... Zivilisten in den Kämpfen in Krater, Aden – Biden genehmigt milliardenschwere Waffengeschäfte mit Saudi-Arabien – und mehr
Nov. 28, 2021: UN estimates: 377,000 victims in the Yemen war – Yemen: Pathways for Recovery – Yemen: Recovery, Transition and the International Community – Houthi Forces Attack, Displace Villagers – Displaced Again and Again in Yemen’s Marib –Civilians Caught up in the Aden Crater Clashes – Biden Approving Billions in Arms Deals to Saudi Arabia – and more
Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Kursiv: Siehe Teil 2 / In Italics: Look in part 2: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-773b-yemen-war-mosaic-773b
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Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
cp2 Allgemein / General
cp2a Allgemein: Saudische Blockade / General: Saudi blockade
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
cp6 Separatisten und Hadi-Regierung im Südjemen / Separatists and Hadi government in Southern Yemen
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp9 USA
cp9a USA-Iran Krise: Spannungen am Golf / US-Iran crisis: Tensions at the Gulf
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp12a Katar-Krise / Qatar crisis
cp12b Sudan
cp12c Libanonkrise / Lebanon crisis
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
cp13b Kulturerbe / Cultural heritage
cp13c Wirtschaft / Economy
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Kampf um Hodeidah / Hodeidah battle
cp19 Sonstiges / Other
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A = Aktuell / Current news
B = Hintergrund / Background
C = Chronik / Chronicle
D = Details
E = Wirtschaft / Economy
H = Humanitäre Fragen / Humanitarian questions
K = Krieg / War
P = Politik / Politics
pH = Pro-Houthi
pS = Pro-Saudi
T = Terrorismus / Terrorism
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
Ältere einführende Artikel u. Überblicke für alle, die mit den Ereignissen im Jemen noch nicht vertraut sind, hier:
Yemen War: Older introductory articles, overviews, for those who are still unfamiliar with the Yemen war here:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-einfuehrende-artikel-u-ueberblicke
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UNO rechnet mit 377.000 Toten durch Jemen-Krieg bis Jahresende
Durch den seit sieben Jahren andauernden Krieg im Jemen werden nach UN-Schätzungen bis zum Ende dieses Jahres etwa 377.000 Menschen gestorben sein. Während die Zahl der durch Kämpfe Getöteten bis Ende des Jahres voraussichtlich auf 150.000 steigen werde, würden zugleich 227.000 Menschen Opfer der Folgen von Wassermangel, Hunger und Krankheit, heißt es in einem am Dienstag veröffentlichten Bericht des Entwicklungsprogramms der Vereinten Nationen (UNDP).
Die meisten indirekt durch den Krieg Getöteten seien kleine Kinder, heißt es in dem Bericht. "Im Jahr 2021 stirbt alle neun Minuten ein Kind unter fünf Jahren wegen des Konflikts."
Sollte der Konflikt nicht befriedet werden, würden bis 2030 etwa 1,3 Millionen Menschen durch den Krieg gestorben sein, warnte das UNDP. Dabei werde der Anteil jener Menschen wachsen, die als Folge von "Nebeneffekten" des Krieges wie steigenden Lebensmittelpreisen und der Verschlechterung der medizinischen Versorgung sterben.
https://de.style.yahoo.com/uno-rechnet-377-000-toten-163511499.html = https://www.nau.ch/news/ausland/uno-rechnet-mit-377000-toten-durch-jemen-krieg-bis-jahresende-66051082
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Yemen war will have killed 377,000 by year's end: UN
Yemen's seven-year-old war will have claimed 377,000 lives by the end of the year, through both direct and indirect impacts, a UN agency estimates in a report published Tuesday.
Nearly 60 percent of deaths will have been caused by indirect impacts such as lack of safe water, hunger and disease, it said, suggesting that fighting will have directly killed over 150,000 people.
Most of those killed by the war's indirect effects were "young children who are especially vulnerable to under- and malnutrition," said the UN Development Programme report.
"In 2021, a Yemeni child under the age of five dies every nine minutes because of the conflict," it found.
Projecting the impact of continued fighting into the future, the UNDP warned that 1.3 million people in total will have died by 2030.
"A growing proportion of those deaths will occur... due to second-order impacts that the crisis is waging on livelihoods, food prices and the deterioration of basic services such as health and education."
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211123-yemen-war-will-have-killed-377-000-by-year-s-end-un = https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20211123-yemen-war-will-have-killed-377-000-by-year-s-end-un
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
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Assessing the impact of war in Yemen: Pathways for recovery
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The protracted conflict in Yemen has led to urgent, widespread humanitarian and development crises and resulted in significant damage to the economy, physical infrastructure, service provision, health, and education systems, as well as social fabric. It has also caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. While many of these are the result of war’s direct violence, others are due to the war’s indirect effects, including a lack of food and degraded living conditions.
By comparing the current reality in Yemen to a scenario where no conflict ever occurred, we can provide an estimate of the total death count – the number of deaths caused both directly and indirectly from the conflict. By doing so, we found that by the end of 2021, Yemen’s conflict will lead to 377,000 deaths – nearly 60 per cent of which are indirect and caused by issues associated with conflict like lack of access to food, water, and healthcare.
These deaths are overwhelmingly made up of young children who are especially vulnerable to under and malnutrition. In 2021, a Yemeni child under the age of five dies every nine minutes because of the conflict. This is a significant increase since our 2019 report, Assessing the Impact of War on Development in Yemen, that – through the same assessment – found this to be approximately every 12 minutes.
The impact of the conflict continues to be devastating. When comparing Yemen’s current situation to a scenario without conflict, the country has lost a cumulative US$126 billion in potential gross domestic product (GDP) since 2015. In addition, 15.6 million people have been pushed into extreme poverty and 8.6 million more people into undernutrition.
If conflict continues, it will become even more destructive. If war in Yemen continues through 2030, we estimate that 1.3 million people will die as a result, with more than 70 per cent of those deaths being from indirect causes. Most of these indirect deaths are children under the age of five. By 2030, a child will die because of the conflict every five minutes. Compared to a scenario without conflict, 22.2 million more people may potentially be forced into poverty and 9.2 million more people may also experience malnutrition.
The cost of the conflict for all parties has been great. While the road to peace is likely to be difficult, the consequences of continued war are clear, and hope remains that effective Yemeni, regional, and international leadership can achieve a lasting and inclusive political settlement. In the spirit of that hope, this report examines a set of possible futures for Yemen’s recovery, beginning with a peaceful end to the conflict.
The first possible future path is that of a Fragmented Recovery. This scenario represents an end to fighting but paints a difficult road to recovery that is characterized by a lack of coordination and ineffective governance. Reconstruction initiatives are slow and fail to address fundamental underlying challenges that existed prior to conflict, leaving Yemen highly vulnerable to falling back into conflict.
