... US-Unterstützung für den Jemenkrieg – Die USA, anti-iranische Paranoia und Jemenkrieg – Cholera breitet sich wieder aus – Verfall der jemenitischen Währung – und mehr
Oct. 2, 2018: Hunger-sticken villagers eating leaves – UN Humanitarian response – Saudi meddling in Yemen since 1934 – The Saudis in Mahrah province – The UAE and secession in Yemen – U.S. Support for the War on Yemen – The US, anti-Iranian paranoia and the Yemen war – Cholera is spreading again – Downfall of Yemen's currency – and more
Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Klassifizierung / Classification
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Seuchen / Most important: Epidemics
cp1b Am wichtigsten: Kampf um Hodeidah / Most important: Hodeidah battle
cp2 Allgemein / General
cp2a Allgemein: Saudische Blockade / General: Saudi blockade
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
cp7a Saudi-Arabien und Iran / Saudi Arabia and Iran
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp9 USA
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp12a Katar-Krise / Qatar crisis
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms Trade
cp13b Wirtschaft / Economy
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Sonstiges / Other
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A = Aktuell / Current news
B = Hintergrund / Background
C = Chronik / Chronicle
D = Details
E = Wirtschaft / Economy
H = Humanitäre Fragen / Humanitarian questions
K = Krieg / War
P = Politik / Politics
pH = Pro-Houthi
pS = Pro-Saudi
T = Terrorismus / Terrorism
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
Einführende Artikel u. Überblicke für alle, die mit den Ereignissen im Jemen noch nicht vertraut sind, hier:
Yemen War: Introductory articles, overviews, for those who are still unfamiliar with the Yemen war here:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-einfuehrende-artikel-u-ueberblicke
Neue Artikel / New articles
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Film: Stop The War On Yemen
Over 20,000 #Yemeni civilians are killed under 4-years of #Saudi bombardment because Saudi oil wells are depleted and Ryadh needs desperately new oil wells and Yemen has plenty of it.
https://www.facebook.com/StopTheWarOnYemen/videos/2012781308744413
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
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Film: Yemen: Hunger-stricken villagers eat boiled leaves to survive
Starving families are being forced to eat cooked leaves for survival in the Aslam district, northern Yemen, as seen in footage filmed on Friday. One of Yemen's poorest districts, Aslam hosts both local residents and people displaced due to the ongoing conflict in the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9_Cqz0_QxA
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Film: Humanitarian Response in Yemen - September 2018
Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. More than 22 million people need aid and protection. This is how the UN and its partners are working to bring relief to those in need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a0Z320eAbc
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Thread on #Saudi meddling in #Yemen's internal affairs.
Listed and in chronological order. Keep this in mind, next time some nutjob on the news rants about supposed "Iranian meddling" in regards to Yemen.
Saudi-Yemeni War of 1934, dispute over regional ownership ends with #Saudi Arabia annexing the Yemeni provinces of Najran, Jizan and Asir. Saudi Arabia held Hodeidah city occupied and threatened to cut off food supplies as blackmail.
Saudi support for the Kingdom of Yemen during the 1962 Republican revolution. Imam Ahmad bin Yahya was dethroned because of corruption and for transforming the legitimate imamate into a monarchy. What followed was 5 years of brutal civil war.
Saudi assassination of former President Ibrahim Al-Hamdi, 1978. Al-Hamdi sought to end tribal feuds, and under his leadership declared all Yemenis equal. the economy boomed under his rule. He was replaced by Ahmad al-Ghashmi, notorious for his "Hitler moustache".
Saudi Arabia using Ali Abdullah Saleh as a pawn, 1978 - 2017. Saleh was Saudi Arabia's most important political asset in Yemen. During Saleh's reign as president, Yemen functuated mostly as a Saudi satellite state.
It was during his presidency that the Saudi regime began tapping Yemeni oil in Al-Jawf and Ma'rib provinces. Oil which could have benefited the Yemeni economy. Alas, Saleh was more fixated on the personal goods he would receive by the Saudi regime.
Saudi airstrikes and bombardments on north-Yemeni cities and regions during the 6th war of Sa'adah, 2009. Prior to the 6th war in 2009, the Ansarullah revolutionaries have been fighting against imperialism and corruption since 2004. The Saudis got involved in 2009.
Saudi meddling in the transitional period following Saleh's "ousting", 2012. Following mass protests nationwide, Saleh travelled to Riyadh to negotiate a "plan for political transition", which granted him political imunity from being prosecuted. Ever.
Saudi-led intervention to crush Yemeni people's will to sovereignty, 2015. The Saudi regime saw the September 21st Revolution of 2014 as a major threat to their sphere of influence, and began bombing the country to the stone age.
https://twitter.com/agerhusmedia/status/1046202460291952640
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Saudi military colonialism sparks protest movement in Yemen's east
The peaceful province of al-Mahrah is awash with Riyadh's soldiers, who many Yemenis believe are there for one reason – money
In recent weeks, al-Mahrah has witnessed protests against a Saudi military presence that its detractors say is tantamount to extortion and colonialism.
The Saudis, who intervened in Yemen’s war on behalf of the internationally recognized government against the Houthi rebels in 2015, first began setting military bases up in the province late last year.
Yet from the moment the Saudis set up their first base in the province, its residents began pushing back, staging protests and asking why Riyadh’s military needs to have a presence in a largely peaceful area that has been mostly spared by the three-year conflict.
Since early August however, when Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi visited the province and backed the Saudi presence, the tense atmosphere has worsened considerably.
Now stepping up their protest movement, al-Mahrah’s residents are appealing to the outside world, telling the international community that their province is already safe and they do not need foreign soldiers cementing a presence in their home.
According to Osamah, the Saudis have total control of the border crossings between al-Mahrah and neighbouring Oman, as well as Nishtawan port and Ghaida airport. Their forces have set up checkpoints across the province, and have positioned significant numbers in the coastal town of Sayhut.
The bases residents describe are of varying size, some little more than a dozen soldiers enclosed by fencing, others far more substantial. In key positions such as Nishtawan port and Ghaida airport, Yemeni soldiers have been completely replaced by Saudi ones.
"The Saudis have set up their military bases in several areas, but there is no need to because the Houthis haven’t come to al-Mahrah and we didn’t ask them to help keep us safe,” Osamah said.
Hadi’s trip to al-Mahrah in August was his first since 2012, early in his presidency. Ostensibly, he was there to promote the launch of reconstruction projects in partnership with the Saudis, including building a water purification plant, power plant and hospitals.
Yet the sight of Hadi meeting Saudis in al-Mahrah and laying foundation stones in ceremonial fashion only succeeded in angering many of the province’s residents, encouraging them to escalate their protest movement.
"Hadi welcomed the Saudis’ intervention and after his visit to al-Mahrah, the Saudis tried to set up four new military bases in Sayhut, but residents prevented them from doing so," Osamah said.
"That was a clear message that Hadi does not represent the residents of al-Mahrah."
In an attempt to placate the growing discontent in the region, Saudi Arabia in June promised it would hand all of the bases and facilities under its control to Yemeni forces over two months and exit al-Mahrah.
For two months the protests, which sometimes included hundreds of Yemenis, were quelled. But by September it became clear to residents that not only had the Saudis reneged on their promise, their presence in the province had grown.
"Residents will keep protesting until the last Saudi soldier leaves our province," Osamah said.
Reconstruction projects aren’t the only reasons given for the Saudi presence, however.
Riyadh has said on several occasionsthat it has serious concerns about the Houthis smuggling weapons through Oman.
But Hamid bin Ali, a political activist in al-Mahrah, said that smuggling is only a pretext for the Saudis to take over the province. He speculated that economic interests may lie behind the takeover.
Under the pretext of combatting smuggling, however, the Saudis have significantly curtailed the areas that fishermen are allowed to go out to sea, and prohibited them from fishing around the major port of Nishtawn altogether.
The grumblings in al-Mahrah are not reserved for the street, and discontent over the Saudi role can be found in the province’s halls of power, too.
"No one is happy with the Saudi presence in the province, even the president himself, but no one can oppose them," an official in the province told MEE, on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.
"Smuggling is only a pretext and we do not know what is behind the Saudi interest in the area," he said. "Saudis are invaders with presidential permission."
and for Mahrah also read: https://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabia-begins-construction-of-petrol-pipeline-through-yemen/249936/
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Saudi Arabia, claiming it's fighting Iran in #Yemen, insists on building an oil pipeline in #Mahrah. Reports said today it's mobilising pro-Saudi tribes against tribes resisting the construction of the pipeline. And idiots continue to say coalition isn't plotting in our country!
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1046722340049096705
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"Bin Afrar" returns to Al Mahrah to confront Saudi Arabia
The son of the last Sultan of al-Mahra, Sheikh Abdullah bin Issa Al-Afrar, arrived in al-Mahra province, east of Yemen, on Monday, to stand by protests against the presence of Saudi Arabia.
The sources said to "Al-Masdar online ", that Ben Afrar, arrived on Monday morning to al-Mahrah province, coming from the Sultanate of Oman via a Shehen outlet.
Abdullah al-Afrar, the General Council of the Sons of al-Mahrah and Socotra governorates, headed to Al-Mahara Governorate and has already led demonstrations and protests against the Emirati presence in Socotra.
According to sources of "Al-Masdar online ", that the return of Ben Afrar is in the context of escalating protests against the presence of Saudi forces in al-Mahrah province, which were described by protesters as "occupation ".
The demonstrations resumed two weeks ago after they had been interrupted weeks ago in the province's capital, in the Al Ghaidhah area, demanding the departure of the Saudi forces and halting the violation of sovereignty.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158986
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A Potential Crisis of Secession in Yemen
Four years ago, when Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels ousted the Yemeni government from Sana’a and Saudi Arabia launched an intervention to blunt the extent of Houthi advances, the UAE looked for new allies to secure its sphere of influence there. The UAE found them in the Southern Movement, or al-Hirak, a collective of Yemeni secessionists intent on reviving South Yemen. They had founded their political movement in 2007 but failed to gain much traction since then.
In an ambitious military and political gamble, the UAE promised to arm al-Hirak in exchange for al-Hirak’s support against the Houthis, whom the secessionists already considered a northern threat to southern autonomy. This arrangement proved critical to Emirati ambitions in Yemen, for it allowed the UAE to project its influence in Aden, a Hirak stronghold and the largest city still under nominal Yemeni control. The motley alliance also undermined the authority of the Yemeni government, which came to depend on secessionists who, by definition, opposed the concept of its unitary state.
For its part, al-Hirak now enjoys more legitimacy than at any point in the two decades after South Yemen’s 1994 fall to North Yemen in a civil war. Emboldened by Emirati support, Hirak members installed their flags on Yemeni government buildings in Aden in 2015. In 2017, they wrote an open letter to the United Nations Security Council arguing for South Yemen’s right to self-determination. While little suggests that the international community has paid any heed to al-Hirak’s provocations, these moves show that Emirati sponsorship has afforded the political movement ambition and confidence.
As al-Hirak grows more powerful, however, signs of tensions between it and its sponsors have begun to appear. In early May, Hirak leader Hassan Baoum demanded that Emirati soldiers withdraw from the Yemeni island of Socotra; the Emirati occupation of Socotra had enraged Yemenis across the political spectrum. Meanwhile this June in Aden, Hirak politician Dr. Jafar Muhammad al-Shalali claimed that well-armed Emirati commandos raided his home, prompting him to demand “an investigation” into an incident that speaks to the fraying alliance between al-Hirak and the UAE.
By empowering the very secessionists now contesting its control, the UAE’s power play might have backfired, loosening its sphere of influence and providing an opportunity for South Yemen to return. Whether or not al-Hirak gains diplomatic recognition for its secessionist ambitions — a dubious scenario — al-Hirak’s growing strength has given it the opportunity to execute its vision of a sovereign state on the ground. This possibility bodes ill for the Emirati sphere of influence in Yemen.
If Emirati sponsorship enables al-Hirak to launch a war of independence, the UAE will find itself embroiled in another controversy and may conclude that the pros of undercutting the Yemeni government, the UAE’s nominal ally, by supporting al-Hirak no longer outweigh the cons. The United States, the UAE’s most important ally, would also likely take issue with the partition of Yemen.
In effect, the Houthis and their Emirati, Saudi, and Yemeni opponents have already partitioned Yemen.
The Yemeni government represents a paradox. On the one hand, it represents the last hope for a unitary state in Yemen. On the other, the Yemeni government depends on the military support of self-interested secessionists and their Emirati patrons — as well as Saudi Arabia. The longer the Yemeni Civil War lasts, the greater al-Hirak’s chances of rebuilding South Yemen.
As Saudi Arabia focuses on fighting the Houthis in the north and west of Yemen, the UAE must consider what its support for al-Hirak has wrought in the country’s east and south. The chaos of the Yemeni Civil War has diminished the authority of the Yemeni government and enabled the rise of Sunni militancy, dynamics that will allow al-Hirak to reconstruct South Yemen from the wreckage – by Austin Michael Bodetti
https://www.offiziere.ch/?p=34261
Remark: A similar article by the same author here: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2018/9/28/empowering-al-hirak-could-backfire-for-the-uae
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U.S. Support for the War on Yemen Is Unjust and Must End
Robert Nicholson responds to Nicholas Kristof’s column on Yemen with an unpersuasive defense of U.S. policy:
“The US has legitimate objectives in Yemen: Restoring an elected government that was unlawfully overthrown. Thwarting a violent Islamic sect that seeks to kill those who don’t abide by its theology. Countering Iran’s regional expansion. Preventing territorial safe havens for ISIS and al-Qaeda fighters who have profited from state collapse. All of these harmonize with our values and interests.”
Nicholson’s defense of U.S. policy amounts to little more than reciting talking points and attacking Kristof for his supposedly simplistic and “sentimental, grade-school analysis” without proving that Kristof is wrong about anything. It is a weak response to a compelling case for ending U.S. support for an indefensible war.
Let’s take the “legitimate objectives” Nicholson lists one by one to appreciate just how flawed his argument is. Start with the reference to the “elected government” of Yemen. There was technically a presidential election in 2012, and Hadi was the only candidate running. Since then, support for his government has evaporated inside the country even in those areas still nominally under its control, and Hadi remains in exile in Riyadh where the former president does whatever his Saudi backers tell him to do. At this point, practically the only ones that still regard Hadi’s government as the “legitimate” government of Yemen are non-Yemenis. The goal of restoring Hadi has always been an unrealistic one, and it certainly would not be accepted now by the millions of people who have suffered on account of the war waged against them in the name of putting him back in power. Restoring Hadi as president was a dubious goal three years ago, and today it is absurd. Nicholson doesn’t bother to explain why reimposing a deposed government in Yemen matters to the U.S. or why it would justify support for years of senseless warfare being waged at the expense of the civilian population.
The Houthis are indeed a violent and abusive militia, and they have committed countless abuses against the people under their rule and numerous war crimes against civilians. Describing them as driven by theological concerns is misleading but ultimately irrelevant. Why is it a legitimate goal of U.S. foreign policy to “thwart” a Yemeni militia that poses no threat to the U.S.? Nicholson doesn’t tell us. He just asserts it. He also lists countering Iranian expansion as a “legitimate objective,” which presupposes that there is any Iranian “expansion” to be countered. Iran’s role in Yemen has increased in response to the Saudi-led intervention, but it remains negligible. Iran is not “expanding” into Yemen, but even if it were that would not warrant enabling an atrocious war that has driven millions of people to the brink of famine.
Preventing havens for AQAP and the local ISIS affiliate is the one thing on the list that actually has something to do with U.S. security, so it is telling that Nicholson does not address reports that Saudi coalition governments and their proxies have bought off and recruited AQAP members during the course of the war.
There is no serious reckoning with the extent of U.S. involvement or with the costs of the war. Nicholson acknowledges the humanitarian crisis in passing with a link, but he doesn’t mention and doesn’t seem to grasp that the U.S.-backed Saudi coalition bombing campaign and blockade are responsible for most of the suffering of Yemen’s civilian population.
He mostly keeps his readers in the dark about the consequences of the policy he is defending, and spends a lot of his time chiding Kristof for telling his readers the truth.
He is much angrier at Kristof for so-called “moralistic sermonizing and reductionism” (i.e., the parts in his column where Kristof correctly holds the U.S. responsible for causing enormous suffering) than he is at the Obama and Trump administrations for helping to create the catastrophe. Nicholson is very offended by one line from Kristof’s column in particular:
“To say that Americans “are willing to starve Yemeni schoolchildren” because “we dislike Iran’s ayatollahs” is so simplistic as to be immoral in itself. That kind of sentimental, grade-school analysis of complex events gets us no closer to discerning a just course of action.”
Kristof’s remark was aimed at the Iran-obsessed Trump administration, and it summarizes one of the official rationalizations for supporting the Saudi coalition war fairly well. As far as the administration is concerned, Yemeni lives are expendable if it means keeping the Saudis and Emiratis happy and opposing the imaginary Iranian “expansion” that Nicholson mentioned earlier. The desire to keep arms sales flowing is another reason for continued backing for the war
Instead, Nicholson goes off on a fairly irrelevant tangent:
“The real question here is whether the US should spend more time and money trying to re-unify a country that shouldn’t have been unified to begin with.”
That is not the “real question” before us, and Yemen’s political future is not for our government to decide. The real question is whether the U.S. should remain a party to a war in which our government is aiding and abetting war crimes and supporting despotic regimes as they starve millions of people to death – by Daniel Larison
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The United States Could End the War in Yemen If It Wanted To
Instead, the Trump administration is allowing Saudi Arabia’s rivalry with Iran to dictate its policy in the region.
Like the Saudis and Emiratis, the Trump administration sees in the Houthis the same sort of threat as other Iranian-backed groups like Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to help Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. In late August, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations tweeted a photo that had circulated in the Arab press of a meeting in Beirut between Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Houthi officials. U.S. officials claimed it showed “the nature of the regional terrorist threat,” and added: “Iranian proxies in Lebanon & Yemen pose major dangers to peace & stability in the entire Middle East.” But beyond recent missile attacks on Saudi Arabia—in retaliation for Saudi airstrikes—the Houthis have displayed little regional ambition. Ironically, as the war drags on, the Houthis will grow more dependent on support from Iran and its allies.
By accepting the coalition’s cosmetic attempts to minimize civilian casualties, the Trump administration is signaling to Saudi and Emirati leaders its apparent belief that a clear military victory in Yemen remains possible. And as long as the coalition believes it can crush the Houthis, there’s little incentive for it to negotiate. Trump, then, has bought into Saudi Arabia’s zero-sum calculation: that a military win in Yemen for the kingdom and its allies would be a defeat for Iran, while a negotiated settlement with the Houthis would be a victory for Tehran. Blinded by its obsession with Iran, the Trump administration is perpetuating an unwinnable war and undermining the likelihood of a political settlement.
While the Saudis are quick to blame Iran for the war, several researchers, including Thomas Juneau, a professor at the University of Ottawa and a former analyst at Canada’s Department of National Defense, have shown that the Houthis did not receive significant support from Tehran before the Saudi intervention in 2015. Iran has stepped up military assistance to the Houthis since the war, and Hezbollah has begun sending military advisers to train the Yemeni rebels. But the costs of this assistance fall far short of those incurred by Saudi Arabia and its allies. For Iran, the Yemen conflict is a low-cost way to bleed its regional rival.
The Trump administration has shown little interest in using arms deals as leverage for a political settlement, or to force the Saudis to take concerns about civilian deaths more seriously.
Saudi and Emirati leaders want a clear-cut victory in their regional rivalry with Iran, and they have been emboldened by the Trump administration’s unconditional support to stall negotiations.
