Yemen

What can we reasonably expect from the US President’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia? © Wikimedia Commons. There is growing agreement among interested parties and analysts that US President Joe Biden's upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia later this month will offer a fantastic opportunity to realise Washington's stated goal of…

As British troops pulled out of Aden in 1967 the band of the Royal Marines struck up a tune to send them on their way — not Rule Britannia or Land of Hope and Glory but a Cockney song, Fings Ain’t Wot They Used To Be. It was an ironic…

The UN needs just $20m more — chump change, in terms of international funding — to begin unloading more than a million barrels of oil from a fast-decaying tanker moored off the coast of Yemen, in the fragile ecosystem of the Red Sea. Yet it has been forced to take…

دمّر الصراع على مرّ سبع سنوات البنية التحتيّة والاقتصاد اليمني، الأمر الذي حال دون وصول المواطنين إلى السلع والخدمات الأساسية، والحفاظ على وظائف ثابتة. وفقاً لخطة الاستجابة الإنسانية لليمن للعام 2022م — فإن 23.4 مليون يمني من تعداد سكاني يزيد عن 30 مليون نسمة، هم بحاجة للمساعدات الإنسانية، بينما يواجه…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by the MSN, Reuters, and PBS NewsHour. On Sun., the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said it has been forced to ration food supplies as a result of not receiving enough funding due to global economic conditions and the…

Over seven years of conflict has devastated Yemen’s infrastructure, economy, and prevented citizens from accessing essential goods, services, and maintaining stable employment. According to the 2022 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan — in a population of just over 30 million — more than 23.4 million Yemenis require humanitarian assistance, while 17.4…

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has bolstered its work with a UN health agency to help cut the number of deaths among girls and pregnant women in Yemen. The initiative was expected to benefit around 350,000 people directly and indirectly, the KSrelief statement added. The UNFPA, with…

Yemen’s government called on European countries to ban auctions involved in the selling of Yemeni antiquities in several European cities. Commercial agencies in Europe have been selling Yemeni artifacts via different channels, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement published by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) on Thursday. The ministry urged European countries to prevent such activities from happening and return the pieces to the Yemeni authorities.

Despite an agreement with the United Nations in April to halt the practice, the Houthis continue to recruit children into their military ranks to fight in the country’s grinding civil war, Houthi officials, aid workers and residents told the AP. Two Houthi officials said the rebels recruited several hundred children including those as young as 10 over the past two months. Those children have been deployed to front lines, as part of a buildup of forces taking place during a UN-brokered truce, which has held for more than two months, one official said.