... im Jemen – Friedensprozess und Menschenrechte – Sokotra, eine Beute im Jemen-Krieg – und mehr
Nov. 23, 2021: Saudi coalition air raids survey Oct./Nov. 2021 – The end of the Hadi government is near – Recruitment and use of child soldiers – Displaced people in Marib province – The impact of war on Yemen’s justice system – Peace process and human rights – Socotra, a prey in the Yemen war – and more
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Kursiv: Siehe Teil 2 / In Italics: Look in part 2: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-772b-yemen-war-mosaic-772b
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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 NOVEMBER 2021
Bombing Rates Escalate as Violence Continues in Marib
Individual airstrikes reach fifteen-month high
Air raid numbers in October rose by 11% month-on-month to the highest rate since March. Yemen Data Project recorded up to 839 individual airstrikes in October - the highest number in a single month since June 2020.
Intensified air raids* around the active frontline in Marib continued in October with bombings increasing slightly from the notable high (89) in September, reaching the third highest monthly rate (91) in the governorate since the start of the Saudi-led bombing campaign in March 2015 and the highest monthly rate since September last year.
Marib's heavily contested district of Al-Jubah was the most heavily targeted district in October with the most intensive period of bombing in Al-Jubah since the start of the air war. YDP recorded 34 air raids in the district in the month. Prior to October there were 21 air raids in Al-Jubah in 6.5 years.
Countrywide, air raids reached the highest (175) monthly rate since March adding to the 32% month-on-month rise recorded from August to September.
YDP recorded up to 839 individual airstrikes in October averaging 27 airstrikes per day, the highest maximum number in a single month since July 2020. Air raids were recorded in the capital (Amanat Al-Asimah) Sana'a for the first time in six months including the bombing of the Rural Authority of Water and Electricity. In Al-Jawf, air raids were at the highest monthly rate this year. The six air raids recorded in Shabwa - coinciding with the pro-Houthi advance into the north of the governorate - was the highest number recorded in a single month in Shabwa since Houthi forces were last pushed out of the governorate in December 2017. Al-Hudaydah saw the highest number of monthly air raids since January. YDP recorded 8 air raids on farms in Marib and the bombing of two telecommunications facilities in Al-Bayda and Shabwa.
The deadliest air raids for civilians in October were bombings in residential areas. Two civilians were killed in Al-Safra'a, Sa'ada on October 7th. On October 2nd, a woman was killed and two children injured along with another civilian in an air raid in Harib, Marib. Of the 66 air raids in the month where the target could be identified, 41% hit residential areas.
The highest number of air raids recorded in a single month remains September 2015 at 920, which was also the deadliest month in the air war when at least 756 civilians were killed.
April 2015 saw the highest number of civilian casualties (fatalities and injured) in a single month at 1,745.
In YDP's data the air raid* figure is the most conservative. The true number of individual airstrikes ranges from the minimum of 23,802 to a maximum airstrikes of 70,390 since March 2015.
In October, 22% of bombings hit civilian targets** and 16% hit military targets. In 62% of air raids in October the target could not be identified. Of the 66 air raids where the target could be identified, 58% hit civilian targets. 42% of identifiable targets were military. 41% of identified targets were residential areas.
Marib continues to be the most heavily bombed governorate. 52% of all Saudi-led coalition air raids in October targeted the governorate. For the first time, Al-Jubah was the most heavily bombed district in the country with 37% of air raids in the month in Marib hitting the contested district. Both Al-Jubah and Al-Abdiyah saw the highest rate of bombings in the two districts since the start of the air war in 2015. 35,000 people are reportedly affected by the rise in violence in Al-Abdiyah where food and medical shortages have been reported.
Monthly air raid numbers in Al-Jawf were at the highest rate since November last year. Khab Wa Al-Sha'af was the second most heavily bombed district countrywide along with Marib's Sirwah district. More than half (55%) of all air raids in October hit the three districts of Al-Abdiyah (Marib), Sirwah (Marib) and Khab Wa Al-Sha'af (Al-Jawf).
POLITICAL VIOLENCE DATA
Separate to our air raids data collection, as part of our work to enhance conflict monitoring and data sharing, YDP is collaborating with the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project on countrywide political violence data.
This extensive monitoring effort has allowed ACLED and YDP to provide the most comprehensive coverage of political violence across Yemen.
In quarter three (July-September) of 2021, ACLED reported notable changes of territorial control particularly in Al-Bayda where three districts shifted form Government of Yemen control to Houthi control and in Shabwa where Bayhan district fell to the Houthis.
https://mailchi.mp/9a6d104bfa77/november2021-yemen-data-project-update-6528756
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HADI’S DAYS ARE NUMBERED. ONLY ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY, AND REFORM CAN STOP YEMEN’S DECLINE
As the Houthis push on with their offensive against Marib, having taken over nearly four districts in the governorate since September 2021, observers are growing increasingly anxious, fearing the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG) under President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi will be brought down in the desert town east of Sana’a. Indeed, reports1 suggest that the IRG’s position on the ground is thinning out. However, not only is the IRG losing to the Houthis in the north but it is also being threatened on several other fronts across the country. In the south, the IRG’s nominal allies, the Southern Transitional Council (STC) with its supporters, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are building up troop numbers and capacities and re-deploying units. Provoking tension between STC forces seeking independence for the south and the IRG, this troop build-up is also spreading the IRG thin. On the west coast, Tarek Saleh, the nephew of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and Commander of the Republican Guards, is encroaching on IRG territory in Taiz, while the UAE-supported Hadhrami Elite forces are pressuring IRG troops in the east.
This complex situation is a consequence of the conflicting interests of Arab coalition members in Yemen’s war.
In this context, it appears that the IRG is taking its last breaths. However, while members of the Arab coalition are undoubtedly digging the IRG’s grave, it is the IRG’s own corruption and economic mismanagement that is throwing it into the grave. Protests across Taiz, Aden, and Mukalla are indicative of the dire state Yemeni people are living in and reacting against.2 With services collapsing across the country and government revenues being squandered abroad by the country’s political elite, there is little hope among Yemenis that life can improve. The IRG has been absent from Yemen, with cabinet members more concerned about their own future career prospects than the country they are supposed to serve. Unless the IRG rids itself of mass corruption, mismanagement, and the administrative disorganization within its newly established institutions, the end of the IRG presence in Yemen is likely.
THE RIYADH AGREEMENT HAS BECOME IRRELEVANT
To those who had expected the November 2019 Riyadh Agreement to mend the fractures within the anti-Houthi alliance under the IRG, the current developments in Yemen will have come as a shock. The Agreement was negotiated by Saudi Arabia after the STC had expelled the IRG from Aden in August 2019 in its quest to gain control over institutions and territory and further its independence project. Instead of bringing the two sides together, the deal further weakened the position of the IRG due to its faulty design and partial implementation. Today, Saudi Arabia is less vigorous in pursuing the deal’s implementation. This not only indicates Saudi Arabia’s lack of interest in sustaining the IRG but also leaves the IRG forces in disarray.
The Riyadh Agreement stipulates that the political and military structures under the respective leaderships be joined through institutional mechanisms.
THE YEMENI GOVERNMENT IS LOSING TERRITORY
Since the beginning of 2020, IRG forces have increasingly lost ground to rival armed groups. That the IRG is today in this weak position on the ground is the result of the divisions within the Arab coalition: namely, the rift between Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The contradictory approaches of these key actors, coupled with the conflicting interests of local actors, have compounded the fragmentation of the IRG’s military support base throughout the years of the conflict. Consequently, it is not only the Houthis that are pushing to take territory from the IRG (e.g. in al-Jawf and Marib) but also armed groups that are supported by members of the Arab coalition are actively taking advantage and attacking the IRG. As well as the STC, they include Republican Guards on the west coast and Hadhrami and Shabwani Elite forces. These non-state groups’ troops are surrounding government forces and threatening to stifle the IRG on the ground. Unless the IRG turns the military tide in its favor, allowing it to break the siege in Marib and recover the losses in al-Baydha and Shabwa, major areas in Marib and Hadhramaut will fall into the hands of its adversaries.
Despite its official withdrawal from the conflict in 2019, the UAE has continued to support and strengthen forces in eastern Yemen.
MASS CORRUPTION AND THE DETERIORATING ECONOMY ARE UNDERMINING THE GOVERNMENT
While the Arab coalition is laying waste to the IRG militarily, the IRG’s devastating handling of the economy pushes it further towards the tipping point. The economic catastrophe, including the collapse of the currency, and the deterioration of services are the greatest challenges the IRG is facing today. Since June 2020 there have been widespread protests against the authorities in cities nominally under IRG control, such as Mukalla, Aden, and Taiz, testifying to the tragedy currently unfolding across Yemen. Public services funds are drying up because of greatly reduced government revenues, a collapsed local currency, the decrease of Saudi economic support, government members accruing large bills while in exile, mass corruption, and grave Central Bank mismanagement. All across the IRG territory, extended electricity blackouts and high prices for food and water are pushing Yemenis over the brink.
With the beginning of the war, Yemen’s oil exports nearly collapsed. Given that the export of crude oil makes up 80 percent of government revenues, the stark reduction of the oil trade removed the foundation of Yemen’s economy. The little oil that is still traded is exported from Hadhramaut. Revenues from Hadhrami exports are deposited in the Central Bank and are meant to be spent on public sector salaries and services. However, revenues mobilized in other governorates under the IRG, including from taxes, customs, or public services, are not paid to the Central Bank. Specifically, Shabwa, Marib,11 and al-Mahra12 refuse to deposit revenues into the Central Bank, citing STC control over Aden, where the Central Bank is based.13 The IRG thus relies on grants provided by donor countries, particularly Saudi Arabia. Th
SAVE YEMEN’S ECONOMY AND BE ACCOUNTABLE, OR YEMEN WILL COLLAPSE
The picture in Yemen looks increasingly grim, not only for the IRG but also for all those Yemenis who feel unrepresented by the current de facto authorities.
To combat corruption, the IRG should install accountability and transparency mechanisms. This should be done in cooperation with local civil society groups, the private sector, and international organizations, to ensure that no single actor dominates the mechanisms.
However, given the behavior of the IRG’s cabinet and local politicians, who continue on the path of corruption and political infighting, the chances that the IRG can turn the current trend around are slim. If the IRG loses its allies, the various regions of Yemen cannot be held together in order to reach a comprehensive political agreement – by Ahmed al.Shargabi
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Colored Coffins: Recruitment and use of child soldiers in the armed conflict in Yemen
Mwatana for Human Rights conducted a study on child recruitment and the use of child soldiers in the armed conflict in Yemen. The study is the first of its kind devoted to the phenomena of child recruitment, examining its causes, mechanisms, direct effects and possible future directions. The study was based on information collected by a trained team of Mwatana field research assistants. The study used systematic, individual interviews as the data collection tool. The study sample consists of 50 interviews with recruited children, and 45 interveiws with guardians of recruited children. To gain additional indicators on the possible future outlook of the phenomenon, Mwatana also conducted fact-finding interviews with 90 children who had not been recruited and guardians of children who had not been recruited but who live in an active recruiting environment. Moreover, interviews were conducted with three people involved in child recruitment in order to gain a better understanding of recruitment mechanisms.