After the Trump administration’s endorsement this month, the Saudi-UAE alliance has even less incentive to prevent civilian casualties and new humanitarian disasters. Saudi Arabia and its allies are more likely to accept a peace process if it is clear that the United States won’t support an open-ended war in Yemen and won’t provide the military assistance required to keep the war apparatus going. But Trump has shown little sign of pressuring his Saudi and Emirati allies, least of all over Yemen – by Mohamad Bazzi
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/iran-yemen-saudi-arabia/571465/ = https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2018/10/us-prolonging-unwinnable-war-yemen/151686/
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The Iran Obsession and the Despicable War on Yemen
Mohamad Bazzi comments on the role of the Trump administration’s Iran obsession in continuing its support for the Saudi coalition war on Yemen:
Blinded by its obsession with Iran, the Trump administration is perpetuating an unwinnable war and undermining the likelihood of a political settlement.
As I have been saying for well over a year, the administration’s Iran obsession poisons everything. Treating Iran as the source and cause of all the region’s woes isn’t just shoddy analysis, but it also becomes a rationalization for lots of terrible policy decisions that have serious costs for the U.S. and for the other countries involved. We are seeing that happen with the administration’s Syria policy, and we have been seeing it in Yemen for the last twenty months. Trying to blame Iran for the conflict in Yemen is wrong as a matter of fact, but that naturally hasn’t stopped the administration from casting blame on a government that has very little to do with the war there while whitewashing the abuses and crimes of the governments that the administration arms and supports.
Iran’s role in Yemen has been minimal all along, but Trump administration officials have made a point of exaggerating it and focusing on it to the exclusion of almost everything else. The fixation on Iran is unfortunate for several reasons. It promotes serious misunderstanding about the causes of the war and who is responsible for Yemen’s current plight. It distracts attention from the governments that are regularly committing war crimes against the civilian population. Finally, and most damning of all, it treats Yemeni civilians as expendable pawns in a quarrel with Iran that has nothing to do with them or their country. Helping to destroy and starve Yemen in a vain effort to combat Iranian “expansionism” is one of the most perverse and despicable policies of our time, and it is all the more so because there is no such expansionism to oppose. Even if there were, it wouldn’t justify what our government is helping the Saudi coalition do to Yemen, but the fact that there isn’t makes the policy that much worse.
Since the Trump administration isn’t going to do anything to rein in the Saudis and Emiratis, Bazzi concludes that Congress will have to do it – by Daniel Larison
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-iran-obsession-and-the-despicable-war-on-yemen/
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Seuchen / Most important: Epidemics
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Save the Children: Yemen: Surge in suspected cholera cases in Hodeidah
Suspected cholera cases have almost tripled in Yemen’s coastal Hodeidah region since fighting escalated in June.
Health facilities supported by Save the Children across the governorate recorded a 170 per cent increase in the number of suspected cholera cases, from 497 in June to 1,342 in August.
The spike is in line with national data that also shows a steady increase of suspected cholera cases across Yemen. 30 per cent of all suspected cases are children under five years old, according to the World Health Organization.
The rise in suspected cases in Hodeidah follows a dramatic increase in fighting between the Houthis and forces backed by the Saudi- and Emirati-led Coalition since June.
Between 26 and 28 July, airstrikes resulted in the damage of a sanitation facility and water station that supplies Hodeidah with most of its water. After this incident, suspected cholera cases almost doubled between July (732) and August (1,342) in Save the Children-supported health centres.
In a recent UN survey of more than 2,000 respondents across Yemen, more than half (56 per cent) cited water supply damage as the most common form of infrastructure damage. In Hodeidah governorate this jumped to 62 per cent of respondents.
As battles have intensified around Hodeidah’s port city in September, Save the Children is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe should the ground fighting reach densely populated areas or if the city should be besieged.
Hodeidah governorate is also home to nearly 100,000 severely malnourished children – more than a quarter of Yemen’s total. Severely malnourished children are much more likely to contract and die from diarrhoeal diseases like cholera than well-nourished children.
In addition, over [half a million people have been displaced](https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/issue 27 final v3.pdf) from their homes in Hodeidah since June, forced to live in host communities in cramped conditions and with little access to clean water and sanitation. Yemen’s rainy season which runs from April to August is further compounding the crisis.
Speaking from Hodeidah, Dr Mariam Aldogani, Save the Children’s Hodeidah Field Manager, said:
“The situation in Hodeidah has become unbearable because of the conflict. I’m seeing more and more children coming in with suspected cholera. I met one mother of two who has acute diarrhoea and she told me her whole family is affected because they don’t have access to clean water any more. They all drink from an open well and don’t even have enough money to buy cooking gas needed to boil the contaminated water they collect. Her husband hasn’t been paid a salary since last year. She knows she’s putting her children’s health at risk. But what can she do when they cry from thirst? So they just drink, and hope for the best.”
22-year-old *Salwa and her two-year-old son *Aseel live with 13 family members in their house in Hodeidah. Both mother, who is four months pregnant, and son are suffering from cholera. When *Salwa got sick, she couldn’t afford the $4 bus fare to the hospital. After three days, her father managed to rent a motorbike and brought his daughter in critical condition to a Save the Children health clinic. Both mother and son are being treated now, but *Salwa continues to worry about the fate of her unborn child and whether she’ll be able to reach a hospital in time to give birth safely.
Speaking from Sanaa, Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children’s Yemen Country Director, said: Speaking from Sanaa, Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children’s Yemen Country Director, said:
“There are no aboveground water sources in Yemen so the vast majority of communities depend entirely on wells and water trucks to meet their daily needs. Even in towns and cities water systems are in a state of disrepair or damaged from the fighting. Limited availability often results in poor hygiene practices and sanitation, heightening the risk of further cholera outbreaks.
“The solution is simple. The fighting must stop and the parties to the conflict need to find a political solution. In the meantime, Save the Children will continue to distribute medicines and support clinics to reach the most vulnerable children before it’s too late.”
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-surge-suspected-cholera-cases-hodeidah
and by agencies, media:
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’Cholera’ Epidemic A Tool of War Against Yemen
“We've had two major waves of cholera epidemics in recent years, and unfortunately the trend data that we've seen in the last days to weeks suggests that we may be on the cusp of the third major wave of cholera epidemics in Yemen," Dr. Peter Salama,” WHO deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, told a UN briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
The US-Saudi-UAE aggression systematically carried out a bombing campaign on the country’s water and sewage-treatment infrastructure, continues to prevent access to medicine through a crippling blockade, and is pushing the economy to total collapse. More than three years of near-constant airstrikes by US-Saudi-UAE aggression have left Yemen’s roads impassable, reduced its hospitals and clinics to rubble, and short-circuited its electricity service — while a ruinous blockade of Yemen’s ports has depleted the country’s supplies of life-saving medicine. The hospitals that have not been reduced to rubble are barely functioning, doctors have not been paid, and power cuts are frequent.
Hodeida’s residents have temporarily lost access to clean water. On July 31, the wells that fed Hodeida’s water system and sewage treatment plant in the district were destroyed by US-Saudi-UAE airstrikes. The shortage of potable water that resulted has forced residents to drink water polluted with feces and urine, resulting in the latest cholera outbreak. The US-Saudi-UAE aggression has repeatedly, systematically and deliberately attacked water and sewage treatment infrastructure in Yemen since it began its military campaign against the country in 2015.
According to the Legal Center For Rights and Development, an organization that tracks Saudi Arabia’s violations of international law in Yemen, 727 water pumps and tanks have been destroyed since 2015. Water treatment facilities funded by international organizations have not been immune to US-Saudi-UAE aggression attack. The UNICEF-funded al Asayed Water Network in Sada’a was destroyed by four aggression airstrikes on July 25, leaving thousands of residents, including internally displaced families, without clean drinking water.
The aggression often claims that the destruction of water facilities is not intentional, but the organizations overseeing the facilities provide aggression forces with maps showing the locations of the facilities and indicating their responsibility for running them. The precautions, an effort to protect Yemen’s vital water treatment facilities from airstrikes, have not prevented continuous attacks by the aggression.
The blockade has also prevented medicines and other critical commodities from reaching around 8.4 million people who are believed to be on the verge of starvation.
“Cholera could spread like wildfire in Yemen, potentially infecting thousands of children and completely overwhelming an already crippled health system,” said Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International after a recent visit to Yemen. “Many hospitals have been reduced to rubble, and those that are still standing are barely functioning.”
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3066&cat_id=1
My comment: the biological weapons theory is a conspiration theory, and it is not needed at all to explain the cholera outbreak.
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Film: Here is the story of Cholera in Yemen
The cumulative number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen reached more than 1,100,000 by the end of July 2018 with 2,346 associated deaths. Together with its partners, @UNICEF scaled up its intervention to respond to the worst cholera outbreak in the world.
https://www.facebook.com/unicefyemen/videos/2042634632470074/
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Today, a 3-day oral #cholera vaccination campaign, targeting over 500,000 people above the age of 1, commenced in #Ibb (Hazm Al-Udain District) & #Hudaydah (Al-Hali & Al-Marawia districts)
https://twitter.com/WHOYemen/status/1046325748657770496
In #Yemen, a second round of oral #cholera vaccination is underway. @UNICEF_Yemen, @WHO and partners aim to reach over half a million children over age 1 one in Hudaydah and Ibb.
Over 2,800 health workers in #Yemen are taking part in the second round of oral #cholera vaccination in Ibb and Hudaydah. The first round of vaccination in these areas took place in August and reached over 274,000 people and children.
https://twitter.com/UNICEFmena/status/1046389053246115840
Fatima (13) is taking Khalid (4) to get his vaccinations. She’s part of a “Sponsor a Child” immunization initiative in Dhale, Yemen where adolescents 13-17 yrs are engaged to help younger children complete their vaccinations (photo)
https://twitter.com/UNICEFC4D/status/1046426975462727680
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Cholera breaks out in Ibb
Cholera broke out in some areas of Ibb governorate in the center of Yemen during the few past days .
Local sources affirmed that cholera spread in some areas of al-Odain district in Ibb, pointing out that the deterioration of economic conditions resulted in the epidemic increase.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-24072
cp1b Am wichtigsten: Kampf um Hodeidah / Most important: Hodeidah battle
Siehe / Look at cp1a
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Residents living near port of Hodeidah in Yemen dramatically affected by war (photos)
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/01/c_137505715.htm
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54 Houthis killed,13 captured in Hodeidah operations
Fifty-four Houthi militias were killed, and 13 others captured during military operations carried out on Yemen's Red Sea Coast, by joint Yemeni Resistance Forces, with the support of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition.
http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302711384
Remark: As claimed by Emirati news agency.
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Coalition flyers warn al-Hodeidah residents to stand by Houthis
Local residents in Hodeidah, western Yemen, said the Saudi Arabian-led coalition dropped flayers early Monday, urging them to join the ranks of government troops in the face of al-Houthi militants.
According to one of the residents who spoke to Al-Masdar online, the flyers said that the safety of the population is a priority for the coalition, so he calls on them not to stand by the Houthis in a lost fight.
The residents were also warned against the behavior of the southern route, Kilo 16, the main part of the city, fearing that they would be exposed to the Houthis ' gunfire and shelling, especially as the road was controlled by government forces (image)
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158973
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In the line of fire: Liberated Yemeni city bears the brunt of nearby Houthi position
Pro-government forces dig through rubble to save elderly man hit by Houthi mortar
Mohammed Ahmed Jamal was buried under the rubble of his home in Al Tuhaiyta when members of the Yemeni Al Amalikah brigades found him on Saturday afternoon. The house collapsed when Houthi fighters launched a mortar attack on the city, a military source told The National.
Al Tuhaiyta, with a population of 70,000, was one of the worst-hit areas of the Hodeidah governorate. It was retaken by pro-government forces in July, but Iran-backed Houthi fighters have entrenched themselves in the southern, eastern and western outskirts of the city, from which they have launched sporadic attacks. The only available route into Al Tuhaiyta is from the north.
"Our soldiers who were near Al Tuhaiyta rushed to rescue as soon as they saw the clouds of smoke covering the neighbourhood," said the source
My comment: Obviously Emirati propaganda article, but showing somewhat of the situation at the place.
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Fighting renews in southern Hodeidah and coalition fighters launched a number of raids
Al-Masdar online correspondent in the western city of Hodeidah said that the fierce battles were renewed between militants of the al-Houthi group and government forces backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighters, south of the city, at dawn on Saturday.
He said the two sides fought heavy and light weapons in the Kilo 10 area (south-east of the city) and west of the airport (southern), while the Houthis fired artillery shells intensively from the middle of residential neighborhoods.
He noted that the shelling of the Houthis caused panic and fear among the population.
He added that coalition fighters raided the sites of the Houthis, including a raid on the site of the west of the Al Halaqah market, used by the Houthis for reinforcements and military supplies, resulting in a number of deaths and injuries.
On the other hand, the Houthis are releasing dozens of antiaircraft to the fighter jets, but this has not yielded any results.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158871
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Local residents: Al-Houthi militias fired 40 shells during the past hours from inside the town of Hodeidah to the outskirts of the city and violent clashes towards the university near the airport and the end of Kilo 7.
https://twitter.com/Mukalla_Now_EN/status/1045985154194378752
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Al-Houthis Bombard Al-Tuhaita Hospital and its Surrounding Neighborhood
Aziz Hospital in Al-Touhaita nd its neighboring houses were under heavy bombard launched by Al-Houthi militias on Friday September 28th, 2018. Media center of Giants Brigades indicated that Al-Houthi militias targeted the hospital and the nearby residential area for the tenth time in row with random bombard that led to severe causalities in addition to material loses.
https://en.smanews.org/al-houthis-bombard-al-tuhaita-hospital-and-its-surrounding-neighborhood
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Feature: Fishermen struggle to survive in Yemen's war-torn Hodeidah
Fishermen in the Yemen's port city of Hodeidah have been faced with a difficult choice each morning: either to keep watching their children who are at risk of starving to death or to go fishing under fears of the heavy airstrikes.
Fishing in the Red Sea is a main source of income for thousands of poor families living in the war-torn city.
Abdullah Ibrahim, in his 30s, is one of the city's fishermen who has lost many of his colleagues under bombardment while fishing off the shore.
"We are suffering...we go for fishing and it could cost us the very high price, the price is our lives," Ibrahim told Xinhua.
"Also there is a naval blockade, if we go fishing today, then the next day we maybe couldn't," Ibrahim said while he was leaning on his wooden boat.
"Life becomes very difficult and there is no other work instead," Ibrahim added.
Since June, the Saudi-led coalition has regularly issued warnings to fishermen to keep away from battleships and military zones off Hodeidah shore.
Talal al-Mesyabi, a middle-class resident of Sanaa and father of two girls, said he used to buy his family fish everyday three months ago.
"But now, I can afford one fish meal only at the end of the month," Talal said.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/30/c_137502508.htm
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Aggression warplane wages 5 airstrikes on 3 districts in Hodeidah province
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509641.htm
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In Hodiedah, a civilian was killed and another one was injured by an airstrike on Al-Munirah district.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3034&cat_id=1
cp2 Allgemein / General
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Interactive Map of Yemen War
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Al Arabiya cameras film suspicious Iranian ship in Red Sea near Yemen’s coast
Al Arabiya’s cameras monitored the Iranian Saviz ship that has been stationed for three years in international waters in the Red Sea near the Yemeni coasts.
The Iranian ship, which practices military activities under a trade cover, has previously transferred experts from Iran to Yemen.
Saviz, which is registered at the UN’s International Maritime Organization, is 87 nautical miles away from Yemeni coasts.
The ship which is 150 meters in length has been equipped with four 50 caliber machineguns that have been hidden by the ship’s crew.
The ship also has two military boats and more than 16 multipurpose devices such as surveillance radars and monitoring devices. It also has a satellite and highly-developed military communication system which does not harmonize with the nature of commercial ships’ work.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2018/10/01/Al-Arabiya-cameras-film-suspicious-Iranian-ship-in-Red-Sea-near-Yemen-s-coast.html
Remark: As claimed by Saudi media.
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Head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee - Mohamed Ali Al-Houthi sent a letter to the #UN Secretary-General, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and the UN Secretary-General Special Envoy to #Yemen, Which includes a solution to confrontation the aggravation of disasters in the economic and living conditions of the Yemeni people, which is threatened by famine as a result of aggression and siege and stop paying salaries and targeting the national currency (letter in images)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1944178598968494
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Saudi Arabia admits coalition 'mistakes' in targeting in Yemen
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it was working hard to correct mistaken targeting by its military coalition in Yemen that has killed civilians including children, but U.N. rights experts voiced scepticism.
The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday examined the Saudi record on compliance with a treaty protocol on children in armed conflict, and repeatedly raised the issue of children killed by coalition attacks in Yemen.
“This has been going on a number of years. But still there is no information that any perpetrators or people responsible for these kinds of actions have been prosecuted or sanctioned or dealt with in any way,” said panel vice-chair Clarence Nelson.
Osaiker Alotaibi of the Saudi defence ministry told the panel of 18 independent experts that the Saudi-led alliance was committed to upholding international humanitarian law.
Coalition investigations had uncovered “the existence of certain unintentional mistakes in a number of these operations,” Alotaibi said. “The task force recommended that perpetrators should be held to account and victims should enjoy redress.”
Renate Winter, panel chairwoman, asked why schools and hospitals had been repeatedly struck: “You say it’s an accident. How many such accidents can you bear and how many such accidents can people in the country (Yemen) bear?”
My comment: War crimes are no “mistakes” as the Saudis put it. – The official propaganda reply (without even mentioning thie UN examination) at cp15 below.
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L’Arabie saoudite interdit tout débat sur sa guerre au Yémen
[Riyadh forbids any debate on its war on #Yemen
With the support of the United States and the implicit blackmail of contracts, the #Saudi Kingdom ensures that its European allies continue to deliver weapons.]
En s’appuyant sur le soutien des Etats-Unis et sur un chantage implicite aux contrats, le royaume saoudien s’assure que ses alliés européens continuent à lui livrer des armes. (paywalled)
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Film by Press TV Iran: The Debate - 'Saudi crimes in Yemen'
The United Nations Human Rights Council has renewed a mandate for probe into war crimes in Yemen. The resolution was passed despite fierce opposition by Saudi Arabia and its allies. They have already been accused of being behind a mass number of civilian casualties in Yemen by the very UN rights body. Here’s a report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es0gjgTMvBU
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Film: Sanaa airport could be reopened soon: UN envoy to Yemen l Al Jazeera English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTMp8xv6IGw
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Living in #Yemen in thread: -You've read about the humanitarian crisis. You've seen the videos & the photos in the news. But there's nothing like someone who is living it. -My country was a beautiful, everything was available, people had jobs &lives. until #Saudi started the war.
But after #Saudi started the war, everything changed. Poverty became normal, &we were no longer surprised when we heard about children dying from hunger or thirst.
I have suffered during these events. to understand my feelings, I would like to ask about your feelings if everything you built in your life like( your house, your job, your car, your future plans)suddenly vanished for a crime that you never did.
What would you do if you suddenly found your self with no house, no food, no money, no milk for your child, no job, no salary, no access to clean water and your child died from hunger. -I have heard hundreds of stories about what happened to families & how they left their homes &did whatever they could to survive. -The road to recovery is long and difficult. But if the world will come alongside and walk it with Yemeni people, the farther they'll go and the stronger world's efforts of love and peace will become.
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1046144362286075905
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Film: Action needed now' to prevent famine in Yemen, UN special envoy says
In an interview with FRANCE 24, the UN special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, warned that "critical actions need to be taken now" to avoid a full-blown famine. Griffiths also expressed hope that the conflict could soon come to an end despite the failure of UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva earlier this month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s--o1EXTco8
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The suffering millions of Yemen find a chance of hope on Capitol Hill
A House resolution and a vote on arms sales in the Senate could affect US backing for the Saudi-led coalition
The civil war in Yemen is one of those obscure conflicts that feels as though it has been going on for ever. In the space of little more than three years, the conflict has become what the UN and aid agencies agree is the world’s worst man-made humanitarian disaster, with 16,700 civilians killed or wounded, 8.4 million people facing famine, a nation torn apart and an economy destroyed.
[Overview on Yemen situation]
All of which leaves one possible ray of light for the suffering Yemenis. Last week more than 50 members of the US House of Representatives backed a bipartisan resolution invoking the 1973 War Powers Act, declaring that Congress never authorised US support for the coalition in Yemen, as it is legally bound to do under the act, and directing Trump to withdraw all American military personnel.
