... Wirtschaftskrise und politische Spaltung lösen Proteste im Südenjemen aus – Huthis: Brutale Hinrichtungen nach unfairem Verfahren – Auswirkungen des Rückzug der aus Afghanistan auf den Jemen-Krieg – UN-Menschenrechtsrat lässt den Jemen im Stich – und mehr
Oct. 13, 2021: Air raids summary Sept. 2021 – Houthis moving towards Marib – Yemen: The psychological scars of war – The economy: Yemen’s most pressing problem – Economic crisis, political divisions spark protests in Yemen’s south – Houthis: Brutal executions after unfair trial – Reflection of US withdrawal from Afghanistan on Yemen’s war – UN Human Rights Council abandoning Yemen – and more
Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Kursiv: Siehe Teil 2 / In Italics: Look in part 2: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-764b-yemen-war-mosaic-764b
Klassifizierung / Classification
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
cp2 Allgemein / General
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
cp6 Separatisten und Hadi-Regierung im Südjemen / Separatists and Hadi government in Southern Yemen
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp9 USA
cp9a USA-Iran Krise: Spannungen am Golf / US-Iran crisis: Tensions at the Gulf
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
cp13b Wirtschaft / Economy
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Kampf um Hodeidah / Hodeidah battle
cp19 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
Ältere einführende Artikel u. Überblicke für alle, die mit den Ereignissen im Jemen noch nicht vertraut sind, hier:
Yemen War: Older 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
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YEMEN DATA PROJECT AIR RAIDS SUMMARY OCTOBER 2021
Bombing Rates at Six-Month High as Violence Surges in Marib
Air raid on civilian vehicle kills seven including three children
Air raid numbers in September rise to the highest monthly rate since March. Individual airstrikes recorded in the month are at the highest in a year.
Pro-Houthi military advances on the ground in the governorate of Marib matched a 25% month-on-month increase in air raids in Marib (89), a monthly rate surpassed only twice in the governorate - in September last year and in September 2015 - since the start of the air war in March 2015. Bombings in Marib covered districts on the frontline to the west of the governorate capital, on a north-south axis. The southernmost districts of Al-Abdiyah, Harib and Al-Jubah saw a notable rise in air raids* amid reports of pro-Houthi advances into southern Marib and northern Shabwa.
Sirwah was once again - for the ninth consecutive month - the most heavily targeted district countrywide with 29 air raids recorded in September. Yemen Data Project recorded air raids in Shabwa for the first time since January 2019.
Countrywide, air raids* rose by 32% month-on-month to 157 in September, the highest monthly rate since March. Up to 711 individual airstrikes were recorded in September, the highest monthly maximum since September 2020.
Following two months with no civilian casualties recorded in bombings, at least seven civilians were killed and a further two injured in air raids in September. The deadliest air raid was the bombing of a civilian vehicle in the Markhah Al-Olya district of Shabwa on 18 September, killing seven civilians including three children and one woman.
In September, 20% of bombings hit civilian targets** and 12% hit military targets. In 68% of air raids in September the target could not be identified. Of the 49 air raids where the target could be identified, 65% hit civilian targets. 35% of identifiable targets were military. 41% of identified targets were residential areas.
Marib continues to be the most heavily bombed governorate. 57% of all Saudi-led coalition air raids in September targeted Marib. Sirwah was the most heavily bombed district in the country for the ninth consecutive month with 33% of air raids in the month in Marib hitting the district.
Air raids concentrated on the frontlines of the ground war and the pro-Houthi advances in southern Marib. Bombings in the southern districts of Harib, Al-Abdiyah and Al-Jubah were at the highest rates in at least six months. Nine air raids recorded in Al-Jubah represented the highest monthly bombing rate in the district since the air war began. Harib saw the greatest number of air raids since September 2015.
https://mailchi.mp/b900fad60107/october2021-yemen-data-project-update-6524900
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Houthi Militants in Ansar Allah Move Toward Marib in Yemen
After a brief lull in fighting, the rebels of the Yemeni Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, are closer than they have ever been to surrounding Marib city. The city, which is the capital of the governorate of the same name, is also the de-facto capital of Yemen’s internationally recognized government (IRG). The governorate is also home to much of Yemen’s oil and gas handling infrastructure, and the loss of Marib to Ansar Allah will cement Ansar Allah’s control of northwest Yemen.
Ansar Allah’s leadership knows that it must seize Marib governorate if it is to control northwestern Yemen and ensure its future economic viability. The fall of Marib city will also further de-legitimize the IRG, both domestically and internationally. For these reasons, Ansar Allah has launched multiple offensives in Marib.
The most recent large-scale offensive began in early 2021 (Arab News, February 9). During this offensive, Ansar Allah made considerable gains as its forces pushed to the western and southern outskirts of Marib city. In late February, Ansar Allah then sent strike teams into the city where they released prisoners from an IRG-controlled detainment facility (Hournews.net, February 22).
In response to this offensive, Saudi Arabia increased the tempo of its airstrikes and stepped in to ensure more aid was delivered to IRG-allied tribal militias. Due largely to fierce resistance by Abidah tribesmen, who are allied with the IRG, Ansar Allah failed to encircle Marib city.
After Ansar Allah’s early 2021 offensive stalled, Ansar Allah’s leadership moved to secure the governorate of al-Baydah, located south of Marib. Al-Baydah is also Yemen’s keystone because it is located in the center of Yemen where it borders eight other governorates. However, al-Baydah is as difficult to secure as it is important. Ansar Allah has launched multiple offensives in al-Baydah over the last five years, but the group has failed to consolidate gains.
Beginning in April 2021, Ansar Allah nevertheless redoubled its efforts to gain control over most of al-Baydah.
In short, Ansar Allah tries to unravel its enemies from the inside before it takes kinetic military action. This is the approach that it has used in much of al-Baydah with notable successes. Ansar Allah now controls most of al-Baydah. Most critically, it has eliminated the threat posed to its forces operating in southern Marib. This has allowed Ansar Allah to launch attacks in the gas rich governorate of Shabwa, located east of Marib (Masrawy, September 21).
Tightening the Noose on Marib City
In September, Ansar Allah forces began operating in western Shabwa (Middle East Eye, September 24). Control of Shabwa, which, like Marib, is home to vital energy infrastructure, is currently divided among forces loyal to the IRG and those loyal to the Southern Transitional Council (STC). Ansar Allah is taking full advantage of these rivalries which have alienated many Shabwa elites.
If Ansar Allah holds onto western Shabwa, it will be able to hamper IRG supply lines and protect those forces by maneuvering into positions southeast of Marib city. The move into Shabwa is also designed to protect Ansar Allah’s own supply lines that now run through northern al-Bayda and southern Marib. The supply lines cross through complex terrain that makes it difficult for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) to target convoys.
Ansar Allah knows that seizing Marib will be militarily and politically costly. Thus, Ansar Allah will likely encircle the city. Such a move will further embarrass the IRG while still leaving the IRG to manage the humanitarian crisis that will result from partial or complete encirclement.
Outlook
Saudi Arabia is again trying to help the IRG and allied forces hold their lines with increased air support and funding. However, air support and payouts are not enough to stop Ansar Allah from gaining ground. At best, increased air support may force Ansar Allah to slow its offensive as it reroutes supply lines and conceals positions. The return on increases in funding to tribes allied with the IRG is marginal. Ironically, it is Ansar Allah that often benefits from the funds as tribesmen purchase goods and materiel from brokers and merchants linked with Ansar Allah. [4]
It is likely that Ansar Allah will encircle Marib city. If this happens, there will be a renewed push by the Ansar Allah leadership to negotiate some kind of power sharing agreement with Marib’s tribal elite, thereby bypassing the IRG. If the IRG fails to stop the encirclement and capture of Marib, its days as a viable power in Yemen will be numbered – by Michael Horton
https://jamestown.org/program/houthi-militants-in-ansar-allah-move-toward-marib-in-yemen/
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Victims in the Shadows: The psychological scars of war
In war, there are spaces absent from the humanitarian landscape, in which people are licking their wounds or dying silently in the face of the uncaring media and its audience. The war is like a fire in a forest, in which only the highest trees are seen burning, while everything else, down to the living organisms on the forest floor, die in silence.
Those who look more carefully at the victims of war will find many more tragedies than those most directly obvious from the impact of each incident. Some victims are still writhing from pain [months/years] later, and some have died of the psychological scars and the severe trauma they’ve experienced.
As a human rights activist, every time I go to one of the four coastal districts of Taiz (Al-Mukha, Dhu Bab, Mawza, and Al-Waziyah) to document the human rights violations that occur there, I carefully examine the statements of witnesses and find that there are phrases and sentences tucked deep into their stories, that when explored, reveal that there the victims are not just those who were directly—physically—impacted.
On January 23, 2020 I went to As-Suffai village of Al-Waziyah District to document an incident of an anti-vehicle landmine explosion that had severely wounded and disabled six children. The landmine was left by the Ansar Allah (Houthi) armed group near the village. It exploded when the children found it, tampered with it, and threw stones at it from afar.
As I went to As-Suffai that day to examine the impact of the explosion on the victims and their families, feeling that the explosion would likely leave behind many psychological scars, particularly as the victims were children. Witnesses told me that the brother of one of the victims, 10-year-old Ali Nasser Al-Atoumi, was traumatized and scared because of his brother’s injury. Since the explosion, he has been unable to sleep at night. He wakes up screaming and runs from his bed.
In a separate incident, Saudi/UAE-led Coalition warplanes bombed Al-Zahra’a school in Mawza city on August 8, 2016, causing severe damage to the school. According to the media, no civilians were directly harmed.
Nonetheless, what the journalists who reported on the incident, as well as most residents of the area, do not know is the psychological trauma that the airstrike inflicted on a young girl. Nusseibah Ammar Qassem, who was 15 years old at the time of the attack and lived near the school, suffered from post-traumatic stress, and anxiety, and has become more introverted as a result of the panic and fear she felt during the airstrike. After extensive treatment and care, her condition has now become relatively stable, but the effects of fear still threaten her.
The impact of trauma does not stop at just the psychological, as these are often then lead to physical illness that result in the death of the victim.
People in conflict zones have are urgently in need of psychological care. It is clear from the scars caused by this unjust war that the conflict has become the responsibility of everyone. In the shadow of each incident, and behind each direct victim, lies additional pain and death from the psychological impact of this war on its victims.
https://mwatana.org/en/victims-in-the-shadows/
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Yemen’s Most Pressing Problem Isn’t War. It’s the Economy.
International agencies are fixated on the humanitarian crisis instead of the economic conditions that caused it.
I am a Yemeni national and have been working on developmental and governance issues in Yemen for almost two decades in multiple roles.
I recently returned from a monthlong visit to Yemen. During my time there, I was able to travel to six major Yemeni cities with stops in smaller towns and villages along the way. I met with leaders of local authorities and chambers of commerce, bankers, traders, and politicians from across Yemen’s political spectrum. I also took part in discussions with hundreds of youth leaders and civil society representatives in town halls across the country. We discussed their views on the ongoing conflict and the peace process, the different governorates’ development priorities, the capacity challenges facing local authorities, and young Yemenis’ visions for the future. But the issue that came up the most and was seen as the most urgent problem facing Yemen wasn’t the military aspects of the war. It was the economy.
War always has a devastating effect on countries’ economies, and Yemen is no exception. In the first year of the war alone, economic output fell by an estimated 28 percent. Exacerbating matters, economic conflict between the Houthis and the government has essentially split Yemen into two monetary and economic zones over the past several years.
The riyal’s value collapsed in government-controlled areas—falling to less than 1,100 riyals this September—while it remained relatively stable in Houthi-controlled areas. The price of basic goods has skyrocketed in government-controlled areas while wages, when they are paid out, have remained stagnant. In Houthi-controlled areas, meanwhile, public salaries haven’t been paid regularly in years, and fuel prices have soared amid shortages and a dispute between the Houthis and the government over imports to the Red Sea port of Hodeida.