In this recovery scenario, GDP per capita rebounds and reaches its pre-conflict level by the 2040s. Poverty and malnutrition are reduced, though slowly. In this scenario, the lack of access to food, water, and healthcare kills between 45,000 and 62,000 additional people annually between 2022 and 2030 as compared to a No Conflict scenario.
Using the Fragmented Recovery as a baseline, we then constructed five recovery scenarios that explored the use of careful planning and concerted effort to accelerate Yemen’s recovery. Each focused on a specific aspect of post-conflict recovery and development and were assessed across core development indicators through 2050 to help frame and understand the inter-related policy choices in Yemen’s post-conflict recovery. These can be thought of as ‘building blocks’ of post-conflict recovery. These include:
Agricultural Investments: Focusing upon improving access and reducing food insecurity.
Economic Development: Concentrating upon boosting investment and productivity while utilizing diverse sources of finance.
Empowered Women: Demonstrating the effect of improving women’s health, education, and participation in the economy and society.
Human Capabilities: Addressing human development, especially population health and education.
Governance Quality: Modeling a more secure peace, greater transparency and government effectiveness, and effective public-private partnerships in infrastructure development.
And finally, we combine the interventions in the five building block scenarios to form an Integrated Recovery scenario. This scenario models a future in which:
Policymakers solve problems by including women in political leadership and the economy.
The international community is an active and engaged partner with Yemen and supports the recovery efforts with significant financial resources.
There are effective and trustworthy partnerships between public and private resources and investments flow into the country.
Significant investments in infrastructure, agriculture, education, and health put the country on a new development trajectory.
This scenario simulates a world in which a continuous cycle of investment and planning results in outcomes beyond pre-conflict levels within a decade and eventually erase many of the conflict-attributable losses to human development.
Figure 1 on page 14 shows scenario results in terms of distance away from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030. Constructed from a weighted average of the distance from SDG achievement, we used indicators from SDGs 1 (No Poverty); 2 (Zero Hunger); 3 (Good Health and Well-being); 4 (Quality Education); 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation); 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy); 10 (Reduced Inequalities); and 17 (Partnerships).
Yemen has clearly reversed progress toward the SDGs since conflict began. And while the Fragmented Recovery begins to make up some lost progress, in 2030, the country would still be behind where it was at the beginning of the conflict. All the recovery building blocks improve progress even further beyond the baseline Fragmented Recovery, but only the combined Integrated Recovery scenario fully makes up for lost SDG progress by 2030.
By combining the scenarios – each addressing different challenges and barriers to development and recovery – it is possible to set Yemen on an accelerated recovery pathway. In terms of GDP per capita, the Integrated Recovery scenario not only catches up with, but even surpasses, the No Conflict scenario by 2050.
Figure 2 shows the difference in key variables between the Fragmented Recovery and each recovery building block scenario. All the scenarios show some improvement, though result in different benefits. For example, Agriculture Investments results in an immediate and significant reduction in malnutrition.
Economic Development has the greatest effect on poverty, which can be seen both in the medium term (by 2030) and the long term (2050). Empowered Women has significant effects in the medium term through reducing poverty and improving the Human Development Index (HDI). Population education – which tends to change very slowly as children must grow through the education system – is most significantly impacted in 2050, by both the Empowered Women and Human Capabilities scenarios.
Across variables, the Integrated Recovery is the most successful scenario. In terms of extreme poverty, the Integrated Recovery results in greater poverty reduction by 2030 (5.8 million as compared to the Fragmented Recovery scenario) than Economic Development does by 2050 (5.5 million).
This research suggests the following recommendations for post-conflict recovery in Yemen:
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/assessing-impact-war-yemen-pathways-recovery
and shorter media reports: https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2021-11-26-yemen-has-missed-hundreds-of-billions-of-potential-growth-in-six-years--as-if-peace-is-welcome--this-country-will-be-greatly-changed.H1g32PJ0OF.html
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/11/26/yemen-recovery-possible-if-war-stops-now/
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‘Building a New Yemen: Recovery, Transition and the International Community’
In ‘Building a New Yemen,’ several of the most prominent scholars on the country come together to conceive insightful approaches to the problems Yemen will face when emerging out of its current conflict.
Writing a book about the prospects of post-war Yemen might seem naive to some, or at least premature, considering that the conflict raging on since 2015 presents no sign of abating. In fact, the last weeks have seen some of the most intense fighting since the start of the war.
In ‘Building a New Yemen: Recovery, Transition and the International Community,’ edited by Amat Al Alim Alsoswa and Noel Brehony, some of the most prominent scholars on the Southern Arabian country come together to think about the challenges that Yemen will tackle at the end of the conflict and how to face them. The editors recruited a balanced group of Yemeni and non-Yemeni contributors.
The authors present a strong case on why it is appropriate to plan for a post-war future still difficult to envisage. The policies recommended by the contributors will be essential regardless of how much time needs to pass before the conflict comes to its end. Moreover, some of the recommendations could already be implemented in the relatively peaceful areas of the country. The reader will most likely end up agreeing with Amat Al Alim Alsoswa in that “the long-term development of Yemen requires thinking beyond its immediate needs, important as they are.”[1]
Several threads tie the ten chapters of the edited volume together. An emergent common theme is that none of the authors consider a unified, centralized political structure for Yemen likely or desirable. Stephen Day, an authority on the regional dynamics of Yemen, asserts that if Yemen had been unified on a federal basis in 1990, the last three decades of Yemeni history would have been more peaceful.[2]
In government-controlled areas, local authorities have gained power during the war, and this change in dynamics has generally been welcomed by local public opinion.[3] However, a federal structure for Yemen would not come without its challenges. It should “maintain a thread of national coherence and coordination across the different governorates,” while endowing the regions with enough autonomy and capacity to lead development processes and provide services.[4]
Even more contentious than the competences to be attributed to the regions are their very own borders. Yemen could end up divided into two federated entities along similar lines to the North-South division in place until 1990, but other options— such as the federation of a larger Houthi-controlled northern territory with several southern and eastern political entities— are by no means far-fetched. The situation is complicated by pronounced geographical imbalances in several key economic sectors, particularly the concentration of oil and gas reserves in the eastern and southern governorates.[5]
These natural resources may alleviate the dire humanitarian conditions in Yemen if the war ends and exports return to pre-war levels. This possibility notwithstanding, the various contributors addressing Yemen’s economic challenges in the edited volume concur that the country will need to diversify its sources of income to provide a decent standard of living to its population.