Action is also pending in the US Senate, where Bob Menendez – the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee – is blocking a $2bn arms sale to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. “Widespread destruction and disease [are] contributing to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. US-fuelled planes continue to drop US-made bombs on innocent victims,” said Democrat Ro Khanna, the House resolution’s lead sponsor. A showdown vote is expected after November’s elections.
Both moves are certain to be fiercely opposed by the Trump administration, which argues its military assistance and expertise reduces the number of civilian deaths. But both reflect growing public abhorrence at a series of atrocities.
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Hisham Al-Omeisy: Had pleasure joining his Excellency @YemenAskar, minister of human rights, at a special session @TheGCSP where I spoke about local perspective in contrast to int'l one and need for incorporation of former towards better understanding and design of security and policy in #Yemen
https://twitter.com/omeisy/status/1045981572061704192
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Hadi's "government" is a huge joke. I don't see why there's a need to talk with them about anything, when they were the ones begging Saudi and Co. To bombard Yemen and its people.
As long as you refer to people such as him as -an actual- part of the #Yemeni government and that whatever he has to say is anywhere near the truth then you are world's aways from "better understanding" anything that represents the real Yemeni situation.
Any recording to share?
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
Siehe / Look at cp13d
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Film: I visited Aslam area yesterday in #Hajjah governorate, I saw people eating tree leaves and I saw starved children. I will upload the other videos later today.
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1046889278062649344
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United Nations Population Fund: Leaders demand protection for women and girls affected by conflict
In the wake of the migration crisis and other humanitarian emergencies across the world, women and girls are experiencing unconscionable trauma. Gender-based violence – including child marriage and forced pregnancy – exploitation, and trafficking often escalate during conflict, threatening the lives and well-being of women and girls in all regions.
Women and children account for roughly 75 per cent of those displaced by conflict. About 20 per cent are women of reproductive age.
Maleka Ali was pregnant when violence descended on her home in Taizz, Yemen.
“I was frightened because of the intensity of the war and the explosions,” she told UNFPA. “We fled from Taizz, and I was so scared that I got asthma.”
Ms. Ali’s asthma put her baby, too, at risk of developing health problems.
During conflict and other emergencies, sexual and reproductive health needs are often overlooked. As medical services become disrupted, pregnant women risk life-threatening complications, and women and girls lose access to family planning, exposing them to unwanted pregnancies in perilous conditions.
In Yemen, an estimated 3 million women and girls of childbearing age are in acute need of protection and medical care.
“We are displaced, we are dispersed. Our situation is not normal. We are impoverished. We suffer in every way,” Ms. Ali said.
Suffering upon suffering
The trauma women and girls endure during conflict is often compounded by shame and stigma.
“That is why sexual violence is so often employed as a weapon of war,” said UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, speaking at an event held on 24 September during the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. “It’s effective. It destroys lives and unbinds the ties that hold families and communities together.”
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/leaders-demand-protection-women-and-girls-affected-conflict
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Children of war
Photos of Yemeni children capture how conflict is affecting their everyday lives and jeopardizing their futures
At 4, Batol Yahiya should be bouncing around and playing. Instead, she is lying in a hospital bed, receiving treatment for severe malnutrition. The war that has been the backdrop to most of her life has deprived her — and an estimated 1.8 million children under 5 — of the nutritious food she needs to grow up healthy.
Every ten minutes, a child dies in Yemen due to preventable causes. Malnutrition makes them more vulnerable to disease — including cholera — and can lead to death as they weak bodies crumble.
More than three years of fighting have turned Yemen — already one of the poorest Arab countries — into the world’s largest hunger crisis.
The streets where these children used to play are now covered in rubble and wrecked metal; their homes and schools destroyed.
Relentless fighting is hindering the delivery of international assistance, on which millions of Yemenis depend for survival
To keep those children healthy and their dreams alive, WFP has started a school feeding programme, aiming to provide ready-to-eat, nutritious food to 600,000 children during the 2018/2019 school year.
The children of Yemen have lost their childhood to war. Only immediate and lasting peace will give them a chance to to grow up to rebuild their country.
https://insight.wfp.org/children-of-war-8dc558ff03ad
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Mohammed Al-Quhaim is a teacher from city of #Hodeidah he didn't pick up his salary for nearly 2 years, 2 day ago Mohammed got out his home looking for job so he can feed his family, but he didn't come back again, suddenly he dead in the street, his family found hid body today (photo)
https://twitter.com/MohammedHojily/status/1046868644813258757
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Addressing uncertainty in conflict-affected environments: Lessons from Yemen
Delivering development assistance to FCV countries is one of the key challenges the World Bank faces today. In addition to a challenging political context, these countries are characterized by significant access and security constraints and a very volatile situation on the ground.
To respond to this crisis and move from humanitarian relief to a development response, the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), designed the US$ 150 million Yemen Integrated Urban Services Emergency Project (YIUSEP), which aims to restore access to critical urban services in Yemeni cities impacted by the ongoing conflict. The World Bank partners with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) –which has presence on the ground – and is working with three local entities to preserve and improve the capacity of national institutions.
To address the uncertain, conflict-affected environment, the project features the following key elements that could be replicated in similar crisis contexts:
Flexibility.
Pragmatic risk management.
Bottom-up citizen engagement. To ensure that project interventions address the real needs of local communities and do not exacerbate existing social tensions, YIUSEP includes a participatory, gender-inclusive investment planning process.
Context-adapted project monitoring.
Early results of this approach are encouraging. For example, the Project has improved energy supply and efficiency of Sana’a’s largest public hospital by installing off-grid solar energy systems, replacing around 6,000 indoor LED lamps, and supplying street and outdoor lighting. Other successful interventions include solid waste cleaning campaigns reduce health hazards and improve quality of life, as well as neighborhood-level projects, such as stone paving, which improve services and provide temporary local employment.
Operating in FCV environments poses unique challenges for development practitioners
http://blogs.worldbank.org/arabvoices/addressing-uncertainty-conflict-lessons-yemen
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Yemen: Humanitarian Dashboard (January - August 2018)
Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Some 22.2 million people - 75 per cent of the population - are in need of humanitarian assistance. 17.8 million people are food insecure and 8.4 million people do not know how they will obtain their next meal. Conflict, protracted displacement, disease and deprivation continue to inflict suffering upon the country’s population. Disruption to commercial imports, inflation, lack of salary payments to civil servants and rising prices of basic commodities are further exacerbating people’s vulnerability. Despite a difficult operating environment, some 204 international and national partners in January through August were actively coordinating to deliver assistance to people in need in priority districts across Yemen’s 22 governorates. Together, they have assisted over 7.8 million people monthly with some form of humanitarian assistance.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-dashboard-january-august-2018
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Walking in #Sanaa street & looking at people's faces have become very draining. Prices are skyrocketing every single day, and every person I meet anywhere complains about the unbearable living conditions. Want to see the slow death? Walk in the street..
https://twitter.com/osamahfakih/status/1046678703491747840
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World Food Programme: Yemen: Emergency Dashboard, September 2018
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-emergency-dashboard-september-2018
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Yemen: Access Constraints as of 28 September 2018
https://reliefweb.int/map/yemen/yemen-access-constraints-28-september-2018-0
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In Houthi-besieged Taiz, merciless death comes from everywhere
A Houthi sniper shot dead a 10 year old boy, Abduh Yahya Abdu a-Samad Ghaleb, in Saber al-Mawadem district in the city on Saturday 2018-09-29.
Shaker al-Yusufi, 21, who earns the bread of his family from his job as a waiter in a cafeteria in the city died in the Republican Hospital in the city on Sunday after struggling with dengue fever
Earlier on (Tuesday 2018-09-18) in a camp for internal displaces in Abyan south of the country, Abduh Nasr a man in his fifties from Taiz set himself on fire after his family ran out of food. Nasr was hospitalized to the Republican Teaching Hospital in Aden but succumbed to his wounds and died there.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-24157
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Photo: Payment Cycle 3 of the #EmergencyCashTransferProject funded by the @WorldBank and implemented by @UNICEF_Yemen started this morning. About 9 million people are to benefit from cash assistance provided under this project
https://twitter.com/UNICEF_Yemen/status/1046393145284603904
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Film: 400,000 children in #Yemen are severely malnourished, the most extreme form of hunger. This crisis is entirely man-made and the warring parties have the power to stop it.
https://twitter.com/HelleThorning_S/status/1046418236399652864
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Film: Growing cases of epidemics in Tihama 30-09-2018
Starving children in Hodeidah province
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvuybBPeoAk = https://www.facebook.com/SaudiArabia.war.crimes.against.Yemen/videos/1980491652250036
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This week, about 5 million Yemen children started to go to schools despite US-Saudi-UAE war crimes against them Hundreds, if not thousands, of the schools are partly or completely destroyed. But still open& receive students. All teachers have not received salaries for 2 years+
https://twitter.com/narrabyee/status/1046308239703527424
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Film: The suffocating US-Saudi siege on #Yemen: A crying grandfather heartbreaking sense of helplessness
https://twitter.com/b_mox1216glfyr/status/1046549802576748544
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Yemen Humanitarian Update Covering 18 - 27 September 2018 | Issue 28
Key Issues
- Food and fuel prices have skyrocketed following a sharp depreciation of the Yemeni Rial against the US dollar. Crippling fuel queues are reported in Sana’a.
- Food security has further deteriorated, which could add another 3.5 million people to the 8.4 million people who currently need emergency food assistance in Yemen.
- The main Al Hudaydah-Sana’a road remains inaccessible due to fighting; access to the city is only from the north, on the Al Hudaydah-Hajjah road.
- Over 2.3 million people have been displaced by conflict since 2015; and an additional 58,000 households were displaced between June and August 2018.
- Efforts are underway to expedite the release of humanitarian cargo currently held at Yemen’s main entry points awaiting import approval.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-update-covering-18-27-september-2018-issue-28
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At least 17,000 children in #Yemen's Hajjah province are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. These photos were taken 5 days ago.
https://www.facebook.com/SaudiArabia.war.crimes.against.Yemen/posts/1908433209452664
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A FATHER’S IMPOSSIBLE DECISION: RUN TO SAFETY OR SEEK OUT MEDICAL CARE
The situation for Yemen’s children is nothing short of dire. Some 11.3 million children in Yemen are facing a triple threat of bombs, hunger and disease.
The journey for those trying to flee, however, is often no safer: families have to brave minefields and airstrikes and are forced to cross areas of active fighting, all in a bid to escape the embattled governorate
Children’s injuries incurred as a result of airstrikes are often complex and require a specialist treatment. Families on the run need to sometimes make the impossible decision of whether to continue to flee towards safety or stop and seek out medical care, if they can afford it.
Eight-year-old Razan* was severely wounded in one eye after a bomb exploded nearby as she and her father tried to leave. She was in agony for days and her family feared she was permanently blinded.
“When Razan was injured, the airstrike was just yards away from us. The airstrike hit an armored vehicle nearby and flying shrapnel hit Razan in the eye. I tried to get us to a safe place to have a look at her eye, and then I bandaged her up with my shawl. Then we had to carry on moving,” said Samir,* Razan’s father.
“Razan had to go five days without treatment because I didn’t have enough money. After five days I asked Razan whether she could still see through her injured eye. She lied and said yes. We went upstairs, and I asked her to count the birds outside, while I covered her good eye. She said there were two, but there were four.”
Razan eventually reached a specialist hospital, where Save the Children referred her for emergency surgery that should restore her eyesight.
Thanks to support from Save the Children’s donors, Razan received the special medical care she needed. But there are many more children like her who are not getting the care they need.
film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5E7k7EbRY
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70-75% of Yemenis live in small villages. Their local shops are now closed because end of chain retailers cannot lose money by selling goods at a loss. Once again the ordinary poor bear the brunt of this. Compare to those few with access to hard currency.
https://twitter.com/Minwakhi/status/1045993383234326529
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Supported by the Yemen Red Crescent, this week @ICRC_ye distributed food baskets to more than 5’000 families in Bihan, Shabwa governorate (photo)
https://twitter.com/ICRC_ye/status/1045991336070053888
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The number of street beggars in #Yemen is increasing unexpectedly as food prices continue to rise dramatically. This war has't only claimed thousands of lives but also forced millions of people to lose their dignity.
https://twitter.com/sadeqalwesabi/status/1046011661746753536
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Editor-in-chief of Yemeni Al-Hayah newspaper, Musa Al-Aizaki, is offering one of his kidneys for sale to settle debt accumulated for four years. He wrote an advertisement on Facebook.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1046200610230611968
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QFFD to fund water and sanitation sector in Yemen
Upon the directives of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and in accordance with His Highness’ speech before the UN General Assembly at its 73rd session, the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the water and sanitation sector in Yemen, in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/29/09/2018/QFFD-to-fund-water-and-sanitation-sector-in-Yemen
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UN warns of famine after Yemen talks sputter
The United Nations is trying to stop another 10 million more Yemenis from becoming dependent on aid by the end of the year, the intergovernmental organization’s top humanitarian official in Yemen told Al-Monitor.
UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Lise Grande said that fewer ships are coming into the country than at “virtually any stage” of the war.
“The 10 million additional people who depend on the market for food are the real issue,” Grande said in a Skype interview from Sanaa, where the UN mission is based. “If shippers don’t berth at northern ports, these people aren’t able to buy the food they need. It’s painfully clear that shippers just don’t have the confidence to enter northern Yemen where they are desperately needed.”
Grande credited the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi rebels with “significantly” reducing the time needed to clear commercial ships at Yemen’s ports since last year. But she said the ongoing fighting has made it difficult for shippers to secure credit. It has also raised insurance costs and caused security risks that prohibit many ships from coming in.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/09/un-aid-warn-famine-yemen-war-talks-grande.html
(B H)
US Agency for International Development: Yemen - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #12, Fiscal Year (FY) 2018
[Situation overview]
USAID Acting Deputy Administrator David H. Moore highlighted that the U.S.
Government (USG) has provided more than $1.2 billion in total humanitarian funding to the Yemen response since FY 2017 during the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-complex-emergency-fact-sheet-12-fiscal-year-fy-2018
Yemen ‑ Active USG Programs for Yemen Response (Last Updated 09/28/18)
https://reliefweb.int/map/yemen/yemen-active-usg-programs-yemen-response-last-updated-092818
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
(* B H)
Film: The War in Yemen: Over 3 million displaced by ongoing violence
More than 10 percent of Yemen's 27 million people remain displaced because of war. Many have been fleeing renewed violence in the port city of Hudaida to areas already facing a severe shortage of basic services. One of the places they're going to is the northwestern province of Hajjah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUQHYiVNYo
(* B H)
‘Easy to Enter’ Yemen Attracts African Migrants Despite Ongoing Crisis
Despite the widespread insecurity in Yemen, over 200,000 migrants – primarily from countries in the Horn of Africa – have transversed the Red Sea to Yemen’s coast in the last two years.
But despite the widespread insecurity in the Gulf country that is well into its third year of civil war, over 200,000 migrants – primarily from countries in the Horn of Africa – have transversed the Red Sea to Yemen’s coast in the last two years.
“An obvious reason that so many people from that region migrate is for better economic opportunities,” says Idil Osman, a research associate and senior teaching fellow at SOAS, to The Globe Post. “But there are also other factors – particularly political unrest and human rights violation by governing bodies and security forces – that has been forcing people to make these extremely dangerous and uncertain journeys.”
“But hundreds of thousands have also been crossing the Red Sea and heading to the Gulf in the hope to find work in the wealthier Gulf States like Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar – because it is less expensive to get to than Europe.”
And while governments in the region have tried to reduce these irregular flows through regulations, a crackdown on smugglers and border controls, particularly to protect its citizens from abuse, it has only resulted in more migrants taking irregular routes.
“Even the outbreak of war in Yemen in 2015 did not result in any significant decline in migrants coming in from across the Red Sea,” Osman said. “For most countries, the number has remained fairly steady while the number of Ethiopians has actually increased.”
The breakdown of state institutions, policies, and control as a consequence of the war have, in fact, encouraged many migrants to opt for this route.
“They have been convinced – especially by smugglers – that it is very easy to enter, travel through, and exit Yemen right now unnoticed,” Osman said. “Yemen’s situation has created an opportunity for smugglers and traffickers to create and exploit routes in and through the country with little to no consequences.”
And not all migrants who enter Yemen intend to travel through: many, often those who are cut short on funds during the journey, end up staying there and hope to find domestic, low-skilled, or farm work. Some also choose to seek asylum. Somalis, for example, can seek refugee status in the country and, as of 2015, there were almost 250,000 registered Somali refugees there.
But Yemen’s ongoing civil war has resulted in African migrants being detained and tortured by both fighting fractions.
https://theglobepost.com/2018/10/01/african-migrants-yemen/
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Film: Hodeida IDPs sleep in graveyards in Aden
https://twitter.com/alsarare2013/status/1046016691828936704
https://twitter.com/alsarare2013/status/1046007119236001793
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
(A P)
Houthis in Ibb kidnap Socialist party leader and Nasserite organization's secretary
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158985
(A P)
Iranian, Yemeni Officials Discuss Ways to Speed Up Peace Process
Senior Assistant to Iran's Foreign Minister for Special Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari and Spokesman of Yemeni popular Ansarullah Movement Mohammed Abdul Salam consulted on recent developments in Yemen.
During the meeting, which was held on Monday in Tehran, the two sides exchanged views on the latest developments in Yemen and the Middle East and commented on the peace process for Yemen.
Hossein Jaberi-Ansari, who also serves as the top Iranian negotiator in Yemen's international peace talks conferred on the ways of easing the talks and securing the success of the efforts, as well as helping Yemeni people to put an end to the imposed war, with the Yemeni visiting official.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970709001047
(A P)
Houthis continue murdering civilians in Ibb
The Houthi militias on Sunday murdered two civilians in Ibb governorate two days after the murder of a young man, , Hani al-Barusha.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-24156
and, more details: http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158929
and
(A P)
A child killed following clashes between Houthi militia and tribal Gunmen in Ibb (addendum)
Clashes erupted between al-Houthi militia and gunmen from the al-Mashna district on Sunday in a number of neighborhoods of Ibb City, the provincial capital.
The clashes erupted as a result of the killing of two civilians by Houthi gunmen on Saturday in Ibb City, the source said.
On Saturday evening, the militia killed Mohamed Fouad al-Qadasi and engineer Mohamed Amin Yafee, causing clashes on Sunday with tribal militants.
A child named Mohammed Moute’a al-Arhani, a member of the al-Three neighborhood in Ibb City, was shot and taken to a hospital in critical condition, the source said.
Later, a medical source told the "Al Masdar online" that the child had died of his injuries.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158953
(A P)
Seven killed in armed confrontations between Houthi gunmen and Abdul Azim al-Houthi followers in Sa'dah
At least seven gunmen were killed in clashes between Houthi militants and followers of Abdul Azim al-Houthi in Sa'dah governorate, the Houthi stronghold of northern Yemen.
The sources said that gunmen tried to arrest a follower of Abdul Azim al-Houthi for possessing and trading hashish, prompting followers “Abdul Azim " to clash with the Houthi militants and kill them.
Sources for Al Masdar online said that the Houthi militia had blow up two houses of supporters of Abdul Azim al-Houthi, while the tension in the area was still ongoing.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158944
Remark: This article is by an anti-Houthi Yemeni source. Saudi and Emirati news sites even claim ca.40 killed:
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Drugs Shipment Sparks Inter-Houthi Dispute in Yemen’s Saada
Over 40 members of the Iran-backed Houthi militias were killed over the weekend in internal fighting between rival factions over a drugs shipment, local sources in Yemen’s Saada province told Asharq Al-Awsat.
They said that the clashes erupted between gunmen loyal to Houthi leader Abdulmalek al-Houthi and others loyal to his uncle, Mohammed Abdulazem al-Houthi.
They explained that the Houthi leader ordered his gunmen from the al-Hmeidan and al-Qamadi districts to confront the transporters of the drugs shipment, which was seized by his uncle’s supporters.