These issues are relatively well-known among Yemen watchers. Less visible but still sources of rising frustration inside the country are outrageous fees of up to 100 percent of the transfer amount on transfers between different areas of control in Yemen, cooking gas shortages, and a flailing banking sector that has meant many hard-earned bank deposits are frozen.
This is just a shortlist of the challenges faced by the minority of Yemenis who still earn the semblance of a regular income to contend with on a daily basis. It is easy to forget when you are outside of Yemen, but these economic issues are not an abstract technical matter: They impact the lives of millions of people on a daily basis, as I saw on my travels.
In the southern port city of Aden, meanwhile, many of the people I met had not slept for days because of continuous electricity outages that prevented them from running air conditioning units or even simple fans. Mothers in Taiz, an industrial city that sits between Sanaa and Aden and is caught in Yemen’s complex internal conflicts’ crossfires, are unable to buy food for their children because of some of the highest market prices in the country, caused by a lack of road access and the collapsing riyal. Fuel and cooking gas shortages in Sanaa made it hard not just to prepare meals but to ensure water was clean – by Rafat Al-Akhali
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/08/yemen-crisis-war-economy-conflict-humanitarian-response/
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Economic Crisis, Political Divisions Spark Protests in Yemen’s South
As divisions among competing parties and the conflict persist, the economy is spiraling, leaving the majority of Yemenis without access to public services and without the means to meet their basic needs.
On September 15, the United Arab Emirates-backed Southern Transitional Council declared a state of emergency across Yemen’s southern governorates. The declaration was made by the STC’s leader, Aidarous al-Zubaidi in a televised speech following days of protests in Aden and other cities in southern Yemen sparked largely by economic grievances, including widespread poverty, increasing food prices, a drop in the value of Yemen’s currency, and electricity shortages. During these protests, at least three people were killed in clashes with security forces, highlighting the rising tensions in Yemen’s South, where ongoing conflict and increasing divisions are exacerbating the economic crisis.
The state of emergency did not prevent citizens in various southern cities, including Taiz, from taking to the streets. The protesters are blaming various parties, including the STC – in the areas that it controls – and the government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi for the poor living conditions. Charles Schmitz, a professor of geography at Towson University and Yemen specialist, indicated that instability in Yemen has led to the decline in investment and production. He noted in an email interview that this dramatically reduced production has resulted in a decrease in domestic salaries, lack of exports to earn foreign exchange to cover imports, reduced income for the United Nations-recognized Yemeni government, and the inflationary printing of currency to cover expenses. He suggested that the STC and Hadi government “are in trouble because they cannot fulfill the basic needs of people. They will continue to lose legitimacy. The Houthis are in the same boat, but their repression is more effective.”
According to the International Monetary Fund, the country’s gross domestic product is projected to decrease 2% this year after contracting 8.5% last year. This is likely to continue to have negative implications for the country’s economy.
On September 25, the Aden Electricity Corporation announced that generation stations were beginning to be gradually shut down because of fuel shortages after a Saudi shipment containing 75,000 metric tons of fuel designated for electricity production had been delayed. According to Yemeni journalist Ahmed Maher, the generators in Aden are very old and aren’t sufficient for the city’s needs. In an interview, he noted, “Currently, the state pays private companies huge sums of money to buy the electric power and oil derivatives. The fourth shipment of Saudi fuel has been unloaded. The Yemeni government pays for the fuel that comes from Saudi Arabia, but at a lower price, which is why it is considered a grant. Saudi fuel improves the general situation, but this does not solve the problem.” Maher, who served between 2019 and early 2021 as a media affairs advisor to the Yemeni minister of transportation, added, “The issue of electricity in Aden and Yemen will only be resolved by the creation of huge power stations and supply lines that belong to the state.” Therefore, electricity shortages and outages are likely to continue to be an issue as the conflict persists.
There are various factors, historical and geographical, shaping divisions in Yemen’s South. These divisions are perpetuating the conflict, and warring parties are prioritizing their own interests and agendas over collaboration and effective governance. Meanwhile, Yemen’s economy is perilously on the verge of total collapse. Indeed, as long as economic conditions continue to deteriorate, and people’s basic needs are not being met, protests such as those recently in Yemen’s South are likely to become more commonplace and widespread – by Abdulaziz Kilani
https://agsiw.org/economic-crisis-political-divisions-spark-protests-in-yemens-south/
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Ansar Allah (Houthi) armed Group carries out a brutal execution after unfair trials by the Specialized Criminal Court
Mwatana releases a study on the use of Specialized Criminal Courts by the parties to the conflict as a tool to persecute adversaries and penalize political opponents.
Mwatana’s legal study, released today, shows that parties to the armed conflict in Yemen have committed various violations against detainees were brought to specialized criminal courts. Mwatana calls for the conflicting parties to end the arbitrariness that the defendants are subjected to prior and during the course of the trial proceedings, and to obligate to ensure that the judiciary is independent and not used as an instrument of conflict.
Throughout the years of armed conflict in Yemen, warring parties have used the judiciary represented by specialized criminal courts as a tool of abusing adversaries and penalizing political opponents. The study concluded that the indictments submitted by the criminal Procuratorate to the criminal court, specialized in the cases under question, were based on evidence-gathering records, and that all judgements were handed down based on those records. Such records were often confined to the defendants’ confessions before the security authorities and the criminal Procuratorate controlled by the authority of the parties to the conflict, without conducting serious investigations into the truth of the case or into the truth of the evidence of facts denied by defendants before the judicial council of the court. Some defendants reported that the confessions were extracted under duress and physical and psychological torture during the long period of detention, which calls into question their legal value as clues in accordance with the law.
The 129-page study, which Mwatana titled as “Courts for Abuse: Case Study on Specialized Criminal Courts in Yemen” examines how the conduct of trials before these courts and the sentences handed down by them are consistent with fair trial principles.
The study examined a sample of cases considered by the specialized criminal courts during the period from 2014 to 2020 in Sana’a (controlled by Ansar Allah group) and Hadhrmout (controlled by the Internationally Recognized Government). The study relied systematically on taking notes of those cases in question and examining the judgements handed down, and on the notes taken by the victims’ defenses and their pleadings from the judgements of those cases. On October 22, 2020, Mwatana held a focused discussion session entitled “Specialized Criminal Courts – Legal Framework and Actual Practice”, with the aim of discussing the status of these courts and taking the views of specialists. A number of academics, legal experts and leading lawyers, who have previously acted as defence counsel for victims before specialized criminal courts, participated in the session.
The study examined the historical background of the establishment of the Specialized Criminal Court and Procuratorate in Yemen in 1999, and the radical transformation of their function and framework following the amendment included in the Republican Decree No (8) 2004, which was issued five years after the establishment of the court and added the state security crimes and public security crimes to the jurisdiction of the court, and the consequent transformation of specialized criminal courts into State Security courts. Even prior to the latest armed conflict in 2014, the successive authorities intentionally tried political opponents, journalists, opinion-makers and members of religious minorities before the Specialized Criminal Court rather than the ordinary criminal courts, with the aim of abusing and intimidating them.
The study concluded that the cases, in which pleas were submitted that the Specialized Criminal Court lacked jurisdiction to hear the proceedings before it, were rejected by the court and decided to proceed with the case. Then, it confirmed its rejection of the pleas for lack of jurisdiction through its final judgment. One of the cases in which the Specialized Criminal Court in Sana’a rejected the plea for lack of jurisdiction was, for example, the case concerning the trial of journalists, where the court continued to hear the case and sentenced four journalists to death for what the court called “crimes of publication” and classified them as State Security Crimes. The normal or ordinary judiciary is an international and constitutional guarantee of fair trials, under which the basic guarantees of protection of the rights of the defendants are provided during their appearance before the courts in both ordinary and exceptional circumstances.
In its conclusions, the study revealed that the Specialized Criminal Courts and Procuratorates – under the authorities of the parties to the conflict – condoned claims and pleas of defendants by violating the requirements and guarantees of their right to a fair trial recognized under international and national laws. Such violations include, unlawful arresting procedures, arbitrary detentions, prolonged enforced disappearance in prisons, use of torture and other forms of inhumane treatment, depriving defendants of medical care, and preventing them from contacting their families or lawyers.
The study also revealed that many of the court cases were unreasonably prolonged. They could be identified as unfair trials, according to the international standards, in terms of the time they took. For example, the Specialized Criminal Court in Sana’a held (33) hearings on one of the significant cases, and the judgement was not handed down until three years after the trial began. The trial hearings of the same case before the Specialized Criminal Appeals Court in Sana’a also lasted (20) hearings, and judgement was not rendered until one year and three months. Prior to that, the trail hearings by the Specialized Criminal Appeals Court did not begin until one year after filing the petition to challenge the judgement of the Specialized Criminal Court.
Besides, the study showed that respecting fair trial guarantees practically requires that each of the trail steps and proceedings to be bounded by precise controls and requirements, whether with regard to the validity of the proceedings against defendants (before and during the trial), powers of the authorities and persons conducting those proceedings, or proceedings timing and time scheduling. The law-prescribed penalty for failure to respect the defendants’ rights and guarantees is nullity of the trial or nullity of the proceedings, and therefore the right to compensation and reparation of any person affected.
The study concluded that specialized criminal courts and procuratorates condoned the claims and pleas of defendants with violating their rights and guarantees established under the Constitution and the law by the seizure and investigation entities (especially with regard to the illegality of the procedures of arresting them, detaining them for prolonged periods in prisons of security entities, torturing them sometimes, depriving them of medical care, and preventing them from contacting their families or lawyers) and by The failure of the courts to seriously investigate those pleas that deciding on them depends on the validity or invalidity of the procedures and evidence, and therefore the validity or invalidity of the judgments, which constitutes a fundamental breach of the guarantees and rights of the defendants to a fair trial according to the international and national standards.
The study also showed an aspect of the practices in which Specialized Criminal Courts abuse the right of defending the defendants. Such practices include the failure to allow defendants of State Security cases to freely choose their own lawyers, whom they trust and are competent to defend them, while assigning (appointing) defense lawyers by the court is merely to fulfill the legal form of the trial, except in rare cases. In addition, the lawyers assigned by the courts were deliberately not allowed, often in the first hearing of the trial, to review and obtain a copy of the whole case file. Where the lawyers were allowed to do so, they were not given sufficient time to prepare their defense, nor to freely communicate with their clients outside the trial hearings, but rather they were prevented from pleading before the court sometimes.
The study concluded that the Specialized Criminal Courts – as an institution and as individuals – have fallen under the influence and leverage of the parties to the conflict, especially when it comes to hearing cases that are altered as threatening to the state security. The parties to the conflict have shown a flagrant disregard for the principle of judicial independence, which includes a clear disregard for the rule of law.
https://mwatana.org/en/unfair-trials/
and full study: https://mwatana.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Courts-for-Abuse-Study-En-.pdf
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Reflection of US Withdrawal from Afghanistan on Yemen’s War
Through its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US administration set its priorities, and it seems that the Middle East is not among those priorities. The Arab Gulf states understood the message and took it seriously, but what happened in Afghanistan is reflected in one way and another on the Arabian Peninsula and the war in Yemen.[2]
This report discusses the horizons to end the Yemeni war and the change or fading of external alliances with local parties in two axes:
The impact of the current Afghan situation on the US politics and its Cold War with China and Russia, as well as with Turkey and Iran as influential powers in the region, and the reflection of such war on the Arab Gulf states and the Yemen war.
The prospects to end the war according to the situation of forces on the ground and the proposed international initiatives, according to the new developments.
Second: The impact of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan on Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula falls within the regional and international variables related to Afghanistan events and the US withdrawal after 20 years. Yemen has been experiencing a brutal war since the Iran-backed Houthis took control of Sana’a in 2014, and an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March 2015 to support the legitimate government.