In this vein, Charles Schmitz notes that the heart of economic growth in Yemen must not be “natural resources but labor productivity.”[6] This will presuppose a capable state that encourages the investment of capital by foreign investors, the diasporic population, and Yemenis living in the country. At the same time, the role of agriculture, traditionally the main sector in Yemen’s economy, will be of paramount importance.
During the last few decades, irrigated agriculture has experienced exponential growth in the country, resulting in the depletion of water tables. James Firebrace and Alia Eshaq suggest investing in water optimization technologies, introducing new plant varieties, and revitalizing rain-fed terraces that have suffered from lack of maintenance.[7] According to Helen Lackner, rain-fed agriculture needs to be prioritized since “this will have a major impact on poverty reduction.”[8]
When approaching the necessary conditions for the success of peace talks in Yemen, various authors in the volume emphasize the importance of inclusion. Laurent Bonnefoy remarks that restricting the framework of negotiations to the Houthis and the internationally recognized government is a recipe for failure.[9] He notes that the Southern Movement needs to be included, together with regional actors, a point also made by Hussein Alwaday and Maysaa Shujaa Al-Deen.[10]
Furthermore, as has been established by many studies, for peace-building efforts to succeed, women need to be part of these processes, which has not been the case so far.[11] However, when it comes to groups that cannot be engaged in peace negotiations, namely Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State in Yemen (ISY), only an end to the war will constrain their opportunities to thrive.[12]
‘Building a New Yemen’ is a remarkable work that should be read beyond the academic community. The edited volume contains powerful lessons for aid organizations, diplomats, and UN institutions. If peace is to be sustainable when achieved, it cannot be accompanied by the old mistakes that led to the conflict in the first place. At its core, ‘Building a New Yemen’ asserts that Yemen and its relations with the international community must be re-imagined for positive change to occur after the war’s end – by Marc Martorell Junyent
https://insidearabia.com/building-a-new-yemen-recovery-transition-and-the-international-community/
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Yemen: Houthi Forces Attack, Displace Villagers
End Attacks on Civilians; Allow Aid Access
The Houthi armed group has fired artillery and ballistic missiles indiscriminately into populated areas of Yemen’s Marib governorate resulting in civilian casualties, including women and children, and causing a new wave of civilian displacement since September, Human Rights Watch said today.
The attacks are part of the intensified fighting between the Houthi forces and the Yemeni government and its allied forces around Marib. The fighting is contributing to the worsening of the humanitarian conditions for millions of civilians and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the area.
“Civilians and displaced people in Marib have been caught in the crosshairs for nearly two years, some suffering severe deprivation,” said Afrah Nasser, Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch, “The Houthis’ repeated indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas and blocking humanitarian aid have become a shameful pattern and add to the group’s dismal human rights record.”
Witnesses say that Houthi forces besieged 35,000 inhabitants of al-Abdiyah district for at least three weeks in October, blocking civilians from leaving or entering and denying entry to food, fuel, and other commodities. The Mothers of Abductees Association (MAA), a group formed in 2017 by Yemeni women whose relatives were arrested and often forcibly disappeared, said that Houthi forces also detained 47 people, including children. Their relatives have heard nothing about them since their arrest.
Human Rights Watch interviewed three witnesses to the aftermath of the attacks, five Marib-based Yemeni aid workers, and four Marib-based journalists. The sources said that Houthi forces fired artillery indiscriminately into Al-Abdiyah and al-Jubah districts and fired ballistic missiles into Marib city in October. In March 2021, Human Rights Watch documented previous Houthi unlawful attacks on Marib city and its outskirts.
Four journalists told Human Rights Watch that on October 13 Houthi forces fired a missile that hit a hospital in al-Abdiyah, the only major health facility in the area that was clearly marked as a hospital, which was 10 kilometers away from the front line.
Human Rights Watch spoke to one man who fled Yaara, a village in al-Jubah district, with his family on October 27 as heavy Houthi artillery shelling was nearing to their house. He said that his village was 10 kilometers from the front line when he fled to al-Amoud village, 20 kilometers from the fighting. “
Aid workers said that civilians who fled al-Abdiyah district at the end of October for Marib city described a three-week siege by Houthi forces in which civilians were trapped and essential commodities were blocked from entering. The aid workers said that the villages said there were no military equipment or fighters in their village, but that Houthi forces seized them to compel people to join the Houthi forces. The aid workers said that the displaced people were malnourished, sick, and penniless, and that some women were in desperate need of reproductive health services.
An aid worker with the Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps, a Yemeni government agency, said that thousands of families are still trapped in villages in southern Marib, with Houthi forces blocking roads, restricting transportation, and attacking civilians fleeing north. He said that more than 90,000 people had been displaced, 93 percent of whom have not received shelter, while 70 percent have not received food. He said that 96 percent of them do not have access to drinking or usable water, and 98 percent do not have access to water tanks, bathrooms, or classrooms.
International aid agencies on November 3 raised concerns over the humanitarian situation in and around Marib, saying in a statement: “Humanitarian needs in Marib city far outstrip current humanitarian capacity on the ground. The city hosts hugely crowded IDP camps, an over-stretched public service and healthcare system, fragile city infrastructure and an increasingly vulnerable host community.”
“With winter setting in, newly displaced people desperately need an immediate comprehensive response by aid agencies,” Nasser said, “Houthi forces need to immediately end their indiscriminate attacks and allow humanitarian access to civilians across Marib.” – by Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/11/24/yemen-houthi-forces-attack-displace-villagers
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‘The war crushed our dreams’: Displaced again and again in Yemen’s Marib
‘We couldn’t take everything, but we took our livestock and whatever we could carry.
As fighting intensifies around the central Yemeni city of Marib, thousands of people are being forced to flee the violence each week. But for many, this is just the latest upheaval in more than six and a half long years of war.
Accurate statistics are hard to come by in all of Yemen, but the UN’s migration agency, IOM, said in a Wednesday statement that 45,000 people have been forcibly displaced by the conflict around Marib since the beginning of September, shortly after a Houthi rebel offensive on the government-held city intensified. The figure includes 15,000 people in November alone. The government’s Executive Unit for Internally Displaced Persons puts the total number at more than 93,000.
Elsewhere, in the western province of Hodeidah, around 6,000 people have been uprooted from their homes over the past weeks as the government pulled its troops out, allowing the Houthis to move in.
These movements are part of a wider picture of a war that has left, by the UN’s estimation, more than four million people displaced across the country.
Displacement makes getting or keeping a job even more difficult than it would otherwise be, in a country that has been economically decimated. It makes it hard for children to stay in school, and it removes any sense of stability. It also leaves many dependent on aid, although al-Asoudi and other displaced people The New Humanitarian spoke to said that assistance has been hard to come by over the past few years.