The large shipment was loaded into a truck and was supposed to be smuggled into Saudi Arabia.
Heavy weapons, tanks and armored vehicles were used in the ensuing clashes. The majority of the casualties were from Abdulmalek al-Houthi’s faction.
Comment: If this article is true: The rest of the article evidently is propaganda bullshit.
And
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Rival Houthi factions battle for leadership in Yemen
Several dozens fighters were killed in the fighting: army spokesman
A quarrel over leadership led to fighting between rival Houthi factions in northwest Yemen on Saturday, reportedly leaving several dozen fighters dead.
The clashes continued into Sunday in the Magash district of Sada city, a stronghold of the rebel group which has controlled large parts of Yemen since 2014, according to a spokesman in the media centre of the Yemeni army in Sada governorate, where some pockets have been retaken by pro-government forces.
According to the spokesman, a Houthi religious figure named AbdulAdheem Al Houthi had challenged the movement’s leader Abdulmalik Al Houthi for leadership of the movement.
In return, supporters of the Houthi leader attacked homes Al Humaidan, an area affiliated with the religious leader AbdulAdheem.
The spokesman claimed dozens were also wounded in the fighting. Schisms within the Houthi movement have reportedly led to fighting in the past.
https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/rival-houthi-factions-battle-for-leadership-in-yemen-1.775924
(B P)
No Comment from UN on Kidnapping of Employees in Yemen
The fate of two relief employees in Yemen remains unknown, with the UN refusing to announce the kidnapping incident, reveal the names of those abducted or name the responsible parties.
Since September 8, Asharq Al-Awsat has been trying to contact Yemeni UN Humanitarian Coordinator Lise Grande to comment on the kidnapping. However, no response was made until the moment of preparing this report.
Yemen's human rights minister Mohamed Askar told Asharq Al-Awsat that he sends a plea to the world to intervene to rescue the UN staff from the hands of Houthi militias.
He said that the fact that Houthis have kidnapped employees providing humanitarian aid is a huge violation of international and humanitarian law.
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1411591/no-comment-un-kidnapping-employees-yemen
My comment: From Saudi media, facts or propaganda?
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Yemen's Houthi rebels step up persecution in paranoid Sana'a
The men from National Security Bureau were careful to blindfold Hisham al-Omeisy before they began beating him with metal chains in the dungeon basement.
Every few days they would drag him from his prison cell and hang by his handcuffed wrists from the ceiling, but they were always careful to make sure he could not see them.
“I didn’t see the faces of the men who were torturing me but I recognised their voices. I will never forget their voices,” the Yemeni political activist told the Sunday Telegraph.
Mr Omeisy spent months in the captivity of the Houthis, the Iranian-backed rebel group fighting a grinding three-year war of attrition against the Yemeni government and its Saudi allies.
As the Houthis have lost ground on the battlefield and fallen out with former allies, their rule over the Yemeni capital of Sana’a has become increasingly paranoid and repressive.
Political activists like Mr Omeisy have been targeted for detention and torture as well as the small Baha’i religious minority, who are loathed by the Houthis' Iranian allies.
According to human rights groups, Houthi agents run extortion rackets where they arrest people and demand money from prisoners’ families for their release. Amid widespread famine in Yemen, many of the families cannot afford to buy food let alone pay large ransoms.
Mr Omeisy, 39, was initially tolerated by the Houthis because most of his criticism on social media was focused on the Saudi-led military coalition.
But as Mr Omeisy stepped up his focus on the Houthis’ own corruption and brutality, they turned on him.
His captors held him for five months in an underground cell and accused him of being a spy for the US and a secret supporter of the Saudi-led coalition. He was brought out from the tiny cell only for beatings and interrogations.
“It felt like they were burying us alive,” he said. “You would scream and scream and no one would hear. You start talking to yourself and going crazy.”
Mr Omeisy was released in January amid widespread international pressure. The Houthis tried to place him under house arrest but he escaped the capital by car hiding under a rug at the feet of his wife and two young sons.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/30/yemens-houthi-rebels-step-persecution-paranoid-sanaa/
Hisham Al-Omeisy: I'm furious, aggravated, and in great pain. But buddy, vengeance is ugly. Seeking revenge will only entrap in a vicious cycle where I fear will become the monsters I despise. Better to channel energy towards helping & protecting others from being wronged in first place
https://twitter.com/omeisy/status/1046513044996726784
(A K P)
90 Coalition collaborators released in Sanaa
The men were arrested in several security checkpoints while trying to join the coalition's camps
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509843.htm
(A P)
Security forces arrest 6 collaborators of Saudi aggression coalition arrested in Bayda
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509767.htm
(A P)
Parliament continues to discuss public, private sectors partnership bill
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509784.htm
(A P)
Houthis launch ' vicious ' campaign to levy large taxes on small enterprises
The al-Houthi authorities have launched a vicious campaign to levy unfair taxes on small and medium-sized enterprises in the capital, Sana'a, and a number of cities under their control since the beginning of 2015.
The head of an institution in Sanaa told Al Masdar online, without preferring to clarify the identity of the institution for security reasons, that the Houthis are asking the institution to pay taxes over 50 million Yemeni riyals.
He recalled that the bulk of that amount is income taxes on employees which are deducted from the salaries of employees, and said: "they want us to pay exorbitant sums under the pretext of taxes they say it is our arrears since the establishment of the foundation ten years ago".
Sources in Sanaa told Al Masdar online that al-Houthi authorities require civil schools to pay taxes amounting to half a billion riyals, such as tax arrears on employees ' salaries.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158881
My comment: Apart from the simple facts, this is anti-Houthi propaganda. Just take: “Al-Houthi group also refrained from handing over the revenues of the areas under its control to the legitimate government in order to pay the salaries of the employees, after the Houthis had cut salaries on government sector employees in their areas of authority for nearly two years.“: Why the Houthi government should give its revenues and taxes to the concurrent Hadi government? Even in the 1950ies, the West german government never claimed that the East german government should pass its revenues and taxes to West Germany. - The Houthis did not "cut" the salaries, after 2 years of war, the Houthis (as the Hadi government) run out of funds. The Hadi government as well was not able to pay salaries any more. Just now, there is a strike at Hadramaut university because of lacking salaries. - The action which affected salaries most (after the war itself) was president hadi's foolish foundation of a concurrent Central Bank at Aden.
(A P)
Yemen: Houthis Block Release of Slain President Saleh's Sons
Houthi militias prevented an international plane from landing in Sanaa on Friday, said a Yemeni diplomatic source based in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The plane was expected to transport the sons of slain former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and some of his relatives outside Yemen.
According to reports, the United Nations commissioned a plane to take Salah and Moudin out of Yemen.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the source said the plane took off from Amman airport and headed to Sanaa, but Houthis prevented its landing and forced its return to Jordan.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158862
My comment: Fact or fiction? This could be Saudi propaganda against the UN attempt to re-open Sanaa airport for commercial and passenger flights.
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Yemen rebel court 'sentences Baha'i trio to death'
Three followers of the Baha'i faith in Yemen have reportedly been sentenced to death by a court controlled by the rebel Houthi movement.
The Baha'i community in the UK said the unnamed individuals had been convicted of espionage and apostasy.
They were being tried alongside 21 other people by a judge who sentenced a Baha'i man to death last January.
Baha'i representative Diane Alai said they had been "falsely and maliciously accused under absurd pretexts".
She urged the international community to "condemn these baseless actions in the strongest possible terms and call for the immediate release of all detained Baha'is".
In a speech in March, rebel leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi denounced the Baha'i faith as "satanic" and claimed it was "waging a war of doctrine" against Islam.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45709322
and as Houthi media put it, mentioning by no word the real background of this:
(A P)
3 collaborators with Saudi enemy state sentenced to death
The First Instance Court in the capital Sanaa on Saturday sentenced three defendants to death for collaborating with a foreign country and helping the enemy state.
The prosecution accused the first convict of seeking with Saudi Arabia, which is in a state of war and aggression against the Republic of Yemen, to recruit forty people and send them to Marib province to join Saudi-led aggression forces and their mercenaries to fight against the army and the popular committees.
The second and third convicts were accused of collaborating with Saudi Arabia through the disclosure of military information with aim of bombing military sites and causing damage to the country's defense force.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509722.htm
and
(A P)
Saudi-paid collaborator sentenced to death in Sanaa
A Saudi-paid collaborator was sentenced to death on Monday by judicial authorities in the capital Sana, an official told Saba.
The convicted Saleh Mohammed Ali Yahya al-Bakilay, was accused of communication with a foreign country and raising information to the Saudi-led coalition's fighter jets
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news510009.htm
(A P)
Security services in Amran arrest citizen accused of promoting a banned coin in Amran
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509623.htm
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
Siehe / Look at cp1
(A P)
Angry popular protests in Aden due to the collapse of the local currency and rising food prices, Where angry protesters closed a number of main streets in Sheikh Osman and Kriter and blocked traffic (photos)
https://twitter.com/Mukalla_Now_EN/status/1046835973554929665
(B P)
The Real Face of UAE in Southern Yemen
The real face of the UAE is being revealed in southern Yemen daily and the southerners are increasingly convinced by the reality of this force, despite the great services they have given them, in terms of body and land.
The UAE […] carried out a wide campaign of arrests for those who took part in the demonstrations that took place in Aden to demand better living conditions, stop the deterioration of the Yemeni currency exchange rate and burn pictures of officials of UAE and Saudi Arabia
“The South Today” site published pictures that show a number of southern wounded who were injured during the clashes in the West Coast, while being severely beaten by officers and forces of Abu Dhabi in Aden.
A number of UAE officers, soldiers and groups of armed factions , loyal to UAE, beat protesters with sticks, guns and rifle butts. The wounded were severely injured and were subjected to a wave of insults and verbal abuse before arresting many of them, it added.
http://www.yemenextra.net/2018/10/01/the-real-face-of-uae-in-southern-yemen/
Remark: From the Houthi side.
(A P)
Protests in Sayoon and paralysis in traffic and closure of shops
The city of Sayoon in Hadramawt province, southeast Yemen, on Monday witnessed protests due to deteriorating economic conditions and the collapse of the Yemeni rial.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Sayoon cities, raising banners denouncing the continued economic downturn, and demanding a halt to the collapse of the riyal.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158981
(A P)
Official Spokesman of Al-Anad Axis and Al-Shuraijah Front: Muslim Brotherhood Legitimacy Seeks to Overthrow Al-Omari
In a serious statement, Maher Abd Al-Hakeem Al-Halemi, official spokesman of Al-Anad axis and Al-Shuraijah front, indicated that legitimacy government and Reform party are seeking to overthrow General Fadl Hasan Al-Omari, commander of the fourth military zone.
Al-Halemi accused the legitimacy government with ignoring the fourth military zone from health care insurance of soldiers and officers while all other military zones are enjoying this service.
(A P)
Sheikh Hammoud Saeed al-Mekhlafi accuses Arab coalition of closing ports in the faces of Taiz wounded
Sheikh Hammoud Saeed al-Mekhlafi, leader of the popular resistance in Taiz, accused the Arab coalition of shutting down outlets in the face of wounded amputees in battles with the Houthi militia in Taiz province.
"The coalition has not provided anything for the wounded of Taiz, but has closed all the outlets in the faces of the wounded thank god," al- Mekhlafi said in remarks quoted by Yemen youth Channel, quoting the coalition's role in transporting wounded Taiz.
He noted that the Sultanate of Oman opened its doors to the wounded Taiz, and inhabited them in five star hotels and provided them with medical medication for the patients, and the Omani Minister of Health to measure the limbs of the wounded for processing in Amman and some countries if the wounded are not deported to India.
He said that the two planes had been equipped to transport the wounded to India if their passports were processed.
He also accused the presidency and the Government of ignoring the suffering of the wounded
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158909
(A P)
The administration of the Bir Ahmed prison in Aden frees seven detainees issued a previous order by the prosecutor to release
Sources for "Al Masdar online " said that the administration of Bir Ahmed Prison had released seven detainees, after a strike that lasted for the fourth day in prison by the detainees, who demanded the release of those issued with orders to release them, and the transfer of the remaining to the prosecution.
The prison chief continued for a long time to stall the release of the detainees, despite orders from the prosecutor's office weeks ago to release the detainees, the sources said.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158912
(B P)
Ahmed Ghalib: The crisis is greater than the Economic Commission and the Government and calls for urgent emergency intervention from our brothers
The crisis in Yemen is greater than the Economic Commission, the Government, and even the entire state, said Ahmed Ahmed Ghalib, economist and Economic Committee member.
In a post on his Facebook page, Ghaleb said, the crisis is not just economic, "economic, political, and security." "In the context of the fission of sovereign institutions and the incompatibility of policies that deal with one economy and one currency, any actions (other than direct intervention that the state lacks due to the lack of resources), however useful they are, can only be a matter of reform, if not beneficial," he added.
Explaining the depth of the problem, Ahmed Ghaleb said, "In short, the problem is that the State does not control its facilities, its sovereign resources, its handcuffed of any act, and the financial and monetary policy instruments are completely inoperative. The problem exacerbates the huge gap between resources and commitments and the supply and demand of foreign exchange. "
"Urgent emergency intervention by our brothers and lovers of Yemen, as we have seen with other brotherly countries, is better than us and does not suffer the war and destruction suffered by Yemen," he said, "and does not absolve the state and the government from rearranging their priorities and repairing many of the imbalances."
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158942
(A P)
Warnings about ceasing of the educational process at Hadramawt University after the teaching Staff Union announced a strike
The Faculty syndicate at Hadramawt University, southeast Yemen, began an open strike on Sunday to demand financial rights.
The Union calls for the payment of the delayed salaries and for overtime, as well as the rejection of the illegal deductions made by the university presidency from the entitlements of the teaching staff.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158941
My comment: While Hadi government propaganda blamed the Houthis for not paying state employees in the North…
(A P)
Tension between government forces and the pro-UAE elite in Ataq Shabwah
Security forces loyal to the Yemeni government sealed off Hunaish Street in the center of Ataq, the southeastern province of Shabwah, after the creation of new checkpoints of the UAE-backed al-Shabaniya elite forces in the middle of the city on Sunday morning.
A local official told Al-Masdar online that security tension between the security services (combined forces) and the elite forces of al- Shabaniya led to the closure of Hunaish Street, following the creation of new security points by the elite without coordination with the first.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158922
and
(A P)
Return of tension to Ataq with the creation of checkpoints Downtown by «al-Shabwania elite»
The pro-UAE elite forces set up security points in the center of Ataq, the southeastern province of Shabwah, hours after the security Committee decided to prevent any new points from being created in the City Centre.
The source noted that the "improvisational actions of the elite and its attempt to give me the arm of legitimacy and the imposition of fait accompli, will lead to internal strife and conflict."
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158971
and
(A P)
Military mediation end tensions between gov’t forces, Shabwani elite
A military mediation on Sunday managed to end tensions between gov’t forces and what sis called the Shabwani forces which are not under the government control.
Local sources told Alsahwa Net that the tension had resulted in the blocking of some main street of Ataq , the capital of Shabwah governorate.
They spelt out that the tensions broke out after the Shabwani forces created new checkpoints without any coordination with the security and military services.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-24154
Remark: , Shabwani elite forces: separatist militia.
(A H P)
Photo: “I'm not following to #Qatar or #Iran I am a southern citizen from Radfan And outside for the field because I'm hungry.“
https://twitter.com/Mukalla_Now_EN/status/1046428078875062274
(B P)
Alrrayan International Airport in Mukalla has been closed since 2015. Opened about a year ago but seemingly only for UAE citizens not Yemenis! Mukalla has been under the control of UAE since mid 2015
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1046671496184123392
(A E P)
Darkest in Aden: Al-Essa Prevent “Ryan” from Pumping its Diesel Cargo Allocated for Electricity
On Saturday September 29th, 2018, the tank ship “Ryan” pumped only half of its diesel cargo into tanks of Aden Refineries Co. This cargo is allocated for electric power stations in Aden. Sources in Aden Refineries indicated that direct orders of “Ahmed Saleh Al-Essa”, a businessman, indicated to pump only half of the cargo and postpone the rest till he gets his financial allocations from the government.
(B H)
Rahawa Alfalah Road in Yafia Sarar – Abian: Difficulties and Fantasies
Citizens of Hammah – Yafia Sarar, who live on top of its high mountains, insisted on digging their own road, with self-sustained efforts, among rough rocks, as their dreams were lost among false promises of the government from time to time to dig Rahawa Alfalah Road, the main life pipe for them.
Although the distance is very long and the area is rocky, citizens launched their galante campaign and managed to dig a considerable part of the road to decrease the distance, hoping that one day they can enjoy transportation that provide them with life necessities.
This road will link them with services provided in Sarar and Rasad on the other side of the governorate’s capital.
https://en.smanews.org/rahawa-alfalah-road-in-yafia-sarar-abian-difficulties-and-fantasies
(A P)
Tour Al-Baha… A revolution that Embraces the Skies
For the third week, Tour Al-Baha – Lahj sustains angry demonstrations against the corrupt government. On Saturday September 29th, 2018, citizens of Tour Al-Baha demonstrated again against policies of the corrupt government that led to deterioration of national currency in the face of US dollar. This is part of revolutionary escalation called for by the local leadership of the southern transitional council in this directorate against Ben Daghar’s government.
Demonstrators marched the streets of Tour Al-Baha yelling with angry slogans against this government and calling for its dismissal. Demonstrators also confirmed their support to the southern transitional council as a representative of the southern cause.
https://en.smanews.org/tour-al-baha-a-revolution-that-embraces-the-skies
(A P)
El embajador de Yemen en España se desentiende de la venta de 400 bombas a Arabia Saudí
[#Yemen's ambassador to #Spain is indifferent to the sale of 400 bombs to #SaudiArabia]
El embajador de Yemen en España, Nabil Jalid Maisery, no ha querido opinar sobre la venta de 400 bombas de alta precisión de España a Arabia Saudí, uno de los países que intervienen en el conflicto de Yemen. Maisery se ha desentendido del fuerte debate que se ha generado tanto en el Gobierno como en la opinión pública española sobre la posible utilización de este armamento contra la población civil yemení. "Respetamos los acuerdos entre España y Arabia Saudí y como país no nos corresponde opinar", afirmó ante la pregunta de EL MUNDO.es sobre este tema.
http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2018/09/25/5baa591eca4741fc0e8b4632.html and English text in image here: https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.961595153893515/1943398299046524/?type=3&theater
(B P)
Photos: This’s #Aden is the capital temporary city of #Yemen after 3 years of liberation from the #Houthi militia !! There is no security, no services, no salaries, no electricity and the sewage in all the streets flooded Thanks a lot to the Arab coalition & The international community
https://twitter.com/NajTV/status/1046302847451766784
(A P)
Yemen's ambassador to Jordan: The situation in Aden is no longer bearable
The Ambassador of Yemen in Jordan, Ali Ahmed al-Amrani, pointed fingers at one side--which he did not call—and the ones those who support it from behind responsible for assassinations in Aden, the temporary capital of Yemen, and said in his codification that the situation is no longer bearable as a result.
He said that the government of the Ahmed Ben-Dagher has not commented for a while on what is happening "does he still have difficulty even in practicing in Aden?".
"To whom it is concerned I say: this is unbearable and intolerable."
In his blog post on Facebook, he pointed out that this time the killer not only killed the victim and disappeared from sight but also stepped in his shoes. "The criminal started killing with patience and trampling the victim with confidence even that the temporary capital of Aden was liberated more than three years ago."
He concluded that "people have the right to ask, what liberation is this?"
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158927
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Film: See HOW UAE proxies assassinated this mosque leader in Aden south Yemen yesterday! His mane is Abdul Rehman Amrani. More than 30 mosque leaders were assassinated only in Aden city so far . All killed by UAE invaders. UAE call them ‘brotherhood’ !
https://twitter.com/narrabyee/status/1046346187207577600
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Southern Yemen witnesses a security fiasco
Abductees’ Mothers Association in the southern port city of Aden on Sunday called for revealing the fate of their sons and saving them from death in the UAE secret prisons.