The study covered 19 governorates in Yemen: Sanaa (the city), Sanaa governorate, Amran, Sa’adah, Dhamar, Hajjah, Al-Mahweet, Raimah, Al-Jawf, Hodeidah, Taiz, Aden, Ibb, Lahj, Abyan, Marib, Shabwah, Al-Baidha and Hadramout. The sample cases were selected from these governorates taking into account the characteristics of child recruitment, its dimensions and to ensure that the cases included all the parties involved in child recruitment, namely: Ansar Allah (the Houthi armed group), the Yemeni army forces affiliated with the internationally recognized government, forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, forces affiliated with the UAEBacked Southern Transitional Council, the Joint Forces lead by Tariq Saleh (the nephew of the former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh), Yemeni army brigades affiliated with the Saudi/UAE-led coalition stationed in the southern Saudi borders, and Ansar Al-Sharia.
Section I
Legal Framework Prohibiting the Use and Recruitment of Child Soldiers in Armed Conflicts
This section provides an overview of the international and Yemeni legal frameworks prohibiting child recruitment and use in armed conflicts. The section looks at the Convention on the Rights of Child (CRC), Additional Protocols I and II of the Geneva Conventions, the Optional Protocol of the CRC and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which regards recruitment of children under 15 a war crime. As far as Yemeni law is concerned, Act 45 on the Rights of Children, issued in 2002, strictly bans recruiting children under the age of 18 or engaging them directly in war. The present study discusses some gaps that exist in Yemeni law, particularly given the current rules do not cover various other aspects of child recruitment and use, including indirect engagement of children in hostilities, fails to establish mechanisms to prohibit recruitment of children, nor ensure accountability for violations and processes for rehabilitation and reintegration.
Section II
Causes of Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers in the Armed Conflict in Yemen
Economic conditions are a major cause of child recruitment in the armed conflict in Yemen. Poverty often compels Yemeni families, some allowing their children to participate in the conflict to provide their minimum, necessary survival needs and others allowing their children to be recruited in order to increase the family’s utterly limited income. There are also some cases where children join the army themselves because they feel the hardship of living under poverty and they find their families unable to provide their personal needs. Economic reasons account for 40.7% of the causes for child recruitment based on the study sample.
Social reasons (which account for 37.8%) play an important role in driving child recruitment. Yemen is considered a low-educated country with widespread illiteracy. Influence and social pressure, based on widespread social norms that normalize and further child recruitment, also drive many children to join military units of different parties to the conflict. For example, there exist social norms which advocate that children be viewed as capable to take responsibility, including to carry arms and fight. Political and ideological reasons, on the other hand, accounted for 14.1% of the interviewees’ cited causes of child recruitment. These included ideological allegiance to the recruiting party, as well as political and ideological affiliation and or support to a particular political issue. The desire to carry and use weapons and to imitate adults who participate in the war in some environments was found to be the least significant cause, only cited by 7.4% of the sample.
Section III
Patterns and Mechanisms of Child Recruitment
Compulsory child recruitment (i.e. recruiting by force) accounted for 55.8% of the sample and can be regarded as the prevailing pattern of child recruitment. This includes recruiting children while threatening the family, abducting children and recruiting them without their family’s consent. Voluntary recruitment (i.e. with family authorization) accounted for 44.2% of the sample cases, a relatively high percentage compared to compulsory recruitment. “Voluntary” recruitment does, however, include instances where families felt compelled to allow their children to be recruited due to deteriorating economic conditions, social influence or ideological mobilization. Children are not often mobilized for recruitment individually. 80% of the sample of the present study were recruited collectively. In other words, recruitment was carried out through collective mobilization in small and large groups, suggesting how important social influence of other children is in this phenomenon.
The parties to the conflict assigned people from different social groups to recruit children and to make it more attractive to them, such as mobilizing supervisors, children’s relatives and friends and, to lesser degree, parents and brothers. Different parties followed different mechanisms to recruit children. Ansar Allah (Houthi armed group) promoted the idea of ‘Jihad’ to influence children, whereas the army of the internationally recognized government and other forces often recruited children by offering financial benefits.
Section IV: Conflict and Recruitment Dynamics
Section V: Violations against Recruited Children and Family’s Reactions
Section VI: Direct Effects of Child Recruitment
Section VII: Child Soldiers Recruitment – A Future Outlook – by Mwatana for Human Rights
https://mwatana.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Colored-Coffins.pdf
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Yemen: Displaced people in Marib live on edge of disaster as Houthis advance
Fighting in Marib leads to tens of thousands of people, already lacking necessities for survival, being threatened by death at any moment
"Most of the IDPs [internally displaced people] came from Al-Juba district, Jabal Murad district and other southern areas that witnessed intensified fighting," Fahmi Al-Zubairy, head of the Sanaa office of human rights told MEE.
"They are living in extremely difficult humanitarian conditions due to the absence of real response plans by the UN and other international organisations."
He added that there was a grave danger facing internally displaced people in light of the continued fighting, which he said was a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Khaled al-Shajani, deputy director of the executive unit for IDP management in Marib, said the Houthis were engaged in "forced displacement".
"Before 2015, 450,000 people in total lived in Marib governorate. Since then, the number of IDPs alone has reached 2.2 million people.
"During the last three months, more than 93,000 more have been displaced, bringing the total to over 2.3 million displaced people in the city of Marib since 2015," he said.
"We have around 160 IDPs camps in the city, which represent 10 percent of the total displacement in the governorate. The rest are distributed in neighbourhoods, villages, and rural areas.
"Houthi advances in early 2020 in Al-Jawf governorate and [on] Marib's borders with Sanaa and Al-Jawf displaced nearly 25,000 families."
About 10,000 people were displaced in October alone, in what amounts to the biggest wave of displacement recorded in a single month this year.
"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," said David Gressly, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for Yemen in remarks in Geneva.
The latest escalation in Marib has already displaced tens of thousands of civilians, almost all of whom are women and children, mainly from districts to the south of Marib city, which have witnessed fierce fighting lately.
Almost 90 percent of the IDPs in Marib are living in extreme poverty, according to the UN.
About 10,000 people were displaced in October alone, in what amounts to the biggest wave of displacement recorded in a single month this year.
"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," said David Gressly, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for Yemen in remarks in Geneva.
The latest escalation in Marib has already displaced tens of thousands of civilians, almost all of whom are women and children, mainly from districts to the south of Marib city, which have witnessed fierce fighting lately.
Almost 90 percent of the IDPs in Marib are living in extreme poverty, according to the UN.
Grim future
In a governorate with fragile infrastructure and an increasingly vulnerable host community, international organisations have become unable to alleviate the suffering.
A group of 14 international aid agencies operating in Marib issued a statement in early November voicing deep concern over the situation of IDPs there, while Unicef warned that that the latest surge of violence was exacerbating an already desperate situation for children, of whom an estimated 1.7 million are internally displaced in Yemen.
Dohbool said the aid agencies were "too weak and unorganised".
"They don't give us shelters, blankets and other living necessities, but instead give us soup and cleaning kits. We don't know, maybe they haven't reached us yet, maybe they will not come at all. We have no idea," he said.
Discussing the work of international organisations, Shajani said their handling of the IDP emergency had been irresponsible and non-neutral.
"We continue operating in a challenging environment, with a massive shortfall in funds, which is resulting in the current Marib response completely unable to deal with the crisis," a group of organisations said in a statement.
If Houthi fighters continue progressing towards Marib city, the international organisations and government authorities will face a massive humanitarian challenge in relocating and caring for hundreds of thousands of IDPs.
"We are afraid of the future... what if war reaches these camps?" asked Ali Saleh Mohammed. "We have nothing to do except pray to Allah to help us and keep our children safe." – by Hashem Khaled
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-war-marib-displaced-people-disaster-houthi-advance
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The Impact of the War on Yemen’s Justice System
This report outlines Yemen’s current justice system and identifies key impacts of the war on both formal and informal justice processes and institutions in six governorates—Aden, Hadhramout, Ibb, Marib, Sana’a, and Taiz. The ongoing war has resulted in an ever-changing landscape of military and political control over certain areas, fragmenting Yemen’s justice system amongst the authorities in control. Alongside fragmentation of justice institutions, new local actors have emerged to take on informal roles in the delivery of justice where the state is effectively absent, the war solidifying their position of power over local communities. Over six years of war and subsequent instability throughout the country have increased challenges to the rule of law and delivery of impartial justice throughout Yemen, while legal needs of Yemenis, and in particular IDPs, are rising.
Executive Summary
Over six years of war have severely deteriorated Yemen’s already weak state institutions. Between 2015 and 2017, Yemen’s formal judiciary was effectively suspended in areas that witnessed active and prolonged military confrontations. As a result of the conflict, the justice system has fragmented alongside the lines of authorities in control of different areas of Yemen—the internationally recognized Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG), Ansar Allah (Houthis), and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) — creating a complex system of parallel legal structures. At the same time, informal legal structures involving a variety of local and tribal actors have become increasingly prominent in the absence of functioning state institutions. While tribal customary law practices have a longstanding tradition that predates the establishment of the state, disputes are now more often resolved by customary law than through the formal judiciary in urban and rural areas alike.
Yemen thus constitutes a complex pluralistic justice system, with both formal and informal legal structures and a variety of state and non-state actors performing official functions in either or both structures. The ongoing conflict has resulted in a number of significant challenges to these legal structures. Yemen’s formal judiciary faces issues of fragmentation, severe damage to judicial infrastructure, security threats, demographic change, a growing case load, and weakened law enforcement authorities. These issues have drastically impacted the judiciary’s ability to uphold the rule of law, deliver justice, and maintain credibility among Yemeni citizens. In addition, professional associations such as the Judges Association and the Yemeni Bar Association (YBA) remain largely inactive. Due to the lack of trained legal professionals, Ansar Allah has reinstated an old practice of permitting “lawsuit agents” (wukalâ’ al-sharî) to litigate before courts, despite their lack of formal legal training or licenses.
The war has also affected Yemen’s tribal structures and customary law practices, particularly in areas under control of Ansar Allah who have suppressed opposition efforts of many tribal leaders through public insults, property destruction, and executions. To maintain control over tribes, Ansar Allah has supported the emergence of new, young, and ambitious sheikhs loyal to them. In some cases, Ansar Allah supervisors, known as mushrifeen, have been appointed to official positions and weakened sheikhs’ power and influence by intervening in arbitration. In other (mainly remote) areas, sheikhs may have gained more authority due to the lack of government presence.
The ongoing conflict and resulting instability throughout the country have exacerbated pre-existing challenges to the rule of law and delivery of justice, with citizens in need of justice bearing the brunt of the problem. At the same time, the war has contributed to an increase in disputes. The deterioration of living and economic conditions has led to a significant rise in personal status cases, including domestic violence, divorce, and alimony. The suspension of salaries and the loss of steady income for many Yemenis has resulted in disputes over rent. Moreover, with many Yemenis displaced and having fled intense fighting, as well as land grabbing by militias, disputes over land and property ownership have increased. Cases of assault, rape, and murder have also risen due to ineffective security institutions and the absence of avenues for accountability caused by successive changes of authorities in control of some governorates.