False hope
After leaving their homes, al-Asoudi’s family, and hundreds like them, settled in an area called al-Sawabin, near Marib’s dam: one of the area’s many resources that – along with natural gas – make it such a key prize for the warring parties.
It was also important for the new arrivals: Several displaced people told The New Humanitarian their first priority was to settle near water, and as close to home as possible so they could return as soon as they felt it was safe to do so.
Little did they know that their first flight was just the first stage in a long cycle of displacement that would go on for years, with no end in sight.
As the numbers of displaced increased, so did disappointment in the humanitarian relief effort.
“The aid organisations are absent here. No one even tried to visit us,” said al-Asoudi. “But we made do with just being safe, and tried to start a new life, despite the suffering caused by being away from home.”
According to Salem Sai’d, director of local NGO Human Access, “the amount of aid does not match the large number of IDPs.”
According to Salem Sai’d, director of local NGO Human Access, “the amount of aid does not match the large number of IDPs.”
But Saleh Alzaghari, a spokesperson for the UN’s emergency aid coordination body, OCHA, in Yemen, pushed back against accusations about low levels of assistance over the past years and now, saying that significant efforts had been made.
“Despite a challenging operating environment, aid agencies have ramped up life-saving assistance” in Marib and nearby provinces, “ensuring that people affected by the most military escalations (which started in September 2021) receive the assistance they need, wherever they are located,” he wrote in an email.
Alzaghari said that around 1,200 families are registered at al-Sumayya, where al-Asoudi lives. He said early emergency assistance had been provided, safe drinking water was being trucked in, and latrines are being built.
Food delivery will begin to new arrivals this week, 445 families have so far received “non-food items and tents”, and aid agencies and NGOs “are working to mobilise additional supplies to assist the other families”, he continued, adding that cash aid to 1,000 families is expected “in the coming weeks”.
Naser al-Doweisha, 76, who also fled Sirwah in 2015, echoed al-Asoudi’s comments about the insufficient support from aid agencies. Their needs have increased as the value of the little money they had left dropped, leaving them much poorer. At the beginning of the war, one US dollar was equivalent to 215 Yemeni rials. Now, the US dollar equals 1,550 Yemeni rials.
“When we first left our houses, we lived in cloth tents. But they couldn’t withstand Marib’s heat for more than a few months.” Al-Doweisha said finding decent new tents took a long time, and most of the help he and others received was in the form of a monthly food basket from the World Food Programme or other aid agencies and NGOs.
Camps in the desert
As the bullets and bombs grew closer once again, al-Asoudi and his family headed for a new cluster of camps set up in the desert east of Marib city. They are far from basic services like hospitals or schools, but close to a highway and around 14 unplanned settlements that were already there. Together, the government says they are now home to around 15,000 families.
Both al-Asoudi and al-Doweisha have been in al-Sumayya, one of the desert camps, since February. They have stayed put as the fighting worsens, civilians are killed, and more and more people join the ranks of the displaced.
“We have nothing in these camps. We are leading a primitive life. No toilets; nothing. The only reason all these people are here is to get a sense of safety from being together,” said al-Doweisha. “The Houthis killed us through perpetual displacement, and the government killed us by carelessness and negligence.” - by Mohamed Ghazi
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2021/11/24/Yemen-Marib-displacement-endless-cycle
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On the Suffering of Civilians Caught up in the Crater Clashes
My Only Fault was Living in This Neighborhood
Saturday October 2nd, 2021 was a new turning point in the cycles of violence that erupted in the city of Aden. The scene of events this time was the streets of Al Taweelah neighbourhood, Crater District. Instead of water raining from the sky, it rained a torrent of bullets and shells in the midst of bloody clashes.
In an unexpected moment, one of your family members may be hit, your home destroyed, and your children live in terror and fear in the safest of their places, while you are helpless in the midst of a barrage of hell pouring down on you from where you have no clue.
All of this happened to us because the Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s forces decided to arrest an armed group’s leader called “Imam al-Nubi.”
In the dawn of that day, at around 02:00 am, the neighborhood woke up to armed clashes, as a result of which many civilian casualties dropped down, killed or injured. Throughout the day, entire streets were closed off and the district was completely isolated. On the next day, some movement of people was allowed, as a barrage of scattered live bullets continued to fall over their heads, leading to the closure of all shops, groceries and restaurants, depriving people of their ability to carry out their daily activities to earn a living.
A resident of Taweelah told us about that killing spree, in which her house was caught in the middle: “My husband, my 17-year-old daughter and I were in the house this morning when Imam al-Nubi’s group clashed with the TSC’s forces. Imam’s group was positioned in our neighborhood, ” gunfire could be heard between the houses. I didn’t see any of the gunmen, but we could hear them firing shots and making noises in the streets as they moved from one place to another.”
Her tone of voice changed when she said: “When the clashes between the two sides intensified after 10:30 a.m., we hid in the inner room of the house as the sounds of shells passing over us and the never-ending gunshots were very frightening. We were reciting our Shahadas for fear that we might die at any moment.”
“Residents of the next-door house were rescued and evacuated through one of the windows, and my daughter, husband, and I were rescued by removing the iron bars from our house’s window. We were given a small ladder to assist us in getting down from the window to the ground. A bullet hit the water tank on the roof, causing water to pour into the house and onto the burning cars on the street.”
“After we left the house, we went and stayed at the neighbour’s house, terrified and distressed, not believing that we have survived and that we would be able to leave the house after what we have experienced.”
But not everyone in the neighborhood was lucky to be rescued or survived. Muhammad, a 14-year-old boy, was asked by his mother to go buy breakfast, but he did not return. The clashes intensified when Muhammad was in the middle of the street. He was scared. Fear and the instinct of survival led him to hide under a bus that was parking on the street, but it did nothing to help him, as his skinny body was riddled by six separate bullets in the stomach. Then the bus fell on his head after its tires were hit by bullets, so Muhammad continued to struggle with death there alone until he passed away, according to an eyewitness.
Is it not time for Aden to enjoy peace and security? Do not its good and peaceful people deserve that?. (photos)
https://mwatana.org/en/crater-clashes/
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Despite Pledge, Biden Leaves Tap Open, Approving Billions in Arms Deals to Saudi Arabia
A new MintPress News study based on Dept. of Defense documents can reveal that U.S. weapons manufacturers have sold well in excess of $28.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Yemen War began, including 20 separate deals inked during Biden’s presidency.
Sorting through thousands of approved contracts, the Department of Defense has approved in excess of $28.4 billion worth of sales from American companies to the armed forces of Saudi Arabia since they began their military intervention in the Yemeni Civil War in March 2015. This includes billions of dollars worth of arms, supplies, logistical support and training services.