After a protest in front of home of Interior Minister in Hadi’s government,loyal to the coalition, the association appealed to all local and international human rights organizations to save dozens of detainees in Bir Ahmed prison after they started an open hunger strike.
The association also held the government of Hadi and the UAE-backed paid fighters fully responsible for the lives and safety of detainees in the UAE prisons, calling for holding accountable those responsible for hiding and torturing their sons unjustly.
Elsewhere the Yemeni southern province of Dhalea, a prominent leader, loyal to Bin Dagher’s authority in Yemen’s Aden ,survived an assassination attempt as blast targeted his car .
Notably, Abdul Aziz Ghaleb Saeed, the leader of the so-called “the popular resistance” was subjected to an assassination attempt when an improvised explosive device went off in his car in the market of Maries district.
http://www.yemenextra.net/2018/09/30/southern-yemen-witnesses-a-security-fiasco/
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Yemeni minister demands Lebanon ends Hezbollah's support to Houthis
Hezbollah's illegal activity will prolong Yemen's war, Moammar Al Eryani said
Yemen's Infomation Minister called on the Lebanese government to stop Hezbollah supporting Houthi rebels, insisting the group's activity will prolong Yemen's war.
On Sunday evening, Moammar Eryani said that Hezbollah is providing the Houthis with logistical and military assistance, turning the Beirut's southern suburbs — known collectively as Dahiyah — into the location for media attacks on the Arab-led coalition.
"I call upon the Lebanese government and information minister to abide by the disassociation policy, to stop subversive and provocative activities," Mr Eryani said in a series of Tweets, referring to Hezbollah's activities.
The minister also demanded that Beirut must stop Houthi's Masirah TV broadcasting from the country.
"These illegal activities contribute to prolonging the war and Yemen's stability and the relations between the two countries," Mr Eryani said.
In August, Nasrallah voiced his support for the Houthi rebels by hosting a meeting with senior rebel political officials. He met with a delegation that included spokesman Mohamad Abdelsalam and council members Abdul Malik Al Ajri and Ibrahim Al Daylami.
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Security forces in Mukalla on the coast of Hadramout take the checkpoints in the city from the Hadrami elite forces, which handed over the checkpoints to the security forces and withdrew to be stationed outside the city (photo9
https://twitter.com/Mukalla_Now_EN/status/1045946249155956736
My comment: And a southern separatist flag: the Hadi government in control of nothing.
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Security forces in Aden arrested the most prominent leaders of two gangs involved in the events of the Cairo area of Aden, where armed clashes broke out between two groups, wounding two of the gangs, and the burning of 3 cars. (photo)
https://twitter.com/Mukalla_Now_EN/status/1045945238479679489
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Film: We are in dire need of access to our own resources for food & security
After 2 decades of north plundering south & an invasion that destroyed almost everything, today South is in need for its own resources to be reallocated back more than ever to feed & secure its people
"When the Houthis came to Aden, they came to kill us all"
https://twitter.com/Mukalla_Now_EN/status/1045979652085485568
Remark: separatists view of events.
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#Yemen former Vice PM: Coalition doesn’t want to defeat Houthis for [political] calculations. Some [coalition members] believe that if Houthis r gone, Islah will take over & they don’t want Islah. That is why there is no progress in Nehm & Taiz frontlines
Worth mentioning that Vice PM Abdulazeez Jabari resigned early this year in protest of coalition mismanagement of the war in #Yemen, citing that coalition treats Yemeni government as subordinate
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1046282196292685824 referring to https://twitter.com/RIMSAEED71/status/1046150451023015936
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Southern Resistance of Shabwa Threatens with Stopping Oil Exports
Commandership of the southern resistance in the four directorates discussed the suffering of Shabwa citizens because of governmental corruption and agreed on suitable solutions to stop influential personnel of the government from robbing the governorate’s revenuers and direct them instead to relieving the suffering of Shabwa citizens who are under severe negligence and marginalization from the government. The meeting reached several demands from the government and threatened with stopping oil exports from Al-Okla and Al-Oadi field that fill in Al-Nasheema tanks in case their demands are ignored. The following the statement issued by the meeting:
Because of difficult conditions in Shabwa because of high prices of foods and oil extracts in addition to the spread of epidemic in all directorates that led to several deaths and injuries while the government and local authority are completely absent, Shabwa is still suffering from severe negligence, marginalization and denial of its riches and rights that go to influential persons and interest-seekers. Shabwa suffered enough of these corrupt acts of the government that is robbing its riches while citizens are dying of thirst and hunger.
https://en.smanews.org/southern-resistance-of-shabwa-threatens-with-stopping-oil-exports
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Al-Gaadi Heads a Human Aids Commission to Al-Azarek – Al-Dalia
Al-Gaadi said: “According to directions of leadership of the southern transitional council represented in president Al-Zubaidi and vice president Sheikh Hany Ben Brik, the council will support Al-Azarek with one million Saudi Riyals to save 3300 families and face malnutrition in this area”.
https://en.smanews.org/al-gaadi-heads-a-human-aids-commission-to-al-azarek-al-dalia
My comment: Southern separatists caring for public services and humanitarian aid, while the government fails.
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Cases of fainting among detainees in Bir Ahmed prison in Aden after hunger strike
Four detainees of Bir Ahmed prison in the southern Yemeni city of Aden were injured by a hunger strike.
Detainees in Bir Ahmed prison are demanding that the authorities release those who have been ordered to release from the public Prosecutor's Office, and to transfer the remainder to the prosecution or to remove them for unlawful arrest.
According to sources for Al Masdar online, four detainees were reported to have been unconscious because of their hunger strike for the third consecutive day.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158859
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Al-Ahmar continues his visit to Sa'dah in his fourth day and inspects the port of land Boq’a with Saudi Arabia
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158943
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For the third day.. Al-Ahmar continues his visit to Sa'dah and says it is a province "never was and will not be Houthi"
Vice-President Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh continued his visits to the al-Houthi stronghold of Sa'ada Governorate to inspect the military and combat operations of government forces against the Houthi militia.
Mohsen inspected the troops at the A’leb axis in Sa'dah Governorate.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158887
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-24116
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-24073
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Exiled president Hadi who can't control a small town in #Yemen has ordered to implement federalism in accordance with "dead outcomes" of 2013 national dialog conference. Is our president using hashish?! Yemen is run by UAE, Saudi Arabia & their militias, Houthis & Qaeda. No Govt.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1046058988071276551
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Activists have published videos of assassinations in #Aden. Assassins appeared clearly in some videos, but no one has been arrested. First things that comes to mind when you watch a video is "killers are well-trained" which could confirm involvement of UAE-backed militias.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1046234999626903555
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Griffith: The world must move quickly to save Yemen from the worst humanitarian crisis
United Nations special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths on Monday called for urgent international action to halt the worsening of the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
This came in dialogue with BBC Arabic television while in New York, after meeting with most of the key players in the Yemen War.
Griffiths said he was encouraged by the international response to a warning of the United Nations of looming famine, and said that it had focused minds on the urgent need for peace talks.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158972
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Film: Can the UN revive talks to end the Yemen war?
Key players voice support but previous attempts to resolve the three-year conflict have ended in disappointment.
The United Nations' latest attempt to bring the warring sides in the Yemen conflict to the table failed last week when Houthi rebels did not make it to Geneva, blaming travel restrictions.
But the UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, has refused to give up and is hopeful that a new round of talks can now take place.
Presenter: Adrian Finighan; Guests: Hussain Al Bukhaiti - journalist based in the Yemeni capital Sanaa; Andreas Krieg - assistant professor at the King's College London's Defence Studies department; Sabah Al-Khozai - lecturer at City of Bristol College, UK
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2018/09/revive-talks-yemen-war-180930175856943.html = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoqKRFPb9MI = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bMlnf85t6U
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Film. The special envoy to Yemen makes it clear that he was threatened by both sides, the Houthi and Hadi's government, that they would walk if he brings the Southern Issue to the table.. !!
https://twitter.com/AhmedBinFareed1/status/1046500606893084673
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Mission des Menschenrechtsrats: Unerwünscht auf Jemens Schlachtfeldern
Saudi-Arabien versuchte im Menschenrechtsrat in Genf die weitere Untersuchung zu stoppen. Vergeblich. Die Arbeit des Expertenteams der UNO in Jemen kann weitergehen, für vorerst ein Jahr. So die Resolution, die mit den Stimmen vor allem westlicher Länder in Genf verabschiedet wurde
Melissa Parke ist eine der Expertinnen. «This is a very good outcome», also ein sehr gutes Ergebnis, sagt die Australierin.
Saudi-Arabien und die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate führen im Jemenkrieg eine Militärkoalition an. Sie werfen dem Expertenteam des Menschenrechtsrats vor, es sei voreingenommen, berücksichtigte in seinem Bericht nicht die Verantwortung der Gegenseite, der Houthi-Rebellen und des Irans, der die Houthis unterstützt.
Parke weist den Vorwurf zurück. Es sei nicht ihre Rolle gewesen, nach den Ursachen des Konflikts zu fragen oder politisch Verantwortliche dafür zu benennen. Sie hätten gefragt, ob die Kriegsgegner verhältnismässig vorgingen, im Kampf die Zivilbevölkerung genügend schützten.
Der Befund ist niederschmetternd. Keine der Kriegsparteien in Jemen bemühe sich ernsthaft, Zivilisten zu schützen.
Die Jemen-Mission kann nun weitergehen, so entschied es der Menschenrechtsrat. Allerdings hatten die Experten bisher Zugang zum Kriegsgebiet, beide Seiten kooperierten.
Nun, wo die saudisch geführte Koalition die Erkenntnisse so scharf verurteilt, könnte der Zugang, trotz verlängertem Mandat, deutlich schwieriger werden, befürchtet Melissa Parke.
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Saudi Arabia, allies slam 'biased' UN resolution on Yemen
Saudi-led coalition denounces UN resolution that renews a UN-backed investigation of alleged war crimes in Yemen
Saudi Arabia and key allies have denounced as "biased" a resolution that renewed a UN-backed investigation of alleged war crimes in Yemen, where Riyadh leads a coalition battling Shiite rebels.
The condemnation was issued in a joint statement released late Friday by the Riyadh-backed Yemen government, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.
It comes after the UN Human Rights Council voted to extend an international probe of alleged war crimes committed in Yemen by both the Saudi-led coalition and the Shiite Huthi rebels.
"We are left with a resolution which is biased, and which clearly contradicts the clear mandate laid out by the United Nations Security Council," said the joint statement.
Rights council members voted in favour of the resolution in Geneva on Friday by 21 to 8, with 18 abstentions.
Saudi Arabia and its allies bemoaned what they said was the council's "failure to achieve consensus".
"In particular, we are disappointed that certain member states failed to consider the real and legitimate concerns of those states who are most affected by the situation in Yemen," their joint statement said.
The resolution showed "disregard for Yemen's sovereign right to give its consent to cooperate with international resolutions that deal directly with the human rights situation on its own territory", it added.
My comment: Earlier reporting, Yemen War Mosaic 463, cp7. – The resolution simply extends the mandate of the fact-finding mission for investigating war crimes and human rights violations in Yemen. It’s simply the greatest perpetrators had tried to bully this mission down. And this did not work in this case.
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No, Saudi Arabia, it's not the UN's investigation of your war crimes (bombing and starving civilians) that will "deepen divisions in Yemen and regional instability," it's your war crimes.
https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1045999843364282369
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No cooperation with UN experts: Yemen govt
The Yemeni legitimate government announced on Saturday that it will “not cooperate” with the United Nations team of experts after the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted Friday to extend the mandate of the investigation mission.
The Yemeni government said in a statement that it will “not cooperate with the group in terms of its right as a member state of the United Nations against interference in its internal affairs.”
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/544462/World/Mena/No-cooperation-with-UN-experts-Yemen-govt
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Government: Division the Human Rights Council will reduce the effectiveness of its decisions in the future
The Division of the United Nations Human Rights Council and the vote in favor of the Dutch resolution, which provides for an extension of the work of the Committee of Experts in Yemen, will diminish the effectiveness of the Council's future decisions, said the Minister of Human Rights.
But human rights minister Mohamed Askar did not mention that the decisions of the Council would be binding on Yemen or not, following the split that emerged in the vote for the resolution on Yemen.
The split was evident in the adoption by the Human Rights Council of the resolution submitted by a group of Western countries, which was passed with the approval of less than half the members of the Council, the state news agency Saba quoted Askar as saying.
It was surprising that those countries had ignored the Yemeni government's efforts to reach a consensual formula that reflected the international community's unity towards the situation in Yemen.
"We, together with the entire Arab State group, are committed to putting forward its draft resolution under item 10 of the agenda of the Human Rights Council, which calls on the Office of the High Commissioner to continue providing technical assistance and capacity-building to the government and the Yemeni National Commission of Inquiry, which has won unanimous Member States of the Council. "
Askar noted that since the beginning of the report of the team of Eminent experts, the Ministry of Human Rights has formed a competent team to respond to it after rebuttal, a government response was provided in 18 papers and registered as an official document in the Human Rights Council.
The reply had been made clear that the report was unfair and biased, and that the standards of professionalism, impartiality, and neutrality had been set out, and the crimes and serious violations committed by the Houthis in the area of human rights and the international humanitarian law had been overlooked
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158867
My comment: This again shows what this Hadi government actually is: Saudi puppets. A Yemeni government backing the most horrific perpetrator in Yemen – by odd argumentation.
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UAE criticizes vote to continue UN Team of Experts
UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gergash wrote on his Twitter account that “The Human Rights Council resolution on Yemen was divided and the traditional consensus was negated, due to the unbalanced report and methodological inaccuracies."
"Any future reports will be controversial and unilateral," Gergash said in his report.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158860
My comment: They simply want to act unwatched.
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Al-Houthi welcomes Human Rights Council resolution to extend the work of investigative experts in Yemen
An official source with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Houthis (not recognized) said that the Houthis ' authorities confirm "its commitment to the formation of an independent international commission of Inquiry, but it welcomes any independent and impartial international effort aimed at exposing the violations and crimes committed by the forces of aggression led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE."
The source expressed thanks and appreciation to the Member States of the Human Rights Council, which adopted and voted in favor of the draft resolution
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158879
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In a tweet for Head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee - Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi :
'The UN envoy to #Yemen Martin Griffiths in an interview with Al Jazeera channel:
"Do not wage wars for me, I'm here to stop the war"
A very strong slap to the US-Saudi aggression countries and its allies in Yemen.'
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.963391330380564/1940475002672187/?type=3
cp7a Saudi-Arabien und Iran / Saudi Arabia and Iran
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Interview zum Anschlag in Ahvaz: Saudi-Arabien exportiert den Krieg in den Iran
Im Gespräch mit RT Deutsch hat der Iran-Experte Ramazan Bursa, der regelmäßig als Journalist in der Islamischen Republik ist, über die Auswirkungen und Hintergründe des Anschlags in Ahvaz gesprochen. Er warnte vor einem neuen Krieg, ausgehend von Saudi-Arabien.
Am 22. September fand in Ahvaz, der Provinzhauptstadt der iranischen Provinz Chuzestan, ein Anschlag gegen eine Militärparade statt. Was sind die Gründe dafür und warum wurde gerade eine Stadt mit einer großen arabischen Minderheitsbevölkerung ausgesucht?
Das hat zwei Gründe. Terroristische Organisationen entscheiden durchaus strategisch bei der Auswahl ihrer Ziele. So verüben sie spezielle Terroranschläge zu Ehren ihrer Jahrestage oder an einem Todestag, den sie für symbolisch halten. Wir beobachten das Verhalten bei vielen militanten Organisationen.
Zweitens, spielt der Krieg Saudi-Arabiens und der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate im Jemen gegen die Huthis eine Rolle, die beide nicht so recht Erfolg haben bei ihren Angriffen. Seit drei Jahren halten sich die beiden Länder allerdings nicht zurück, die roten Linien im Jemen tagtäglich zu brechen und mit Füßen zu treten. Beide Länder wollen Iran für den Krieg bluten lassen und versuchen dafür, die Minderheiten zu instrumentalisieren.
In einer Erklärung vor rund einem Jahr verwendete Saudi-Arabiens Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman die Äußerung, dass Riad den Krieg in den Iran tragen werde. Mit einem Angriff von der Qualität wie in Ahvaz sehen wir erste Zeichen der konkreten saudischen Einmischung.
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Saudi economist who criticized Aramco IPO charged with terrorism: activists
Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has charged a man, identified by activists as a prominent economist who once criticized plans to float shares of Saudi Aramco, with joining a terrorist organization and meeting with foreign diplomats.
Local media, including Arabic-language newspaper Okaz, reported on Monday that the accusations include membership of the banned Muslim Brotherhood as well as communicating with neighboring Qatar and inciting protests inside Saudi Arabia.
The reports did not name the suspect, but a personal friend, London-based Saudi rights group ALQST, and a network of activists dedicated to monitoring and documenting people they describe as “prisoners of conscience” confirmed his identity.
“They meant Essam al-Zamil,” ALQST’s Yahya al-Assiri told Reuters.
Zamil has been detained since Sept. 2017 along with dozens of intellectuals and clerics in a crackdown on potential opponents of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose ambitious economic reform program centered on selling up to five percent of the state-owned Aramco oil company.
In a series of social media posts before his arrest, Zamil said the $2 trillion valuation for Aramco suggested by Prince Mohammed would require the authorities to include the company’s oil reserves in the sale.
My comment: You see up to which degree oppression in Saudi Arabia goes.
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Photos: HRH Prince Mohammed bin Salman chairs the coalition forces briefing on #Yemen operations at the Southern Military Sector.
https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/1046427150730039296
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Saudi Arabia embraces yoga in pivot towards 'moderation'
Widely perceived as a Hindu spiritual practice, yoga was not officially permitted for decades in Saudi Arabia
But with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman vowing an "open, moderate Islam", the kingdom last November recognised yoga as a sport amid a new liberalisation drive that has sidelined religious hardliners.
Spearheading efforts to normalise yoga in the kingdom is Nouf Marwaai, a Saudi woman who has battled insults and threats from extremists to challenge the notion that yoga is incompatible with Islam.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-arabia-embraces-yoga-pivot-towards-moderation-043557182.html
Comment: I wish Saudis all the best with yoga: May Salman and MBS unblock all their many jammed chakras.
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046289459434672128
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More than 100 Speakers for Future Investment Initiative 2018 in Riyadh
The Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) on Thursday announced more than 100 global investors, CEOs and disruptive innovators who will speak at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) 2018, which begins in Riyadh on Oct. 23.
Focusing on three core themes — investing in transformation, technology as opportunity, and advancing human potential — the three-day event will explore a number of subjects, including how leaders from business and government can develop a collective vision for the future, how venture capital is changing the future of innovation, and how immersive technology is changing the way we live, work and create.
FII is a global platform focused on identifying future trends and opportunities, defining the future of industries and discussing how investment can contribute to overall global prosperity and development. FII speakers will shed light on the most pertinent trends shaping the global investment landscape.
My comment: While the war next door in Yemen does not matter.
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Saudi shelves $200 billion SoftBank Solar project: WSJ
Saudi Arabia has shelved a $200 billion plan with SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) to build the world’s biggest solar-power-generation project, the Wall Street journal reported on Sunday, citing Saudi government officials.
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Saudi Crown Prince arrives in Kuwait for talks
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Kuwait on Sunday, state media reported, amid expectation that he will discuss oil supplies and a Kuwaiti mediation effort to resolve Saudi Arabia’s conflict with Qatar.
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East Africa: Arab Gulf States in the Horn of Africa - What Role Do They Play?
Ethiopia and Eritrea didn't pen their peace agreement in Addis Ababa or Asmara, but in Saudi Arabia with the Emirates alongside. Are economic and military interests increasingly binding Gulf states and the Horn together?
According to analysts, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are jointly positioning themselves as the major power houses among the the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
Alex de Waal, who runs the World Peace Foundation think tank at Tufts University in the US, sees Saudi Arabia's push for economic dominance as a method of security.
