Two US citizens, one British national and three Saudis held for months by Yemen’s Houthi group, have been freed and have arrived in Oman, according to British and Omani officials as well as Houthi sources. Their release appeared to be a goodwill gesture before talks between Houthis and the UN[…]
Despite little assurances of safety as a result of the on-going conflict in Yemen, the Gift of the Givers (GOTG) is to continue aid operations in the civil war-stricken country. With the Port of Aden opening for the first time in six months, GOTG are set to use the opportunity[…]
Humanitarian relief agency Gift of the Givers have reported a breakthrough in their bid to send humanitarian aid to Yemen. In August, the Port of Aden in southern Yemen re-opened after the Yemeni government announced the recapture of the city from Houthi fighters and forces loyal to former President Ali[…]
Yemen’s exiled government said on Sunday it would no longer attend U.N.-mediated peace talks with its Houthi adversaries. Loyalists of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi have been battling the Iran-allied militia across the country since late March, when the group forced him and his administration to flee to Saudi Arabia. A[…]
Twenty-two soldiers from the United Arab Emirates’ military have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to the country’s state news agency WAM. Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other mostly Arab states have been fighting since March to restore Yemen’s exiled[…]
Two Red Cross employees were shot dead in the northern Yemeni province of Amran by an unknown attacker on Wednesday, the international aid group said, in a rare case of violence against humanitarian workers in a five-month war. The pair were Yemeni nationals and were returning from aid work in[…]
Major hospitals in Yemen have been struggling to function due to a supply shortages caused by the increased fighting between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to the exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The main hospital in rebel-held capital, Sanaa, is on the verge of shutting down due to limited access[…]
An air strike by a Saudi-led coalition killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah on Sunday, residents said. “The process of recovering the bodies is finished now. The corpses of 36 workers, many of them burnt or in pieces, were pulled out[…]
Saudi Arabian troops have crossed into northern Yemen for the first time since the conflict with Houthi rebels began in March. Footage published on Wednesday showed soldiers taking positions in a mountainous area overlooking the southern Saudi province of Jizan. Houthi shelling and rocket attacks on the border have killed[…]
OPINION by Afrah Nasser – As a blogger on human rights issues in Yemen for the past six years, I am stunned by the growing polarisation in the country. To take an even-handed stance for human rights is either viewed as an act of treason or as a sectarian bias.[…]
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