While this is a gargantuan number (already larger than Yemen’s gross domestic product), it is certainly a serious underestimate of just how much the military industrial complex is benefiting from what the United Nations has called the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” In addition to the $28 billion figure, Saudi Arabia is also a named customer (often along with other nations) in weapons deals worth more than $34 billion over the same period. However, the amounts the Saudis actually paid in these were not disclosed, though in some of these orders Saudi Arabia was clearly the primary buyer. For example, a $3.4 billion DoD-approved radar deal with Raytheon lists only two buyers: Saudi Arabia and the tiny nation of Kuwait (population 4.2 million).
Added together, this means that the DoD has greenlighted the sale of somewhere between $28 billion and $63 billion worth of arms from American companies to Saudi Arabia since the latter began its attack on the largely civilian population of Yemen.
Although the Biden administration has not overseen the bonanza fire sale its predecessor oversaw, the flow of arms has not stopped.
“President Biden said we were going to see an end to U.S. complicity in the Saudi war and blockade on Yemen. Unfortunately, this new $650 million weapons sale perpetuates both war and the blockade that’s pushing millions of Yemenis into famine,” said Hassan El-Tayyab — Legislative Director for Middle East Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a pro-peace lobbying group associated with the Quaker movement
Calling the roll
The biggest profiteer from Yemen’s destruction has been aviation giant Boeing, which brought in $13.9 billion in sales over the period. Next comes Lockheed Martin, which has signed 62 separate contracts with the Kingdom since March 2015, worth in excess of $7.4 billion. Third on the list is missile expert Raytheon, which has cashed in on the violence to the tune of $3.3 billion.
Boeing’s spot at the top of the pile comes in large part thanks to a massive, $9.8 billion contract signed last year to maintain and modernize Saudi Arabia’s fleet of 269 McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter jets, including changing out hardware components, updating software and improving weapons systems (McDonnell Douglas is a subsidiary of Boeing). 2020 was a great year for the company, as it also secured a $1.97 billion fee to provide 650 SLAM ER cruise missiles to the Saudi government.
Lockheed Martin has scored big with the Saudi Navy, making billions of dollars, including a nearly $2 billion contract to build four warships. In addition, it secured enormous sales of Patriot missiles and laser and infrared technology. Black Hawk helicopters made by its subsidiary Sikorsky (treated by the DoD as a separate entity) were also in high demand.
Meanwhile, many of Raytheon’s largest deals include air-to-ground missiles, guided bombs, and widespread logistical, planning and technical support.
Reading the approved sales, what becomes clear is the depth of U.S. involvement in virtually every aspect of the Saudi military. Of course, there are direct arms shipments. But there are also contracts for helmets and a wide range of equipment, intelligence services, maintenance arrangements, and even for English lessons for Saudi pilots to help them better use their aircrafts’ features.
“It is inconceivable that the Saudi-led Coalition could be carrying out its attacks without the support of these companies,” Kirsten Bayes of the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) told MintPress via email.
According to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, around three-quarters of all Saudi military purchases come from American companies. Much of the rest comes from Great Britain.
Thus, while a figure between $28.3 billion and $63.0 billion is already monstrous, it tells only part of the story. The likes of Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin were already supplying the Saudi government with weapons long before the conflict began — Boeing since 1945, Lockheed Martin since 1965, and Raytheon since 1966. American arms companies continue to supply other members of the Saudi-led Coalition with similar arms. That number will continue to rise, as deals negotiated with the Trump administration come to fruition.
Therefore, the true extent to which the military industrial complex is profiting off some of the most extreme suffering in the world is still not completely clear. All that is known is that the Saudis pay in petrodollars and the Yemenis pay in blood – by Alan Macleod
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
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Two new COVID-19 cases reported, 9,979 in total
According to the daily counts over the past hours, the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has reached 9,979, including 1,943 deaths and 6,826 recoveries.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34126
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Corona and the spread of epidemics claim the lives of 82 judges in Yemen
Judge Anis Jamaan published a post on his Facebook wall, in which he said: 82 judges are under the protection of God during the period of pandemic epidemics and fevers, and the lack of medicine and a health system for judges in Yemen to this day
https://adengad.net/posts/582196
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Yemen receives 3rd AstraZeneca vaccine batch
Yemen's Ministry of Public Health and Population received on Friday the third batch of British anti-coronavirus vaccine AstraZeneca, the state news agency reported.
Yemen received 100 thousand and 800 doses of the vaccine provided by International Vaccine Alliance COVAX, the Minister of Public Health and Population Qasem Buhaibeh affirmed.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34121
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New Oxygen Production Stations are Key to Saving More Lives from COVID-19 in Yemen
The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined efforts with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group and the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP) to construct 14 new oxygen production stations that will save more lives from the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen.
The oxygen production stations, valued at over US$3.4 million, are being constructed in 11 southern governorates of Yemen and will be gradually put into operation between December 2021 and February 2022.
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Film: Amid Poor Health Services, Fever Sweeps Taiz
Following local hospitals’ failure to admit new patients, the highly populated areas in Taiz witnessed an unprecedented surge in death toll and patients after the outbreak of new waves of viral fevers, Dengue Fever, West Nile fever, and Malaria variants. The health office made it clear that if concerned authorities don’t take immediate actions, more people will get infected, adding that some private hospitals can’t accept more patients as they have reached their full capacity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfIUVO0qgj0
cp2 Allgemein / General
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Interactive Map of Yemen War
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Yemen War Daily Map Updates
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-november-27-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-november-25-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-november-24-2021-map-update/
https://english.iswnews.com/21460/latest-military-situation-of-yemen-24-november-2021-map-update/
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-yemen-on-november-23-2021-map-update/
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Saudis no longer have impunity to strike Yemen: Yemeni expert
“At the beginning of this war Yemen didn’t have the retaliatory capability and so the Saudis and their allies had a free hand to hit with impunity schools, hospitals, and even funerals gatherings and markets. Now impunity has ended,” Munir A. Saeed tells the Tehran Times.
“But the reality is that a big number penetrate and hit the intended Saudi target,” the former president of TAWQ, a nonpartisan democratic movement that includes members of various Yemeni political groups, adds.
American officials reiterate at all occasions that Washington is committed to supporting Riyadh against Yemeni missiles and drones. But it seems that Saudi’s heavy investment to buy American weapons has proven futile when it comes to intercepting Yemeni low-cost missiles and drones.
Emphasizing that the only viable option for the Saudis is to end the war on Yemen, Saeed notes, “This is why I say that Saudi investment in expensive foreign weapons having not brought desired results for the Saudis.’
Following is the text of the interview:
Q: Are you optimistic about the possibility of any compromise between the two sides of the war?
