

* Sanaa also says secessionists shot dead soldier in south

(Adds Hadramout trial)

SANAA, April 24 (Reuters) - Shi'ite Muslim rebels have kidnapped a Yemeni man in the country's north and also briefly held a group of Saudi citizens, the government said, incidents that threaten a fragile truce with Sanaa.

The northern rebels seized the man in the Harf Sufyan district and took him to an unknown location, Yemeni security