"About 10 years ago the Saudis began developing plans for a Red Sea fleet and controling the Red Sea," he told DW. "Part of the reason for that was the fear that if the Iranians were to block the Strait of Hormuz [waterway exit from the Persian Gulf between Iran and the UAE], the Saudis would need an alternative outlet for their oil. So they started constructing pipelines and oil refineries on the Red Sea coast, therefore needing security at both ends of the Red Sea."
Elizabeth Dickinson, an analyst on the Arabian Peninsula with the International Crisis Group, also thinks the Saudi Kingdom is stepping up its international political involvment. "Saudi Arabia is a major donor and sees Africa as a new diplomatic priority."
The analyst sees the Emirates as acting in a similar vein. "The UAE has positioned itself as a major potential investor in logistics, ports, and trade development," she explains.
In August 2018, Ethiopia announced that the UAE had plans to invest in an oil pipeline between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201809240210.html
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Saudi Arabia eyes Ethiopian hydropower link to cut reliance on oil and gas
The Gulf Cooperation Council’s grid operator is studying the feasibility of a cable to Ethiopia, which would run through currently war-torn Yemen
The Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Agency (GCCIA) is studying the feasibility of a cable – which would pass through currently warn-torn Yemen – as part of efforts to reduce reliance on oil and gas for power generation.
Connections with Africa and Europe, as well as homegrown renewable energy projects, will help to save petroleum for export, GCCIA chief executive Ahmed Ali Al-Ebrahim told Climate Home News.
cp9 USA
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Beautiful comic on the impact of bombings by US drones in #Yemen. Important we don't forget the USA's long involvement in destabilising many countries for their own short-term gain. Written by @battgirl74 Laura Silvia Battaglia & drawn by @channeldraw Gianluca Costantini (images)
https://twitter.com/SamWalton/status/1046348186779045889
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Trump Gets Oil Traders' Attention Over Call With Saudi King
Donald Trump spoke on the phone Saturday with King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, days after the U.S. president’s latest criticism of OPEC over high oil prices.
The pair discussed efforts to maintain supplies to ensure the stability of the oil market and growth of the global economy, plus the strategic partnership between the two countries, Al Arabiya TV reported, without providing more details. The White House said Trump and the King spoke on “issues of regional concern.”
Hedge funds are watching Trump’s back-and-forth with the kingdom for any signs that the U.S. might take action against the country or other members who belong to the cartel.
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Trump criticises US aid to Saudi Arabia
US President Donald Trump has questioned the feasibility of his country’s military aid to “armies of rich countries” naming Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Korea.
“Why do we provide aid to armies of rich countries like Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Korea? They will pay us, the problem is that no one is demanding,” Trump said.
The US president revealed that he has raised this issue during a telephone call with Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, according to AFP.
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said the pair had “discussed the distinguished relations [between the two nations] and ways to develop them in the light of the strategic partnership between the two countries, as well as discussed developments in the region and the world”.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181001-trump-criticises-us-aid-to-saudi-arabia/
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U.S. #Marines with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), guide ordnance toward an F-35B Lightning II aboard the USS Essex (LHD 2) in the #GulfofAden (photo)
https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1046449643859709954
Comment: U.S. F-35 fighter jets loading up bombs & missiles in the Gulf of Aden, off #Yemen.... not for the Somali pirate brothers, I sense.
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046451955688722432
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Trump pushing Saudi Arabia to buy more US weapons
US President Donald Trump has called on Saudi Arabia to increase its military spending, with an eye on more weapons sales to the "rich" kingdom.
Speaking at a campaign rally in West Virginia on Saturday, Trump said he had complained that Washington was not getting what it should from Saudi Arabia during a phone conversation with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Trump said he had told King Salman that Riyadh has "trillions of dollars" and could pay its military bills.
"I love Saudi Arabia. They are great, King Salman, I spoke with him this morning. I said, king, you have got trillions of dollars. Without us, who knows what’s going to happen. .... With us they are totally safe. But we don’t get what we should be getting," he said.
Trump further threatened to end what he claimed to be subsidies for the Saudi military.
"We are subsidizing their military. I said let me ask you a question. Why are we subsidizing the military — it’s one thing if a country is in deep trouble and in danger," he noted. "I said 'Saudi Arabia, you are rich, you have got to pay for your military. You have got to pay for your military, sorry'."
http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2018/09/30/575614/Donald
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Film: ‘Stop the War!’ – Yemeni-Americans Condemn Trump and Saudi Arabia Outside UN
Yemeni-Americans called for an end to the US-Saudi war on their home, at a protest outside the United Nations General Assembly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrnNLDEsGI
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Where Does Our Attention Belong: Kavanaugh or Yemen?
Washington continues to supply the Saudis with the weapons to target school buses and the diplomatic support to protect the criminal Saudi regime from war crimes charges. The European cowards turn their heads. Even Russia is silent.
Putin’s “partnership” with the criminal state of Saudi Arabia is more important.
Isn’t this a far greater offense, an offense that most definitely does not lack evidence, than the accusation that Kavanaugh, a nominee to the US Supreme Court attempted to rape a women 30 or 40 years ago, for which there is no evidence, only accusation, an accusation that the female defense atttorney who questioned for the Senate committee the woman claiming abuse found insufficient for an indictment.
The real question before the American people is why are they, the media, the government, MeToo feminists, the Identity Politics Democrats and liberal-progressive-left, and conservatives stone silent while Washington enables Saudia Arabia to murder the Yemeni people to the point that Yemenis have to eat leaves in a desperate attempt to survive.
Clearly, the American idiots have no idea whatsoever what a moral issue is – by Paul Craig Roberts
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/28/where-does-our-attention-belong-kavanaugh-or-yemen/ = https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-29/paul-craig-roberts-where-does-our-attention-belong-kavanaugh-or-yemen
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More Democrats Sign On to Stop Yemen War, But is Enough Being Done?
With 23 co-sponsors for a new measure that would withdraw U.S. forces from the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, Rep. Ro Khanna says that ending the war is “now a mainstream position within the Democratic Party.” Bill co-sponsor Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee discusses the measure and whether Democrats are using all levers at their disposal
ADAM SMITH: I do not agree with Secretary Pompeo’s conclusion, and I said so the instant he put out that statement. Look, if Donald Trump wasn’t president, this would be a lot easier. You know, we are pushing back against people who disagree with the agenda that we are pushing. But we’re going to keep pushing, because it is as important, as you just described, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is devastating. The people who are being impacted is overwhelming. It won’t be enough to just get the U.S. to stop backing Saudi Arabia in the way that we are. Much more will need to be done. But we’re going to keep working on it. But yeah absolutely. Right now, you know, the White House is not sympathetic to what we’re trying to do. The Republican Congress is not sympathetic to what we’re trying to do. And they’re blocking it.
Donald Trump has tripled the number of bombings that have been done under the AUMF since he took over from President Obama. And the number of civilian casualties, not just in Yemen, but in, you know, in Syria, in Iraq, in Somalia, in Libya, in other places has, also. I think that aggressive military approach that the President is taking is dead wrong, and I’m going to keep speaking out against it and keep doing everything I can to change the policy. But again, he’s the president. I can’t just walk down there and say hey, would you stop this? And he says yeah, sure. We gotta push.
That’s why the support that I’ve gotten from my constituents, the letter-writing campaign, the publicity they’re bringing to this, this is all part of an effort to put pressure on the key decision makers to get them to change their minds. And as you mentioned, we’ve expanded the number of cosponsors of this bill. So we’ve made some progress, but we are nowhere near where we need to be. I do not disagree with that at all.
I think the pressure is increasing. And the pressure is increasing because, frankly, news agencies like yours and others who are bringing attention to exactly what is going on and how completely unacceptable it is. But you know, I can’t predict what Paul Ryan is going to do, what Mitch McConnell is going to do, where they’re going to be. I just think we need to ramp up the pressure to try to make him shift their policy (film and transcript)
https://therealnews.com/stories/more-democrats-sign-on-to-stop-yemen-war-but-is-enough-being-done
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Explaining how Trump broke away from facts in his UN speech
What Trump said: "The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar have pledged billions of dollars to aid the people of Syria and Yemen, and they are pursuing multiple avenues to ending Yemen's horrible, horrific civil war."
The facts: This is misleading.
Mr Trump is right that the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have contributed funds to ease humanitarian crises in Syria and Yemen. But his comment glosses over the three countries' roles in Yemen's civil war.
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
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Guest Writer: How many more massacres are needed before Britain ends its arms sales?
“Unjustified” was the word that the Saudi-led coalition eventually used to describe its bombing of a school bus in Yemen in August. It was a typically cold and understated response to a bombing campaign that has created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
In 2016, after months of denial, the Saudi military had to admit that it had used UK-made cluster bombs. The bombs, which had been sold to the Kingdom in the 1980s, would now be banned by the cluster munitions convention.
Such arms sales are opposed overwhelmingly by the British public, with the most recent polling showing that only 13 per cent of people in the UK support arms sales to the Saudi military.
At the outbreak of the war, the then Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, pledged that Britain would “support the Saudis in every practical way short of engaging in combat.” That support has been unwavering, with the government having licensed almost £5 billion worth of fighter jets, missiles and bombs in the years that have followed.
The approach of offering fawning and uncritical support in exchange for arms sales was summed up last year by the then Defence Minister, Michael Fallon. In an appearance in front of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, he urged MPs not to criticise the Saudi government’s human rights record and the conduct of the war in Yemen in case it impacted on them. “Criticism of Saudi Arabia in this parliament is not helpful,” he said, while stressing the need to secure the Eurofighter deal.
The message this sends to the Saudi government is one of total support. However, the one that it sends to the people of Yemen is that their lives are of less consequence than profits for BAE Systems and the other arms companies that have profited from the war. As Radhya Al-Mutawakel, Director of the Yemen-based Mwatana for Human Rights, has observed, UK policy “reflects the triumph of economic interests over the blood of innocent people.”
Every time these terrible atrocities take place we are assured by ministers that they are aberrations or mistakes.
When the history books are written they will remember who inflicted the terrible war, and those who have allowed it to happen – by Adrew Smith
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Fears over 'sinister influence' of Yemen-linked arms firm in Scottish schools
AN arms firm is offering World War One history lessons for schools prompting fears that defence multinationals are having an increasing and “sinister” influence in Scotland’s classrooms.
BAE Systems is Britain’s largest defence company and the third largest arms firm in the world, with 95% of its business military-related.
The company has visited more than 400 schools across the UK and produced lessons for children as young as seven years old, prompting critics to describe its access as a “moral disgrace”.
Other arms multinationals teaching children include Leonardo, Thales and US company Raytheon, which has made smart bombs in Fife linked to alleged war crimes in Yemen.
An aim of Scottish Enterprise – the Scottish Government’s business arm – is to increase the aerospace, defence, marine and security sectors in Scotland by between six and 10% by 2020.
A key part of the strategy is to encourage more young people to choose careers in science, technology, engineering and maths, aka STEM.
But critics of the arms trade have questioned the motives of arms dealers teaching children, claiming they are trying to sanitise war in the pursuit of profit and that it is a “moral disgrace” to allow them into classrooms.
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While the UK arms child-killers, Jeremy Hunt pretends the government supports a ‘political process’ in Yemen
UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt just urged “allies to commit to Yemen peace process”. And at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 27 September, he hosted international partners to “press for a peaceful solution to the crisis”. An official video posted by the foreign office, meanwhile, added that “Britain is leading diplomatic efforts to end the crisis”.
It’s unclear how Hunt kept a straight face, though. Because while he pretends that the UK government supports a ‘political process’ in Yemen, Britain is still arming Saudi Arabia to the teeth – in spite of numerous war crime allegations.
Talking to Kay Burley of Sky News, Hunt claimed that the crisis in Yemen “is not going to be solved with a military solution” and that “there has to be a political process”. And he’s right. But these are strange words given that the UK has supplied Saudi Arabia with more than £4.6bn worth of arms since 2015 – a period during which the country has committed “horrific war crimes” in Yemen, including massacres of children and other civilians.
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Yemen’s Crisis and Britain’s Cynical Propaganda
But while British officials leap to conclusions about the imaginary Iranian hand in this ruinous war, they are far more coy about their own - just like their American partners.
For instance, UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt this week urged “allies to commit to Yemen peace process”. At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 27 September, he hosted international partners to “press for a peaceful solution to the crisis”. And an official video posted by the foreign office claimed that “Britain is leading diplomatic efforts to end the crisis”.
Even British media outlets wondered: how did Hunt keep a straight face? While he pretends that the UK government supports a ‘political process’ in Yemen, the UK is still arming Saudi Arabia to the teeth. In other words, this is not going to be solved with a military solution, but the UK and other Western governments will keep arming the Saudi murderers anyway.
Hunt claimed that the crisis in Yemen “is not going to be solved with a military solution” and that “there has to be a political process”. And he’s right. But these are strange words given that the UK has supplied Saudi Arabia with more than £4.6bn worth of arms since 2015 – a period during which the Saudi regime and allies have committed horrific war crimes in Yemen, including massacres of children and other civilians.
At the UN, Hunt provided little reassurance to those worried that the Saudis might not be held accountable for murdering civilians. He said, “I spoke to the Saudi Arabian foreign minister in the strongest possible terms. They are having an investigation. They will hold the individuals responsible to account.”
Unsurprisingly, past Saudi-led investigations have found Saudi Arabia to be innocent.
And yet the UK government shows no signs of ending arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970707001462
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
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Rüstungsexporte an Saudi-Arabien
Trotz der Beteiligung Saudi-Arabiens am Jemen-Krieg hat die neue Bundesregierung seit ihrer Vereidigung im März Rüstungsexporte für 254 Millionen Euro an das Königreich genehmigt.
An die anderen acht Länder des von Saudi-Arabien geführten Bündnisses gingen im vergangenen halben Jahr Rüstungsgüter für 21,8 Millionen Euro. Insgesamt wurden 87 Einzelgenehmigungen für die Mitglieder der Allianz erteilt.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/trotz-jemen-konflikt-ruestungsexporte-an-saudi-arabien.1939.de.html
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Saudi-Arabien erhält Rüstungsgüter für 255 Millionen Euro
Die große Koalition will eigentlich keine Rüstungsexporte in Länder mehr erlauben, die im Jemen Krieg führen. Doch die Praxis sieht anders aus
Der Satz im Koalitionsvertrag von Union und SPD wirkt so eindeutig wie entschlossen. Zum Thema Rüstungsexporte heißt es: „Wir werden ab sofort keine Ausfuhren an Länder mehr genehmigen, solange diese unmittelbar am Jemen-Krieg beteiligt sind.“
Doch bei dieser Entschlossenheit blieb es nicht. Seit ihrem Amtsantritt im März hat die Bundesregierung bereits Rüstungsexporte nach Saudi-Arabien in einem Gesamtwert von etwa 255 Millionen Euro genehmigt.
Nouripour verwies auf das Leid der Menschen im Jemen und kritisierte die Rüstungsexportpolitik der großen Koalition: „Es ist nicht auszuhalten, wie Reden und Handeln der Bundesregierung auseinanderfallen“, sagte der Grünen-Politiker. „Die Groko ist moralisch bankrott.“ Die Linken-Bundestagabgeordnete Sevim Dagdelen warf der Bundesregierung vor, sie sei durch die Exportgenehmigungen für Saudi-Arabien „mitverantwortlich für Kriegsverbrechen und Hungerblockade der saudischen Militärs im Jemen“.
und auch https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Deutschland-ruestet-Saudi-Arabien-weiter-auf-article20648884.html
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Film: Rüstungsexporte in Millionenhöhe
Trotz der Beteiligung Saudi-Arabiens am Jemen-Krieg hat die neue Bundesregierung seit ihrer Vereidigung Rüstungsexporte von mehr als 250 Millionen Euro an das Königreich genehmigt.
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Germany exports $295 million-worth of arms to Saudi Arabia despite Yemen involvement
Despite criticism of Saudi Arabia's participation in the conflict in Yemen, the German government has approved arms exports worth 254 million euros ($295 million) to the kingdom since it took up office in March.
The other eight countries involved in the Yemen conflict as part of the Saudi-led alliance received arms worth 21.8 million euros from Germany in the last half-year, according to Economy Ministry figures supplied in response to a parliamentary question from the opposition Greens.
Between March 14 and Sept. 23, the government approved 87 export permits for the members of the alliance, according to the figures seen by the German Press Agency (dpa) on Monday
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Film: Lukratives Geschäft, fragwürdige Kunden: In diese Krisenregionen verkauft Deutschland Waffen
Die Türkei führt in Syrien Krieg gegen die kurdische Minderheit, Saudi-Arabien zerbombt den Jemen und die Stabilität Algeriens steht auf der Kippe - all diese Krisen haben eins gemein: deutsche Waffen. Für die wiederholt genehmigten, lukrativen Exporte erntet die Regierung Kritik.
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
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The UAE experience: wonderland at home, war abroad
The Emirates is an oasis of materialism in a region mired by poverty, war and human suffering. Can the UAE continue exporting war while flaunting garish opulence at home?
Even the very worst autocratic civilisations of antiquity could not have produced such a filthily opulent spectacle as this, but, as ever with the repugnant splendour of the UAE, the media of the petrostate remained blissfully bereft of self-awareness as they pushed this as yet another triumphant moment for their country.
But this is not a case of mere rich ignorance. One ought not to think of the UAE as the Marie Antoinette of the world – it’s far more malign than that.
Though Saudi gets most of the blame for the interrelated catastrophes of war and famine that are currently engulfing Yemen, the UAE plays a role almost equal to and even, in some ways, worse than Saudi in this.
The UAE is a key part of the Saudi coalition’s air campaign against the Houthis
It’s not even just the case that the UAE merely takes part in this war, but it actively seeks to prolong this suffering for its own selfish ends.
The UAE, as with its huge financial support for Sisi’s brutal counter-revolution in Egypt, wants to avert any Islamic force that advocates democracy gaining power. Thus they have little interest in peace emerging in Yemen any time soon.
They would much rather keep the country in a state of terminal division while sensing an opportunity to cultivate a vassal state in the south giving them a free route to the lucrative trading post in Aden, allowing them to fulfil their long-held ambition to become the main Khaleeji hegemon in the region.
This is why they now use their huge resources to support separatist proxies in Yemen’s South, ones who now commit gross human rights violations and fight a proxy war against Saudi-backed forces.
The net effect is the prolonging of the war and the famine and the suffering in Yemen.
On the home front, behind the extravagant mirage of the world’s most expensive shoes, of the skyscrapers, artificial islands and tax havens, you have a country that viciously exploits migrant workers
https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/the-uae-experience-wonderland-at-home-war-abroad-20576
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Ethiopia, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia and the UAE: Winds of change in the Gulf
Ethiopia and Eritrea didn't pen their peace agreement in Addis Ababa or Asmara, but in Saudi Arabia with the Emirates alongside. Are economic and military interests increasingly binding Gulf states and the Horn together?
According to analysts, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are jointly positioning themselves as the major power houses among the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
Alex de Waal, who runs the World Peace Foundation think tank at Tufts University in the U.S., sees Saudi Arabia's push for economic dominance as a method of security. "About 10 years ago the Saudis began developing plans for a Red Sea fleet and controlling the Red Sea," he said. "Part of the reason for that was the fear that if the Iranians were to block the Strait of Hormuz [waterway exit from the Persian Gulf between Iran and the UAE], the Saudis would need an alternative outlet for their oil. So they started constructing pipelines and oil refineries on the Red Sea coast, therefore needing security at both ends of the Red Sea."
Elizabeth Dickinson, an analyst on the Arabian Peninsula with the International Crisis Group, also thinks the Saudi Kingdom is stepping up its international political involvement. "Saudi Arabia is a major donor and sees Africa as a new diplomatic priority." The analyst sees the Emirates as acting in a similar vein. "The UAE has positioned itself as a major potential investor in logistics, ports and trade development," she explains.