Before we know the impact of developments in Afghanistan on the Yemeni war, it is necessary to understand the current situation in Yemen:
No local party is victorious in the war
Saudi Arabia's intention to get out of the Yemeni war
Multilateralism in the government / Coalition Camp
Differences between Saudi Arabia and the UAE
The complexity of the Yemeni conflict: The conflict in Yemen is complicated and linked to a group of conflicting local parties, which depend on external forces that prolong the conflict and fuel the war. The external forces are not able to stop the war alone, but rather it depends on local parties to reach an agreement. However, the intervention of external parties in a multi-faceted cold war complicates the situation, and reaching a peace agreement becomes more complicated.
Popularity of the parties: Most of Yemenis no longer trust the parties to the conflict, but they still hope to restore the state that protects their rights and organizes their lives.
Combating terrorism: Washington believes that the next terrorist threat to its national security after Afghanistan is coming from countries experiencing conflicts, including Yemen.
International Efforts
Third: Regional and International Changes Related to Yemen:
As mentioned so far, the war in Yemen is a multifaceted struggle for influence regionally and internationally.[18] The Gulf countries are very sensitive to changes in international relations that may affect their national security, especially relations with the United States, their main ally.
The message of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan quickly reached the Gulf region, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which Riyadh considers - at least – a clear message presented by three US administrations (Obama - Trump - Biden) that the US withdrawal from the Middle East and confronting the Russian and Chinese influence is at the top of its agenda in the Middle East in the next phase. With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Washington showed its seriousness to withdraw from the Middle East and betray its allies.
Scenarios:
The events in Afghanistan have pushed the region countries to rethinking of their future security away from the US protection. If they do not decide to agree on one strategy to face the Iranian influence, the Gulf countries may go to other Arab countries to build defense alliances. The Baghdad conference[27] may refer to the nature of the coming phase: The Arab countries’ attempts to stop the fragmentation and the size of Iranian and Turkish presence in the region in the near future. The American withdrawal from Afghanistan sent a message which the Arab Coalition understood that Americans are giving up their allies who must be prepared to deal with this change, and the enemies and competitors of America (Russia, China, Turkey, and Iran) understood that there is a vacuum after the US withdrawal must be exploited. This vacuum will also throw heavy burden on the European Union and Britain to take the initiative to fill in the gap.[28]
It also represents a motivation for each of the Yemeni and regional parties to accept the European initiatives. After years of the United Nations failure to mediate to end of the war, now the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, needs for a radical change in international approach to end the conflict and a wider understanding of the Yemeni file. So he needs for more support from the European Union, particularly Britain. But all that requires deeper understanding of the Yemeni problem and the extent of the influence of the local communities before understanding the interests and desires of local war parties and their regional supporters. Accordingly, we can imagine the paths of the war in Yemen after the earthquake of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
. The rampant corruption in the legitimate government and its failure to provide services, corruption within the national army, and Saudi dependence on political components leaving the tribal depth and its impact on society and war are very similar to those that led to the handover of Afghanistan to the Taliban movement. If Saudi Arabia decides to withdraw from Yemen before setting a new plan to face the Houthis and Iran’s influence, the Houthis movement will impose its influence on most the areas, and the local parties and their regional sponsors, such as the UAE, will seek early agreement with the Houthis to ensure their survival.[29]
The variables in Yemen, the popular congestion, the lack of security, and the collapse of the economy in the southern governorates, will make the people accept to be ruled by any power, even if they don’t like it, to impose security and recover the economy, rather than current local parties. If the war, insecurity, and the economic collapse continue for a long time, this will cause Yemenis to lose their hope in the ability of the current authorities to manage their areas and tackle their demands, so they may escalate protests or accept any other party from outside the current authorities to administer their affairs, even if it is an extremist group. The United States, after its withdrawal from Afghanistan, will try to achieve new victories over Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, and it seems that Yemen or Somalia will witness an intensified fighting against the two organizations to keep the US reputation that was harmed following the American withdrawal from Kabul. The latest US statement said “the terrorist danger comes from Yemen, Somalia, and Syria not from Afghanistan.”[30] The Houthis present themselves as the only power that is capable to fight Al-Qaeda. This pushes United States and Western countries to seek cooperation with the Houthis to fight the two organizations and what will increase this possibility is the absence of Western intelligence in Yemen and reaching agreement in Vienna about the Iranian nuclear program.
https://abaadstudies.org/news-59889.html
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Abandoning Yemen – OpEd
Monday, October 11, marked the official closure of the UN Group of Eminent Experts (Group of Experts or GEE) on Yemen. For close to four years, this highly respected investigative body scrupulously examined alleged violations and abuses of human rights suffered by Yemenis whose basic rights to food, shelter, safety, health care and education are being horribly violated even as they have been bludgeoned by Saudi and U.S. air strikes. “This is a major setback for all victims who have suffered serious violations during the armed conflict,” the Group of Experts wrote in a statement the day after the UN Human Rights Council refused to extend a mandate for them to continue their work. “The Council appears to be abandoning the people of Yemen,” the statement says, adding that “Victims of this tragic armed conflict should not be silenced by the decision of a few States.”
Prior to the vote, there were indications that Saudi Arabia and its allies, such as Bahrain which sits on the UN Human Rights Council, had increased lobbying efforts worldwide in a bid to do away with the Group of Experts. Actions of the Saudi-led Coalition waging war against Yemen have been examined and reported on by the Group of Experts. Last year, the Saudi bid for a seat on the Human Rights Council was rejected, but Bahrain serves as its proxy.
Bahrain is a notorious human rights violator and a staunch member of the Saudi-led Coalition which buys billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry from the U.S. and other countries to bomb Yemen’s infrastructure, kill civilians and displace millions of people.
The Group of Experts was mandated to investigate violations committed by all warring parties, and so it’s possible the Ansar Allah leadership, often known as the Houthis, also wished to avoid the Group’s scrutiny.
The Group of Experts’ mission has come to an end, but the fear and intimidation faced by Yemeni victims and witnesses continues.
I greatly hope Mwatana, The Yemen Data Project, The Yemen Foundation, and all of the journalists and human rights activists passionately involved in opposing the war that rages in Yemen become names that occasion respect, gratitude and support. I hope they’ll continue documenting violations and abuse. But I know their work on the ground in Yemen will now be even more dangerous.
Meanwhile, the lobbyists who’ve served the Saudi government so well have certainly made a name for themselves in Washington, D.C. and beyond.
Grass roots activists committed to ending human rights abuses must uphold solidarity with civil society groups defending human rights in Yemen and Afghanistan. Governments waging war and protecting human rights abusers must immediately end their pernicious practices. In the United States, peace activists must tell the military contractors, lobbyists and elected representatives, “Not in our name!” and demand that the United States government do a U-turn, extending a “no strings attached” hand of friendship to people in need and abolishing all wars forever. A good start would be for the U.S. to stop trying to cover-up the atrocities, like the Yemeni war, in which it is involved – by Kathy Kelly
https://www.eurasiareview.com/13102021-abandoning-yemen-oped/
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Abandoning Yemen to War Criminals
The United Nations body responsible for monitoring and recording human rights abuses effectively abandoned the people of Yemen last week. In a 21-18 vote with seven abstentions, the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) refused to extend the mandate of an independent investigation into war crimes committed by all sides in Yemen. Since its establishment in 2017, the Group of Eminent Experts (GEE) had served as a limited mechanism for holding war criminals in the conflict accountable for their outrages against the civilian population. The Saudi government had fought against the establishment of an investigative group early in the war because they wanted to keep the coalition’s crimes concealed from international scrutiny. Now the Saudi government has successfully lobbied enough members of the UNHRC to shut down the investigation into the crimes that they and the other belligerents have committed against the people of Yemen. The vote showed how indifferent most of the world still is to the plight of the people of Yemen after more than six years of carnage and famine.
The Saudis have the most to gain by killing an independent investigation.
The Saudi government stands out as one of the worst culprits in the war, and that is why they are so determined to bury the evidence of their crimes.
The independent investigation has documented extensive abuses and crimes by all parties to the conflict.
The GEE released a statement after the vote to end its mandate, imploring, "The people of Yemen should not be forgotten; the people of Yemen must not be silenced." Unfortunately, the decision to end the monitoring of war crimes is typical of the international response to Yemen’s war and humanitarian crisis. The people of Yemen are ignored as much as they are because there is no one that can credibly speak for the majority of Yemenis, and they remain trapped in a war that is waged upon them by states and armed groups that thrive on the mayhem.
The Saudi government made an intense effort to kill the UN investigation into war crimes so that they and their allies could continue killing innocent Yemenis with impunity. The very least that the US can do under the circumstances is to stop enabling their ability to wage war on the people of Yemen. That means at a minimum that the US needs to cut off all military assistance to the Saudi government and any other coalition government still involved in the conflict.
The lack of international support for credible, independent investigations into war crimes in Yemen is a serious blow, but it is not the end of the effort to hold war criminals to account. There are still human rights groups doing the essential work of documenting crimes committed against the people of Yemen – by Daniel Larison
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel_larison/2021/10/12/abandoning-yemen-to-war-criminals/ = https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/abandoning-yemen-to-war-criminals/
My remark: More in cp7.
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
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10 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 9,412 in total
The committee also reported in its statement the recovery of 18 coronavirus patients, in addition to the death of 5 others.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33889
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33 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 9,402 in total
The committee also reported in its statement the recovery of 9 coronavirus patients, in addition to the death of 4 others.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33882
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24 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 9,369 in total
The committee also reported in its statement the recovery of 11 coronavirus patients, in addition to the death of 3 others.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33878
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12 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 9,345 in total
The committee also reported in its statement the recovery of 9 coronavirus patients, in addition to the death of 2 others.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33871
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34 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 9,333 in total
The committee also reported in its statement the recovery of 36 coronavirus patients, in addition to the death of 8 others.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33865
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Yemen _COVID-19 Mobility Restrictions_ September 2021
2,769 non-Yemeni migrants arrived at the Yemeni southern governorates of Lahj, Hadramowt and Shabwah, and 4,228 Yemeni returnees arrived in Yemen from Saudi Arabia (KSA). (Please see September FMR report for more details)
No IDP households (HH) reported COVID-19 as the reason of displacement. So far, the total number of IDP HHs who have cited COVID-19 as the primary reason for displacement is 1,559 households.
https://migration.iom.int/reports/yemen-covid-19-mobility-restrictions-september-2021
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28 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 9,299 in total
The committee also reported in its statement the recovery of 13 coronavirus patients, in addition to the death of 2 others.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33860
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In search of a COVID-19 vaccine in Yemen
Conspiracy theories, misinformation and Houthi refusals to vaccinate people in areas under their control mean that Yemenis are struggling to get a dose
Last March, the Houthi Ministry of Health in Sanaa requested 10,000 doses from the World Health Organization (WHO), to immunise healthcare workers. However, in mid-April, according to the WHO office in Yemen, the group reduced the order to 1,000 shots, “provided they will be supplied with larger quantities of future batches”.
On 31 March, COVAX provided the Ministry of Health of the internationally recognised Yemen government, led by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, with the first batch of 360,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The shipment was meant for all Yemeni provinces, including those controlled by the Houthis.
When the first batch arrived at Aden airport, the whole country was suffering from the deterioration of its health sector and medical services. Areas controlled by the Hadi government were witnessing a second wave of the pandemic, while the Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa and Yemen’s northern provinces, were withholding information about the number of coronavirus infections in their areas.
Medical staff working at health facilities in Houthi controlled areas were still optimistic about being allocated a share of the vaccines, however.
“The first batch of vaccines could be lifesaving for Yemenis,” said Abdallah Ali, an ER doctor at Kuwait Hospital in Sanaa. “Prioritising the medical staff would be a positive step to protect healthcare workers who deal with infected people on a daily basis. We have lost many colleagues due to the pandemic; we don’t want to lose any more.”
Ali hoped that the warring parties would take the vaccination of citizens and healthcare staff seriously, and that the issue would not be politicised. But this proved not to be the case in areas controlled by the Houthis.
Last March, the Houthi Ministry of Health in Sanaa requested 10,000 doses from the World Health Organization (WHO), to immunise healthcare workers. However, in mid-April, according to the WHO office in Yemen, the group reduced the order to 1,000 shots, “provided they will be supplied with larger quantities of future batches”.