Deterioration of the already fragmented justice system and an increase in legal needs resulting from the war means accessing justice in Yemen has become increasingly difficult, with women, children, minorities, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) disproportionately impacted. These vulnerable groups continue to face several barriers in seeking access to justice and are in dire need of meaningful legal protection – by Mohammed Alshuwaiter
https://ilacnet.org/the-impact-of-the-war-on-yemens-justice-system/
Full document: http://ilacnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/The-Impact-of-the-War-on-Yemens-Justice-System.pdf
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FOR SUSTAINABLE PEACE, HUMAN RIGHTS MUST BE FRONT AND CENTER OF YEMEN’S PEACE PROCESS
The centrality of the human rights dimension of the conflict deserves greater attention from the conflict mediator4 and international actors engaged in peacebuilding activities in Yemen. As Kofi Annan once put it: “There can be no healing without peace, there can be no peace without justice and there can be no justice without respect for human rights and the rule of law.”5 Widespread and systematic human rights violations are an integral element of the conflict’s causes, dynamics, and consequences. Yet, despite being an important part of the problem, human rights have yet to constitute a part of the solution, at least not in any meaningful and institutionalized form. The current efforts to end the conflict in Yemen – which are mostly led by the Office of the UN’s Special Envoy for Yemen (OSESGY) – have focused primarily on reaching power-sharing arrangements between the IRG and the Houthis. While this approach seeks to secure a speedy agreement that ends the conflict, it risks sweeping aside underlying grievances that will undermine any agreement that the parties may reach.
Directing the peace process towards human rights, through which people “are empowered to shape the decisions that impact their lives”,6 could open up new doors for building a sustainable and positive peace. This begins with acknowledging that much of what drives the conflict is rooted in the political and economic marginalization of large segments of the Yemeni people, including regional identity groups (Southerners/Tihamis), women, youth, and Muhamasheen. Therefore, promoting a more pluralistic and participatory peace process that engages the different stakeholders could help transform power imbalances and unjust social relations. Equally important is moving beyond addressing the visible manifestations of the conflict, such as impediments to aid delivery or prisoner exchanges, to addressing the wider economic, political, and social injustices that underlie and animate the conflict, including issues of inequality, inequity, and injustice.
In preparation for an upcoming nationwide ceasefire,7 OSESGY has the opportunity to help transform some elements of the conflict by applying a human rights perspective to the ceasefire process. Other international actors (i.e., UN Security Council, UNHRC, European Union) can further support the ceasefire and the broader peace process by taking concrete and urgent steps towards pursuing accountability for crimes committed by both local and regional actors in Yemen’s conflict. As a human rights activist interviewed for this research emphasizes, “transitional justice and accountability processes cannot wait until a comprehensive peace agreement is signed. Once the cessation of hostilities begins, human rights issues, such as the extrajudicial killings, the unlawful seizures of lands, and arbitrary detention amongst others, will come up to the surface, and failure to address them will threaten the durability of the ceasefire”. Accordingly, the goal of a human rights approach is to help establish positive peace, which does not stop at just ending the violence (the aim of traditional ceasefires), but rather seeks to transform attitudes, institutions, and structures to create and sustain a peaceful society.
This research explores the ways to integrate human rights into Yemen’s peace process, specifically the process of negotiating and implementing a nationwide ceasefire. It looks at opportunities to adopt a human rights-based approach to the ceasefire process and the accompanying challenges, with suggestions on how to overcome the latter. It further seeks to clarify the role that local human rights groups can play in advancing the peace agenda, either as part of or outside of the formal UN-led peace process structure. The research is based on 21 interviews with local human rights groups working in five geographical areas: Taiz, Marib, Sana’a, Aden, and Hadramout. It is also supplemented by consultations with two international experts of human rights and transitional justice.
A HISTORY OF MARGINALIZATION AND DENIAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS
A human rights-based approach seeks to establish positive peace not only through a reactive response to the visible manifestations of the conflict but also by addressing the underlying structural causes. To this end, it is helpful to look at the decades-long grievances in Yemen to understand how they relate to the conflict dynamics today.
INCLUSIVE PEACE CAN HELP TRANSFORM IMBALANCED POWER STRUCTURES
Due to the current conflict, the Yemeni state’s collapse has enabled new groups to access political and economic power structures from which they were formerly excluded. Yet, the mechanisms that produced this power shift have not changed, where violence, civil war, and secession remain the viable means for armed groups in Yemen not only to challenge traditional power structures but also to perpetuate the same inequitable distribution of power. As one research respondent, a professor of criminal law, explains: “Our problem in Yemen historically has been the domination and control of one party over power to the exclusion of all other parties, causing conflict in every period.”
By limiting the peace process in Yemen to armed groups, the UN risks sustaining the same unequal power structure and prevents the important voices of less powerful groups from getting a fair public hearing. I
THE ROLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS IN SUPPORTING THE CEASEFIRE PROCESS
In the struggle to enhance the human rights situation in Yemen, the most important role will fall to local human rights organizations and civil society as a whole given their close ties to communities and their knowledge of local contexts. The relationship between human rights violations and conflict escalation makes human rights organizations important actors in supporting the ceasefire process and the broader peacebuilding efforts. I
ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
It is worth noting that the important role that human rights organizations play neither begins nor ends with the UN-led peace process. Already, local human rights organizations are working tirelessly, and in highly insecure environments, to document human rights violations, produce evidence-based reports, and demand accountability and redress for the victims.
ACCOUNTABILITY IS KEY FOR LASTING PEACE, BUT REMAINS CONTENTIOUS
FINANCIAL AND STRATEGIC SUPPORT IS NEEDED
Given this interdependence between human rights and the peace agenda, more support is needed for the work of local human rights groups – by Hadil al-Mowafak
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Weltnaturerbe Sokotra: Beute im Jemenkrieg
Die jemenitische Insel Sokotra ist ein Naturparadies im Indischen Ozean. Doch ihre geostrategische Lage vor dem Horn von Afrika weckt Begehrlichkeiten der Parteien, die im Krieg auf dem Festland involviert sind. Dem Weltnaturerbe droht der Ausverkauf.
„Warum wurde Sokotra 2008 von der UNESCO zum Weltnaturerbe erklärt? Wegen der Einzigartigkeit: Die Insel ist Heimat von 360 Pflanzenarten, die anderswo nicht existieren; und es gibt mehr als 130 Vogelarten, die nur hier vorkommen. Aber die Insel wird zerstört. Wenn es immer mehr Gebäude in dieser Gegend gibt, wird das alles enden.“
Sokotra ist nur ein wenig größer als Mallorca und gilt wegen der Flora und Fauna – genau wie die Galapagos- und die Fernandez-Inseln – als Paradies. Doch die Hölle ist nah.
Die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate: auf Sokotra allgegenwärtig
Die Motive für das Engagement der Emiratis in Sokotra sind unklar – auch deshalb, weil kein Vertreter der VAE über das Thema Sokotra sprechen will: Weder in Abu Dhabi noch auf Sokotra.
Eine Autofahrt über die Insel macht klar, dass die Emiratis überall auf Sokotra sind: An Häusern und Mauern hängen Schilder, die Bauprojekte preisen – neben dem jemenitischen Staatsbanner prangt stets das der VAE. Auf den Dächern vieler Privatbauten wehen Fahnen der Emirate.
Ein einfaches, sauberes Dorf, mit Häusern – ordentlich gemauert mit Steinen aus den Bergen in der Umgebung. Strom, Wasser – die Menschen: froh. Und über allem weht die Flagge der VAE.
Die Emiratis unterstützen den „Übergangsrat des Südens“, kurz STC. Der wurde 2017 von Separatisten gegründet: Sie wollen das Land in Nord- und Süd spalten. Warum auch immer. Im Sommer 2020 nahmen STC-Milizionäre Sokotra ein. Sie sind es, die seither die Insel kontrollieren; Uniformierte, die Check-Points und Kasernen unterhalten. Über denen weht ihr Banner: Die schwarz-weiß-rote Flagge des Jemen mit einem blauen Keil und einem gelben Stern. Und es gibt auf Sokotra eine Kommunalverwaltung des Übergangsrates – finanziert und aufgezwungen von den VAE. Die alte Verwaltung, die zum Apparat von Präsident Hadi gehört, existiert noch parallel. Seine Beamten sind jedoch ins Abseits gedrängt, bekommen kaum noch Gehalt. Und alles geduldet von Saudi-Arabien.
Unter den Männern am Strand sucht einer das Gespräch über Politik, die meisten anderen wollen sich eher über Alltägliches unterhalten. Dieser Mann sagt, dass er kein Fischer sei, sondern Beamter der Kommunalverwaltung, der, die nicht von den VAE bezahlt wird.
Der Mann möchte seinen Namen ungenannt lassen. Er habe schon mehrmals im Gefängnis gesessen, weil er sich allzu kritisch geäußert hätte: Dagegen, dass die Emiratis in seiner Heimat Sokotra so viel kontrollieren.
„Die VAE richten Ihre Blicke nach Sokotra wegen des Tourismus. Sie wollen aus Sokotra eine Touristenhochburg machen – wie Scharm el-Scheich in Ägypten.“
Und es gebe noch ein zweites Motiv dafür, dass die VAE auf Sokotra so präsent sind, so viel kontrollierten – meint der Mann dann, während eines Spazierganges am Wasser: Die geostrategische Bedeutung für den Welthandel. Bereits die Portugiesen sind einst dafür da gewesen. 1834 besetzte Großbritannien Sokotra, um den Golf von Aden – und damit den Zugang zum Roten Meer zu beherrschen. Später die Sowjetunion. Deren Panzer rosten noch heute am Strand von Qalensiya vor sich hin.
„Sie haben zwei Ziele: Zum einen wollen die Emiratis hier investieren, und zum anderen wollen sie von hier die internationalen Wasserstraßen kontrollieren, denn Sokotra hat eine strategisch wichtige Lage.“
Nicht nur auf Sokotra schlagen die Emirate Pflöcke ein: 50 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung sind die VAE zu einem Machtfaktor in der Region geworden.
„Sie haben viele Dollars. Sie sind reich und sie haben Geld. Und wer Geld hat, kann heute stark sein. Also mit ihrem Geld kaufen sie Waffen, und sie teilen Interessen mit großen anderen Mächten. Sie selbst haben das Ziel, ein starker Staat im Nahen Osten und in der arabischen Welt zu werden.“
Umweltschützer Ahmed al-Deeb steht unweit der Hauptstadt von Sokotra, Hadibu, vor einem eingefriedeten Gelände am Meer. Die Mauer schützt eine halbfertigte Ferien-Bungalow-Anlage. Einst standen hier ein paar Fischerhütten, ein Mini-Dorf namens Delishia. Über Strohmänner wurde das Land verkauft. An Ausländer, was eigentlich illegal ist – sagt Ahmed al-Deeb.
„Mit Delishia ist es vorbei. Da sind jetzt nur noch Emiratis. Sie können alles machen; wir nichts. Wir können nicht einmal darüber reden. Wir können über nichts reden.“
Die wenigsten Sokotris reden über die Emiratis, weil die meisten irgendwie von ihnen profitieren: Die Emiratis sorgen für Strom. Als Investoren bringen sie Geld und sie fliegen die Insel einmal pro Woche an, auch mit nicht-arabischen Touristen, die ebenfalls Geld bringen. Die Emiratis vergeben Stipendien an talentierte Jugendliche oder sorgen dafür, dass Schwerkranke aus Sokotra in Abu Dhabi operiert werden.
