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Saudi Arabia hires over dozen lobbying firms in US to launder its reputation
Jan 31, 2021 09:52Saudi authorities have reportedly hired more than a dozen lobbying firms to help boost relations with the United States and improve the Riyadh regime’s image as new US President Joe Biden assumes office.
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About suffering: A massacre of the innocents in Yemen
Jan 27, 2021 00:26Equipped with US-manufactured Littoral Combat Ships, the Saudis have been able to blockade air and seaports that are vital to feeding the most populated part of Yemen – the northern area where 80 percent of the population lives.
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Yemen crisis linked to weapons maker Raytheon’s influence on US foreign policy (1)
Jan 24, 2021 09:03Starting under Obama and continuing under Trump, the U.S. has been heavily involved in the war on Yemen, primarily through weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners. These weapons are by and large used to intentionally target and kill Yemenis.
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At a Yemen hospital wracked by US funding cuts, children dying of hunger
Jan 11, 2021 16:12A Yemeni health ministry official says 100,000 newborns die every year in the impoverished country due to the ongoing war of aggression and total blockade imposed on Yemen by the Saudi-led military coalition.
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A manufactured crisis: How Saudi Arabia uses oil to bring Yemen to its knees
Jan 10, 2021 21:21By manufacturing an oil crisis in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is able to foment political chaos in the country and stir up popular discontent against domestic oil companies.
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Starving children don’t cry
Jan 06, 2021 14:34The capital of human suffering today is Yemen, which the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. As many world people celebrate the New Christian Year, Yemeni children like Abdo Sayid, a four-year-old boy so emaciated he weighed just 14 pounds, are dying of hunger."
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Saudi rights activist launches hunger strike over conditions at al-Hair prison
Jan 02, 2021 15:13Former economics professor Mohammed Fahad al-Qahtani becomes latest political detainee to challenge conditions at notorious Saudi facility. Alarms have consistently been raised about conditions at the facility.
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Yemen’s humanitarian crisis worsened amid COVID
Dec 27, 2020 10:04It is hard to comprehend the magnitude of the crisis in Yemen: approximately one child dies every 12 minutes in the country, where 24 million people need humanitarian aid. Nearly 18 million people have no access to clean drinking water, a problem that will worsen in the future. For Yemenis, COVID-19 was only the latest epidemic; the county has in recent years faced outbreaks of malaria, dengue and cholera. Even the outbreak of COVID-19 did not stop the Saudi- led US- supported violence.
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Yemen is still suffering
Dec 20, 2020 10:53Beyond the starvation and malnutrition, war-torn Yemen has been the site of cholera epidemics, and medical shortages so extreme and so long that some chronic illnesses, like diabetes, killed the bulk of those inflicted simply from going untreated too long. Saudi airstrikes continue to kill large numbers of people, mainly civilians, and those strikes have fuelled international outcry, yet no decisive action by the UN to force an end to the conflict and hold the Saudi-led culprits to account.
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Receiving Nobel Prize, World Food Programme chief warns 'we are losing battle against hunger'
Dec 17, 2020 18:49As the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed assault on the impoverished nation of Yemen continues, food prices are spiking alongside a collapsing domestic currency—a situation the WFP chief described as "a huge blow in a country that imports 80% of its food."