A: There are more than two sides to this fighting. Internally alone you have 4 sides, Islah, Ansarallah, Hadi group (aka “legitimate government”, but controlled by Islah), and Southern Transitional Council; each with their own militias. Add to that the Saudi-led military intervention and their Western arms suppliers. If the foreign players seriously detach themselves then I am cautiously optimistic about Yemen’s prospects. We may not find the perfect solution but some acceptance of new realities on the ground can lead to pragmatic compromises.
Q: Do you think Saudis can counter Yemeni missiles?
A: A small cost-benefit calculation will show you that Saudi investment in expensive foreign weapons has not brought desired results.
Think about this: it cost Yemen 500 to 3,000 dollars to make and deploy a drone or missile against Saudis. It cost 3 million dollars for the Saudis to defend against an incoming Yemeni drone or missile.
At this rate, even if every Yemeni device is destroyed by Saudis American-made Patriot missiles, it’s still a bargain for Yemen.
Q: How do you see the role of the U.S. and Israel in the Saudi-led war on Yemen?
A: I don’t think we can find solutions by looking at parts of the region isolated or separate from the remaining.
Even if we are able to find a workable formula in Yemen, it is highly unlikely that we will be allowed to exercise full sovereignty over Yemeni territory. And those who will prevent us are players regionally and internationally. Clearly, we all need to rethink the meaning and perimeters of sovereignty in post-Arab wars.
Our regional goal, of course, must be to control our own regional security arrangements.
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/467445/Saudis-no-longer-have-impunity-to-strike-Yemen-Yemeni-expert
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SIGNS OF CHANGING BALANCE OF POWER IN YEMEN!
Interview: An expert of Middle East affairs says during the past several weeks the UAE and Saudi forces have withdrawn from the western areas of Yemen located along the shore of the Red Sea with al-Hudaydah Port being the main spot of this area—a port which is called the passage of commerce and main link path of the people of Yemen and Ansarollah to the outside world.
According to him, some other analysts attribute this big and unexpected withdrawal to the rapid victories of the Ansarollah and Yemeni People’s Committees in Marib Province.
“This group of analysts believe that the Saudi and UAE coalition is trying to prevent the defeat of its affiliated militias in this strategic province in eastern Yemen by transferring militias based in al-Hudaydah Port and other coastal areas to Marib province.
In this case, the withdrawal of Saudi and Emirati mercenary militias from the west coast of Yemen and their deployment in the oil-rich province of Marib means greater concerns that are now on the minds of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi officials and their Western backers.
According to Qannad Bashi, US officials and even Zionist officials have repeatedly called the dominance of Ansarollah and Yemeni People’s Committees over Marib province a sign of Yemen’s complete victory in the six-and-a-half-year war.
“In the event of the imminent domination of Ansarollah and the Yemeni People’s Committees over the province and their aristocracy over oil resources, their need for imported fuels will be minimized, and therefore the measures related to the naval siege of Yemen will be ineffective in this regard.”
Asked about the other reasons behind the withdrawal of Saudi-led militia coalition from the Western coasts of Yemen, he said according to numerous reports, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have faced many difficulties in governing and dominating Yemen’s southern provinces in recent months, and have been unable to respond to strong popular protests.
“Meanwhile, the Ansarollah forces and the People’s Committees have managed to expand their dominance over the southern provinces over the past few months, and in addition to the astonishing victories in the province of Marib, they have also been in a very decisive and influential position in the overall military balance.”
He said what has been portrayed in the media as the subject of the retreat of Saudi and Emirati mercenaries is only part of the major decisive defeats suffered by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi in the battle of Yemen
https://www.scfr.ir/en/politics/138022/signs-of-changing-balance-of-power-in-yemen/
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How did Ansarullah turn tides in Yemen war in its favor?
After 81 months of heavy fighting, the situation on the battlefield has changed in favor of Ansar Allah (Ansarullah), and the main goal of the Saudi coalition has changed from capturing Sanaa and Saada to trying to keep the Marib!
Following the withdrawal, there was speculation about a secret agreement, the UAE betrayal of Saudi Arabia, etc., but none of these speculations were true. The command of the Saudi coalition stated that the main reason for the withdrawal from al-Hudaydah was the preservation of Marib, and announced the sending of reinforcements to prevent the city from falling to Ansar Allah.
Marib has now become a barrier against the flood of Ansar Allah attacks, the collapse of which could overthrow the remainings of the Hadi government in Yemen.
Ansar Allah has now reached the entrance gates of the most key point in central Yemen, the city of Marib. And on the other hand, it has recaptured the west coast of Hudaydah “without firing a single bullet”.
These field victories have increased Ansar Allah power in negotiation table, but now the Saudis have lost interest in a negotiation. They have practically turned their backs on the negotiations with heavy airstrikes on Sanaa and the killing of civilians and Ansar Allah prisoners.
According to Ansar Allah officials, the Saudis rejected Ansar Allah’s conditions for removing the siege and stopping the attacks in the talks, and closed the door to negotiations with the Iranians. The Saudis are making extensive preparations to defend their last major stronghold in Marib, and future developments in Yemen will determine Marib fate.
It is not clear what positions Ansar Allah will take before or after the capture of Marib. What is clear is that the majority of the people, the tribes, the parties, etc., support Ansar Allah and this will sooner or later hand over the power of Yemen to the Resistance.
https://en.abna24.com/news//how-did-ansarullah-turn-tides-in-yemen-war-in-its-favor_1202593.html
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Yemen, the slaughter of children due to the war
Of the wars that arose from the Arab springs, the least talked about was perhaps that of Yemen. First, because the country is less strategic. Then, it is useless to deny it, because the displaced did not come knocking on Europe’s doors. But for years the United Nations has remembered that Yemen was the most serious humanitarian tragedy going on on Earth.
Today the Houthis are at the gates of Marib. To defend it, the Saudis withdrew the troops stationed in Hodeida, the main Yemeni port on the Red Sea. The situation is dramatic. The UN said 40,000 refugees fleeing from areas around the city affected by the conflict have been added. The Houthis have also suffered enormous losses: more than 14,000 fighters killed since June, including children. But they bear the damage and see little reason to negotiate a truce.
After all, the Houthis think they are winning the war. “The gravest humanitarian emergency is now in Marib. Tens of thousands of displaced people, many victims, including women and children. This is why we have launched new assistance projects in that area and asked the UN agencies to invest more: together we have set up shelters, schools and mobile clinics where we treat the wounded ”. Speaking is Abdullah al Rabeeah, head of the King Salman Relief Center, the development cooperation agency of the Saudi government. Despite being part of the conflict, Riyadh claims to contribute to the humanitarian effort for Yemen. The King Salman Relief Center, according to its director, has started 629 projects in the country with a total cost so far of about 4 billion dollars. “Thanks to this aid, and to the UN agencies with which we collaborate, hunger has not escalated into famine as it has in the past. We make no distinctions: if they let us pass, we also bring assistance to the territories controlled by the Houthis, ”added Abdullah al Rabeeah.