Bewaffnete Einheiten, fragwürdige Investitionen, halblegale Landkäufe – und das mit Geld aus den VAE. Was auf Sokotra passiert, ist nicht greifbar. Die UNESCO ist derzeit dabei, eine Delegation zusammenzustellen. Sie soll die Vorgänge auf der Insel, die Flora und Fauna – und damit auch die Kultur der Menschen – in Gefahr bringen, untersuchen. Die UNESCO könnte Sokotra den Titel „Weltnaturerbe“ aberkennen. Das wäre tragisch für die Menschen auf Sokotra. Damit würden vielleicht mögliche Geldquellen zur dringend anstehenden Renaturierung ihres Paradieses versiegen. Bevor sie überhaupt sprudeln könnten, in einer Zukunft des Jemen – ohne Krieg – von Björn Blaschke
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/weltnaturerbe-sokotra-100.html
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
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No new cases of COVID-19 reported
No new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in all the liberated areas of Yemen, the supreme national emergency committee for coronavirus said on Monday.
The committee also reported in its statement the recovery 14 coronavirus patients, in addition to the death of one patient in Hadramout.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34104
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Grafiken und Zahlen: COVID-19 Impfungen Jemen: vollständig geimpft (%)
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Aktuelle Corona Zahlen für Jemen, 22. Nov. 2021
Bisher wurden für Jemen insgesamt 9.955 COVID-19-Infektionen erfasst (Stand: 22.11.2021). Dies entspricht einer Infektionsrate von 0,03 Prozent. Mit 1.938 Todesfällen liegt die Letalitätsrate bei 19,47 Prozent. Binnen der letzten Woche wurden 37 Neuinfektionen gezählt. Daraus ergibt sich die aktulle 7-Tage-Inzidenz von 0,1 (Anzahl der Neuerkrankungen je 100.000 Einwohner).
Aktuelle Corona Zahlen für Jemen, 20. Nov. 2021
Bisher wurden für Jemen insgesamt 9.954 COVID-19-Infektionen erfasst (Stand: 20.11.2021). Dies entspricht einer Infektionsrate von 0,03 Prozent. Mit 1.935 Todesfällen liegt die Letalitätsrate bei 19,44 Prozent. Binnen der letzten Woche wurden 42 Neuinfektionen gezählt. Daraus ergibt sich die aktuelle 7-Tage-Inzidenz von 0,1 (Anzahl der Neuerkrankungen je 100.000 Einwohner).
Jemen hat den ersten Corona-Fall am 11. April 2020 gemeldet. Mit einer Inzidenz von 2,6 hatte die Pandemie am 5. April 2021 ihren Höchststand erreicht. Die 100er-Schwelle hat der Inzidenzwert noch nie überschritten.
Corona-Schutzimpfung
Jemen verzeichnet bereits 534,3 Tsd. COVID-19-Erstimpfungen. Dies entspricht einer Erstimpfquote von 1,8 Prozent. Vollständig gegen den Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 geimpft sind 349,3 Tsd., also 1,2 Prozent der Einwohner.
https://corona-zahlen-heute.de/jemen/
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Three fatalities resulting from covid-19 infections have been recorded in Marib and Hadhramaut/Crater Sky
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52226
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Dengue Fever Outbreak in Al-Garrahi District, Al-Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen, 2019
Dengue fever (DF) has reemerged in Yemen with higher frequency during the last years. On Nov 6, 2019, an increased number of suspected DF in Al-Garrahi district was reported. On Nov 7, 2019, team sent to investigate. Objectives: To confirm the existence of outbreak, describe the outbreak characteristics, and to recommend suitable intervention for control. Methods: A descriptive study was conducted. WHO case definition was used to identify patients. Active search from house to house along with entomological investigation and health education were conducted. A line-list was used to collect data. Blood specimens were collected and tested by ELISA for dengue IgM. Frequency, percentage and rates were calculated and population from central statistical organization was used. Results: A total of 2067 cases met the case definition. Of them 51% were males and 32% were <10 years old. All patients complained from fever, headache and arthralgia (100%) followed by myalgia and retro orbital pain (67% and 39%) respectively. The first case-patient was in week 41 and reached the peak with 1058 patients in week 46. The overall attack rate was 16/1,000, significantly higher among patients with 10-<50 and ≥ 50-year-old compared with patients <10 years old (17 and 19 /1000 vs 14 /1000, P value < 0.001). Out of 20 tested blood samples, 12 (60%) were IgM positive. House index was 70%, the container index 50%, and the Breteau index was 140. Vector control measures with community participation were intensified in week 46 and patient-cases decreased to 140 in week 48. Conclusions: Dengue outbreak was confirmed in Al-Garrahi district. Spread of infection facilitated by storing water and presence of indoor larvae. The findings emphasize the importance of health awareness and community participation for containing DF outbreak.
cp2 Allgemein / General
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Interactive Map of Yemen War
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Daily War Map Updates
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-november-22-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-november-21-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-november-20-2021-map-update/
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Invisible War: On The Front Lines In Yemen
Rare photos from the fighting in Yemen reveal a war -- widely seen as a proxy battle between Saudi Arabia and Iran -- that is going largely unnoticed in a world gripped by other crises.
https://www.rferl.org/a/yemen-war-iran-saudi-proxy-forces-in-photos/31573245.html
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Hayjat Al-Abd winding and narrow mountain road, the only humanitarian and commercial conduit to the besieged Taiz, has been blocked for the second day due to an accident involving a big lorry./Multiple websites
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52204
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Jemen: Todesurteil Journalist
Journalisten im Jemen werden von allen Konfliktparteien bedroht. Die hochschwangere Rascha Abdullah al-Hazari starb bei einem Autobombenanschlag, ihr Mann Mahmud al-Utmi überlebte nur knapp. Ein Beispiel von vielen.
"Jemens Journalisten werden von allen politischen Fraktionen ins Visier genommen", sagt Asma A. "Wenn du dich in deiner Berichterstattung politisch eindeutig auf eine Seite schlägst, musst du damit rechnen, getötet oder verhaftet zu werden."
Journalistinnen und Journalisten würden häufig als Teil einer Konfliktpartei wahrgenommen und nicht als zivile Beobachter, sagt Christopher Resch, Pressesprecher von Reporter ohne Grenzen (RoG) in Berlin. "Sie genießen somit kaum wirksamen Schutz." Auf der RoG-Rangliste der Pressefreiheit belegt der Jemen derzeit Platz 169 von 180.
Laut dem "Committee to Protect Journalists" - dem Komitee zum Schutz von Journalisten - sollen mindestens 19 Journalisten seit 2014 im Jemen getötet worden sein.
Nach Angaben von RoG sind vier von ihnen allein im Herbst 2021 getötet worden. Drei Journalisten starben am 10. Oktober bei einem Anschlag auf einen Autokonvoi des Gouverneurs von Aden, Rascha ist die vierte getötete Journalistin. Mehrere Journalisten sitzen derzeit außerdem in Haft.
"Alle vier in diesem Jahr getöteten Journalisten starben in der Region Aden", berichtet RoG-Vertreter Resch. "Verschiedene Medienberichte legten den Verdacht nahe, dass die Huthis für die Taten verantwortlich waren, die versuchen, ihre Macht auch auf diesen Teil des Landes auszudehnen.", so Resch im Gespräch mit der DW. "Aber in allen Teilen des Landes ist es extrem gefährlich, als Journalist oder als Journalistin zu arbeiten."
Nicht nur die Huthis sprechen Todesurteile gegen Medienschaffende aus, foltern oder verhaften sie. Auch die international anerkannte Regierung und der sogenannte Südliche Übergangsrat verfolgen Journalisten und nehmen sie fest. Die Huthis streiten derweil ab, hinter dem Anschlag auf das Journalisten-Ehepaar in Aden zu stecken.
Abgesehen von der konkreten Bedrohung für Journalisten durch politische Gruppierungen erschweren Kämpfe, Bombenangriffe und die schlechte wirtschaftliche und humanitäre Lage die alltägliche Arbeit von Journalisten.
Asma A. und auch Mohammed A. beklagen beide, dass es keine Gesetze zum Schutz von Journalisten gibt. Sie und ihre Kollegen seien schlichtweg Willkür ausgesetzt.
"Ich weiß nicht, wie man Journalisten im Jemen noch helfen soll", sagt Asma A. "Ich weiß nur, dass alle politischen Parteien in meinen Augen Kriminelle sind. Sie alle tragen Waffen, sie alle bedrohen Journalisten und schränken unsere Arbeit und unsere Pressefreiheit ein."
https://www.dw.com/de/jemen-todesurteil-journalist/a-59845512
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Yemen: Journalists fear for their lives
Journalists are under fire from all factions in the Yemen conflict. Rasha Abdullah al-Harazi, nine months pregnant, recently died in a bomb attack, her husband barely survived. Without legal protection, many simply flee.
"Yemen's journalists are targeted by all political factions," says Asma A., adding "if you take a clear political stance in your reporting, you may as well expect to be killed or arrested."
"Journalists are often perceived as part of a conflict party rather than as civilian observers," Christopher Resch, press officer for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in Berlin, told DW on the phone. "As a result, they experience barely any protection."
Yemen currently ranks 169 out of 180 on RSF's press freedom rankings.
According to RSF, at least four journalists have been killed in 2021: Three of them have died in an attack on a convoy of cars belonging to the governor of Aden on October 10; Rasha was the fourth.
Moreover, numerous journalists are currently in detention.
According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 19 journalists have been killed in Yemen since 2014.
"All four journalists who were killed this year have died in the Aden region," Resch said. He added that "several reports suggested that the Houthis were responsible for the acts, as they are trying to extend their power to this part of the country."
Yet, as Resch points out, it is also extremely dangerous to work as a journalist in other parts of the country since it is not only the Houthis who torture, arrest or issue death sentences against journalists.
https://www.dw.com/en/yemen-journalists-fear-for-their-lives/a-59856687
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Abductees Mothers Association rally statement in conjunction with International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
Based on our aims at Abductees’ Mothers Association to work in attempt to end the suffering of our abducted, forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily arrested sons, we have been proactive in monitoring the violations against them in order to compensate them and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
In conjunction with the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, November 2nd, we, at Abductees’ Mothers Association, have monitored the violations against journalists. The number of abducted journalists has mounted to 58, abducted by Houthi armed group, the government, or Southern Transitional Council forces.
http://ama-ye.org/index.php?no=1762&ln=En
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New statistics published on child casualties of Saudi-led war on Yemen
The Entisaf Organisation for Women’s and Children’s Rights have confirmed that the number of children victims of the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression in Yemen, from the beginning of the aggression until the end of November 2021, has exceeded 3,825 martyrs and 4,157 wounded.
A report issued by the organisation pointed that the number of children with various disabilities caused by the aggression amounted to 5,559 cases, while cases of tumors among children recorded 71,000 since the start of the aggression, with 9,000 cases added annually.
The human rights report pointed out that more than 3 million Yemeni children are suffering from malnutrition, while more than 300 children die every day.
Furthermore, there are more than 3,000 children suffering from congenital anomalies, while more than 3,000 others urgently need open-heart surgery outside Yemen.
