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The conflict in Yemen has been going on for a long time with horrendous human consequences. Non specialists find the situation extremely complex, with many internal parties and many outside players, so it makes sense to talk to one of the English-speaking world’s leading experts on Yemen, Helen (...)
The Saudi offer of a ceasefire in Yemen on 22 March was an acknowledgement by Riyadh and its backers in Washington that they had lost the war. Biden signalled the grudging surrender in February, when he announced the US would end its support for ‘offensive operations’ there. After six years of (...)
In the early months of 2020, the already disastrous situation in Yemen worsened further, far from the eyes of the world, which was almost exclusively concerned with the Covid-19 pandemic. The huthi military offensive, the proclamation of autonomy for the South and devastating floods added to (...)
In four years of aggression against Yemen, what has been produced? An humanitarian crisis for the Yemeni people.
The United Nations says nearly 100 civilians are killed or injured every week. Air strikes have killed or wounded 37 children a month in the past 12 months. According to Save the (...)
After waging war in a manner that made deaths from hunger and disease inevitable, the Saudi prince should be tried for starvation crimes
There is a manmade famine in Yemen, even if it has not been officially acknowledged. The man who made it is Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and there is strong prima facie evidence that he should be charged with causing starvation in an international court.
Along with the comparably culpable Mohamed bin Zayed, crown prince of the (...)
The Saudi-led war on Yemen has devastated a country already crippled by widespread poverty and systematic neglect.
In 2015, Saudi Arabia and its allies launched what has become a vicious, unrelenting assault on a defenceless population. Their goal is to defeat the Houthi rebels, who have (...)
The Baha’is, among them eight women and a teenage girl, face charges which can carry the death penalty in Yemen, including espionage apostasy. Making matters worse, this later chapter comes after hate speeches by Houthi leaders have incited violence against the community in the war-torn country. (...)
Negotiations to resolve civil war due to be held in Geneva in September
The UN’s special envoy for Yemen has told the security council that he would convene the country’s first talks in two years to secure peace between Saudi-backed forces and Houthi rebels.
Martin Griffiths said the “time was (...)
Some general characteristics of the imperialist recolonization of the Arab world, which began with that brutal dress-rehearsal, the First Gulf War of 1991, are now clearly visible. Too many people supposed that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US eagle would discard its talons; (...)
Many Yemeni women are not victims of war or just escaping or hiding. In many and contrasting ways they are actively supporting it, and not only on humanitarian grounds.
Since 2015, a Saudi-led coalition has waged war against Shia Houthi forces in Yemen. More than 8,000 people have been (...)
Death surrounds us in Yemen. Since March 2015, airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition have led to the death of more than 800 civilians in 95 incidents, as documented here. But the ongoing civil war is not the only violence we fear. The United States’ covert drone war in Yemen - at least 15 (...)
Omar Mohammed Batawil: abducted in front of his home in Aden. Youth shot dead after complaints about Facebook postings.
Omar Mohammed Batawil Takfeer in Yemen
Can’t stop thinking about Omar who was killed two days ago by a fanatic religious group because he dared to challenge one of the trio (...)
Statement by Revolutionary Marxist Organizations in the Arab Region on Yemen April 2, 2015
At midnight, between March 26 and 27, 2015, warplanes belonging to ten Arab and Muslim (Pakistan) countries, led by Saudi Arabia, launched a raid Yemen, under the pretext of dealing with the (...)
Speakers: AWP President Abid Hasan Minto, AWP General Secretary Farooq Tariq
The civil war within Yemen is not the product of the internal politics of a developing Arab country, but a product of multiple international actors playing havoc with its local politics.
The Yemen issue has fallen (...)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Yemen is at a critical juncture. Its six-month National Dialogue Conference (NDC) was to have closed on 18 September, ushering in constitution drafting, a constitutional referendum and new elections. The timetable has slipped, and, though no end date has (...)
David Whitehouse reports on a U.S.-supported attempt to ease Yemen’s dictator from power—but to protect him from any responsibility for his many crimes.
THE OIL monarchies of the Persian Gulf have stepped in to broker a deal for Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saleh would leave finally (...)
David Whitehouse analyzes a struggle that may be about to topple Yemen’s dictator.
A YOUTH revolt based around Sanaa University in Yemen’s capital has spearheaded a nationwide movement that is on the verge of bringing down another U.S.-backed strongman, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The continued (...)
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa. But they appear to be pushing democratic reforms more than Tunisia-style revolution.
Sanaa, Yemen
Two days after Yemen’s political opposition called for a national uprising against the leadership of President Ali Abdullah (...)
I left for Yemen as Obama was insisting that ‘large chunks’ of the country were ‘not fully under government control’, after Senator Joseph Lieberman had cheerfully announced that it was a suitable target for war and occupation. The sad underwear bomber who tried to blow up the Amsterdam flight on (...)
It was supposed to be the election that changed everything. The “90 percent presidency,” wherein the incumbent of 28 years won successive terms in office by laughably large margins, would be relegated to the past. Instead, a more credible accounting of the popular will would prove to Western (...)
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