Yemen

New humanitarian crisis in Yemen

Jun 10, 2020 15:22

Saudi Arabia and its partners in crime have intensified their bombing campaign as the COVID-19 outbreak looms over Yemen. This is while efforts are underway through an emergency donor conference to support the war-torn country as it faces a coronavirus catastrophe in the sixth year of the Saudi-led military campaign. Aid groups have warned that the fast-spreading virus could wreak havoc after years of war and amid crippling funding shortages.
‘Our disaster’: US role in Yemen’s humanitarian crisis

Jun 09, 2020 09:15

An entire generation of Yemeni children has suffered the traumas of war, many of them orphaned, maimed, malnourished, or displaced. The United Nations reports a death toll of 100,000 people in that nation’s ongoing war, with an additional 131,000 people dying from hunger, disease, and a lack of medical care.
US considers new weapons for Saudi Arabia as kingdom renews Yemen border bombings

Jun 05, 2020 08:27

Thousands of tons of weapons, most often supplied by the US, have been dropped on Yemeni hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, farms, factories and water treatment plants and have left unexploded ordnance scattered across densely populated areas. In addition to killing and injuring hundreds of civilians, American-made weapons have exposed Yemen’s people to highly toxic substances on a level not seen before has left Yemen one of the most heavily contaminated countries in the world.
Aden succumbs to COVID-19 as Saudi coalition infighting distracts from relief efforts

May 27, 2020 15:37

The lives of Yemeni civilians in Aden are being pushed into the abyss not only due to epidemic, disease, and fallout from flash floods but because of violence of Saudi-led Coalition.
US role in destabilizing Yemen and Somalia could spark “famine of biblical proportions”

May 05, 2020 19:50

The World Food Program is warning that Yemen and countries in the Horn of Africa – not coincidentally states that the US has been destabilizing for decades, could face mass starvation amid the coronavirus pandemic.
First official cases of coronavirus and deadly flooding mark Ramadan in Yemen

May 04, 2020 15:29

Yemeni health officials have told reporters that flooding has impeded coronavirus prevention measures in a country already devastated from five years of Saudi bombing that has left 70 percent of its health facilities destroyed. Also the UN refugee agency says nearly one million internally displaced people in Yemen risk losing their shelter due to torrential rains and seasonal floods, warning of a dire lack of funding at a time when the county is already threatened by the coronavirus pandemic.
Vietnam War: The US still hasn’t learned its lessons

May 03, 2020 09:24

April 30, 2020 marked the 45th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and ignominious end to the war on Vietnam waged by the United States. The twofold lesson from that imperialistic escapade should have been first, respect other nation’s sovereignty, and second, never, ever wage war against popular movements. Unfortunately, Washington has not only failed to learn from its murderous mistakes, but also continues to support other would-be hegemons in their unwinnable wars against people’s uprisings.
Yemen is not prepared to face coronavirus

Apr 13, 2020 15:42

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread in the world, Yemen is among the nations most at risk. Studies by international aid agencies and non-governmental organizations warn that the health care system in Yemen is on the verge of collapse and that the country is experiencing a complex humanitarian emergency. The only way to save millions of lives would be for the US and Saudi Arabia to end their illegal war and inhumane blockade in order to let medical supplies into Yemen.
Don’t let COVID-19 devastate Syria, Yemen and Gaza

Apr 10, 2020 23:14

As many observers have emphasized, the COVID-19 crisis is not just one of health and the economy, but also has other dimensions. COVID-19 is already challenging our assumptions about humanity, about society, about greed and selfishness, about the need to cooperate. The pandemic has exposed fault lines in trust among humans, among groups, among countries, between citizens and governments, and faith in many of assumptions about life, not only beliefs and humanity, but also knowledge itself.
From cluster bombs to toxic waste: Saudi Arabia is creating the next Fallujah in Yemen

Mar 24, 2020 14:19

In addition to killing and injuring hundreds of innocent civilians, American-made weapons have exposed Yemen’s people to highly toxic substances on a level not seen since the now-infamous use of radioactive depleted uranium by the United States in Fallujah, Iraq, which to this day is causing abnormally high rates of cancer and birth defects.