The truth, however, is that Yemen has turned into a very expensive strategic quagmire. The Saudis are desperate to end a war in which they have spent billions of dollars and which has cracked relations with important allies, particularly the United States. In addition, Saudi Arabia is routinely attacked by missiles launched over the border by the Houthis. Targets: airports and other vital infrastructure. To overcome the impasse, Riyadh also began negotiating with Iran, which supported the Houthis with weapons and money. But perhaps he doesn’t have enough control over them today to force them into a deal. And either way, he’s likely happy to see an archenemy bleed.
https://www.italy24news.com/world/278821.html
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No Way Out of Yemen for KSA: The Economist
An article published by The Economist reports that Saudi Arabia rolls back its frontiers and desperately looks for help.
"The Saudis are eager to cut their losses, but they cannot find a way to do so," reports The Economist, in an article "Saudi Arabia cannot find a way out of Yemen."
Not only will Ansar Allah's victory in Marib be strategic, but it will also be symbolic, and a victory may just be on the horizon, despite Ansar Allah's losses. According to the Southern Transitional Council's Ministry of Defense, since June, 14,700 fighters have been killed in Marib, and the UN reports that over 40,000 people have been displaced over the past two months.
Saudi Arabia, according to the article, "is growing desperate to end the war," especially for the reason that when they waged the war in 2015, their "excitement" crumbled into a series of strategic losses, which only led them to their own grave.
As Ansar Allah advances further in Yemen, Saudi Arabia anticipates setting up more defenses to protect itself, despite the coalition's claims that they intercept 90% of the attacks - a claim that is hard to verify, according to The Economist.
In desperation, Saudi Arabia has turned to Iran to try to talk to Ansar Allah, which in itself has not seen much reason to negotiate, neither with the United States nor with Saudi Arabia. However, the latter has little to offer to Iran, and Iran does not enjoy control over Ansar Allah, a grassroots Resistance movement in Yemen.
In this war of attrition, Saudi Arabia scurries to minimize its material and human losses - but it has only reached a stalemate in this war; a military and political deadlock.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/no-way-out-of-yemen-for-ksa:-the-economist
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Film: The West Asia Post | Battle for the last government bastion in Yemen
Over the last 6 years, the war in Yemen has killed thousands and pushed the nation to the brink of famine. While calls for a ceasefire grow louder every day, will Yemen truly be able to survive this war?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk8NCzVgM20 = https://www.wionews.com/videos/the-west-asia-post-battle-for-the-last-government-bastion-in-yemen-432217
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US-Sonderbeauftragter will Jemen teilen
Medienquellen berichteten von einem vom US-Sondergesandten für den Jemen übermittelten Plan, den Jemen in einen südlichen und einen nördlichen Teil zu spalten.
Laut der Nachrichten-Website Yemen News Portal, YNP, traf sich der US-Sondergesandte für den Jemen, Tim Lenderking, am Donnerstag mit einigen jemenitischen Parteien, um über die Teilung des Jemen zu diskutieren.
Laut jemenitischen Quellen weist das Treffen darauf hin, dass die USA versuchen, den Südjemen vom Norden des Landes zu trennen, da sie nicht in der Lage sind, militärisch in den Nordjemen einzudringen.
Unterdessen hat Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, der Präsident des den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, VAE, angeschlossenen Übergangsrat Südjemen (Southern Transitional Council), US-Präsident Joe Biden zuvor aufgefordert, die Teilung des Jemen zu unterstützen.
Al-Zoubaidi hat auch Lenderking aufgefordert, mit dem Übergangsrat Südjemen Gespräche über die Teilung des Jemen zu führen.
https://parstoday.com/de/news/middle_east-i63782-us_sonderbeauftragter_will_jemen_teilen = https://de.abna24.com/news//us-sonderbeauftragter-will-jemen-teilen_1202676.html
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The predicament of the "Yemen Brotherhood " investors in Turkey after the deportation decision
The Islah Party and its leaders played a suspicious role in favor of Turkey in Yemen, since the beginning of the Decisive Storm, and worked to target the efforts of the Arab coalition, so that the party leaders issued an explicit call to demand Turkish intervention, claiming to confront the Houthi militia, in the battles of Marib, which revealed the truth of their complicity with the Houthis. .
Since 2015, Istanbul has turned into a center for members and leaders of the Brotherhood's Islah Party, including a number of political officials and businessmen who have benefited from the facilities provided to them by the Turkish government, and media professionals who run a number of channels that Turkey used in a coordinated manner with Qatar to launch media campaigns against Arab countries. Turkey has also naturalized a number of Islah party leaders, who now own millions of dollars in investments in Istanbul, after they looted the support provided by the Arab coalition.
According to real estate statistics in Turkey, Yemeni figures belonging to the Islah party bought about 949 properties in Turkey during the period from January to September 2021, including 139 properties during the month of September only, while the total number of properties purchased by Islah leaders since the year 2015 AD, 5390 real estate, with a value of one billion and 347 million and 500 thousand dollars, considering the average value of the property 250 thousand dollars.
Sources in the Yemeni community in Turkey confirmed that the number of Yemeni companies owned by Brotherhood elements is more than 400, compared to 64 companies in 2015.
https://www.newsyemen.net/new/79469
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NCIAVHR: Violations against women in Houthi held areas increased
The National Committee to Investigate Alleged Violations of Human Rights (NCIAVHR) has said cases of violations and violence against women have increased over the war in Yemen, especially in Houthi held areas, since 2014 and the collapse of the state institutions resulting from the war.
In a release issued by the committee on Thursday on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women marking 25 of November, the committee said while it has been investigating all violations against human rights across Yemen, including violations against citizens in general and women and children in particular, it found that more than 1620 women have been killed and injured by shelling houses and neighborhoods.
The release added that big number of women and children have been forced to displacement and 70 percent of the total number of four million displaced people were women and children, according to UN High Commission for Refugees' reports.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34120
My comment: By an anti-Houthi org. There are violations everywhere.
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Al-Okaimi: Saudi Arabia establishes Yemeni army to defend its southwestern border
A top leader loyal to Saudi-led coalition and governor of Jawf in Hadi government, Sheikh Amin al-Okaimi, who lives in Turkey, admitted that Saudi Arabia had established a Yemeni army to defend its southwestern border.
Sheikh Amin al-Okaimi said Saudi Arabia has attracted thousands of Yemeni recruits and lured them with money to establish an army of to defend its southwestern border, which is part of the coalition’s “fifth and sixth” military regions.