The report pointed out that the closure of Sana’a International Airport has prevented more than 30,000 children with various chronic diseases from traveling for treatment abroad. There are also 2 million Yemeni children out of school, while half a million others have left the education system completely since the start of the aggression.
Film: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/11/18/670922/Saudi-War-on-Yemen
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Houthis: Gov't of ex-Yemen president had secret ties with Israel
The former Yemeni regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh maintained secret contact with Israel, Rai Al Youm online newspaper reported an official saying yesterday.
According to the Deputy Director of Moral Guidance Department for Media Affairs in the Houthi government, Brigadier Abdullah Bin Amer, Israel widened its operation and activities in Yemen during Saleh's time as president.
He said that secret documents proved that "there had been communication between Sanaa and Tel Aviv in 2004."
Bin Amer said that Israel looks at today's Yemen as a "big danger to its domination of the southern area of the Red Sea."
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The Role of the Media in Peacebuilding in Yemen 8April 2020]
The increased political capture of the Yemeni media since 2014 has reinforced diverging political discourses and has contributed to polarization across society and to political fragmentation. Practitioners face steep challenges in composing professional stories. Journalists are subject to harassment, intimidation, abduction and violence. Yet, Yemeni journalists remain hopeful of the prospect of media reform and are eager to detail the prerequisites for proactive change. Encouraging the development of independent news outlets, independent funding and capacity-building activities could enable the Yemeni media to contribute to better mutual understanding, de-escalation and the requirements for peace.
Executive Summary
The media holds an important role in contributing to or mediating in conflict, framing societal issues, constructing the historic record and furthering narra- tives. Yemen’s media landscape requires substantial support and reform in order to make a constructive contribution to peacebuilding. The increased political capture of the Yemeni media since 2014 has reinforced diverging political discours- es and has contributed to polarization across society and to political fragmen- tation. Content of newspapers, television and online platforms has further eroded journalistic standards through the circu- lation of articles and news with biased angles, ungrounded “facts” and ethical disregard. Practitioners face steep chal- lenges in composing professional stories. Journalists are subject to harassment, in- timidation, abduction and violence. The destruction of infrastructure, currency devaluation and delays in salary payment also inhibit media operations. Yet, jour- nalists remain hopeful of the prospect of media reform and are eager to detail the prerequisites for proactive change. En- couraging the development of indepen- dent news outlets, independent funding and capacity-building activities could en- able the media to contribute to mutual understanding, de-escalation and the re- quirements for peace - by Fatima Saleh, Scott Preston and Mareike Transfeld
https://carpo-bonn.org/en/16-the-role-of-the-media-in-peacebuilding-in-yemen/
and full document: https://carpo-bonn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/carpo_brief_16.pdf
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
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Audio: The Yemen Brief Podcast: Episode 3: How the International Humanitarian Response is Failing Yemen
Sana’a Center Researcher AbuBakr al-Shamahi talks to Sarah Vuylsteke, the author of our report "When Aid Goes Awry: How the International Humanitarian Response is Failing Yemen". This episode focuses primarily on is Yemen really the worst humanitarian crisis in the world? Does data support this or not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuw4qfyPgkI
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Yemeni Activist: Saudi-led War Inflicting Enormous Damage to Education
Qasim al-Shawea, Yemeni Journalist and Humanitarian, says the war on Yemen has caused some 1400 schools to close, and deprived millions of children from schooling across the impoverished Arab country.
Speaking in an interview with FNA, al-Shawea said, “Parents, lucky enough to still have their family, cannot provide even for the most basic needs for their children: food, clothing and medicines are simply unaffordable… Child work is also rampant as children are forced to leave schools to look for work.”
Qasim Ali al-Shawea is a Sana’a-based journalist and humanitarian. He is the founder of Share Aid Yemen, a local NGO distributing food and other aids to Yemeni children across the country.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: What are the impacts of the conflict on children’s education in Yemen?
A: According to a UNICEF report, nearly 2 million Yemeni children could not attend school this year. For over six years, the Saudi-led/US-Backed coalition has been bombing deliberately the entire country of Yemen, causing massive destruction, in some cases total annihilation. Cities have been targeted, highly populated areas, markets, schools, hospitals, killing thousands of innocent civilians and injuring tens of thousands more. The targets were always declared 'military' based on the assumption Ansarallah were doing military actions in the affected areas. Fact is, missiles have always fallen on, mainly, women and children. After Saudi airstrikes, Yemeni parents dig graves to bury what is left of their children: dismembered bodies.
Parents, lucky enough to still have their family, cannot provide even for the most basic needs for their children: food, clothing and medicines are simply unaffordable.
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WFP Yemen Situation Report #10, October 2021
In Numbers
20.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance
16.2 million people food insecure
47,000 people in famine-like conditions
4 million people internally displaced
Highlights
WFP targeted 11.9 million people in Yemen with general food assistance in October.
WFP data released in October show that the food security situation in Yemen remains critical, as the underlying drivers of food insecurity continue to worsen.
The depreciation of the Yemeni riyal continued in October in areas under the Internationally Recognized Government of Yemen, with the riyal reaching a new record low of close to YER 1,400/USD 1 in late October.
Military escalation continued in Ma’rib governorate in October
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/wfp-yemen-situation-report-10-october-2021
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Hunger continues to rise in Yemen: WFP
WFP says Yemeni conflict devastates ‘millions of families'
The World Food Programme (WFP) warned Sunday that hunger was increasing across war-torn Yemen amid continued rise in goods prices.
"Food prices and hunger continue to rise," WFP said on Twitter. "The level of need is high with families depending on WFP food assistance to survive."
The UN agency warned that the protracted Yemeni crisis “is devastating for millions of families."
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is aggravated by the depreciation of the value of the Yemeni riyal, which reached more than 1,500 riyal for US dollar in areas under the Yemeni government’s control.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/hunger-continues-to-rise-in-yemen-wfp/2426684
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WFP Yemen Food Security Update, November 2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/wfp-yemen-food-security-update-november-2021
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Film: Little Reem wants every child in Yemen to be happy and live in peace. This #WorldChildrensDay, listen to how she reimagines a better and fairer world for everyone.
https://twitter.com/UNICEF/status/1462254442485403658
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The recent escalation that was carried out by Saudi led coalition warplanes in #Yemen will lead to serious consequences & will exacerbate the current humanitarian situation in the country. 7 years of war devastated families put civilians at grave risk and cause the death and injury of men, women, girls and boys. Since its start, the war has displaced over 4 million people, making #Yemen the fourth biggest internal displacement crisis in the world.
Today in #Yemen, 20.7 million people, two out of every three Yemenis, need some form of humanitarian & protection assistance. Of these, 12.1 million people are in acute need. More than half of the population are facing acute levels of food insecurity. (photos)
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1461784021214670850
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1461783905682575366
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1461783977174478849
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Audio and transcript: EPISODE 4: SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGNS WITH YEMENI WOMEN
In today’s episode, we want to critically assess the social media activism focused on women’s rights.
I am here to discuss this with Hadil Al-Ashwal, a consultant for the World Bank, Head of MENA AGE, and a women’s rights activist, as well as Mokhtar Ahmed, a PhD researcher and creator of social and educational content that aims at inspiring change within the Yemeni family and society. I also spoke to Fatima Nabil, the Social Media expert at Yemen Policy Center. Welcome to you all!
Mokhtar, as the only man in this round, could you tell us what your perspective is on women’s rights?
Mokhtar: Women’s rights in the Arab world in general and in Yemen specifically are not only a problem that is of a concern of women only, but rather the problem of society and all family members, including men. What I mean is that the foundation of injustice to women is her presence and residence with a man, whether he is a brother, father, or husband, who is afraid of the patriarchal society around him. This society pressures the man to behave in a certain way, and this man always lives in a state of anxiety because of what goes on in people’s minds about his family. You know, people ask about why does your sister work, why does your wife go out late, why did your mother do this, and many things like that.
Amal: Hadil, I want to ask you about the activism around women’s issues. When it comes to the campaigns that take place online, do they succeed in raising awareness of Yemenis on the difficulties of women? Another question is: Do these campaigns reach men as well?
Hadil: Let’s take the Ashti Haqi campaign as an example. A campaign that I started with other Yemeni women inside and outside Yemen. ‘Ashti haqi’ means ‘I want my rights’. The campaign was launched against the Houthis in particular, at a time when the Houthis were aggressively setting discriminatory policies against women. I can say that this campaign was a huge success. The hashtag #Ishti_Haqqi drew the attention of many news stations, such as DW News and I also did an interview with the BBC and a debate on Al-Araby channel to discuss the campaign. One of the things we highlighted and criticized was the dismissal of women from their jobs in restaurants on the pretext of gender segregation. After the campaign was launched, the Houthis made a video in which they talk to women in restaurants and deny their expulsion. We knew from our sources that they returned them to jobs after the campaign. I don’t really care about their denial. The most important thing to me is that they ended some of these unjust decisions. However, in general, the problem with campaigns is that it is really difficult to follow up and know when the change happens due to the pressure from campaigns, if it will continue or end as soon as the hype about the issue diminishes.
https://www.yemenpolicy.org/solidarity-campaigns-with-yemeni-women/
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Film: Yemen - Livestock decline in Yemen owing to war, drought, and high cost of fodder
The number of livestock in Yemen has recently decreased, for several reasons, the major one is the war that has expanded in most governorates of the country, extending to the areas designated for pastures, in addition to the lack of rain and the high prices of fodder, which pushed farmers to stop raising livestock, not to mention the deteriorating living conditions and displacement. According to the report of the Department of Statistics and Agricultural Monitoring for the year 2018, the volume of livestock in Yemen decreased between 2014 and 2018. The number of livestock in the country in 2014 was estimated at 21 million and 296 thousand heads, bringing the number down to about 19 million and 392 thousand heads, including 8 million and 813 thousand sheep, while the number of goats reached 8 million and 644 thousand, cows a million and 503 thousand, and camels 431 thousand heads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7DNcFbwTAw
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Families Resort to Cooking Tree Leaves to Survive as Famine Looms Over Yemen
In Maghrabah, a remote district in Hajjah governorate in northern Yemen, families are resorting to eating the waxy leaves of a local tree to survive, boiling them to soften them into a bitter-tasting paste that is slightly more digestible. Maghrabah is one of 11 districts in Yemen where famine-like conditions were identified in late 2020.
Abdullatif and his wife have five children. The family receives monthly food assistance from the U.N. World Food Programme – a food basket of staples including flour, beans, oil, sugar and salt. That is the only food they have – and when it runs out the family gathers leaves from the ‘halas’ tree to eat.
Abdullatif’s remote village has been further isolated by fuel shortages. Fuel imports into Yemen are down 73 percent year on year, pushing prices up and creating a thriving black market. Few in Adbullatif’s village can now afford public transport, making travellng for medical care – or even to market to buy food – almost impossible.
While Yemen’s crisis is complex, the effect of years of war on families like Abdullatif’s is clear (with photos)
https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/families-resort-tree-leaves-famine-looms-yemen/
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TAGEBUCH EINER HUMANITÄREN HELFERIN
Hier teilen wir Tagebucheinträge von vier Kolleg*innen des UNHCR und anderer UN-Organisationen im Jemen, wo seit sieben Jahren Krieg herrscht.