Houthi conspiracy theories
Dr Ishrak Sibai, an official at the Hadi Ministry of Health, said that the Houthis do not believe the pandemic is real, which is why there are no vaccinations in Sanaa or other provinces under their control. The Ministry of Health is willing to provide vaccinations to all the Yemeni provinces, she explained, but the Houthis refuse to cooperate since they consider the pandemic to be an international conspiracy.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/in-search-of-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-yemen/
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A lethal fever has started spreading in the city of Taiz besieged by Houthis, medical sources have said/Anbaa Aden.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51437
cp2 Allgemein / General
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Interactive Map of Yemen War
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Yemen War Daily Map Updates
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-october-12-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-october-11-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-october-10-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-october-9-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-october-7-2021-map-update/
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Film: Jemen – Die Mütter der Entführten
Do, 21.10.2021 | 23:15-00:15 | SWR
Im ganzen Land herrscht Hunger, Unterdrückung, Folter. Politische Verschleppungen sind an der Tagesordnung. In Mariams Nachbarschaft in Sanaa gibt es kaum eine Familie, die noch komplett ist. Das deutsche Auswärtige Amt spricht von über 17.000 Menschen, die in den letzten Jahren im Jemen entführt wurden. Darunter vor allem Männer. Sie werden in eins der über hundert Gefängnisse im Jemen gebracht, misshandelt, gefoltert und in vielen Fällen hingerichtet. Um die Männer aus den illegalen Gefängnissen zu befreien, engagiert sich seit 2016 der Frauenverband "Abductees Mothers Association". Eine versteckte Kamera folgt den Müttern und Ehefrauen der Untergrund-Organisation und zeichnet eine persönliche und authentische Momentaufnahme aus Sanaa. Der Film zeigt wie die Frauen ihren Protest auf die Straße bringen und sich damit oft selbst in Lebensgefahr bringen. "Egal wo wir hingehen, müssen wir aufpassen, dass die Rebellen uns nicht angreifen, beschimpfen oder gefangen nehmen." Die rund 30 Frauen organisieren Sitzstreiks, sind beteiligt an Verhandlungen zum Gefangenenaustausch und sprechen vor Ausschüssen und Organisationen. "Wir machen das, damit internationale Organisationen auf uns aufmerksam werden. Dabei geht's uns nicht nur um unsere eigenen Verwandten, sondern um alle Männer, die inhaftiert wurden." Einige Frauen aus dem Mütterverband mussten das Land verlassen, weil ein Leben im Jemen zu gefährlich für sie geworden war.
https://www.tele.at/sendungsdetails/13953520/jemen-die-muetter-der-entfuehrten.html
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Verrottender Öltanker bedroht neun Millionen Menschen
Der verlassene Öltanker FSO Safer treibt vor der Küste des Jemen – mit an Bord sind 160 Millionen Liter Rohöl.
Im Roten Meer vor Jemen schwimmt ein verlassener Öltanker.
In seinem Innern lagern 160 Millionen Liter Rohöl.
Sinkt, leckt oder explodiert der Tanker, hätte das katastrophale Folgen.
Vor der Küste des Jemen droht eine riesige Umweltkatastrophe. Im Roten Meer rostet ein riesiger Öltanker seit sechs Jahren vor sich hin. Sollte die FSO Safer, wie der Tanker heisst, sinken oder explodieren, wäre das Ausmass gigantisch – 160 Millionen Liter drohen auszulaufen.
Durch den Ölteppich würden nicht nur mehrere Häfen lahmgelegt werden, die wichtig für den Transport von Hilfsgütern sind, sondern auch die Fischerei würde innerhalb von drei Wochen zerstört werden. Anlagen zur Trinkwasseraufbereitung würden ausfallen. Rund acht Millionen Menschen würde als Folge der Zugang zu fliessendem Wasser fehlen. Hinzu kämen gesundheitliche Schäden durch verschmutzte Luft, durch Rauch und Verdunstungen.
Die aufgezeigten Optionen sind Schätzungen. Abhängig davon, wie schlimm das Ausmass der Katastrophe sein könnte, sind verschiedenste Faktoren. Bricht das Schiff auseinander? Explodiert es? Oder laufen nicht alle Tanks aus? Das und mehr sind Faktoren, die das Schicksal des Tankers und des maritimen Ökosystems erheblich beeinflussen.
Noch sind die Tanks nicht leck und noch ist nichts explodiert. Das sei aber nur eine Frage der Zeit, schreiben die Forscher. Eine Ölpest kann nur noch abgewandt werden, wenn das Öl schnellstmöglich aus dem Schiff geborgen wird.
https://www.20min.ch/story/verrottender-oeltanker-bedroht-neun-millionen-menschen-986958459684
und auch (mit Bezahlschranke): https://www.pressreader.com/austria/die-presse/20211013/281621013517532
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‘Looming disaster’: Oil ship leak threatens millions of Yemenis
Houthi rebels have been accused by opponents of delaying a solution to the stricken oil tanker crisis in an attempt to gain politically.
An oil spill involving a deteriorating tanker moored off the coast of Yemen could potentially disrupt food and water supplies for millions of people in the conflict-ridden country, as well as further afield, in an environmental catastrophe that would be felt across the region.
A team of researchers from Stanford University, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley released the findings of their models on the impact of an oil spill from the FSO Safer in a paper published on Monday in the Nature Sustainability journal.
The researchers stressed urgent action was required to stop a “looming disaster” that would affect an estimated nine million people who would be without drinking water, and shut down Yemen’s main ports, thereby worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis.
About 68 percent of humanitarian aid to Yemen enters through the ports of Hodeidah and Salif, which lie near to the stricken Safer, and more than half of Yemen’s population depends on humanitarian aid.
“The spill and its potentially disastrous impacts remain entirely preventable through offloading the oil,” the study said.
Four times Exxon Valdez
FSO Safer has not been maintained since the start of the conflict in Yemen in 2015, and negotiations between the United Nations and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who control the ship and the area of Yemen’s coast nearest to it, remain at a standstill.
The oil tanker now lies practically abandoned, with only a skeleton crew on board. However, it also contains 1.1 million barrels of oil, an amount that is four times the amount spilled in the world’s most environmentally damaging oil spill – the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster.
‘Humanitarian disaster’
The area of the Red Sea that would be affected by any oil spill is also home to several desalination plants that provide clean drinking water for people, including in Saudi Arabia and Eritrea, and fisheries that provide an income to millions of Yemenis.
Away from the coast, the researchers modelled the potential for air pollution to spread following a spill, and found it could reach central and northern parts of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, increasing the risk of cardiovascular and respiratory health issues.
“The spill would certainly exacerbate the humanitarian disaster in Yemen,” Benjamin Huynh, one of the authors of the paper and a researcher at Stanford University, told Al Jazeera.
“With nine million losing access to clean water and seven million losing access to food supplies, we’d expect mass preventable deaths through starvation, dehydration, and water-borne illness. This is further compounded by the expected fuel and medical supplies shortage, potentially inducing widespread hospital shutdowns.”
The damage to Safer is now believed to be irreversible, meaning steps need to be taken to make some repairs, and then safely remove the oil from the ship.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/10/deteriorating-oil-tanker.html = https://www.eurasiareview.com/12102021-anticipated-spill-from-deteriorating-red-sea-oil-tanker-threatens-public-health/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/12/middleeast/yemen-oil-tanker-spill-report-intl/index.html
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Yemen has become a Vietnam-like quagmire for Saudi Arabia – with no simple solution to end the war
Riyadh desperately wants to put an end to the conflict, but on terms that are not humiliating to it and its Yemeni partners that make up the internationally recognised government (paywalled)
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices/yemen-saudi-arabia-houthis-b1935664.html
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Dismantle militias, resume political process in Yemen, urges Nobel laureate
Coinciding 10th anniversary of her winning Nobel Prize Tawakkol Karman tells Anadolu Agency that respect for Yemen’s unity, security, and sovereignty is vital
Yemeni Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman has vowed to continue her struggle against internal and external counter-revolution forces that work together against her war-ravaged country.
She also called for stopping the war, dismantling all militias, and resuming the political process.
In an exclusive interview with the Anadolu Agency on the 10th anniversary of her winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Karman said Yemenis are facing a “fateful battle” against enemies who are trying to destroy and divide their country.
“Although the greed of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE to gain influence i
Referring to the motives of the Arab Spring in Yemen, Karman said: “We believed in our right to live with dignity, justice, democracy, equality, and establish a state of law. We believed in our right to change a tyrannical, failed, and corrupt regime.”
She said these demands were still valid.
“I was nothing but a model for that massive popular and social movement. When my win of the Nobel Prize was announced, every Yemeni woman saw that as a symbolic honor for herself, and those who participated in the popular revolution saw that as a global honor and recognition of their free will,” Karman added.
As the international community has been trying for the past seven years to establish peace in Yemen, Karman believed that it can only be achieved by putting an end to the Iranian, Saudi, and Emirati interventions.
She said that Iran and Saudi Arabia have turned Yemen into an arena for their rivalry and ambitions.
“Leaving the de-facto authority of Houthis unresolved is a continuous declaration of war against our people. The existence of the UAE guardianship over the islands of Yemen, most importantly in Socotra, Mayan, Bab al-Mandab, and Balhaf port, is a declaration of war, and there will be no peace in Yemen without lifting this guardianship,” she added.
She asked the world to put pressure on Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE to stop tampering with Yemen.
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Film: T he Edge: Germany Politics, Yemen War, Afghanistan Security / 08.10.2021
UN ENDS WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATION IN YEMEN (min 17:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgySXytV9NA
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Yemen: talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran offer hopes for an end to bitter seven-year civil war
Recent statements from Iran and Saudi Arabia have provided hope that a pathway might be emerging to an end to the bitter seven-year civil war in Yemen which has killed an estimated quarter of a million people and left millions more homeless.
Commenting at the beginning of October, Saudi minister of foreign affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, expressed the hope that the talks would “provide a basis to address unresolved issues between the two sides”. The following day, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, told reporters that all parties were “trying to start a sustainable relationship within a mutually beneficial framework”, adding that talks were “in their best state”.
While tensions between the two states have been high, in recent years there has been an acceptance among Saudi officials that Riyadh’s confrontational policy towards Iran has failed. But a great deal of work needs to be done to address not only decades of animosity but also the practicalities of ending conflict in Yemen. The semi-regular prisoner swaps will only go so far towards achieving this.
Fractious relationship
While many date the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran to the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, tensions can be traced far earlier – reflecting a series of issues pertaining to geography and the treatment of minority groups. But the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran raised the pressure.
Resolving conflict
A resolution of tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran can have a dramatic impact across the region. Yet the interplay of regional and local politics means that fighting in Yemen can hinder any regional peace agreements. Meanwhile, tensions continue thanks to the provision of funding by regional powers to local groups in pursuit of increased influence.
As a consequence, a clear mechanism to build trust – and ultimately peace – is needed to bring about an end to fighting in Yemen. This mechanism is the subject of discussions between Saudi and Iranian officials – but reports suggest that proposals have been taken to senior Houthis in Yemen.
For Saudi Arabia, any peace with Iran is dependent on a cessation of attacks on its soil from Houthi missiles. This will require Iranian guarantees that Houthi attacks on the kingdom will end. It may also require the reopening of Sana’a airport, which currently remains under blockade. In return, Iranians expect Saudi Arabia to withdraw its opposition to the nuclear deal and a resumption of diplomatic relations.
But peacebuilding is never easy.