In August 2018, Ethiopia announced that the UAE had plans to invest in an oil pipeline between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Ethiopia's interests
The Horn of Africa had always been a tough terrain for Saudi Arabia and the Emirates because of the long-standing conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Ethiopia is traditionally the strongest regional power, but due to recent domestic troubles, its lack of access to a sea port and its close ties to Saudi Arabia's rivals Qatar and Iran, it has also been a difficult partner.
A shift in regional politics
The Horn of Africa is not only of economic but also of military interest to the Gulf states. The region is the base for some of Africa's biggest military interventions. The UAE has a base in Eritrea and Dijbouti hosts Saudi troops, among others, while Turkey and Qatar both have bases and close relations with Somalia and Sudan.
In particular, Saudi Arabia has taken on a highly disputed role in the Yemeni Civil War as the leader of a military coalition supporting an ousted Yemeni government against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
The coalition involves not just the UAE and the U.S., but also most of the Horn of Africa. Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea have made their airspaces, waters and military bases available for the war.
Though Saudi Arabia is leading the coalition, de Waal is intrigued by the UAE's role. "What's interesting is the extent to which the Emirates emerged as an equal partner in that the Emirates took responsibility for military operations in Aden [where the ousted Yemeni government is based] and along the coast," de Waal explains. "And in order to do that the Emirates established a military base in Assab [Eritrea] which has been their principal base for air operations around Hodeida [Yemen]."
According to analyst Dickinson, coalition forces have trained local Yemeni forces in Assab and then re-inserted them into battle – By Sella Oneko
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Previous PP government secretly backed Saudi Arabia in Yemen conflict, claim
SPAIN’S former conservative Partido Popular (PP) government put the country at risk internationally by selling arms to and backing Saudi Arabia over the Yemen conflict, a current minister has claimed.
Defence Minister Margarita Robles said the PP left Spain in a “very bad” position over what she alleged was its secret backing of the Saudis in the Yemen Civil War. The support and sale of arms to Riyadh damaged Spain’s credibility, Robles added.
The minister’s comments follow Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s defence of the sale of some 400 bomb to the Saudis last month.
It also comes as it was revealed that the Saudis are among the leading buyers of Spanish made arms.
Robles said the PP’s current leader Pablo Casado should acknowledge his party’s role in what she claimed was the tainting of Spain’s international credibility of its support for the Saudis.
The support had gone against the values of the United Nations (UN), she added.
“I see that it seems there were secret agreements to support wars in some countries. These agreements put Spain at risk,” Robles said.
Spanish law states that sales of arms can be revoked if it is suspected they may be used to disturb regional and global peace and security or violate human rights.
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South Africa got it wrong on Yemen at the UN Human Rights Council
On 28 September, in Geneva, South Africa abstained on a vote calling for the extension of an international probe into alleged human rights violations in Yemen by both the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels.
According to the Middle East Eye, “South Africa’s arms exports to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have grown since the beginning of the war in Yemen, making it potentially complicit in war crimes committed by the two countries in Yemen since 2015.” Moreover, South Africa’s economic business interests in the Gulf have been growing rapidly.
Apart from its principled foreign policy position on Palestine, South Africa has been found wanting on several occasions on decisions pertaining to the Middle East.
What is even more concerning to many people in the Middle East and, indeed, South Africa itself, is the strengthening of its political and economic cooperation with Saudi Arabia. On 29 September, Pretoria’s Minister of Trade and Investments Rob Davies travelled to the Kingdom to co-chair the 8th Session of the South Africa-Saudi Arabia Joint Economic Commission (JEC). His ministry said that Davies was going in order to “follow up on Saudi Arabia’s $10 billion investment pledge.”
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Malaysia: Yemen conflict rages on because Islam ‘ignored’, Dr M claims
The Yemeni conflict is still ongoing after four years because Muslims there do not practice their own faiths, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed.
“They know that this is wrong in Islam but apart from prayers and fasting, the rest of the teachings of Islam are ignored by these people,” he told Ghida Fakry of Istanbul-based TRT World in an interview at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
When asked whether Malaysia will call upon other Middle Eastern leaders, particularly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates over Yemen, Mahathir said he has consigned the issue to the past.
“However we did not specifically take it up with the Saudis. At the moment we are too preoccupied with problems at home,” he said.
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1677873/yemen-conflict-rages-on-because-islam-ignored-dr-m-claims
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South Africa is supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia, involved in Yemen war
The government of South Africa has the blood of many Yemenis on its hands.
South Africa is edging ever closer to ethical and legal fallout by continuing to supply weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
These weapons, which have been proven to emanate from South African manufacturers, are being used in the war on Yemen.
Middle East Eye, an independently owned news organisation, first lifted the lid on South Africa’s involvement in weapons supplied to the region.
More damning evidence came to light following news footage which, unknowingly, exposed South Africa’s involvement. Footage broadcast by Al Masirah news showed a Seeker II drone that was shot down in Yemen. Images clearly showed a manufactures plate on the drone, which read: “Made in South Africa Carl Zeiss Optronics Pty Ltd”.
Denel, South Arica’s state owned weapons manufacturer, was approached by Saudi Arabia in 2016, with an offer to work on an armed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programme. According to the Middle East Eye report, which was penned by journalist Zeenat Adam, Denel agreed to work on the controversial programme
Later that same year, then-president Jacob Zuma accompanied Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), to the unveiling of Al-Kharj (Military Industries Corporation) facility in Riyadh. This factory of war was built in conjunction with Rheinmetall Denel Munition.
While these developments are worrying, they are in no way new. DefenceWeb, South Africa’s premier defence and security news publication, reported that between 2006 and 2016 Denel supplied an estimated 192 Nyala (rebranded as Agrab in the UAE) armoured mortar carriers to the UAE.
Jakkie Cilliers, ISS CEO and geopolitics expert, states that South Africa is currently facing an ethical question with regards to the further supply of weapons, which can potentially yield massive financial gains for the country, but at the same time has the propensity to put more blood on government’s hands
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/south-africa-saudi-arabia-weapons-yemen-war/
cp12a Katar-Krise / Qatar crisis
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Qatar refutes Saudi, UAE allegations of supporting 'terrorism'
Doha denies allegations by Saudi Arabia and UAE and instead accuses blockading countries of destabilising the region.
The Gulf crisis has led to exchange of words at the United Nations General Assembly between Qatar and the countries imposing the blockade on the gas-rich nation.
Qatar refuted allegations by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) of supporting "terrorism" on Saturday as the Gulf crisis featured at the UN forum.
"The representative of Qatar said that the three countries are the last ones to preach Qatar about peace and stability," Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from New York, said.
"He referred to the past track record of Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the war in Yemen and instability in Libya as well as the US Congress inquiry into September 11 attacks, which blamed the two countries for providing havens for 'terrorists,'" our correspondent said.
Comment: #Qatar refutes #Saudi, #UAE allegations of supporting 'terrorism' - No, I disagree. The 3 of you merely point fingers mutually at each other as state sponsors of terror. Ultimately, the world is likely to end up believing all of you.
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046731768748023808
Comment: Each country that supports terrorism has the right to defend itself against other countries that support terrorism.
https://twitter.com/kalofye/status/1046797771297247232
Comment to comment: The GCC spat, in a nutshell.
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046817154610417664
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
Siehe / Look at cp 9, 10, 11, 12
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Neue Wikileaks-Veröffentlichungen zeigen die Korruption im Jemen-Krieg
WikiLeaks hat gerade neue Dokumente veröffentlicht, das Aufschluss über die Korruption hinter einem lukrativen französisch-deutschen Waffenhandel mit den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten (VAE) gibt, Waffen, mit denen derzeit ein Völkermord im Jemen geführt wird.
Das Dokument enthält Einzelheiten zu einem Gerichtsverfahren des Internationalen Schiedsgerichts der Internationalen Handelskammer (ICC) in Bezug auf eine Streitigkeit über eine “Provisionszahlung” an Abbas Ibrahim Yousef Al-Yousef, einen emiratischen Geschäftsmann, im Rahmen eines Rüstungsgeschäfts im Wert von 3,6 Milliarden Dollar zwischen dem staatlichen französischen Waffenunternehmen Nexter Systems (damals GIAT Industries SA) und den VAE. Im Rahmen des 1993 unterzeichneten und 2008 abgeschlossenen Abkommens kauften die VAE 388 Leclerc-Kampfpanzer, 46 gepanzerte Fahrzeuge, 2 Übungspanzer und Ersatzteile sowie Munition.
Diese Waffen sind seit ihrem Beginn im Jahr 2015 ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Krieges der VAE und der saudischen Koalition im Jemen.
Der in dem durchgesickerten Dokument beschriebene Gerichtsfall resultierte aus einer Behauptung von Al-Yousef, dass Nexter Systems seiner Verpflichtung, ihm eine Provision von 6,5 Prozent für den Waffenhandel zu zahlen, nicht nachgekommen sei, was einem Betrag von 235 Millionen Dollar entspricht. Nexter Systems leistete regelmäßig für einen bestimmten Zeitraum Zahlungen an den emiratischen Geschäftsmann in Höhe von über 195 Millionen US-Dollar über das Unternehmen von Al-Yousef, Kenoza Consulting & Management Inc. Al-Yousef forderte, dass das Unternehmen auf ihm noch die fast 40 Millionen Dollar nach zu zahlen, die noch ausstehend sind.
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New WikiLeaks Release Exposes Corruption in UAE Arms Deal Fueling War on Yemen
Though the corruption detailed in the newly leaked document took place decades ago, it highlights how lucrative arms deals are often enough incentive for governments to bend the rules in order to keep weapons and cash flowing, no matter the consequences.
The transparency organization WikiLeaks just released a new document that sheds light on the corruption behind a lucrative French/German arms deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), weapons that are currently being used to wage a disastrous and genocidal war against the people of Yemen.
The document details a court case from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration regarding a dispute over a “commission payment” made to Abbas Ibrahim Yousef Al-Yousef, an Emirati businessman, as part of a $3.6 billion arms deal between France’s state-owned weapons company Nexter Systems (then GIAT Industries SA) and the UAE. Per the deal, which was signed in 1993 and set to conclude in 2008, the UAE purchased 388 Leclerc combat tanks, 46 armored vehicles, 2 training tanks, and spare parts, as well as ammunition.
Those weapons have been an important part of the UAE and Saudi coalition’s war in Yemen since it began in 2015
The court case described in the leaked document resulted from a claim made by Al-Yousef that Nexter Systems had failed to honor its commitment to pay him a 6.5 percent commission fee on the arms deal, amounting to a $235 million dollars. Nexter Systems made payments regularly for a period of time to the Emirati businessman, totalling over $195 million, through Al-Yousef’s company, Kenoza Consulting & Management Inc. Al-Yousef demanded that the company pay him the nearly $40 million that remained outstanding.
However, subsequent arguments from Nexter Systems’ lawyers asserted that payments stopped because of French anti-corruption legislation enacted in 2000, and that Al-Yousef’s business “intended to commit and indeed committed corruption acts.”
The tribunal ultimately determined that there was no good reason for Al-Yousef’s exorbitant commission fee.
Though the corruption detailed in the newly leaked document took place decades ago, it highlights how lucrative arms deals are often enough incentive for governments and private companies to bend the rules in order to ensure that weapons and payments for weapons continue to flow unimpeded.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-wikileaks-doc-exposes-corruption-in-uae-arms-deal-fueling-war-on-yemen/250045/ = https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-29/new-wikileaks-release-exposes-corruption-uae-arms-deal-fueling-war-yemen
cp13b Wirtschaft / Economy
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Sanaa, Oct. 1–2: Tonight the 1 USD can be exchanged for 850 Yemeni Riyals. It was 215 Riyals before the beginning of Saudi war in March 2015. As a result of that prices of everything has increased dramatically.
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1046839612856049664
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1 October 2018 #Yemen riyal exchange rate - Sanaa US$1 = Buy 790YR / Sell 760YR
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046705842068828160
1 October 2018, 2nd update #Yemen riyal exchange rate - Sanaa US$1 = Buy 820YR / Sell 780YR
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046821211299352576
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King Salman orders $200m grant to Central Bank of Yemen
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Monday ordered the provision of a donation of $200 million to the Central Bank of Yemen to shore up its financial position.
In addition to the previously deposited amount in the Central Bank of Yemen of a total of three billion dollars, this grant will contribute to the alleviation of the economic burden on the Yemeni people.
My comment: Peanuts which do not help anything; stop the war.
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Famine Early Warning System Network: Yemen Key Message Update, September 2018
Staple food prices increase sharply following in further currency depreciation and increased conflict
Large populations in Yemen continue to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or Emergency (IPC Phase 4) acute food insecurity, the latter of which is associated with increased acute malnutrition and an increased risk of excess mortality. In a worst-case scenario, significant declines in commercial imports below requirement levels and conflict that cuts populations off from trade and humanitarian assistance for an extended period could drive food security outcomes in line with Famine (IPC Phase 5).
Increased conflict in and near Al Hudaydah in recent weeks has driven concern that key infrastructure may become damaged and/or that staple food imports and trade may become disrupted. Restrictions on access to mills operated by the Sea Silos Company, damage to a WFP food warehouse, and closure of the main road between Al Hudaydah and Sana’a City are all of serious concern.
The Yemeni Rial depreciated sharply on the informal market in August and September, reaching 596 YER/USD in September 2018 compared to 496 YER/USD in July 2018. Wheat flour prices have increased considerably in September, following the recent currency depreciation as well as the closure of the main trade route between Al Hudaydah and Sana’a City. Across most markets in Yemen, wheat flour prices increased by approximately 20 percent between August and September.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-key-message-update-september-2018
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It is predicted by reliable sources to reach Ry.1000. All government resources are blocked. Export and import at a halt. Air, land and sea ports are closed. The solution isn't magical and the panacea is in the hands of the coalition.
https://twitter.com/fuadals/status/1046709838410117120
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Government has not paid salaries since Aug 2016 and now private sector is collapsing because of currency depreciation at alarming level. We have not seen the worst in #Yemen conflict yet.
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1046705797638443009
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A Yemeni company that has been operating since 1950 is shutting down due to Yemeni Riyal collapse. With businesses closing, many more Yemenis will lose their income.
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1046703073391865857
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USD1=YER 780 It was only 750 an hour ago. Every hour thousands of families lose their hope. Feeling helpless in front of all this orchestrated damage makes me sick.
https://twitter.com/alasaadim/status/1046776049198092288
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The Minister of Transport indicates that the UAE is pushing for the collapse of the currency to foil the government and blackmail Hadi
Yemeni government Minister of Transport Saleh Algbwani said on Monday that the UAE is directly behind the collapse of the local currency, which reached its lowest standard level, and the price of the dollar stood at 760 riyals.
Algbwani said in a tweet on his Twitter page that there were parties that pushed the collapse of the local currency in the market, aimed at overthrowing the government of Ahmed bin Dagher and blackmailing President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
He noted that this came after the government withstood the Battle of January (confrontations between pro-UAE forces and pro-government forces) and then the Socotra crisis (the UAE attempted military control over Socotra Island).
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158960
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Infographic: Causes of Yemeni Riyal Deterioration and Commodities Price Rising
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3038&cat_id=1
Remark: From the Houthi side.
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Today my Father's monthely Salary is = $100.
Tomorrow it may become $75, and by the end of this week It will be only $50.
Do you believe that! because I can't believe that a man who served the country for more than 30 year will deserve such disaster at the end of his life!
https://www.facebook.com/100001606365083/posts/2019359381460921/
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The #Yemen riyal taking a nose dive US$1: YR800. Local warlords, actively contributing to wrecking economy, taking opportunity to insanely and unrealistically jack up prices of basic commodities to make quick buck using excuse of inflation. Houthis and Hadi's gov't are "MIA".
The bloody vampires (ie war lords), without a shred of decency and zero disregard for human suffering in #Yemen, are adamant on squeezing every last drop of blood out of an already devastatingly poor population facing famine. Make no mistake, so called authorities are complicit.
https://twitter.com/omeisy/status/1046738755724472320
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It has reached 860 in Sana'a tonight, many of agencies has suspended their works.
https://twitter.com/OJAIBY1/status/1046476676689883136
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"Our currency Fell". Dollar exceeds 45 riyals and up to 760 in a matter of hours only
A bank source in the southern city of Aden said the exchange rate for the dollar reached 760 riyals on Sunday evening, while Saudi Riyals settled at 200 riyals.
He added to AL Masdar online, that exchange rates have collapsed dramatically in the past hours, and the price of the dollar has risen from the morning hours 45 riyals per dollar, and 5 riyals for the Saudi Riyal.
"our currency fell, and God knows where we are going," he said.
In Sana'a, the exchange rate reached SR 750 for the dollar, while the Saudi riyal price was 197 riyals.
This is the largest loss rate in the history of the local currency, as the dollar price on Saturday morning was 680 riyals, and the riyal loses 10% of its value in only 32 hours.
The collapse will be reflected in a doubling of commodity prices, while Yemenis suffer from hunger, and according to UN estimates, 8 million of them live in the cycle of famine.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158956
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Aden Exchanger syndicate calls the exchange shops to stop buying and selling currencies
The Exchanger syndicate in Aden, the temporary capital of the country, has called for all exchange shops and companies in the city to stop buying and selling in currencies starting Monday morning.
"Because of the high rate of exchange and the unwarranted demand for the absurd purchase of foreign exchange, and in the public interest, everyone has an obligation to stop buying and selling foreign currencies until further notice," she said.
From Tuesday to Saturday, exchange shops in Aden were closed in response to an invitation by the cashiers ' syndicate to protest against the large collapse of the local currency versus the foreigner.
But they returned and opened their doors Sunday morning, before calling for a halt to the two buying and selling processes.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158954
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Past 30 days the Yemeni rial tumbled 33% against the US $. At between 730 and 750 today most traders, bankers and money exchangers expect YR to crash to 1000 by end of year. By early this evening money exchangers in #Sanaa stopped buying or selling currencies.
https://twitter.com/Wesamqaid/status/1046496178974720001
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Not accurate till now. It reached 680 here in mukalla according to exchange workers who spoke to me.
https://twitter.com/saeedalBatati/status/1046474816335876097
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USD = 725 Riyals .. His price rose 40 riyals in one day and the coin continues to collapse
The Yemeni riyal continues to collapse in front of the foreign currency basket, and the sale price of the one dollar is 725 riyals in the city of Aden, the interim capital (south of the country), said Cashiers.
They said in identical statements to Al-Masdar online, that the dollar rose 50 riyals in one day, while the signs of collapse rise to new record levels, amid the absence of any active around.
The exchange rate increased in less than 24 hours, with the dollar jumping from Riyal 682 per dollar to 730, the largest extent of the collapse of the local currency in one day.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158925
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Sept. 30: Yemeni rial continued to fall against the US dollar on Sunday. One dollar is buying 750 rials.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1046446707301666816
The #Yemen riyal today : USD$1 = 750 YR
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046417872484995072
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30 September 2018 #Yemen riyal exchange rate Sanaa & Aden US$1 = Buy 730YR / Sell 700YR
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046302603200598016
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In #Aden, one dollar is now exchanged at over 700 Yemeni Riyals. Before the war, $100 was around 21,000 YR. Now, it is 70,000+ YR. This is ALARMING. This is a CRISIS. This is going to kill people MORE rapidly than ever before.
https://twitter.com/ToEducate/status/1046537791973314565
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29 September 2018 #Yemen riyals exchange rates - Sanaa & Aden US$1 = Buy 715YR / Sell 702YR
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046109389701230593
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The Yemeni rial is trading at 710 to the US dollar, down from 485 in July, 370 when the Saudi-backed government floated national currency in August 2017 and 215 before the breakout of the war in late 2014.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1045940665987805184
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Report: the United Arab Emirates, a member in a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, is preventing Hadi's government from resuming LNG exports.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1046383174421553153
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It's been over 2 years since #Yemen civil servants were paid.Counting on theory that starving Yemenis will push them to revolt against Houthis s delusional & stupid. Hungry people don't revolt. They surrender to their brutal fate. But history will remember those that starved them
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1046019499508617217
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World Food Programme: Yemen Market Watch Report, Issue No. 27, August 2018
Highlights
The Yemeni Riyal further weakened in August 2018, and continued to drop sharply in September losing nearly 180% of its pre-crisis purchasing power.