Die Kolleg*innen, deren Geschichten wir im Folgenden veröffentlichen, sind alle im Jemen zu Hause. Sie wurden dort geboren oder sind, wie Naima, vor Jahren aus Somalia in das Land geflohen, um Sicherheit zu finden.
Ali Jawwad, Arzt bei der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO), in Mukalla
Die Unverwüstlichkeit meines Volkes erstaunt mich immer wieder. Die Schlagzeilen in den Nachrichten waren heute Morgen genauso düster wie an jedem anderen Tag, aber was mich am meisten beunruhigte, war eine Warnung der WHO, dass unser Gesundheitssystem kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch steht. Ich dachte an einen Nierenpatienten, den ich vor drei Monaten traf.
Der Krieg hatte ihn älter aussehen lassen, als er tatsächlich war. Sein Gesicht war blass wie der trockene Sand in der Wüste. Seine Familie hatte ihn zur Dialyse gebracht. Er war sichtlich krank, aber der Strom war ausgefallen und die Generatoren waren aufgrund von Treibstoffmangel nicht betriebsbereit.
Wir konnten nichts Anderes tun, als zu warten, bis der Strom wieder da war. Trotz alledem wirkte dieser erstaunliche Mann sehr optimistisch. Er sagte mir, dass die bloße Öffnung des Zentrums, unabhängig davon, ob Dienstleistungen verfügbar waren oder nicht, ihm Hoffnung gab, dass er noch einen weiteren Tag leben könnte.
„Ich möchte daran glauben, dass es wieder gute Tage geben wird.“
Sein Optimismus lehrte mich Demut, Einfühlungsvermögen und die Kraft des Glaubens. Ich möchte daran glauben, dass es wieder gute Tage geben wird. Aber manchmal spüre ich den Druck so sehr. Die Liste der Hindernisse ist lang: Krieg, Vertreibung, schlechte Wirtschaft, Treibstoffknappheit, Cholera, Überschwemmungen und jetzt COVID-19. Manchmal wünschte ich, all das wäre nur ein böser Traum.
Ich bin froh, dass wir das Gesundheitsamt im vergangenen Jahr bei der Einrichtung von Covid-19-Behandlungszentren unterstützen konnten und diese für die Aufnahme von Verdachtsfällen vorbereitet haben. Ich spüre immer noch die Belastung auf meinen Schultern. Für dieses Zentrum habe ich rund um die Uhr gearbeitet. Der Prozess verlangte in der Tat viel Energie und harte Arbeit, aber es hat sich gelohnt, wenn man sieht, dass die Arbeit erledigt ist und die Menschen, die Unterstützung brauchen, nun angemessene medizinische Hilfe erhalten.
Ich freue mich über all die Auszeichnungen, die weltweit für das Gesundheitspersonal vergeben werden. Vor allem die Helfer*innen im Jemen verdienen eine Medaille. Sie kämpfen an mehr als nur einer Front.
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WFP Yemen Country Brief, October 2021
Operational Updates
Under the October cycle, WFP targeted 11.9 million people for general food assistance (GFA). Of these, 8.6 million people were targeted with in-kind food assistance, 2 million people with commodity vouchers and more than 1.3 million people with cash assistance.
According to the latest WFP food security update, the nationwide average rate of inadequate food consumption in Yemen stands at 41.5 percent, above the “very high” threshold of 40 percent. Conflict-affected Ma’rib governorate has seen the most severe deterioration of the food security situation this year, with the rate of inadequate food consumption growing by 55 percent from January to September 2021.
WFP is currently conducting a countrywide beneficiary retargeting and registration exercise across Yemen. As of the end of October, close to 2 million people had been biometrically registered In the southern governorates (areas under the IRG), out of 3.7 million GFA beneficiaries. In the northern governorates (areas under the Sana’a-based authorities), pilot phase targeting has been completed, with over 141,000 people retargeted. Around 118,600 people have had their biodata digitized, and nearly 52,000 people have been biometrically registered and are either enrolled or ready to be enrolled for cash assistance.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/wfp-yemen-country-brief-october-2021
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Yemen: Nutirtion Cluster Nutrition Snapshot (January- September 2021)
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-nutirtion-cluster-nutrition-snapshot-january-september-2021
Yemen WASH Cluster - Humanitarian Dashboard (January - October 2021)
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Mideast in Pictures: In war-torn Yemen, malnourished children crave food
In war-torn Yemen, the world's worst humanitarian crisis has been grinding on for years. The World Health Organization recently said nearly 16.2 million Yemenis are food insecure and three of four children in the country are chronically malnourished
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-11/18/c_1310317224.htm
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Over 4,800 Yemenis need travel abroad for life-saving kidney transplant
The Ministry of Health in the National Salivation Government of Yemen has confirmed that more than 4,850 patients with kidney failure in various governorates within the government’s control need to travel abroad to undergo a kidney transplant.
Al-Masirah news channel quoted a source in the ministry confirming that “there is a great shortage of dialysis centers, as there are only 4 governmental dialysis centers in the capital and five private centers.”
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/17/over-4800-yemenis-need-travel-abroad-for-life-saving-kidney-transplant/ = http://en.ypagency.net/244200/
and also http://en.ypagency.net/244211/
and
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Rights Organization Says 300 Yemeni Children Die Every Day Because of Malnutrition
A human rights organization said 300 Yemeni children die every day due to malnutrition, as Saudi Arabia keeps bombing the Southern impoverished neighbor in defiance of international calls to end its bloody war.
In a report published on Thursday, Yemen-based Entesaf Organization for Women and Child Rights said more than three million Yemeni children suffer from siege-inflicted malnutrition while more than 300 children lose their lives on a daily basis because of the serious condition.
The report, cited by Yemen’s Arabic-language Al-Masirah television network, added that there are more than 3,000 children suffering from congenital abnormalities, while over 3,000 others need open heart surgery outside the impoverished country.
According to the appalling report, which was read during a press conference in capital Sana’a, 3,825 children have been killed and 4,157 others wounded since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s imposed war against Yemen six years ago.
and also http://en.ypagency.net/244295/
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Yemen: Monthly Situation Report (October 2021)
Nutrition
Lessening Acute Malnutrition through Blanket Supplementary Feeding Program in Ibb, Taizz, Dhamar and Hajjah Governorates.
Providing MAM treatment to children U5 and PLW in Sama & As Silw districts of Taizz governorate.
Health
Increasing Access of Vulnerable People to Vital Health Services in Taizz Governorate.
Food Security & Livelihood
Increasing Resilience of Severely Food Insecure Families in Al-Hudaydah Governorate.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-monthly-situation-report-october-2021
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Film: Open landfills in Yemeni cities have a host of threats affecting the entire ecological system, including food and water safety and the health of communities.This catastrophe is to remain unresolved as long as the humanitarian crisis keeps aggravating.
https://twitter.com/holmakhdar/status/1462155871937564679
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Summary of the status report of the development of the displaced - Shabwah Governorate, Number of new IDPs from 29 July to 13 November 2021
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Shifting Hodeidah frontlines push more Yemenis to flee homes
Hasan Jafar Hasan fled his home at night in a crowded truck after a sudden withdrawal of Yemeni forces under a Saudi-led coalition from around the port city of Hodeidah shifted long-standing frontlines.
Hasan Jafar Hasan fled his home at night in a crowded truck after a sudden withdrawal of Yemeni forces under a Saudi-led coalition from around the port city of Hodeidah shifted long-standing frontlines.
Fearful of an unstable situation as Houthi forces moved into the spaces left by retreating government troops, Hasan and his family have joined the around 4 million Yemenis displaced by the seven-year-old conflict.
"We left with only the clothes on our backs...in a small truck like animals, like cattle," he said, describing the journey his and eight other families made in the vehicle from a suburb south of Hodeidah to a hastily erected camp of white tents around 80 km (50 miles) south down the Red Sea coast.
With international aid budgets squeezed and many areas hard to reach, life in Yemen's displacement camps is tough with few resources.
"We have little money and no income. We barely scrape through with the one meal we are given. We can't ask for more. We have little kids who need juice, milk, biscuits and other essentials," he said.
Communal water butts have been built and a mobile health clinic drives around the dusty camp where children roam.
The al-Wara camp, around 5 km (three miles) outside al-Khokha, started taking people in on Nov. 13 and has so far received 250-270 displaced families, said deputy camp director Jihad Mohamed Asli.
https://www.todayonline.com/world/shifting-hodeidah-frontlines-push-more-yemenis-flee-homes = https://www.reuters.com/article/yemen-security-displaced/shifting-hodeidah-frontlines-push-more-yemenis-to-flee-homes-idUSKBN2I70ZF
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Film: This is Malik, a 12-year-old boy in Yemen. Today, he wants to show you a glimpse of his life. This #WorldChildrensDay spare a thought for Malik and the millions of people facing hunger and displacement in Yemen.
https://twitter.com/WFP/status/1462151258928779268
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Film: “Everybody is waiting for me. I will meet my family who are happy that I am finally coming back home.” IOM, in partnership with @GermanyDiplo has helped thousands of migrants in Yemen return home through its Voluntary Humanitarian Return programme in 2021.
https://twitter.com/IOM_Yemen/status/1462331202858373123
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Tragisches Ende einer Flucht in die EU - Polen will Rückflüge finanzieren
Im ostpolnischen Dorf Bohoniki wurde der Leichnam eines Geflüchteten aus dem Jemen zu Grabe getragen. Der Mann war im Grenzgebiet erfroren. Sein Bruder war bei der Beisetzung anwesend.
Photo: https://twitter.com/KhaledAlyemany/status/1462818392931540994
und
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"Weil einfach jeder ein Mensch ist"
Immer wieder werden nahe der Grenze zu Belarus tote Geflüchtete gefunden. Die muslimische Minderheit im Osten Polens kümmert sich um die Beerdigungen - auch wenn die Verstorbenen oft anonym bleiben.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/polen-muslime-beerdigung-belarus-101.html
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Yemeni migrant dies trying to cross into Poland
On an overcast on Sunday (Nov 21) amid fields and forest, a few men from Poland's small Muslim community laid to rest a Yemeni migrant who died of cold and fatigue while trying to cross into the European Union from Belarus
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34101
Photo: https://twitter.com/KhaledAlyemany/status/1462818392931540994
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A Preliminary Report of the Development of the New Internal Displacement - Al Qatn and Sayun Hadramaut Governorate, 18 November 2021
Introduction
Al Qatn and Sayun Districts are in the middle of Hadramaut Governorate. Al Qatn is one of many districts of Hadramaut Governorate that lies in the middle. The population of Al Qatn is about 80000. Sayun is the center of Alwadi Districts. Its 360 km away from Al Mukalla City.
The two districts currently receive many displaced households that fled from Marib Governorate (Harib and Al Jubah) because of the current conflicts in Marib. This preliminary report shows the number of households and individuals displaced from Marib to Al Qatn and Sayun Districts in Hadramaut Governorate on 18 Nov. 2021.
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Update: A Report of the Development of the New Internal Displacement - Ad Durayhimi - Al Hodaydah Governorate, 14 November 2021
Introduction
Ad Durayhimi District is one of Al Hudaydah Governorate districts in western Yemen. Its population is around 60000 but in the last few years the district witnessed large internal displacement. Currently, the district is partially under the control of Houthis and partially under the control of national forces (legitimacy forces). The largest part of the district is under the control of the legitimacy forces. This led the district to be a theatre of conflict between the two conflicting sides. As a result of Stockholm Agreement that stipulates mutual redeployment of forces in the area and the current developments, the IDPs were informed to leave the area within 48 hours. Thousands of IDPs are leaving their places and head towards safer areas either inside the governorate or to other governorates. This preliminary report shows the mass displacement of households from Ad Durayhimi District occurred over the period 14/11/2021.