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In continuation of the efforts of the local mediation, this morning, Thursday morning, I transferred 4 bodies belonging to the National Army after they were recovered from the Jadafer front in Al-Jawf governorate, and they were delivered to the governorate of Marib and handed over to the families of the victims and the competent authority. On the other hand, 2 corpses belonging to the Ansar Allah group were taken out and delivered to Al-Hazm. (photos9
https://twitter.com/HadiGumaan/status/1446170115175821317
and for more information:
Since 2015, peace activist Hadi Jumaan evacuated 1000+ corpses of dead fighters & negotiated exchange of 220+ prisoners between parties of conflict in war-torn #Yemen. Please help him continue his extraordinary work by donating.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-unlikely-diplomat
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The UAE Defies Saudi Arabia and Entrenches Further in Yemen
Amid a growing rift with Saudi Arabia, the UAE has attempted to distance itself from its previous ally over the Yemen war. As Abu Dhabi seeks to further embed itself in Yemen’s south, the risk of a worsening relationship within the Gulf has heightened.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has faced renewed scrutiny over allegations of its continued interference in south Yemen and the island of Socotra, despite repeatedly claiming to have withdrawn militarily from the country. Meanwhile, the UAE is defying its traditional Gulf ally Saudi Arabia, as an apparent rift widens between the two countries.
Yemen is once again being neglected among the international community’s priorities
Crucially, the UAE’s role has slipped under the radar, giving it a green light to advance its interests in the impoverished country.
At worst, the UAE has faced criticism for stark humanitarian violations, from running prisons across the south in which the most medieval torture methods have occurred, to reported collaboration with Al Qaeda.
The UAE has operated shrewdly and has been able to advance its foreign policy in a proactive yet subtle manner. It has continued supporting the Southern Transitional Council (STC), forming a mutually beneficial relationship where the UAE seeks to control south Yemen’s ports and natural resources, while the STC strives to establish an independent southern state per pre-1990 unification lines.
Moreover, the Middle East Eye reported that STC officials have once again denounced al-Islah – Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood-aligned party that is allied with the Hadi government – by slamming the faction as the main obstacle to peace in Shabwa and claiming it wants to exploit the governate’s assets. Like its Emirati patrons, the STC has a burning hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood, meaning that reconciliation over Shabwa would prove a difficult challenge.
Quest for Red Sea Dominance
Gaining control of Yemen’s Socotra Island adds a significant advantage for Abu Dhabi’s quest for dominance over the Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb, and Emirati vessels have reportedly been seen shipping weapons into the island. Socotra’s residents and Yemeni analysts have alleged that the UAE is trying to manage the island’s tourism and use it as a base for geopolitical ventures in the Horn of Africa and Bab el Mandeb.
However, it is not just Socotra that the UAE has set its eye on. In May, Yemeni officials sounded the alarm over a new suspicious military base in Yemen’s Mayun Island, which is situated strategically within the Gulf of Aden. Tariq Saleh, leader of an Emirati-aligned militia and nephew of Yemen’s late President Ali Abdullah Saleh, later confirmed that his forces were indeed stationed on the island.
Additionally, Debkafile – an Israeli investigative news site with ties to Israel’s intelligence agency – claimed the UAE built an attack helicopter base on the island, to control oil tanker and commercial shipping through the Red Sea’s southern chokepoint and up to the Suez Canal.
“[The base] will also give the Emirates a jumping off pad for rapid deployment forces to reach Yemen, although they withdrew from the civil conflict there during 2019-2020,” the report stated.
https://insidearabia.com/the-uae-defies-saudi-arabia-and-entrenches-further-in-yemen/
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Statement of Abductees’ Mothers Association on the Locally Mediated Exchange in Taiz
A continuous struggle carried out by Abductees' Mothers Association for the sake of releasing the abducted civilians, gaining their freedom, returning them safely to the arms of their families, and reuniting them after years of absence and suffering.
In the midst of these efforts, the local exchange process took place in Taiz last Wednesday, September 29, 2021, for 134 abductees and prisoners,63 civilian abductees, compared to 70 Houthi prisoners of war who were arrested with the army forces in Taiz.
Abductees' Mothers Association in Taiz has followed the exchange process since the beginning of the year 2020. For the request of mediators, Abductees’ Mothers Association in Taiz prepared lists of Taizi abducted civilians who were abducted by Houthi group, as the association is the only party that owns their database and communicates continuously with their families.
The team of Abductees’ Mothers Association in Taiz prepared the list and put all the abducted civilians in it and updated it with each stage in which the parties disagreed about some names or released some individually.
During these long months, the Association sought to gather mediators and hold joint and individual meetings to bring their views closer, and overcome challenges. It also provided the data of the abducted civilians with high accuracy, and reminded the mediators of the genuine right of civilians to freedom without any conditions. The Association had made a seminar titled (Release them to Let peace come) on 21-09-2021 in which the Association gathered most prominent mediators and urged them to intensify their efforts to release the abductees unconditionally.
http://ama-ye.org/index.php?no=1751&ln=En
and
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With happy tears of long-awaited return; Abductees Mothers Association in Taiz reunites with its released sons
In Taiz, Abductees’ Mothers Association reunited with its sons, who had been detained at Houthi prisons, after being released via a prisoner exchange deal in the governorate. The deal included 136 abducted civilians and war prisoners. (photos9
http://ama-ye.org/index.php?no=1748&ln=En
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
Siehe / Look at cp1
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[Hadi] Yemeni government warns of humanitarian crisis in Marib province
Abdiya district under siege by Iranian-backed Houthis for nearly one month
The Yemeni government on Tuesday warned of a humanitarian crisis in Abdiya district in Marib province.
Drawing attention to the siege of the district by Iranian-backed Houthis, Yemeni Information Minister Moammar Al-Eryani said on Twitter that stocks of medicines and other medical supplies have run out.
Equipment in the district’s only hospital also stopped functioning due to the depletion of diesel and complete power outages.
Noting that the Houthis targeted over 500 homes in villages in Abdiya, Eryani stressed that the hospital is unable to provide much-needed medical services to 160 civilians wounded as a result of Houthi attacks.
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RDP: Yemen: Monthly Situation Report (September 2021)
Nutrition
Supporting a total of 277,663 children U2 and PLW with nutritional supplements within 16 districts of Ibb, Taizz, Dhamar and Hajjah governorates.
Providing MAM treatment to a total of 2,791 children U5 and PLW in Sama & As Silw districts of Taizz governorate.
Health
Providing essential health care services to a total of 14,867 people in As Silw district of Taizz Gov.
Food Security & Livelihood
Launching the third distribution round of food vouchers to a total number of 734 individuals (90 HHs) of crisis-affected IDPs in Bajil district of A-Hudaydah Gov.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-monthly-situation-report-september-2021
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Human Access: Interventions of the project to promote multiple, integrated and sustainable nutrition in Taiz governorate
Food insecurity has many negative effects, including poor physical growth, reduced educational attainment and work productivity, and increased risk of disease and death.
Thus came the project to enhance multiple, integrated and sustainable nutrition and maternal and child health services for disadvantaged and conflict-affected communities in Yemen, which was implemented by HUMAN ACCESS and funded by Doctors Worldwide organization.
This project aims to provide emergency life-saving nutritional interventions to the most vulnerable groups (children under five and pregnant and lactating women), and to improve life-saving maternal and child health services for women of reproductive age and newborns in Taiz Governorate.
109,502 beneficiaries
The project targeted 3 centers in the districts of Taiz governorate, namely Mudhaffar and Al Qahirah, during the period from February to August of 2021, with funding from the Turkish Doctors Worldwide organization, and the total number of beneficiaries from the project’s interventions reached 109,502.
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TİKA and AFAD Provides Humanitarian Assistance to 3100 Families in Yemen
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) and the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) provided humanitarian assistance to 3100 families in southwestern Yemen.
As part of the project implemented by TİKA and AFAD, food parcels containing nearly 120 tonnes of staples, such as flour, sugar, rice, oil, and dates, were distributed to a total of 3100 internal migrant and flood-affected families in the districts of Al-Mudhaffar, Al-Qahira, and Al-Saleh in Taiz.
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Yemen must have peace as well as aid, says Islamic Relief, welcoming a £2 million food aid boost
As Islamic Relief welcomes a £2 million United Nations funding boost to expand our food aid programme in Yemen, we warn that peace is needed as desperately as humanitarian aid.
Over 2 million people rely on food aid by Islamic Relief, the main implementing partner for the UN World Food Programme in Yemen. We distribute regular food parcels that are a lifeline for families such as Feteeni's.
"We were living on the frontlines between the two warring parties," says the father-of-9. "Our lives flashed before our eyes as the airstrikes hit many neighbouring houses. We had to flee to Sana'a."
Other interventions we've been able to make with World Food Programme funding include enabling local people to improve their communities while earning an income.
"I do any job that I can find to provide for my family, says father-of-5 Ameen, a daily labourer who travels from village to village looking for work. "Before the conflict we found work easily but now we barely find jobs."
The badly damaged main road in Ameen's village, Aljashari, made his daily quest to find work even tougher.
"Every day we walk for an hour, barefoot, to reach the main street. Vehicles can't use the road because it is filled with debris, and we had so many accidents where the cars fell down the cliff."
Ameen became one of 60 local people engaged in an Islamic Relief project to pave the road in his village.
Yemen needs peace and humanitarian aid more desperately than ever.
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Famine Is Looming Threateningly And 16.2 M Yemenis Are Facing Acute Hunger
Being a child in Yemen means to suffer immensely from preventable diseases, sustain inadequate food ratons, struggle against a prolonged conflict, endure tough living conditions, and on top of that fight for survival. All in all, a child’s life is and has always been in grave jeopardy since the war started off in 2015.
It’s almost unheard of that in a nation of 30 million people, 16.2 million are marching towards starvation. Even though the generosity of donors and their significant contributions make a difference, the country still requires a huge food aid to avert famine, especially those in rural reaches where almost all basic needs are not available and can't be obtained. In Al-Bayda governorate, thousands of families are suffering immensely from food insecurity, health care, water shortages and other basic needs. Number of malnourished children are increasing day after day.
While famine is looming threateningly and 16.2 million Yemenis are facing acute hunger, RDP has been collaborating with World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver a total amount of 658.358 (MTs) of food baskets every second month to 53,405 most affected and neediest people as well as tens of vulnerable households of IDPs through the general food assistance in Al Malagim, Wald Rabi, and As Sawadiya districts of Al-Bayda governorate.
Barakah, a woman in her seventies, has been benefiting from the general food distribution since 2018. “After the death of my husband, I was burdened with responsibilities for five daughters and kept fighting to put food on the table. I have endured the toughest living conditions and never gave up saving my children. In fact, I felt safe and delighted the day I was listed in the general food distribution program.” Barakah stated.
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Film: Jameela, whose leges were amputated by war remnants said: "If you're imprison or chained you will be free someday, but I'm chained forever to my disability."
https://twitter.com/ICRC_ye/status/1447290769677692931
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Film: Yemen: The Civil War In Its Seventh Year Has Made Life Unbearable For the Yemenis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=455k9kLbVD0
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Yemen: Flood Snapshot (As of 31 July 2021)
Starting in late July, torrential rains and widespread flooding hit Yemen for the second time this year, damaging infrastructure, homes and shelters and causing deaths and injuries. Damage to private property and other structures – including sites hosting internally displaced persons (IDPs), houses, farms, roads, power networks and sewage systems – was reported in one-third of Yemen’s districts – 101 districts – and across 18 governorates. Overall, it is estimated that 13,596 families were affected, 10,412 of whom need urgent assistance. Displaced families, especially those living in IDP sites, have been particularly impacted.
To facilitate a swift and efficient response, humanitarian partners operationalized a nationwide Flood Preparedness Plan and mobilized inter-sectoral assistance to affected populations. As of 31 July, humanitarian partners provided Rapid Response Mechanism assistance.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-flood-snapshot-31-july-2021
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Im Jemen droht Hunderttausenden Kindern der Hungertod
Sieben Jahre dauert der Bürgerkrieg im Jemen bereits an. Weil sich die Kämpfe zwischen Regierungstruppen und Rebellen ausweiten, spitzt sich laut einem Bericht der Uno die Hungerkrise dramatisch zu.
