Yemen

Peace-building suffers during pandemic obsession

Mar 17, 2021 14:15

Evidence suggests that committed foreign aid being redirected from peace-building programs into efforts to deal with COVID-19 is likely to have even more of an impact on the ground than a decrease in foreign aid. A further reduction in funding and troops for UN peacekeeping missions is also likely.
Biden is still a hawk on Yemen

Mar 15, 2021 16:21

With the hackneyed excuse of protecting allies, the Yemeni crisis will continue forth, fueled in large part by American sanctions, American intelligence, and American weapons.
‘Is this who Americans are?’: Gitmo is US’ enduring shame

Mar 10, 2021 10:30

Even if US President Joe Biden is able to overcome pressure from the military, from the CIA, and from Congress to shut Guantánamo down, justice will still be absent, not only because of the numerous lives that are forever shattered but because America still refuses to learn from its mistakes.
Lawmakers pressure Biden on US backing for Saudi war in Yemen

Mar 04, 2021 08:34

Weeks after President Joe Biden announced he would end U.S. support for “offensive” military operations in Yemen by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a group of progressive lawmakers are asking his administration to clarify what forms of U.S. support will continue.
Supporters of detained Saudi princess call for UK to help secure release

Mar 03, 2021 15:20

Supporters of a prominent Saudi Arabian princess detained with her daughter in Riyadh have appealed to the British government to help secure their release.
UN report warns millions of Yemeni children face acute malnutrition

Feb 16, 2021 10:00

Underscoring the urgent need to end a war that is responsible for what it calls the "world's worst humanitarian crisis," the United Nations on Friday published a report warning that more than two million Yemeni children under the age of five are projected to suffer "acute malnutrition".
This is Yemen after Biden declared an end to American support for the war

Feb 14, 2021 17:39

The Biden administration sparked a sense of hope around the world that the war on Yemen could finally be over. For those on the ground though, the bombs keep falling, food is scarce and hope is in short supply.
Biden continues policies which put kids in cages, in Syria

Feb 10, 2021 20:24

US President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, backed policies towards Syria which saw innocent children separated from their families and placed in cages. But the worst part of it, is that they have no quarrels with doing it again.
Yemeni families file petition against US for 'unlawful' killing of scores of relatives

Jan 31, 2021 19:35

According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the U.S. has carried out at least 336 drone strikes in Yemen between 2004 and 2020. The strikes, which span three presidential administrations, have killed as many as 1,389 people, including up to 225 civilians—among them 44 to 50 children.
About suffering: A massacre of the innocents in Yemen

Jan 27, 2021 00:26

Equipped 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.