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UNHCR Yemen Operational Update, covering the Period 9 – 18 November 2021
Close to 6,000 individuals (800+ families) newly displaced due to ongoing clashes in Hudaydah City. Following recent developments on the main frontlines in Hudaydah City, some 800 families have been displaced to Al-Khukhah City and south of Al Makha district. A new IDP site comprising 300 tents was established in Al-Khukhah district and another site is expected to be established shortly to accommodate the newly displaced. The total number of newly displaced Yemenis countrywide as of November 2021 stands now at close to 120,000 individuals.
As new displacements continue to be recorded, UNHCR distributed core relief items to more than 1,200 families (some 7,200 individuals)
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/unhcr-yemen-operational-update-covering-period-9-18-november-2021
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
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Sana'a: Houthis mount more campaigns to gather fighters to the warfronts
The Houthi militia are mounting more campaigns in Sana'a to find children and enlist them in the ceaseless war against the Yemeni government in Marib and Hodeidah governorates, local sources have said.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52260
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Yemen's Deputy Foreign Minister: True peace only possible with respect for our sovereignty
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/22/yemens-deputy-foreign-minister-true-peace-only-possible-with-respect-for-our-sovereignty/ = https://en.ypagency.net/244565/
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Any bombs dropped on Yemen are American-made: AL-Houthi
A senior member of the Yemeni Supreme Political Council says that any bullet, rocket and bomb that is dropped on the Yemeni people is American-made, adding that the Saudis do not know how to make paper planes.
Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, a senior member of Yemen's Supreme Political Council made the comments during a massive anti-US rally in Sanna on Monday.
"The United States is our enemy and the Palestinian enemy," the Yemeni official said. "It is America that has invaded our country. The United States is at the cor
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/180976/Any-bombs-dropped-on-Yemen-are-American-made-AL-Houthi
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Antiamerikanische Massendemo im Jemen
Tausende Menschen gingen am Montag in der jemenitischen Stadt Saada auf die Straße, um gegen den wirtschaftlichen und militärischen Druck der USA auf den Jemen zu protestieren.
https://iqna.ir/de/news/3005082/antiamerikanische-massendemo-im-jemen
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Millions of Yemenis take part in mass rallies condemning US escalation
Millions of Yemenis in the capital Sanaa and other provinces on Monday staged mass rallies to denounce the US escalation and its complicity in the Saudi-led coalition aggression on their country.
The massive rallies were held under the slogan ‘The US is Behind Military and Economic Conflict and Continuation of War and Siege of Yemen’.
In the rallies, the participants raised Yemeni flag and chanting vociferous anti-American and anti-Saudi slogan, as well as burning the US flags and walked over it.
They also confirmed that their enemy is America because it declared the aggression from Washington ans was launched under its the auspices and support.
http://en.ypagency.net/244619/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/22/hundreds-of-thousands-of-yemenis-rally-in-mass-protests-against-us-imperialism/
Massive rally in Sa'ada holds America responsible for continued aggression, siege
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3164978.htm
Video, rally in Saada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuL288zmniI
Video, rally in Sanaa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w5WknSY9u4
Video, rally in Ibb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP80E6w592A
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Sanaa: The US’s fabricated noise on Yemen is a desperate attempt to mislead public opinion
Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has on Monday affirmed that the US administration’s fabricated noise and false claim of achieving peace in Yemen are not just a miserable attempt to mislead American and international public opinion , but Also an open coverage of its crimes and systematic terrorism against Yemen.
The ministry said in a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), “The statements and positions issued by a number of officials in the US administration are characterized by pretending to be keen to stop the war in Yemen and end the suffering of Yemenis.”
http://en.ypagency.net/244651/
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Ansarullah: USA sind mitschuldig an saudischen Verbrechen im Jemen
Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, Senior-Mitglied des Obersten Politischen Rates des Jemen, hat gesagt, dass die USA die verheerende militärische Aggression und die unmenschliche Belagerung seines Landes anführten, und erklärt, dass Washington an den Verbrechen beteiligt sei, die das Regime von Riad gegen das jemenitische Volk begeht.
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Mohammed al-Houthi calls out US hypocrisy and responsibility for war on Yemen
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member in the Supreme Political Council has on Saturday commented on the remarks made by the US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in which he reaffirmed the US commitment to “defend Saudi Arabia” during a visit to Bahrain for a global security think tank’s annual dialogue on security challenges.
Mohammed al-Houthi noted that “these remarks confirm the US field partnership in the war on Yemen.”
“The US statements mixed the papers and covered up their criminality, aggression and continuous siege. The US Defense Secretary remarks were the result of a real partnership on the ground, which hinders stability and rejects peace by supporting and publicly protecting the aggressor and its deadly weaponry that is used to kill the children and women of Yemen,” al-Houthi said in a tweet.
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/21/mohammed-al-houthi-calls-out-us-hypocrisy-and-responsibility-for-war-on-yemen/ = https://en.ypagency.net/244476/
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Parliament praises “8th Deterrence Balance” operation
https://en.ypagency.net/244507/
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Yemeni Parliament condemns crimes of Saudi-led coalition
http://en.ypagency.net/244467/
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We call on Yemeni people and free people of the world to participate in the "#ChildrenNotSoldiers" campaign to draw the world's attention to the transgression violations committed by Houthi group against children in Yemen. 08:30pm Sana'a time
https://twitter.com/abduhothifi/status/1462084457972834311
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Ansarullah condemns British designation of Hamas as "terrorist organisation"
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/20/ansarullah-condemns-british-designation-of-hamas-as-terrorist-organisation/ = http://en.ypagency.net/244390/
and
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Al-Houthi comments on Britain’s decision against Hamas
http://en.ypagency.net/244373/
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Houthis ‘reneged on deal’ to free British detainee Luke Symons
Outgoing British ambassador to Yemen tells family the deal broke down because Houthis were 'unreasonable extremists'
Houthi rebel leaders reneged on a promise to release a British prisoner held for more than four years without charge in Yemen during a major prisoner swap last year, a senior UK official has told his family.
Chief Houthi negotiator Mohammed Abdulsalam assured a British minister at a meeting in Oman's capital Muscat last year that Luke Symons would be released during an exchange of hundreds of prisoners in October 2020.
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Food prices increase in Sana'a despite surficial stability of the riyal
F ood prices increase in Sana'a despite surficial stability of the riyal currency/Multiple websites.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52204
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Eleven women have been kidnapped by the Houthi militia in Sana'a within a month /Ababeel and other websites
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52204
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Houthis recruit members of the African community in Yemen to the militia's warfronts/Mandab Press and other websites
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52204
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Sanaa receives large number of Marib tribes, sheikhs
Tribes and sheikhs of Bani Matar district of Sanaa province received a large delegation of the sheikhs and tribes of Jabal Murad district of Marib province.
During a tribal meeting held in Sanaa, Minister of Information Dhaif Allah Al-Shami welcomed tribes of Jabal Murad and other districts of Marib.
Al-Shami pointed out the importance of strengthening meetings between the Yemeni people within the framework of noble values that befit their pride, dignity, unity, victory for freedom, sovereignty and independence, and rejection of humiliation and subservience.
http://en.ypagency.net/244247/
and
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Revolution leader meets delegation of Jabal Murad tribes
Revolution leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi met on Thursday with a delegation of tribes of Jabal Murad of Marib province.
In the meeting, al-Houthi called on Murad tribes to promote security, stability, public peace, prevent rebellions, and cooperate to solve any internal problems.
He also called on tribes, free people, who fight against aggression, and dignitaries to contribute to solving internal problems at the province level and the country in general.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3164455.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/244271/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/18/sayyid-abdul-malik-al-houthi-meets-with-representatives-of-jabal-murad-tribe/
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Sanaa, Tehran discuss cooperation in education sector
Minister of Education, Yahya Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi, discussed on Thursday with the Iranian Ambassador in Sanaa, Hassan Irlou bilateral cooperation relations between the two countries in the education sector.
http://en.ypagency.net/244233/
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UN fordert, dass die Huthi-Rebellen im Jemen inhaftierte Mitarbeiter freilassen
Die Vereinten Nationen forderten am Mittwoch die Freilassung von zwei UN-Mitarbeitern, die Anfang dieses Monats von den Huthi-Rebellen im Jemen festgenommen wurden.
UN-Beamte haben letzte Woche von hochrangigen Houthi-Beamten versichert, dass die beiden Männer, beide Jemeniten, freigelassen werden, sagte Sprecher Stephane Dujarric und fügte hinzu, dass sie nicht freigelassen wurden.
Er sagte, die UN-Mitarbeiter arbeiten für das UN-Menschenrechtsbüro und die UNESCO, die UN-Organisation für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur, und seien am 5. und 7. November festgenommen worden.
Dujarric sagte, UN-Beamte seien nicht in der Lage gewesen, die Männer zu kontaktieren.
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UN Says 2 Staffers Detained by Yemen’s Houthis
The United Nations said Wednesday that two of its staff members have been held incommunicado for more than a week by Houthi rebels in Yemen, and it called for their immediate release.
“The secretary-general is deeply concerned about the arrests and detention of two U.N. staff members in Sanaa by the Houthis earlier this month,” Antonio Guterres’ spokesman told reporters.
“We call for their immediate release,” Stephane Dujarric said.
https://www.voanews.com/a/un-says-2-staffers-detained-by-yemen-s-houthis/6317397.html
and
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UN demands that Yemen’s Houthi rebels free detained staffers
The United Nations on Wednesday demanded the release of two U.N. staffers detained earlier this month by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
U.N. officials were given assurances by senior Houthi officials last week that the two men, both Yemenis, would be released, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, adding that they have not been freed.
“U.N. staff should not be arbitrarily detained,” Dujarric told reporters.
He said the U.N. staffers work for the U.N. human rights office and UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and were detained on Nov. 5 and Nov. 7.
Dujarric said U.N. officials have not been able to contact the men.
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
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UAE blurs Kuwait’s name from the largest educational edifice in Socotra
http://en.ypagency.net/244663/
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Against the backdrop of increasing terrorist-style assassinations, the Director of Security Department in Yemen's "temporary capital" Aden Yahya Al-Shoaybi said in a statement some elements in the city's police stations are "thugs … and terrorists who have to be removed."/Balqees TV website
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52259
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Bakeries in Aden shut down as flour supply runs out
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/22/bakeries-in-aden-shut-down-as-flour-supply-runs-out/
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UAE occupation moves to register Socotra island residents with fingerprint system
The UAE has brought military experts and intelligence officers to the Socotra archipelago in southern Yemen, local sources reported on Sunday.
The sources said that the UAE had brought in a second military committee of experts from several Arab nationalities, who had started a campaign of counting and registering employees and civilians on the island through a fingerprint system. The new registration rule had reportedly aroused great popular resentment on the island.
The move comes after the UAE had brought in a previous military committee for a census on the island’s residents, amid great secrecy about any information related to this committee and the identity of its members.