Im Bürgerkriegsland Jemen drohen nach Angaben der Vereinten Nationen fast 400.000 Kinder zu verhungern. Nach dem rund siebenjährigen Konflikt brauchten 20 Millionen Menschen Hilfe, das seien zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung, sagte der Uno-Koordinator im Jemen, David Gressly, am Montag in Genf. Eine Ausweitung der Kämpfe habe die Lage vor allem im Süden des Landes für unzählige Menschen noch schlimmer gemacht. In dem Land auf der Arabischen Halbinsel tobe die schlimmste humanitäre Krise der Welt, sagte Gressly.
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/jemen-hundertausenden-kindern-droht-der-hungertod-a-91bcf6a6-9926-4a74-9ddb-4fc9e69f9af1#ref=rss = https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/un-400-000-kindern-im-jemen-droht-der-hungertod-17580612.html
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United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, David Gressly Remarks to media in Geneva – 11 October 2021
What I would like to speak to you about today is the current situation in Yemen and how we are trying to confront the various problems that we see on the ground. It is a quite serious situation.
The numbers we are talking about are staggering.
We are talking about 20 million people in need of humanitarian assistance – that is two-thirds of the total population of the country. Five million people in severe or nearly severe hunger – just a step away from famine. About 400,000 children are at imminent risk of death from malnutrition.
We have received reasonable funding for food security and nutrition this year. When we announced the new response plan in March, there was a good enough response to allow us to scale up and to start once again providing not only to the 10 million people we had previously been providing support to, but to 13 million (an additional 3 million) and, more importantly, for those in the most severe need, increasing the rations form half rations, which is what we did when the funding was quite lowlast year, to full rations for those in the most severe need and three quarters for those in less dire circumstances.
That fast intervention and a parallel one on the nutrition side, particularly for children, has taken us a step back, but it’s very fragile. And I think this is the core message I would like to get across: this assistance needs to be sustained if we are not to go back to the abyss of being on the edge of famine.
We’re also concerned now with the escalation in fighting around Marib. This has now added to additional displacement in that area, a place where we already have over a million people displaced.
Secondly, we have enclaves where the fighting is continuing that we’re not able to provide support to. I’ll touch upon that a little bit later. The fact is that we’re continuing to see fighting along the major frontlines.
What I’d like to share with you is what I see. I see an economy, number one, that’s collapsed. I see the destruction of schools, of factories, of roads and bridges.
I’ve seen the destruction of power systems. So what made Yemen work seven years ago in many cases, no longer exists. And with that collapse, we’ve seen a collapse in the economy, a reduction of income by about 50 per cent. and this economic collapse, in many ways, is what drives the humanitarian catastrophe itself. People don’t have the income to buy food. The restrictions introduced because of the conflict have actually increased significantly the cost of importing food, the cost of distributing food and other essential commodities once inside Yemen. It is important to remember that the bulk of the food that Yemenis consume is imported commercially. So this has a significant impact. The conflict has led directly to an economic collapse, which has led to the current humanitarian crisis that we see to today.
But I don’t just see the infrastructure and the economy that’s collapsed. Everywhere I go, it’s a chance to speak with people on the ground who really want to tell their story. And I think that story is extremely important to share with you.
It’s usually mothers who come to me and they hold onto my arm, literally, because they have a story they want me to hear. And I think, Implicitly, they want me to tell you that story.
and short report:
Yemen’s future recovery hangs in balance, warns senior UN aid coordinator
“I’ve seen the destruction of schools, of factories, of roads and bridges; I’ve seen the destruction of power systems so what made Yemen work seven years ago in many cases no longer exists”, said David Gressly, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen.
Speaking in Geneva after a weekend that saw a car bomb at Aden airport reportedly leave 25 people dead and 110 injured, the veteran aid worker warned about arecent escalation of fighting in the oil-rich northern province of Marib.
“This is now adding to additional displacement in that area, a place where we already have over a million people displaced”, he said. “And secondly, we have enclaves where fighting is continuing where we’re not able to provide support”.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102682
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Film: As Yemen's water crisis is worsening amid the ongoing Saudi war and siege, [Sanaa gov.] Yemen's Ministry of Water and Environment has held a workshop with the participation of international organizations to discuss managing water sources and the critical water situation in the country.
https://parstoday.com/en/news/west_asia-i154816-yemen's_water_crisis_worsening
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Schools closed and eight thousand students have lost the opportunity to continue their education since Houthis besieged Al-Abdiya region south of Marib last month./Alrai Press
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51469
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Item 10: Presentation of the Secretary-General's and High Commissioner's country reports and oral updates Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 20 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and protection – more than 12 million of them in acute need. Four million people have been displaced; 83 per cent of them are women and children. Urgent funding across all sectors is needed to avert large-scale famine and I call on all donors to step up.
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=27623&LangID=E
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Nidal and her sixth pregnancy – Nidal “34”, Success Story – Deem for Development Organization - 2021
Nidal Saeed is a 34-year-old woman from Al-Shatin village, Shara'b Al-Runa district, Ta'izz Gov, who lives in an area that prevails with poverty and ignorance, and her husband has been suffering from a psychological condition for more than two years due to the current conditions in the country. Nidal could not follow-up her pregnancy in the previous times because of the hard financial conditions, therefore, she bears her illness. One day Nidal heard from a neighbor there is a medical team specialized in caring for pregnant mothers
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Suffering of pregnant mothers – Eman “32”, Success Story – Deem for Development Organization - 2021
Due to the war and armed conflict in Yemen, the mother, Eman Mansour who is a 32-year-old woman forced to flee with her family to AlAsriya village, Mawiyah district, Ta'izz Gov. The family financial condition is very difficult, as her husband has been unemployed for more than three months. Eman is pregnant at the end of her ninth month with her fourth child. When Eman known through other mothers who benefited from free basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC)
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The Suffering of IDPs - Malikah "29"
Malikah is a 29-year-old woman who has four children, and her family lived a simple and quiet life in one of the villages of the Ghorab area but the war came to turn their lives upside down. The family was forced to flee their home to another village, so they lived in one of the houses in AlKhaduror village, but the war and the siege affected their life. The unavailable jobs and the increasing cost of living increased their suffering and pain. In addition, the area they were displaced to is far from the city and from services such as schools, and the health center in their area lacks basic health services. The family suffered from these tough conditions, but Allah wanted Malikah to become pregnant again with her fifth child, and this increased the family's concerns due to the difficult financial conditions, they are going through.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/suffering-idps-malikah-29
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The Light of the Morning - Maryam "30"
“She was carried to the car after she fainted from the severity of the bleeding yesterday evening.” These were the words of the husband Jaber. Maryam is a 30-year-old woman, who lives in Al-Kadhiha, one of the villages of Al Mukha district, Taiz Gov. After Jaber took his unconscious wife, and who was carrying her through the gate of Al Mukha Hospital to reach the operation department. “Maryam was received in a state of shock
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/light-morning-maryam-30
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The Happiness of the Mother - Anood "23"
Anood Ahmed is a 23-year-old woman, came to Mawiyah Hospital from Al-Anjad village, which is a remote area and far from the nearest health center, and she was pregnant in her ninth month after one of her neighbors told her about Mawiyah Hospital, which is supported by a medical team from Deem for Development Organization, funded by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and provides free health services. When Anood arrived at the hospital, she was showing signs of fatigue, exhaustion, and fear.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/happiness-mother-anood-23
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Frontier Insights Yemen: Understanding Children’s Digital Access
Throughout this past summer, DAI’s Center for Digital Acceleration has been working with Sesame Workshop to explore the possibilities for using digital tools to provide education services to young children living in crisis-affected communities.
Using DAI’s Frontier Insights™ methodology, our researchers in Colombia, Yemen, and South Sudan talked to children and their parents and caregivers to understand communities’ barriers to connectivity and their technology habits. Through this research, we sought to understand how technology might be leveraged to improve access to educational video content. In this series, we share our findings and interesting insights into the digital lives of children in these contexts.
In August, our research team traveled to two internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in rural Yemen and interviewed 50 people, including children, ages 3–8, and their parents or caregivers in the Randa Shaya and the Arrahma camps located in Ibb, three hours outside the capital Sana’a.
Key Findings
In both Arrahma and Randa Shaya, the main barrier facing IDPs is poor electricity and connectivity infrastructure, particularly as the “workarounds” such as paying to charge, using mobile data, and using internet cafes, are all too expensive. Interviewees in both locations raised concerns around the negative influence of the internet on children, particularly worried about children’s access to sexual and violent content.
The way in which children watch videos differs greatly between the two locations. In Arrahma, children watch television on a daily basis, with programming selected and supervised by the caregivers of each shelter. In Randa Shaya, however, some children do use mobile phones and do so regularly, watching videos that have been uploaded from a USB.
In this article, we further detail the findings of the research. As the findings in each context were very different, we will split this piece by location.
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Yemen: Gender Network Presence (January to July 2021)
The Gender Network is an Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) recommended tool that contributes to ensuring that gender is effectively addressed in humanitarian programming and response. The Gender Network consists of Gender focal points, advisors and/or representatives from clusters, UN agencies, international NGOs, local NGOs and civil society organizations that engage in development and humanitarian interventions in Yemen.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-gender-network-presence-january-july-2021
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
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Flash Update: Escalation and Response in Marib Governorate - Issue #9 | 12 October 2021
Intense fighting continues across frontline areas in Marib Governorate, with hostilities particularly rife in Sirwah,
Rahabah, Mahilyah, and Al Abidyah Districts. Since the start of the escalation in January 2021, nearly 44,000 people have been displaced.
In Al Abdiyah District of Marib where clashes are currently ongoing, nearly 4,000 families are estimated to be stranded within the frontlines. Severe shortage of medical supplies and other essential commodities in the district are being reported with no humanitarian access to the area.
Recent escalation in fighting across five districts bordering Al Bayda and Marib Governorates led to more displacement. The situation remains volatile with further displacements expected given the shifting frontlines.
An estimated 70 percent of those newly displaced are women. Urgent needs as reported by partners include medical supplies, additional food assistance, non-food items, clothing and protection of civilians still trapped between frontlines.
With continued fighting, more civilians are expected to continue to flee towards the east of Sirwah, Rhabah, Al Jubah, Hareeb Districts and into Marib City and Hadramout Governorate, where IDP sites are already crowded and response capacities overstretched.
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IOM Yemen: Rapid Displacement Tracking - Yemen IDP Dashboard Reporting Period: 03 - 09 October 2021
From 01 January 2021 to 9 October 2021 , IOM Yemen DTM estimates that 12,413 households (HH) (74,478 Individuals) have experienced displacement at least once.
Since the beginning of 2021, DTM also identified 624 displaced households who left their locations of displacement and either moved back to their place of origin or another location.
Between 03 and 09 October 2021, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 504 households (3,024 individuals) displaced at least once. The top thre
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Yemen: Qatar Charity provides a water project to Yemeni displaced
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-qatar-charity-provides-water-project-yemeni-displaced
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UNHCR Yemen Post Cash Distribution Monitoring - PDM Update - July 2021
How UNHCR cash assistance supports displaced Yemenis at risk of famine
Background
As part of UNHCR’s interventions to ensure that extremely vulnerable displaced Yemeni families at risk of famine have the necessary means to buy food and other essential items, in 2021 UNHCR has assisted over 110,000 IDP families (close to 700,000 individuals) with multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) in 19 governorates, distributing more than USD 43,500,000. This assistance has been made possible through the generous support of the United States of America, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates via the Famine Relief Fund, and the Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Bin Thani Al-Thani Humanitarian Fund.
Most of the beneficiary families have received up to four cash instalments as part of UNHCR multi-month MPCA programme aiming at providing longer term support with the goal of averting famine and fostering self-reliance. The programme targets particularly internally displaced persons (IDPs) residing across 49 districts classified as being on the verge of famine (IPC4+). UNHCR’s extensive database based on needs assessments specifically aimed at addressing IDPs’ needs makes it possible to target families who because of their displacement are four times more at risk of hunger than the rest of the Yemeni population.
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CCCM Cluster Yemen Strategic Advisory Group - Terms of Reference (October 2021)
Background and Context
More than 1 million displaced Yemenis have settled in over 1,600+ spontaneous, unplanned camps and require support to meet their basic needs. The locations, population size and characteristics of these sites change over time.
