Many Yemenis express pessimism about future following deadly attacks that killed 25 and wounded more than 100 Many residents of Aden city woke up to a sense of dread on Thursday morning. Military checkpoints had been [ More … ]
Deadly fighting involving southern breakaway group follows breakdown in power-sharing talks in August Clashes between southern Yemeni separatists and pro-government forces in Yemen’s Abyan province killed 13 fighters, according to military sources. The infighting late on Friday between [ More … ]
The Houthis denounce the attack as ‘a criminal act’ by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. Yemen’s Houthi movement announced on Tuesday that Hassan Zaid, its minister of youth and sports affairs, was gunned down in the capital Sanaa [ More … ]
UN experts accuse coalition partners Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the Houthi movement, of possible war crimes Western powers and Iran are fueling the devastating war in Yemen by continuing [ More … ]
About 600 families have been displaced by heavy rains and flooding in one week across Yemen, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) found that at least 596 [ More … ]
After five years of conflict, the crisis in Yemen has reached an unprecedented level whereby children are battling life and death. UNICEF has declared a state of emergency for Yemeni children who are facing starvation [ More … ]
A well-known Saudi activist and whistle-blower known online as “Mujtahid” has exposed the existence of a secret prison run by Riyadh in Yemen’s largest province, Hadhramout. Mujtahid made his claim on Twitter yesterday, where he [ More … ]
The new coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system “has in effect collapsed”, the United Nations said on Friday, appealing for urgent funding. “Aid agencies in Yemen are operating [ More … ]
Yemen, already pushed to the brink of famine by a five-year war, could see a “catastrophic” food security situation due to the coronavirus pandemic and lower remittances from the Gulf, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture [ More … ]
UAE-aligned separatists in southern Yemen have warned of an “imminent war” against Saudi-supported mercenaries, fighting on behalf of the UN-recognised Yemeni government, based in Riyadh. The UAE and Saudi are joint-leaders of the US-backed coalition [ More … ]
The Houthi-allied Yemeni armed forces have retaken Al-Labnat military base in Al-Jawf province from the Saudi-backed mercenaries fighting to reinstate exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. This is the first time in five years that it [ More … ]
Yemen’s Security Belt forces say at least five people were killed when a Houthi missile targeted a platform used during the parade Several people have been killed in southern Yemen after an attack on a [ More … ]
The United Nations has condemned the attack on the al-Raqw market in northern Yemen, the third on the same location in just over a month An attack on the al-Raqw market in northern Yemen has [ More … ]
With failures to fully address the root causes of Yemen’s conflict, fighting has continued, and Hodeida still remains the country’s most dangerous area. The UN-sponsored peace deal in Stockholm in December 2018 to end fighting [ More … ]
Oman-mediated talks taking place via video conference since September to try end five-year conflict, officials say. Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels are holding indirect, behind-the-scenes talks to end the devastating five-year war in Yemen, officials from the two [ More … ]
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