Yemen

Yemen crisis linked to weapons maker Raytheon’s influence on US foreign policy (1)

Jan 24, 2021 09:03

Starting 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.
At a Yemen hospital wracked by US funding cuts, children dying of hunger

Jan 11, 2021 16:12

A 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.
A manufactured crisis: How Saudi Arabia uses oil to bring Yemen to its knees

Jan 10, 2021 21:21

By 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.
Lame-duck Trump's "West Asia bonanza" continues with approval of $290 million weapons sale to Saudi regime

Jan 06, 2021 20:45

The U.S. State Department has announced a flurry of deals, including $290 million in Boeing-made, precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, $65 million in drones and fighter jets to the UAE, $169 million in military equipment to Egypt, and $4 billion in helicopters to Kuwait.
Starving children don’t cry

Jan 06, 2021 14:34

The 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."
Yemen’s humanitarian crisis worsened amid COVID

Dec 27, 2020 10:04

It 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.
Story of one-year-old Abdullah is story of Yemen

Dec 26, 2020 09:08

The Yemeni minister of health says the military onslaught by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies has claimed the lives of over 3,800 children in the crisis-hit Arab country, while more than 400,000 minors are acutely malnourished and require urgent care.
Yemen is still suffering

Dec 20, 2020 10:53

Beyond 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.
Receiving Nobel Prize, World Food Programme chief warns 'we are losing battle against hunger'

Dec 17, 2020 18:49

As 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."
Because she was wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, Daniel Ellsberg joins campaign against Flournoy

Dec 09, 2020 13:57

Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Jody Williams on Friday, December 4th both joined a grassroots progressive campaign urging Joe Biden not to nominate Michèle Flournoy as his Pentagon chief, warning her ties to the weapons industry, hawkish record, and current positions disqualify her for the powerful role.