Data show that 76% of IDP sites lack formal land tenancy agreements, which can lead to secondary displacement and sometimes creates eviction threats, compromises living conditions, and may lead to secondary displacement. 32% of sites are at risk of flooding, and about 48% of people in IDP hosting sites are within 5 km of areas of active hostilities.
Sites also lack services. Data show that more than half of the sites are not reached by the humanitarian actors, and 93% of camp-like settings across the country lack basic services, such as - food distributions, protection services, WASH, education etc. and so on, and 83% face critical service gaps.
To respond to the growing displacements, the CCCM cluster aims at improving the coordination of the integrated multi-sectorial response at site level, raising the quality of interventions and monitoring of humanitarian services in communal settings, by ensuring appropriate linkages with and building the capacities of national authorities and other stakeholders.
Purpose of the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG)
The CCCM Cluster Coordination Team seeks to engage a number of cluster members, representing various stakeholder groups, in policy and strategy making through consensus management.
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Yemeni gov't says Yemeni migrant died at Polish-Belarusian borders
A Yemeni national has died at the Polish-Belarusian borders, the UN-recognized foreign ministry said late on Wednesday, after the man and 26 other Yemeni migrants had been left stranded for weeks, despite repeated appeals to rescue their lives.
Mustafa Mohamed al-Raimi died of severe cold, the ministry said in a statement on its website, noting that it carefully watches the conditions experienced by nationals stuck at the Polish-Belarusian frontiers.
While 18 of the Yemenis stranded at these borders possess Yemeni travel documents, the IDs of three others are under check for lack of passports, the statement said.
Although they have travel documents, five Yemenis are still detained in Poland, their health stable and they enjoy health care, according to the statement.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-27265.html
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Thousands of People Forced to Flee Escalating Hostilities in Yemen’s Ma’rib
An escalation of hostilities in and around Yemen's Ma'rib governorate has forced thousands of people to flee in search of safety in an alarming rise in displacement since the beginning of September.
IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) -- which currently has access in seven of Ma'rib's 14 districts -- recorded the displacement of close to 10,000 people last month, the highest rates recorded in Ma'rib in a single month this year.
"This renewed violence in Ma'rib is destabilizing the lives of thousands of people and leading to tragic death and injuries of civilians, including children," said Christa Rottensteiner, IOM Yemen Chief of Mission.
"IOM calls on all parties of the conflict to respect international humanitarian law and protect civilians."
Recent conflict has destroyed critical infrastructure such as bridges and roads.
Routes within and into Al Abdiyah district, in the south of Ma'rib, have reportedly been cut off --obstructing the movement of people and essential supplies. The district is one of the largest in the governorate, with an estimated 31,500 residents, according to local authorities.
Humanitarian organizations are concerned about the well-being of conflict-affected communities in areas where assistance cannot reach.
The situation is also dire in Harib, Al Jubah and Rahabah districts, from where nearly 4,700 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are estimated to have fled this month. The majority went to safer areas in Al Jubah and Ma'rib Al Wadi districts, and to densely populated, urban areas in Ma'rib city.
Hostilities in parts of neighbouring Shabwah also caused the displacement of hundreds within that governorate and north into Ma'rib.
Needs are drastically mounting in what the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
https://www.iom.int/news/thousands-people-forced-flee-escalating-hostilities-yemens-marib
and AP report: https://apnews.com/article/houthis-united-nations-sanaa-saudi-arabia-middle-east-c4c02011267e14acd198821ce1fd5aee
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DTM flow Monitoring Registry Dashboard: Non-Yemeni migrant arrivals and Yemeni returnees in September 2021
In August 2021, IOM Yemen DTM estimates that 2,769 migrants entered Yemen, compared to 1,756 migrants in August 2021. The increase in the number of migrants in September comparing to August is due to improved weather conditions for boat trip to landing points in Yemen coastal side. DTM estimates 4,228 Yemenis returned from KSA during the month of September 2021, compared to 2,769 in August and 1,821 Yemenis in July 2021. The continuous increase in Yemeni returnees, namely those without travel documents, in the past three months is due to intensified KSA security measures on the border, affecting irregular Yemenis attempting to enter KSA and deporting those without proper travel documentation. Additionally, DTM upscaled its activities at the border by coordinating with local authorities, to include day and night flows and thus capturing higher figures. During the period between 1 January and 30 September 2021, an estimated 16,080 migrants and 10,050 Yemenis arrived in Yemen.
The migrant caseload was 81 per cent Ethiopian and 19 per cent Somali. The migrants are predominantly male (69%), with 14 per cent women, 11 per cent boys and six per cent girls also among the travelers.
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
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Houthis violations against women is becoming more systematic. They detain & kidnap dozens of women to blackmail & silence oppositions among their families & tribes. They normally shame the detained women & accuse them of prostitution & collaborating with the enemy
Houthis use all the means including media to intimidate and oppress women and prevent them from claiming their legal and constitutional rights
Houthis oppression on women increases every day, as they ban women from working in restaurants and cafes, require husband’s permission before purchasing birth control and build cement walls to enforce gender segregation in university classrooms.
A group of NGOs has documented 1,181 violations against women which included deprivation of life, torture, enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention & sexual violence.
During the period between December 2017 & December 2019, Houthis arbitrarily detained 279 women & girls, some as young as 14, in clandestine detention facilities, most of whom were placed in solitary confinement. These women were exposed to different forms of sever torture including rape with the help of Zainabiyat who described such crimes as purification for the detainees’ “immoral behavior”.
https://twitter.com/RiyadhAldubai/status/1448025945479294983
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The Houthi group's recruitment of children is a strategy that it started in the first decade of the millennium during the six wars it waged against the Yemeni government, or what has come to be known as the (Saada Wars).
By attracting children to its intensive “cultural” courses and isolated camps, the Houthi group ensured their psychological, intellectual and physical formation in line with its general goals.
It also ensured their absolute loyalty to its leaders and their complete compliance with its orders
https://twitter.com/abduhothifi/status/1448023968695341061
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Trial of "Sa'ada" cell for collaborating with aggression starts
The Specialized Criminal Court of First Instance in the capital Sana'a began on Tuesday trying the "Sa'ada" cell consisting of 31 members, accused of espionage and aiding the aggression countries.
n the court's session, headed by Judge Ibrahim Al-Azani, the indictment was read to confront the defendants with the charges against them.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3159690.htm
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Parliament approves bill to establish fund for Hodeida development
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3159684.htm
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"Sanaa is a temporary capital," a Houthi preacher said during Friday prayer, adding " the capital of the Prophet (Moh) & his family (Medina in KSA) is our permanent capital. It must be regained & will be our Islamic capital. You see it far, we see it near", according to a friend in Sanaa
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1447743968486338565
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EU calls on Houthis' to revoke death sentences against journalists
The European Union yesterday called for death sentences issued against Yemeni journalists and activists to be revoked.
"On the occasion of the World Day Against Death Penalty, the EU calls for revoking all death sentences, incl those of journalists and activists in Yemen," the commission's delegation in Yemen said on Twitter
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Offizieller verurteilt „erstickende Blockade“ der USA gegen den Jemen
Der Vorsitzende des obersten politischen Rates des Jemen hat die von den USA verhängte „erstickende Blockade“ angeprangert, die das Elend der kriegsmüden Menschen in dem arabischen Land verschlimmert.
Mahdi al-Mashat bezeichnete die US-geführte Blockade gegen den Jemen am Sonntag als
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Top Official Denounces ‘Suffocating Siege’ Imposed by US on Yemen
The head of Yemen’s supreme political council denounced the “suffocating siege” imposed by the United States, which has compounded the misery of war-weary people in the Arab country.
Mahdi Al-Mashat on Sunday termed the US-led blockade against Yemen as “part of its ongoing horrendous crimes” in the war-ravaged country.
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"They forced me to join their army": in Yemen, child soldiers sent to war
The “play” is performed in Sanaa, at Al-Asriyah Primary School, Yemen . About fifty children attended the ordinary score of Houthi propaganda that day. The event is filmed by the Houthi Ministry of Education TV channel: YECTV. This channel regularly broadcasts this kind of sketches performed by armed schoolchildren.
Since the start of the conflict at the end of 2014, the rebels have employed 35,000 child soldiers, according to the Yemeni central government, including nearly 4,000 under the age of 11. Currently, more than 6,700 would be deployed (paywalled)
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2 weeks ago a Houthi supervisor met one of relatives 2 tell him if not stop posting news of "Ansarallah"& tweeting agnst em, they know how 2 do so. Ignored it till ystrdy when a private nmbr called me, saying they'll soon stop me. One may lose his life here c/o jrnlsm or opinion!
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1446915331646181384
Houthi shadow govt officials have threatened Yemeni journalist @Alsakaniali and his family that if he doesn’t stop tweeting about Houthi military advances in Marib, they will silence him. Classic example of the Houthi police state. Journalism is not a crime.
https://twitter.com/Macoombs/status/1447238709472944131
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President Mahdi al-Mashat attends commemoration of 2016 Saudi massacre targeting funeral hall in Sana'a
und auch http://www.news.cn/english/2021-10/10/c_1310235338.htm
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A number of banks go bankrupt in Sana'a, but the Houthi militia disallow them to declare their bankruptcy/Yemen TV Channel website
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51469
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The tribe of Sanahan in Sana'a are on high alert and tensions as the Houthi militia keep confiscating properties and lands to their families of their militants killed in the warfonts/Al-Ettihad Net
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51469
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Houthis impose tight restrictive measures on passengers coming into the militia-controlled territories [from STC and government controlled territories]./News Line
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51469
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Houthis sent 480 marginalized young Yemenis (from African origin) to Taiz and Marib warfronts last week as per Houthi leader's directives./Al-Ettihad Net
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51469
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The government accuses Houthis of planning to flood their areas of control with drugs to trap tens of thousand of young people and raise war funds. /Yemen Talk
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51469
(A P)
Parliament condemns Saudi regime arbitrary measures against Yemeni prisoners
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3159138.htm
(B K P)
Film: Local communities in Yemen are forced to coexist - with deep pain - with the processions of returning coffins carrying body parts and the remains of children of the age of flowers thrown by the Houthi group in the heat of war.
https://twitter.com/abduhothifi/status/1446218954394021905
(A P)
Yemenis prepare to celebrate Prophet Mohammed's birth
Yemenis in the capital Sana'a and other provinces have started to prepare for celebrating the birth of the Prophet of Islam Muḥammad (PBUH) by decorating cars with green colors as well as rising green banners and illuminating lights.
Prophet Muhammad's birthday is a ceremony known in the Islamic and Arabic World as (Al-Mawlid Al-Nabwi) and is commemorated in Yemen on Rabi' al-awwal 12th, the third month in the Islamic lunar calendar.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3158790.htm
Films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fv6ZjjSq8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXC8bYh8Jo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2DseP4JMfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G596pj-ZoQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3cvSFlg24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aov9nL_GQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7z9Kb97Q4Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP9K0Ro-qWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpCbshGq_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCMPgC62LRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kONkn4QRdro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEFoPeB30Rw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyUtqYvcg14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2miPNx8d1wY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE5no_hiK4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0uAdN2Dho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQSTOAqQOyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgorQ3hML4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kSGQEi5jo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiivyZmRAlY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDfiiDc36Ro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjBzdqqhWxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLzdFajoxgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sPXhV7Nj08
My comment: They never had made this such a propaganda event than this year.
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(A P)
Sana'a lights up in green light to celebrate Prophet Mohammed's birthday
The capital Sanaطa is lit up in green at night, as the Yemeni people celebrate Mawlid An-Nabawi, the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Photos, Film: https://twitter.com/bdor_dailami/status/1447556314973065220
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0mMbzbSe8o = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpCbshGq_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sPXhV7Nj08
https://twitter.com/Mood_Alsafi/status/1448021102853300224
https://twitter.com/Alaa_al_ghazeer/status/1448041475770621957
(A P)
Revolution leader: Yemeni people will be at the forefront of the majestic presence to commemorate the Prophet’s birthday
The leader of the revolution Abdul Malik al-Houthi affirmed on Thursday that the Yemeni people will attend massively to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Mohammed this year, 1443 AH.