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A UAE panel arrives in the Yemeni Socotra archipelago to assign military IDs to paramilitary loyalists/Almahriya
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52259
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Dragon’s Blood trees cut in Socotra
Nearly 7,000 of Dragon’s Blood trees, known locally as Dam al-Akhawain, or blood of the two brothers, suddenly have been cut off in Dixum Reserve in the middle of Socotra Island, which is under the control of the UAE occupation forces for the past five years.
According to activists in the Island on social media, “The globally unique trees of the two brothers’ blood located at a distance of 2 km in the Dixim region, fell from their roots after the UAE established an electric station and investment factories for fish canning in the region.”
They stressed that the natural treasure and universal value of Socotra Island has become threatened with extinction, as a result of the tampering practiced by the UAE since its forces took control of the island under the banner of the humanitarian act through the “Khalifa Foundation” during the year 2016 (photo)
https://en.ypagency.net/244598/
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UAE brings 2nd military committee to Socotra Island
The UAE had brought experts and intelligence officers to the Socotra Archipelago province, southern Yemen, local sources reported on Sunday.
The sources said that the UAE had brought in a second military committee of several Arab nationalities working to count employees and civilians on the island through the fingerprint system, which aroused great popular resentment on the island.
This came after the UAE had brought in a previous military committee to enumerate the island’s residents, amid great secrecy about any information related to this committee and the identity of its members, according to the sources.
http://en.ypagency.net/244518/
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Citizen killed in armed clashes between Islah militias in Taiz
https://en.ypagency.net/244502/
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Yemen [Hadi gov.] urges US to increase political pressure on Houthi rebels
Foreign minister tells The National country needs strong government to pave route to peace
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Post-Hadi arrangements capture coalition moves
US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking held a meeting on Thursday with the head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), Eidros Zubeidi, in Riyadh.
Observers believe that the meeting between the two sides is a part of arrangements to exclude Hadi’s government from Yemen’s political scene in preparation for a new phase.
Moreover, they believe that successive visits by UN envoy Hans Grundberg and US envoy Lenderking to Aden last week confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that coalition forces are rearranging their ranks in Yemen, ensuring that the coalition maintains some paperwork to maneuver the Sanaa government.
http://en.ypagency.net/244370/
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Soldier dies from injuries in terrorist attack near Aden airport
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34095
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Armed clashes erupt among Islah factions in TAiz
According to local sources, the clashes were due to the collection of royalties for the leadership of the “Taiz Axis” in the Bir Pasha area.
https://en.ypagency.net/244331/
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Tribal gunmen force Islah militants to leave Al-Khalidiya camp in Hadhramaut
In the past few hours, tribal gunmen loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) have forced “First Military Region’s militants to leave the Camp of al-Khalidiya” in Rumah district east of Hadhramaut province.
Tribal sources said that the Manahil tribe gunmen, who were reinforced by elements of the so-called “Hadrami Elite” militia, were able to drive the militants loyal to Islah leader Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar out of the area, who took control of the camp in the Rumah district after Saudi forces left in recent days.
The sources confirmed that the Al-Ahmar militants left the camp after being given six hours as deadline from the Manahil tribes to withdraw and leave Al-Khalidiya” after being besieged from all sides by the tribal gunmen .
Over the past two days, the Manahil tribes, along with elements of the “Hadrami elite”, have imposed a siege on the Islah militants who ‘took control of the camp after the withdrawal of the Saudi forces and re-positioned in Hadhramaut.
https://en.ypagency.net/244348/
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Emirati arms shipment arrives in Socotra port
An Emirati arms shipment arrived at the port of the occupied Socotra Island, southern Yemen, local sources reported on Friday.
https://en.ypagency.net/244364/
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Results of investigations into terrorist attacks in Aden to be announced soon, governor
https://debriefer.net/en/news-27830.html
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Assistant police officer killed in armed attack in Hadhramaut
http://en.ypagency.net/244313/
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Shabwa holds huge gathering against Houthi-Brotherhood plots
Hundreds of [pro-separatist] high-ranking dignitaries, tribal leaders and public figures took part in an extensive consultative meeting held outdoor on Tuesday in Shabwa's Nisab district.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34076
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The expatriate tribal chieftain Awadh Al-Wazir whom the UAE assigned to return to Yemen's Shabwa province to drum up a tribal rebellion to topple the local government of Shabwa failed in his mission and the tribal gathering he has called for was widely boycotted by Shabwa tribes/Almahriya
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52204
My comment: The same event, as reported by the two opposite main parties in siouthern Yemen.
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Informed #Yemeni analyst confirms the withdrawal of #Saudi occupation forces from #AlMaasheeq Presidential Palace. This comes days after #Saudi withdrawal from a military base in #Hadramut, south.
https://twitter.com/AliAlAhmed_en/status/1461342256334520324
referring to https://twitter.com/anesmansory/status/1461165124195168262
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Dhalea witnesses angry demonstration against collapse of economic situation
http://en.ypagency.net/244237/
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Mahra people announce armed struggle against foreign forces
The sit-in committee of Mahra province, eastern Yemen, on Thursday announced its readiness to start an armed struggle against foreign forces in the province.
The committee said, in a meeting held Thursday in the city of Ghaydah and headed by Sheikh Ali Al-Huraizi, that “the Saudi-Emirati occupation continues its war on the Yemeni people through its systematic destruction of the economy, and the disruption and tampering of all state institutions.”
It renewed its demand for the departure of all foreign forces from Yemen in general and Mahra in particular.
https://en.ypagency.net/244292/
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UAE establishes new camps in eastern highlands of Shabwa
Emirati forces have established new camps in the eastern highlands of the Yemeni Shabwa province, which is under the control of the Islah Party loyal to Saudi-led coalition, local sources told Yemen Press Agency.
The new UAE camps were established in the eastern heights of Shabwa in Armaa and Al-Talh areas, after creating ‘Qarat Al-Faras’ camp located between Shabwa and Hadramout provinces.
According to the sources, head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) branch in Shabwa, Ali al-Jabwani, supervised, during the past few days, the military fortifications in the Al-Talh camp.
The UAE is mobilizing the forces it finances from the western coast and from Hadramout towards Shabwa, with the aim of bringing down Ataq city, Shabwa’s capital, in the hands of the STC militia after its refusal to withdraw from the gas Balhaf facility.
https://en.ypagency.net/244280/
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Big military reinforcements arrive in Shabwa
Huge military reinforcements sent by the Saudi-backed Islah Party arrived on Thursday in Ataq city, the capital of Shabwa, eastern Yemen.
According to sources, a senior leader of the Islah party, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, strengthened the powers of the Islah governor, Mohammed Saleh bin Adio, with military forces coming from the Al-Abr area.
This move came conjoined with returning the UAE backed leader Awadh al-Wazir al-Awlaki from the Emirates to Shabwa, with the goal of overthrow the authorities of Islah Party.
The sources confirmed that dozens of gunmen entered Ataq city with their weapons, in addition to a number of trucks loaded with ammunition and military vehicles coming from Al-Abr area controlled by Islah leader Hashem al-Ahmar.
Sending of military reinforcements by Mohsen al-Ahmar to Shabwa came amid reports that the UAE has transferred its forces from the western coast of Yemen to the province,
https://en.ypagency.net/244259/
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Yemeni gov't demands British support for troops against Houthis
The Yemeni UN-recognized government on Tuesday called on the British government to provide its troops with material and morale support in the face of the Houthi group.
At a meeting with the UK embassy's military attaché, Pitter Lee Jascic, the Yemeni chief of staff, Sagheer Bin Aziz, discussed in Riyadh field developments and different situations in Yemen, the Riyadh-based Saba said.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-27807.html
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Aden University employees union announces comprehensive strike
http://en.ypagency.net/244123/
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Emirati occupation forces looting gold ore from Yemen
Yemeni activists and journalists have accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) occupation forces of looting a gold mine in Hadhramaut province, eastern Yemen.
Activists circulated photographs showing raw gold being stolen and transported out of the country.
UAE companies are smuggling large quantities of rocks containing gold ore from a site classified as a gold mine in Hajar district on the Hadhramaut coast, journalists reported based on local sources.
They pointed out that the cargo is being transported to a port between al-Rayyan and Dhaba, to be transported to the UAE.
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/18/emirati-occupation-forces-looting-gold-ore-from-yemen/ = http://en.ypagency.net/244205/
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Saudi troops withdraw from east Yemen
Saudi troops have withdrawn from their military base known as the Al-Khalidiah military camp in the Ramah district of Yemen's eastern province of Hadhramaut, local sources said on Tuesday.
They moved to Saudi areas on the border between the two countries, the sources said.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-27791.html
and also https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/17/saudi-troops-withdraw-from-key-base-in-hadhramaut/ = http://en.ypagency.net/244197/
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Urgent calls to save abductees after reporting blackout cases due to hunger strike at Beer Ahmed Prison in Aden.
Abductees’ Mothers Association’s members called to save their arbitrarily arrested sons after reporting several blackout cases of abductees due to the hunger strike, they have gone on at Be’er Ahmed Prison in Aden in protest to prolonging their legal procedures.
In their rally by the Criminal Court in Crater, Aden, mothers said that 14 arbitrarily arrested individuals had been continuing their hunger strike at Be’er Ahmed Prison, protesting holding off legal procedures in Aden which led to completely stopping the legal processes of their cases for years.
http://ama-ye.org/index.php?no=1771&ln=En
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Security Council Press Statement on Yemen
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (Mexico):
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the very recent and ongoing seizure of and intrusion into the compound formerly used as the United States Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, by the Houthis, during which dozens of local employees were detained.
The members of the Security Council called for an immediate withdrawal of all Houthi elements from the premises.
The members of the Security Council called for the immediate and safe release of those still under detention.
The members of the Security Council recalled the fundamental principles enshrined in the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sc14707.doc.htm
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UN Raps Executions of 10 Prisoners by Saudi Mercenaries as Serious Rights Violations
A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced the recent executions of 10 prisoners in Yemen by Saudi-backed militants, stressing the perpetrators must be brought to justice.
“We condemn the summary executions of 10 individuals belonging to local security forces that took place in Hudaydah governorate in November,” Stephane Dujarric stated during a press briefing on Wednesday, presstv reported.
(A P)
Film: Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (17 November 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DyNJM8J3mo
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Helping people is good but using their pictures to show your support is unethical & disrespectful. No poor person would want their photo taking aid money on the internet. Please delete this photo
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1461051620482027520
referring to https://twitter.com/ECHO_MiddleEast/status/1460880369226600448
Unfortunately, empathic approach by donors or international organizations is poor and does more harm than good. Even if consent is taken, in this case it will be out of need or for fear of losing grants. Therefore, the consent in such cases should not be considered decisive.
https://twitter.com/Kawkab/status/1461099499942825993
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National Salvation Government of Yemen holds unofficial diplomatic talks with European countries
Yemen’s Deputy Foreign Minister has revealed international diplomatic moves carried out by the National Salvation Government of Yemen with several countries in the international community, in order to discuss ways of peace and diplomacy.
Hussein al-Ezzi explained in a tweet that a virtual meeting has been held with a number of ambassadors of European Union countries on Wednesday, in which they discussed the necessary requirements to support and build real and comprehensive peace in Yemen.
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