In-country food stocks are estimated at 1.4 million MT as of mid-August 2018. Wheat stock may cover the national requirement for about three months, rice for two months while vegetable oil may last within a month. Fuel commodities (petrol and diesel) are not widely available. Al Hudaydah suffers the most from scarcity of commodities in the markets due to the intensification of fighting.
Retail prices of food commodities increased by 4-7% in August 2018 compared with those in July, and 46%-116% higher than in precrisis period. National average fuel prices rose by about 3-7% from July 2018. Moreover, prices of fuel commodities were 64%-143% higher in August 2018 than those recorded during the pre-crisis period.
The average cost of the monthly minimum food basket in August 2018 gone up by 6.5% from July, and 79% higher than in pre-crisis period.
The Alert for Price Spikes (ALPS) indicators for all basic food items and the cost of food basket remained at their crisis levels in August 2018.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-market-watch-report-issue-no-27-august-2018
and from feb. 2018 already:
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RESTORING CENTRAL BANK CAPACITY AND STABILIZING THE RIAL
The primary reason Yemen is experiencing the world’s largest food security emergency is that millions of people cannot afford to buy the food available in the local market. The ongoing conflict has spurred myriad factors contributing to this crisis, such as general economic collapse and widespread loss of livelihood, restricted naval and air access to the country and internal transportation challenges that are inflating costs for importers. Imports and international trade have also been stifled financially: Yemeni commercial banks have been facing difficulties in transferring foreign currency banknotes abroad due to the air restrictions on Sana’a airport, while American and most European banks have closed the accounts Yemeni commercial banks held abroad due to compliance concerns regarding obligations to international money laundering and counter-terrorism financing standards.
In addition to these factors, the depreciation of the rial has severely impacted purchasing power in Yemen.
As part of the “Rethinking Yemen’s Economy” initiative, more than 20 of the leading socioeconomic experts on Yemen converged for the second Development Champions Forum on January 14-16 in Amman, Jordan. Among the urgent topics of discussion was the deterioration of the value of the Yemeni rial (YR), the magnifying impact this is having on the humanitarian crisis, and the need to re-empower the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) as the steward of the rial and the economy generally. This policy brief is an outcome of those discussions, and the recommendations it includes collectively underline the need for the CBY to function in a more coherent, assertive manner – whereby its various branches operate as a united entity that is able to draft and implement monetary policies for Yemen as a whole. This paper includes further input from the Development Champions following the announcement by Saudi Arabia on January 17 of a $2 billion deposit to the CBY.
Recommendations to the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY)
if this link does not work try: https://carpo-bonn.org/en/portfolio/restoring-central-bank-capacity-and-stabilizing-the-rial-3/
and from Oct. 2017:
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Yemen Economic Bulletin: Renewed rapid currency depreciation and diverging monetary policy between Sana’a and Aden
As the Sana’a Center has previously documented, in the first half of February Yemen’s domestic currency lost some 20 percent of its market value. In both these instances, the authorities in Sana’a, (where the Houthi movement and the allied forces of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh hold sway,) and those in the southern city of Aden, (the de facto capital of Yemen’s internationally recognized government,) quickly implemented stop-gap measures to reduce the instability and slow the rial’s decline.
The latest currency instability highlights the continuing deterioration of the rial’s supports in the face of more than two-and-a-half years of civil war and regional military intervention, and has sparked widespread fears that the rial is on the cusp of further steep depreciation, and possibly hyperinflation. In a country that is overwhelmingly dependant on imports to meet the population’s nutritional needs – and which the United Nations has declared the world’s worst humanitarian crisis – the extreme loss of local purchasing power that hyperinflation entails would leave most Yemenis unable to buy food and other basic necessities.
Furthermore, Sana’a Center sources have confirmed that the authorities in Sana’a, in an effort to halt the rial’s depreciation, are preparing to impose a fixed currency exchange rate in areas of the country’s north which they control. While the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) had previously maintained a fixed official exchange rate, CBY headquarters – relocated to Aden in September 2016 – announced in August this year that it would allow the domestic currency to float according to the market rate.
Should the authorities in Sana’a follow through on their plan and try to enforce a separate monetary policy, it would formalize the rupture of the CBY as an institution across the conflict’s frontlines. This formalization of North Yemen and South Yemen as distinct economic entities could represent a significant step towards the division of the country into separate statelets.
The Sana’a Center also foresees significant difficulties in operating one currency with differing monetary policy between the north and south. Separate monetary policies would likely precipitate a significant shift in remittances from Sana’a to Aden, incentivize massive currency smuggling between the areas, and shift ever greater financial flows away from the official economy.
https://sanaacenter.org/publications/analysis/5035
cp15 Propaganda
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Dr. Al-Aiban: Saudi Arabia Takes Procedures Enhancing and Protecting Rights of the Child in accordance with International Standards
Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Aiban, Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who also led the Kingdom's delegation to the 79th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in Geneva, affirmed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is moving towards the best levels of promotion and protection of the human rights, including the rights of the child based on its principles based on Islamic law, which prohibits and criminalizes the violation of rights.
During the 97th session with regard to the Kingdom's two reports on the optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, Al-Aiban said that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and HRH the Crown Prince, has taken a number of procedures aiming at protecting the human rights and the child rights against any violations.
Before the Committee on the Rights of the Child "CRC", Dr. Al-Aiban condemned the activities of the Houthi terrorists of recruitment and enlistment of children on the fighting fronts in Yemen, affirming that this recruitment represents the main cause of child victims in Yemen. He pointed out, in this regard, that the proportion of child soldiers who are fighting in the ranks of the Houthi militias represent one third of the strength of the militia elements.
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1821217
My comment: This is the official propaganda reply to the examination by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday (look at cp2). – It misses certain points Al-Aiban said on this occasion.
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VP: Houthis’ ideology is illogic, contradicts state project
Vice President Ali Muhsin Saleh has said that the Houthis’ ideology is alien and illogic, pointing out that it is denied by Yemenis and that it contradicts projects of building the state and democracy.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-24155
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Minister of Local administration: 22 safe ports to deliver relief aid
The Yemeni government is keen to ensure the delivery of relief and humanitarian aid to all governorates, said the Minister of local administration, chairman of the Higher Relief Committee, Abdel Raqeeb. Fatah.
"All ports, airports and land outlets in the liberated governorates are available for the flow of relief and humanitarian aid," the Yemeni news agency Saba quoted minister Fatah as saying, noting that there are 22 safe outlets to deliver relief aid to Yemen's relief organizations.
On the UN statement on aid access to Yemen, Fatah said it was inaccurate and did not reflect the actual reality on the ground, pointing out that the legitimate Government welcomes the delivery of all relief and humanitarian aid and is working to provide all methods and ways to deliver aid to Yemen.
He stressed that the coup militia impedes the delivery of humanitarian assistance
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158884
My comment: Propaganda to smear the UN Human rights investigation (look at cp7), and just pretending there would be no Saudi blockade, now Saudi aerial destruction of infrastructure and agriculture.
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Controversial shift seen in Oman’s role in Yemen
Oman considers Mahra province important, giving its residents free movement between Oman and Yemen.
Yemeni political sources corroborated the shift in Omani policy away from Muscat’s publicly stated neutrality to support the Houthi rebels against the internationally recognised government in Yemen and the Arab coalition supporting it.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, pointed to signs, especially in areas of Yemen freed from Houthi rebel control, of Omani support of political and tribal figures provided the figures adopt a negative stance towards the Yemeni government and the Saudi-led coalition.
The sources said this was evident in the appearance of former Yemeni minister Ahmed Mousaed Hussein al-Awlaki in Yemen’s Shabwa province where he has reportedly been meeting with local leaders, demanding they adopt an anti-coalition stance and holding the anti-Houthi alliance responsible for damage caused by rebels.
https://thearabweekly.com/controversial-shift-seen-omans-role-yemen
My comment: Now Saudi propaganda makes neighbouring Oman responsible for the civilian uprising in Mahrah province – which had been caused by Saudi occupation, interference and ambitions to exploit the region. Not by Oman.
Comment: #UAE media escalate their vicious (and baseless) attacks on leading southern #Yemen Harak leader Hassan Baoum, who is from Hadhramaut
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1046314397830991873
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More Saudi / UAE “We are benefactors” propaganda
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/erc-sends-food-aid-mukalla-supports-cancer-patients-shabwa-yemen
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/one-thousand-households-benefit-erc-relief-aid-zinjibar
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/erc-sends-aid-convoy-lahej-yemen
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1820588
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
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All Saudi coalition air raids recorded on:
Sept. 26: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/1147416362075394/?type=3
Sept. 25: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/1147415928742104/?type=3
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US-Saudi Aggression Bombing Injures 2 Civilians in Al-Jawf
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3067&cat_id=1
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#Hajja: A civilian, his wife and daughter were killed on Tuesday a Saudi-led airstrike on thier home.
The rescue teams found the body of the displayed civilian, Mohammed al-Hajuri, his wife and daughter, under the ruins of their home in Hamra area of Mostaba district.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.963391330380564/1944297282289959
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Aggression’s Daily Update for Sunday, September 30th, 2018
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3053&cat_id=1
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4 Citizens Killed and Injured in US-Saudi Aggression Raids on Hajjah
The US-Saudi aerial aggression targeted a citizen car in Abes district of Hajjah province, leading to the death of a citizen and wounding 3 others, Al-Masirah Net correspondent reported.
The aerial aggression also launched another raid on the entrance of Al-Kamies market at Mestiba district, there were no reports of casualties at the moment.
The US-Saudi aerial aggression Monday launched two raids, one targeted a civilian car in Abes district, killing two civilians and injuring a third.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3039&cat_id=1
and
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Film: Preliminary scenes of the crime of aggression in the Directorate of Abs in the province of Hajjah 30-09-2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwqBCOV8jwk
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Film: An explosion of a cluster bomb hurt this young girl and caused burns on her face in #Saada, #Yemen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhKZthKDYXY = https://twitter.com/A_mtrz/status/1046095833253511168 = https://twitter.com/QuietManc/status/1046114815066984448
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Saudi airstrikes hits Hajjah province
Two civilians were killed and injured one in two airstrikes by the US-backed Saudi-led aggression warplane on Abs district in Hajjah province, a security official told Saba on Saturday.
Two airstrikes hit Bani Hasan area in Abs district, one of them targeted a citizen's car, killing two citizens and injuring another one
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509646.htm
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Aggression’s Daily Update for Saturday, September 29th, 2018
In Hodiedah, a civilian was killed and another one was injured by an airstrike on Al-Munirah district. US-Saudi aggression launched a raid western Kilo-16 area and three raids on Ras Eisa area in Al Saleef district.
In Hajja, three civilians were injured following two raids of the US-Saudi aggression targeted a civilian's car in Abs district.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3034&cat_id=1
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Aggression’s Daily Update for Friday, September 28th, 2018
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3020&cat_id=1
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More Saudi coalition air raids on:
Oct. 1: http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509888.htm and https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3061&cat_id=1 Saada p.
Sept. 30:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509887.htm Hajjah p.
Sept. 29:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509641.htm Hodeidah p.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3029&cat_id=1 Saada p.
Sept. 28:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509602.htm Jawf p.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509606.htm Saada p.
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
Siehe / Look at cp1b
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Coalition: Houthis fire 200 missiles on Saudi Arabia
The Houthi rebels have fired around 200 ballistic missiles towards Saudi Arabia over the last three years, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen announced Monday
At least 112 civilians died, hundred others were injured by the rockets fired by the Houthis on the Kingdom since 2015, al-Maliki said earlier.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/coalition-houthis-fire-200-missiles-on-saudi-arabia/1270002
My comment: The Saudis lament on this, while the figures for Saudi air raids and for Yemeni air raid victims are at least 100 times more each.
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Yemeni naval force targets Saudi patrol boats inside Jizan Port
The naval forces of the Yemeni army and popular committees on Sunday carried out an offensive targeting a group of boats belonging to the Saudi border guards inside the port of Jizan, a military official told Saba.
The attack was successful, causing massive human and material casualties inside the port
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509869.htm .
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Joint Forces Command of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen: “Interception and Destruction of Two Remote Control Explosive boats in A Terrorist Attempt to Target Port of Jazan By the Terrorist Iranian-Houthi Militia”
Colonel Turki Al-Malki, the Official Spokesman of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, stated that the Royal Saudi Navy Forces detected an attempt by the terrorist Iranian-Houthi militia to target Port of Jazan.
He clarified: “at (04:50) and (05:05) the Royal Saudi Navy Forces detected the movement of two remote control explosive boats headed to Port of Jazan. They were intercepted and destroyed in accordance with the Rules of Engagement, which has led to minimal damage.”
He reaffirmed: “The Joint Forces Command of the Coalition will strike with an iron fist all those who get involved with acts of terrorism, which threaten the safety of Saudi Nationals, residents, economy and critical capabilities. Those hostile acts will not go by without holding the ones executing, plotting and planning them accountable for their actions.”
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1820811
My comment: For Saudi propaganda: A naval attack on Saudi war ships in a Saudi port: terrorism. A naval attack at Hodeidah harbour in Yemen: Liberating the city and a step to peace.
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Yemeni drone wages series of airstrikes on Dubai International Airport
The Yemeni army drone waged at Sunday dawn series of airstrikes on Dubai International Airport, an official in the Yemeni army drone told Saba.
Samad-3 drone waged series of airstrikes on Dubai International Airport in UAE
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509739.htm
and
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UAE should expect more attacks if aggression on Yemen continues, Ansarullah spokesman
The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement says the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has no option but to expect more operations from Yemeni army forces and their allied fighters from Popular Committees in case the Saudi-led military aggression and blockade against his impoverished homeland continues.
The Houthi spokesman added, “Even though Emirati authorities are trying to conceal the attack for the time being and deny air traffic disturbances at their airport, they will be forced to expect more operations should aggression and siege on Yemeni people continue.”
Earlier in the day, Yemeni forces, backed by Popular Committees fighters, launched a drone airstrike against Dubai International Airport.
and
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Jemenitische Armee: Dubai ist nicht mehr sicher
Solange die Aggressionen der saudisch-emiratischen Koalition gegen Jemen fortdauern, werden die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate keine Sicherheit und der Ruhe mehr genießen, erklärte Jemens Armee.
http://parstoday.com/de/news/middle_east-i43798-jemenitische_armee_dubai_ist_nicht_mehr_sicher
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Yemen vows to continue missile attack on UAE
Brigadier General Sharaf Loqman further noted that today’s missile attack on Jizan (south of Saudi Arabia) and Dubai revealed Yemen’s defense capabilities.
He also warned the investors in the UAE that as long as the military aggression against Yemen continues, the country will never be safe.
http://www.irna.ir/en/News/83049917
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Dubai airport says operating as normal after Houthi drone attack report
Dubai International Airport said on Sunday it was operating as normal following a news report Yemen’s armed Houthi movement had launched a drone attack against the airport.
“With regards to reports by questionable sources this morning, Dubai Airports can confirm that Dubai International (DXB) is operating as normal without any interruption,” said an airport spokesman.
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Army launches 2 ballistic missiles on Saudi-led forces in Asir
The army launched on Saturday two Zilzal-1 ballistic missile on the US-backed Saudi-led mercenaries 's gatherings in the west of Majaza of Asir province
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news509753.htm
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A sniper from the [Houthi] militia shot dead a 10 year old boy, Abduh Yahya Abdu a-Samad Ghaleb, in Saber al-Mawadem district in the long besieged city of Taiz, on Saturday 2018-09-29 (photo]
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-24118
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Government forces remove 400 mines in Sa’da
The engineering teams of the government forces in A’leb axis in Sa'ada Governorate (far north of Yemen) destroyed more than 400 landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that were planted by Houthi militants in the northern province of Sa’da.
http://almasdaronline.com/articles/158882
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In Saada, a civilian was injured by Saudi missiles and artillery shells bombing on populated villages in Shida border district. Also several areas in Shida, Razih, Baqim, Munnabih and Adhdhaher border districts were targeted by Saudi missiles and artillery shells, damaging civilians' houses and properties.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3034&cat_id=1
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Zelzal1 Hits US-Saudi Aggression Mercenaries Gatherings in Jizan
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=3017&cat_id=1
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Al Houthi forces claimed to fire three Zilzal 1 ballistic missiles at Asir and Jizan regions, southern Saudi Arabia on September 26. The Saudi Ministry of Defense has not confirmed the missile strikes. Al Houthi forces also claimed to fire seven ballistic missiles at a military parade in Ma’rib governorate, northern Yemen on September 26. Saudi air defenses intercepted the missiles, according to Saudi media.[4]
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Sanaa: Art exhibition. The International Aggression on Yemen (Photos; https://twitter.com/A7medJa7af/status/1046059801686552576thread; scroll down)
https://twitter.com/A7medJa7af/status/1046059801686552576
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Puk Damsgården's diary from Yemen: The submerged youth of the cellar
DAY 10: The correspondent meets a group of youngsters who cultivate feminism, Carsten Niebuhr, and promotes open dialogue.
In the basement, which is not a basement, but a house with a garden in the capital of Yemen with peace and birdwatching, young Yemenite read and debate the French philosopher and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir.
I am almost shy about the idea of having to discuss her world of thought with free love and atheism in traditional conservative Yemen. But just that the young people here talk about Beauvoir say mostly about the place. Here is not only peace and harmless birdwatching.
Along with my trip I have thought how Niebuhr would perceive Yemen today if he lived. Would he recognize the nature, the culture and the way of life of man from his expedition in the 1700s?
It's not to know. But I have the feeling that there are certain things in Yemen that have not changed much since then. Here is something unspoiled. And here is a concentrated exhaustion. In the people and in the landscape. And perhaps it is precisely the impoverishment that makes it only a fraction of the truth when we in the news media reduce the country to a humanitarian disaster.
A Yemeni soul is not a victim. It's a warrior.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/puk-damsgaards-dagbog-fra-yemen-kaelderens-utaemmelige-ungdom
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Camel Jumping – einzigartiger Sport im Yemen
Dieser einzigartige Sport wird Camel Jumping genannt und nur der Zaraniq-Stamm im Yemen praktiziert ihn.
https://www.strongg.com/camel-jumping-einzigartiger-sport-im-yemen/
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Wie es zur jüdischen Vielfalt in Israel kam
Nachdem die Entscheidung der Vereinten Nationen bekannt geworden war, einen jüdischen Staat zu errichten, versammelte sich in der Stadt Aden im Jemen ein Mob und ging auf die 5.000 Juden der Stadt los.
Das Pogrom begann am 2. Dezember 1947 und dauerte drei Tage. Dabei kamen 78 Juden zu Tode, über 100 Geschäfte wurden geplündert und vier Synagogen dem Erdboden gleichgemacht.
Die Führer des gerade entstehenden jüdischen Staates suchten daher nach Wegen, die 50.000 Juden des Jemen zu retten. Die konsequente Umsiedlung dieser Gemeinschaft sollte sich sowohl logistisch als auch sozial als zukunftsträchtig erweisen.
Obwohl Israel sich noch mitten im Unabhängigkeitskrieg befand, beschloss es, die Juden des Jemen über eine Luftbrücke zu retten.
Unter Einsatz von Piloten der Alaska Airlines und einer kleinen Flotte von C-46- und CD-4-Flugzeugen organisierten israelische Agenten den Transport der jemenitischen Juden in ein Übergangslager, von wo aus innerhalb von zwei Jahren rund 80 Flüge starteten. Bis 1950 waren 48.875 jemenitische Juden nach Israel ausgeflogen worden.
https://www.audiatur-online.ch/2018/09/28/wie-es-zur-juedischen-vielfalt-in-israel-kam/
Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-463-yemen-war-mosaic-463
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-463 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-463:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose oder / or http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
Der saudische Luftkrieg im Bild / Saudi aerial war images:
(18 +, Nichts für Sensible!) / (18 +; Graphic!)
http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
http://yemenwarcrimes.blogspot.de/
und alle Liste aller Luftangriffe / and list of all air raids:
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