In his speech to inaugurate the activities of this occasion, the leader added the inauguration of the subsidiary activities are necessary to lead to the main event on the occasion of the Prophet's birthday.
Al-Houthi said the enemies of Islam are working to separate the nation from its prophets through deceptive activities," noting that the enemies are working to separate the nation from following its Messenger of God and adhering the Qur'an.
He said: "Our distinguished people's celebration of Mawlid is part of their faith and awareness and a step to follow in the footsteps of their forefathers and ancestors, pointing out that the Yemeni people benefit from this occasion in confronting all the offensive efforts of the enemies of the Messenger of God."
The leader stressed that the resonance of the celebration of last year was great, as it was an angry outcry in refusal of the French abuse of the Messenger of God.
He pointed out that the media of the Israeli enemy focused on the revival of Mawlid in Yemen last year, and expressed, adding "If our celebration of the anniversary of the Mawlid annoys the Jews and the enemies of Islam, and strengthens our relationship with the Messenger of God, we should pay more and more attention to this revival.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3158900.htm
Films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25uPh1RoRu4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tCuouRrxJw
(A P)
Houthis have used Prophet Mohammed's Birth Day as an opportune season to rob shopkeepers and traders in the name of contributions to the costs of the celebrative ceremonies/Al-Sahwa Net and other websites.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51437
(A P)
Houthis storm a Salafis-run mosque in Sana'a/Ababeel
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51437
(A P)
Houthi militants take major step to convert Yemen's Sunni children to Shia
Yemen's Houthis have launched a major step to convert Yemen's Sunni children to Shia, ordering schools to replace the old national curricula with the curricula recently printed by the Shiit theocratic militia.
The terrorist militia's 'Ministry of Education' issued a notification to all schools within their areas of control in northwest Yemen to use the new curricular.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51440
(A E)
Cosy cabins appear on Sanaa hotel roofs as war curtails tourism elsewhere
Hotels in Sanaa are cashing in on demand for domestic tourism in war-torn Yemen by building small cabin rooms, known as tairamana, on their roofs offering relaxation and views of the ancient city.
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
Siehe / Look at cp1
(A P T)
Yemen Underlines Need for Counterterrorism Efforts after Hadramout Attack
Yemen’s official state has underlined the need for security and military apparatuses hunting down terrorist cells across the war-torn nation. The emphasis came after three interior ministry officers were killed in a blast that targeted their convoy in the eastern governorate of Hadramout.
(A P)
STC militias displace dozens of residents in Crater
The “Southern Transitional Council (STC) militias backed by the UAE stormed homes of residents in Jabal Yafers area in the city of Aden, south of Yemen, and displaced dozens.
The local sources in the city said that the militia carried out a military campaign on Monday, demanding the residents of Jabal Al-Faras, located in Al-Boumis in the Crater area, to leave their homes.
According to the sources, the militia threatened the residents to storm their homes, and close other houses.
http://en.ypagency.net/240278/
(A P)
STC militias kidnap father, his 2 sons in Aden
http://en.ypagency.net/239969/
(A P)
Islamic preacher abducted by unknown assailants in occupied Hadhramaut
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(A P)
STC militias accuse Islah militants of kidnapping Al-Attas
http://en.ypagency.net/240289/
(* A P)
400 civilians, including children, have been arbitrarily arrested by UAE-backed militia STC in interim capital Aden this past week. The mass arrests coincided with deadly clashes between groups loyal to this militia and increasing hate crimes against Northerners.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1447921563890855952
referring to
(* A P)
Abductees Mothers Association statement condemning detaining dozens of civilians in Aden
Abductees’ Mothers Association in Aden condemns the arbitrary arrests carried out in connection to last week’s conflict in Crater. The association documented the unlawful detention of more than 400 civilians, including seniors and minors.
Abductees’ Mothers Association holds the Security Belt forces, run by the Southern Transitional Council in Aden, completely responsible for the lives and safety of the arbitrarily detained, and demands releasing all arbitrarily arrested and forcibly disappeared persons.
We call upon all human rights organizations to stand behind the families of the arbitrarily detained and to support them until their relatives are safely free.
http://ama-ye.org/index.php?no=1753&ln=En
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51527
(A T)
Three security officers killed in an explosive device blast in Seyoun city, #Hadhramaut, according to interior ministry. It said the device was planted in their vehicle.
https://twitter.com/mohammedalqadhi/status/1447662950995611654
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(A T)
Film: Yemen - Car bomb to explode in Seiyun, Hadramawt
At least two people were killed in a car bomb explosion near a square in Seiyun Hospital, Hadhramaut Governorate. According to security sources, the exploding car was filled with live ammunition, causing a large explosion, adding that the explosion charred the bodies inside the car; in addition, the security forces cordoned off the site of the explosion and started the investigations and search for its causes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWQChQeuhU8
Another film: https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1447641494437965824
(A P)
Yemeni gov't holds first meeting, with ministers controversially absent
he Yemeni UN-recognized government on Saturday held its first official meeting chaired by PM Maeen Abdulmalek in Aden, nearly half a year after the cabinet was forced to leave the interim capital.
However, the ministers of defense, interior, information and youth were absent from the meeting, in which the foreign minister took part via online video.
With most of the absent ministers being disdained by the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), their absence sparked wide controversy.
It is unknown if their nonappearance was based on calls from the STC, which controls Aden, or on personal or job-related conditions.
Asked by Debriefer on the matter, an official in the prime ministry was reluctant to give any explanation, citing lack of authorization, while one of the relevant ministers did not answer phone calls.
The meeting was dedicated to discuss developments pertaining to political, military, security, economic and service issues for which a number of decisions were made, according to Saba.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-27300.html
(A K P)
Yemen gov’t urges UN intervention to lift rebel siege on Marib
Yemeni gov’t accuses Houthis of refusing to allow food, medicine to civilians in Marib
The Yemeni government on Monday called for UN intervention to lift a rebel siege on the central Marib province.
This came in a phone call between Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, David Gressly.
(A T)
#AlQaeda in #Yemen posts 1st official op claim in 2 months: 2 Houthis killed in vehicle in al-Sawma'a What's interesting: Seems a low-key choice of op to highlight after 8 weeks of no claims 3-day lag between op & claim Occurred in Bayda' which Houthis allegedly cleared
https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall/status/1447312800460820486
(A P)
Yemen calls for clear international stance towards Houthi hostilities
The ministry of foreign and expatriate affairs in Yemen's internationally recognised government on Saturday called for a clear and deterrent international stance towards hostilities committed by the Iran-allied Houthi group against Saudi Arabia.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-27289.html
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Mindestens vier Tote bei Explosion in jemenitischer Hafenstadt Aden [6 Tote]
In der jemenitischen Hafenstadt Aden ist am Sonntag ein mit Sprengstoff beladenes Fahrzeug explodiert. Mindestens vier Menschen wurden dabei getötet, wie Reuters-Reporter vor Ort berichteten und aus Sicherheitskreisen verlautete.
Der Gouverneur von Aden, Ahmed Lamlas, und Landwirtschaftsminister Salem al-Sukatri hätten sich zum Zeitpunkt der Detonation in der Nähe aufgehalten, verlautete aus Sicherheitskreisen. Ihr Konvoi sei das Ziel des Anschlages gewesen. Die beiden Politiker hätten die Explosion des Fahrzeuges überlebt.
Photos: https://republicanyemen.net/archives/29272 und https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1447255651361689601
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M97qn2LI7_0
(* A T)
Car bomb in Yemen targets officials, kills six others
At least six people were killed Sunday in Yemen’s port city of Aden by a car bomb that targeted two senior government officials who survived, an official said.
The explosion targeted the convoy of Agriculture Minister Salem al-Socotrai and Aden’s Gov. Ahmed Lamlas in the district of Tawahi, said Information Minister Moammar al-Iryani.
The blast killed at least six people among Lamlas’ companions and wounded at least seven others who had been passing by, al-Iryani said. The casualties were taken to hospitals for treatment, he said.
The explosion damaged several buildings in the area, quickly sealed off by security forces, according to security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed called the explosion a “terrorist attack” and ordered an investigation.
Photos: https://republicanyemen.net/archives/29272 and https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1447255651361689601
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M97qn2LI7_0
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(A T)
two journalists, one was a photojournalist, were among those killed in a car bomb explosion which targeted the motorcade of the Aden governor in the interim capital Aden on Sunday. They worked at the office of the governor Ahmed Lamlas. The governor was unhurt.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1447226578291806211
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(A P)
Hadi orders probe into Aden terrorist attack
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33877
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(A P)
STC accuses Brotherhood of terror attack on Governor's convoy in Aden
The STC accused terrorist groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood of being behind the attack as part of their bids to obstruct the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement and to target the South and the Arab Coalition.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33872
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(A P)
UAE-backed separatists claim to know culprit behind car comb attack on governor and minister
The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) has revealed who they claimed was the culprit behind an attack that targeted senior leaders with a car bomb in the city of Aden on Sunday.
A spokesman for the STC militia, Mohammad al-Naqeeb, said on Twitter that ”Five months ago, prominent leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood brought internationally wanted terrorist elements to the city of Aden through the port of Qena in Shabwah province.”
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(A P)
Aden Governor's first statement after Sunday's attack
In his first statement after today's attack, Lamlas said it was an expected operation from the enemies of the South, affirming that the capital Aden remains very powerful against terrorist plots.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/33876
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(A P)
Yemen PM accuses Huthis of 'escalation' with Aden car bomb
Yemen's internationally-recognised prime minister on Monday accused the Iran-backed Huthi rebels of escalating his country's conflict with a deadly car bomb attack in the southern city of Aden.
(A P)
GPC party deputy head calls on President Hadi to withdraw from the Stockholm Agreement
Deputy head of the GPC party in Marib has called on President Hadi to withdraw from the Stockholm Agreement which Houthis have violated tens of times./Marib News and other websites
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51469
(A P)
Southern Yemeni activist condemns STC crackdown on Aden population
Head of the southern Yemeni organisation called the Revolutionary Movement Council, Fouad Rashid, has condemned the arbitrary arrests launched by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militias in the southern Yemeni city of Aden.
(A)
Dozens of prisoners escape UAE mercenary-run prison in Taiz
According to the sources, prisoners in the al-Wazi’iyah Security Department managed to escape after busting the prison cell window and climbing over the fence of the building where they were being held.
Among the escaped prisoners are people accused of murder, one of the sources said.
The same sources accused the security service members of colluding with the escaped prisoners.
The escape comes merely three days after Tariq Saleh’s forces took over the protection of the prison and appointed one of its officers as the new security director.
(A P)
STC says going ahead towards restoration of south Yemen state
The southern transitional council on Thursday said it is going ahead towards the restoration of southern state, amid deepening crisis between the UAE-backed council and Yemen's internationally recognised government.
The two sides have failed to implement the Riyadh agreement which was brokered by Saudi Arabia in late 2019, even after they formed a power-sharing government last year.
The outcomes of the southern dialogue represent a solid basis for restoring the southern state along the pre-1990 borders, said Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, the council's president, at a meeting with the council's presidency in the interim capital Aden.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-27263.html
(A P)
Since last midnight, the STC militia have swept dozens of Taizi people from their houses and workplaces in Aden into jail on the alleged charge of "being collaborators with the Muslim Brotherhood."/Akhbar Taiz
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-51437
Fortsetzung / Sequel: cp7 – cp19
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-764b-yemen-war-mosaic-764b
Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-763-yemen-war-mosaic-763
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-763 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-763:
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/
Liste aller Luftangriffe / and list of all air raids:
http://yemendataproject.org/data/
Untersuchung ausgewählter Luftangriffe durch Bellingcat / Bellingcat investigations of selected air raids:
Untersuchungen von Angriffen, hunderte von Filmen / Investigations of attacks, hundreds of films:
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