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Yemen: In a country stalked by disease, COVID barely registers
Dec 02, 2020 17:59At the beginning of 2020, as COVID-19 began to spread from China and around the world, health workers and aid agencies predicted that the virus’s impact on Yemen’s vulnerable population would be catastrophic, forecasting a 90 percent infection rate.
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Yemen: Trump is showering Saudi Arabia with last-minute gifts
Dec 02, 2020 11:26While the administration of Donald Trump readies its exit from the White House and the West Asia region, Saudi Arabia’s use of American diplomatic cover and weapons alike has taken on a fevered pace as the Kingdom deepens the tragedy it has afflicted upon Yemen, where millions of forgotten people are struggling against a cold winter, starvation, epidemics, and the worst blockade in the modern era.
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Yemen: Finding ways to fight back against Saudi Arabia’s war on electricity
Oct 08, 2020 20:44Western weapons supplied to Saudi Arabia and coalition allies have destroyed Yemen’s transmission lines, power stations, and other facilities, and a near-total blockade forbids Yemenis from rebuilding, leaving critical services like health, water, and sanitation woefully underserved.
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Wrong time to abandon people of Yemen
Oct 04, 2020 20:09The UN has failed to bring to account the Saudi regime and its allies that started the illegal war against Yemen. The UN needs to fulfill its responsibilities, as hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people are at risk of dying simply from starvation in the blockaded country.
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Saudi gift to Yemen: Bloodied oil
Sep 28, 2020 11:29Saudi Arabia unleashed its military might against its poor, impoverished neighbor Yemen in 2015, which has resulted in death and destruction of biblical proportions, in a bid, according to Riyadh, to return ousted president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to power. Throughout this five year period the Saudis have intentionally allowed the war to rage on with the intent to plunder Yemen’s almost untapped oil and gas reserves amid spiraling chaos and power vacuum.
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Blockade still a serious problem for northern Yemen
Aug 02, 2020 08:52Despite the coronavirus pandemic, there has been no sign of any easing of the Saudi-led blockade of Yemen. Also despite repeated UN demands over the past weeks for the Saudis to allow aid in, not only have the Saudis not accepted the repeated international calls for aid to be allowed in, there’s no sign that the Saudis have acknowledged the calls at all, seemingly ignoring the situation entirely as the civilian toll mounts.
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Significance of the Day of Arafah
Jul 30, 2020 09:42Welcome to a special programme on the occasion of the Glorious 9th of Zi’l-Hijjah, the Blessed Day of Arafah when Hajj pilgrims assemble on the plain of the same name, southeast of the holy city of Mecca, to observe special rituals of this day on which we ought to instill in ourselves the proper cognizance of God Almighty, as the Prophets had done.
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Modern ignorance of Saudis in Yemen
Jul 29, 2020 13:33As the war moves on, the Yemeni Ansarullah Movement and army have grown more and more powerful as Riyadh comes to face the intolerable costs of this war. This should give them the chills and leave them with enough determination to bring the war to an unconditional end. The time to face their modern ignorance, selfishness and exceptionalism is here and now.
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Hajj, practice of servitude (3)
Jul 29, 2020 13:23In ayah 27 of surah Hajj, God commands the Iconoclast Abraham to proclaim among the people to rush towards the Symbolic House of God to perform Hajj. That’s why Prophet Abraham stood and called loudly, “O people! God has called on you to perform Hajj; so, hurry up towards the Ka’aba!” People heard his voice around the globe and joyfully said, Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk.
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Why US lawmakers want troops in Yemen
Jul 23, 2020 18:55Obviously, peace is not a priority for Washington, and ending the war on Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world is not important to the US officials, including their impulsive and erratic president. The United States continues to fuel Saudi-led coalition jets, according to figures obtained from the US military.