“Yemen’s war is one that can be stopped, but it needs some sort of pressure to guarantee peace keeping. There are however many ways in which a truce can still be reached.” This is according to Sama’a Al-Hamdani, an independent analyst on a civil war that has effectively crippled the[…]
Yemen’s Houthi group carried on fighting across Yemen on Monday despite a ceasefire announcement by its Saudi-led foes, and media controlled by the Iran-allied movement acknowledged that its forces had shelled targets inside Saudi Arabia. The violence prolongs a four-month-old conflict rooted in political strains that spread across the Arabian[…]
Clashes in Yemen are reportedly continuing despite a fragile five-day truce declared by the pro-government Arab-led coalition coming into effect. At least 10 Houthi rebels were killed after their vehicles were targeted by an explosion in Zinjibar in Abyan province minutes before the truce took hold on Sunday before midnight,[…]
The war in Yemen has reached a critical point where the most recent ceasefire that was meant to last 10 days, only lasted a couple of minutes to two hours. Yemen’s war which started when Houti Rebels seized the capital Sanaa in September 2014 has seen the death toll increase[…]
A ship carrying desperately needed relief supplies docked in Aden on Tuesday, the first UN vessel to reach the southern Yemeni city in four months of fighting, its governor said. “This is the first boat carrying the UN flag to dock in Aden since the war began” in late March,[…]
The fluctuating dynamics in Yemen are making relief efforts to the front-lines of the country’s civil war extremely difficult, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF SA). The organisation held a closed media briefing in Johannesburg recently, seeking to spread the word on a deteriorating humanitarian situation in the war-stricken gulf[…]
At least 43 civilians were killed on Sunday in rebel bombing of Yemen’s second city of Aden, where Saudi-backed pro-government forces have advanced against Shia Houthi militia fighters, a health official said. More than 100 others were wounded in the bombing of the Dar Saad neighbourhood in the north of the[…]
Yemen’s internationally recognised government has announced the “liberation” of the country’s second city, Aden, following four months of intense battles between Houthi rebels and forces trying to oust them. Exiled Vice President Khaled Bahah said on his Facebook account on Friday that his government will try “to restore life” to[…]
Yemen is on the edge of civil war yet television screens worldwide are not bombarding viewers with images of children dying and people suffering as a result of a Saudi led coalition against the country. Yemen is strategically important because it sits on the Bab al-Mandab strait, a narrow waterway[…]
The United Nations has announced an unconditional week-long humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen where more than 80 percent of the country’s 25 million people are believed to be in need of some form of emergency aid. Stephane Dujarric, the UN spokesman, said on Thursday that the truce would start on Friday,[…]
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