Yemen’s Saudi-backed government on Sunday warned of “catastrophic consequences” after southern separatists said they were establishing self-rule in regions under their control in the war-torn country. The self-styled Southern Transitional Council (STC) late Saturday said it
The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi rebels in Yemen has announced a two-week ceasefire in the war-torn country starting Thursday. Coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said Wednesday the ceasefire, which can be extended, is aimed at creating favourable conditions for UN peace efforts, easing the suffering of the Yemeni people and countering the coronavirus
Mogadishu – Two UN agencies said on Friday that some 5,087 Somali refugees had so far returned home from Yemen since it started an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that 39 organised departures had taken place from Yemen to Somalia […]
More than 20 tonnes of medicines and medical supplies have been flown from the World Health Organisation’s humanitarian hub in Dubai to Djibouti, where they will be loaded on a UN vessel departing for Hodeida today. The shipment contains international emergency health kits, trauma kits, surgical supply kits, emergency diarrhoeal disease kits, and water, […]
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition continued airstrikes against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen Monday, a day before a humanitarian cease-fire is due to go into effect. The jets bombed the Saada region near the Saudi border, as well as Taiz in southwestern Yemen and the oil-producing Marib province in the east. Saudi and U.S. officials […]
Air strikes by a coalition of Arab nations on Saada city in Yemen are in breach of international law, despite calls for civilians to leave the area, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen said. “The indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is in contravention of international humanitarian law,” Johannes van der […]
The Saudi-led coalition has reportedly conducted fresh air strikes on Yemen, just hours after it said it had ended a four-week air campaign against Houthi fighters. The deputy governor of Aden, Nayef al-Bakri, told the press that an air raid targeted tanks used by the Houthis and their allied forces in the southern port city. […]
Saudi Arabia said Saturday that at least 500 insurgent Shi’ites have been killed along the Saudi-Yemen border since a Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes late last month against Houthi rebels seeking to gain control of neighboring Yemen. A Saudi Defense Ministry statement also said three Saudi border guards were killed in a mortar attack Friday in […]
Somali refugees in Yemen are now coming back to their war-torn home as fighting rages in the Middle East country, officials say. A boat carrying 260 Somali refugees, many of them women, children and elderly, has become the latest to dock at Somalia’s Bossasso port in the Puntland semi-autonomous region. “About 420 people […]
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammas Asif said Monday that Saudi Arabia has asked that his military provide ground troops, planes and warships to help a coalition battling rebels in Yemen. He spoke at the start of a parliamentary debate on whether to join the Saudi-led effort against the Houthis that began nearly two weeks ago […]
A coalition of Middle Eastern forces pounded positions in Yemen from the air overnight in the second day of a campaign to bring a rebel group to its knees, CNN reports. At least 10 people died in the north-western province of Saada, home to Abdul Malik Al Houthi, the supreme leader of Houthi Shiite insurgents, […]
Yemeni officials have said President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in the southern city of Aden for an undisclosed location in the city Wednesday as Houthi fighters continued their advance to the south. The officials denied earlier reports that Hadi had left the city entirely. Aden has been a refuge for Hadi since […]
The United States has withdrawn all its personnel from Yemen, one day after suicide bombers killed at least 137 people at two mosques in the rebel-controlled capital, Sana’a. The U.S. State Department said in a statement Saturday that the temporary relocation was due to “the deteriorating security situation in Yemen.” About 100 U.S. special forces […]
At least three people were killed and 21 wounded Thursday in fierce clashes in and around the airport in Aden, a port city in Yemen, officials told CNN. Supporters of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi were fighting with rebel special forces, according to three airport officials. Passengers were stranded at the airport with flights cancelled […]
