Yemen

‘Don’t rally against Saudis – they fund us!’

When a local activist group picketed outside the Saudi Embassy in Pretoria to protest against the Kingdom’s bombing raids on the Yemeni people, immediate condemnation of the march came from a rather unusual quarter – the Palestine Embassy in South Africa. So the puzzling question is: Why would the Embassy of[…]

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Warplanes hit Yemeni port, aid group sounds alarm

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition hit Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida on Tuesday, and officials there said the raids destroyed cranes and warehouses in the main entry point for aid supplies to the north of the country. Hodeida, controlled by Iranian-allied Houthi forces, has become a focal point of[…]

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Loyalist forces push Houthi rebels from Aden

Saudi-backed forces loyal to Yemen’s exiled government have announced the recapture of Abyan province in a southern offensive that has seen key gains against the Houthi rebels. Military officials who back President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said on Tuesday that loyalist forces have retaken Loder, the last town in Abyan to[…]

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Houthis admit setbacks in southern Yemen

Leaders of the Houthi rebel movement battling pro-government forces in southern Yemen have admitted that the intervention of a Saudi Arabia-led international coalition has forced them into retreat. Saudi-backed forces loyal to Yemen’s exiled president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi have turned the tables on Houthi militia fighters in recent weeks[…]

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Hadi forces capture Zinjibar

Forces loyal to Yemen’s government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi recaptured a southern provincial capital from Houthi rebels and their allies on Sunday as they pressed an advance from Aden. Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, had been held by troops of the renegade 15th Brigade which remains loyal to[…]

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French woman freed from captivity in Yemen

A French woman who was abducted in Yemen in February has been freed. French President Francois Hollande’s office said in a statement early on Friday that the woman, Isabelle Prime, would return to France in the coming hours. “Our compatriot Isabelle Prime has been freed tonight,” the statement said. “The President[…]

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IS claims car bomb in Yemen capital

A car bomb exploded outside an Ismaili mosque in an eastern district of the Yemen’s war-damaged capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing nin people and wounding seven, a security source said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Al Faydh Alhatemy mosque in the Nuqum district, describing[…]

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