He added, in an interview with the UAE-owned Yemen Today channel that Saudi Arabia has mobilized fighters to defend its borders without referring to Hadi’s ministry of defense, and gave each of them a monthly reward of up to 2,000 Saudi riyals per month, indicating that the salary of the gunman in the Ministry of Hadi’s Defense does not exceed 60,000 riyals.
Sheikh Amin al-Okaimi said Saudi Arabia destroyed Hadi’s forces after withdrawing them to their borders.
http://en.ypagency.net/244957/
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Films: Tears fall from the eyes of the captive child Wadah, expressing his tragedy with the Houthi group, which forced him to fight in its ranks and put his brother in prison for refusing to fight..Wadah longs for his parents, who asked him to attend school
https://twitter.com/abduhothifi/status/1463535272197595139
Child Waddah (the captive) explains how he went to fight on the front lines to defend the group's radical ideas while imprisoning his brother, who resisted being dragged into it.
https://twitter.com/abduhothifi/status/1463565416098316291
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String of Pearls: Yemen Could be the Arab Hub of the Maritime Silk Road
The war was a perverse manipulation by US, UK, French, Israeli and minions Saudi, Emirati and Qatari intel agencies. It was never a ‘civil war’ – as the hegemonic narrative goes – but an engineered project to reverse the gains of Yemen’s own ‘Arab Spring.’
The target was to return Yemen back to a mere satellite in Saudi Arabia’s backyard. And to ensure that Yemenis never dare to even dream of regaining their historic role as the economic, spiritual, cultural and political reference for a great deal of the Indian Ocean universe.
Add to the narrative the simplistic trope of blaming Shia Iran for supporting the Houthis. When it was clear that coalition mercenaries would fail to stop the Yemeni Resistance, a new narrative was birthed: the war was important to provide ‘security’ for the Saudi hacienda facing an ‘Iran-backed’ enemy.
That’s how Ansarallah became cast as Shia Houthis fighting Saudis and local ‘Sunni’ proxies. Context was thrown to the dogs, as in the vast, complex differences between Muslims in Yemen – Sufis of various orders, Zaydis (Houthis, the backbone of the Ansarallah movement, are Zaydis), Ismailis, and Shafii Sunnis – and the wider Islamic world.
Yemen goes BRI
So the whole Yemen story, once again, is essentially a tragic chapter of Empire attempting to plunder Third World/Global South wealth.
The House of Saud played the role of vassals seeking rewards. They do need it, as the House of Saud is in desperate financial straits that include subsidizing the US economy via mega-contracts and purchasing US debt.
The bottom line: the House of Saud won’t survive unless it dominates Yemen. The future of MBS is totally leveraged on winning his war, not least to pay his bills for western weapons and technical assistance already used. There are no definitive figures, but according to a western intel source close to the House of Saud, that bill amounted to at least $500 billion by 2017.
The stark reality made plain by the alliance between Ansarallah and major tribes is that Yemen refuses to surrender its national wealth to subsidize the Empire’s desperate need of liquidity, collateral for new infusions of cash, and thirst for commodities.
And that brings us to the enticing ‘another world is possible’ angle when the Yemeni Resistance finally extricates the nation from the grip of the hawkish, crumbling neoliberal/Wahhabi coalition.
As the Chinese very well know, Yemen is rich not only in the so far unexplored oil and gas reserves, but also in gold, silver, zinc, copper and nickel.
Beijing also knows all there is to know about the ultra-strategic Bab al Mandab between Yemen’s southwestern coast and the Horn of Africa. Moreover, Yemen boasts a series of strategically located Indian Ocean ports and Red Sea ports on the way to the Mediterranean, such as Hodeidah.
One very possible scenario is Yemen joining the ‘string of pearls’ – ports linked by the BRI across the Indian Ocean. There will, of course, be major pushback by proponents of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ agenda. That’s where the Iranian connection enters the picture.
BRI in the near future will feature the progressive interconnection between the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – with a special role for the port of Gwadar – and the emerging China–Iran corridor that will traverse Afghanistan. The port of Chabahar in Iran, only 80 km away from Gwadar, will also bloom, whether by definitive commitments by India or a possible future takeover by China.
Warm links between Iran and Yemen will translate into renewed Indian Ocean trade, without Sanaa depending on Tehran, as it is essentially self-sufficient in energy and already manufactures its own weapons. Unlike the Saudi vassals of Empire, Iran will certainly invest in the Yemeni economy.
The Empire will not take any of this lightly. There are plenty of similarities with the Afghan scenario. Afghanistan is now set to be integrated into the New Silk Roads – a commitment shared by the SCO. Now it’s not so far-fetched to picture Yemen as a SCO observer, integrated to BRI and profiting from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) packages. Stranger things have happened in the ongoing Eurasia saga – by Pepe Escobar
https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/3738 = https://www.unz.com/pescobar/string-of-pearls-yemen-could-be-the-arab-hub-of-the-maritime-silk-road/ = https://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=255543
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Why Marib's liberation will break the Saudis and shake West Asia
If Ansarallah controls Marib, it will control all of Yemen and some of the world's most strategic waterways. No wonder its adversaries are shaken.
Marib’s liberation will be an unprecedented victory for Ansarallah that will place Sanaa back firmly on the world map. Aside from the huge morale boost for the Houthi rebels, Ansarallah will gain control of Yemen’s vital water and oil resources and bring relief for the capital’s civilians.
Marib’s liberation will also mean that Ansarallah will govern around 80 percent of the Yemeni population of 30 million, secure its eastern front, and make a move on Hodeidah where remaining coalition forces are based.
After the liberation of Hodeidah and Marib, Saudi Arabia will lose its boots on the ground in Yemen, but will it retreat and accept defeat?
Yemen was then (arguably still is) considered a Saudi backwater, and Riyadh’s policy toward its southern neighbor was entirely driven by the kingdom’s founder, Abdul Aziz Al Saud, who declared in an infamous quote: “the honor of Saudis is in the humiliation of Yemen, and their (Saudi) humiliation is in the glory of Yemen.”
These words had monumental significance: the guiding principle for all future Saudi monarchs would be to subjugate Yemen at all cost, or the price would be existential.
With Ansarallah in charge, reverberations will be felt across West Asia – not least because Yemenis still consider the Saudi provinces of Jizan and Najran to be part of Yemen.
Ansarallah controlling access to the Suez Canal will be a nightmare for the Israelis – Tel Aviv and Zionism are the mortal enemy of the Houthis, and no ship heading for Israel will be allowed to cross this strait.
China and Iran will be big winners in the ensuing geopolitical shuffle. Iran will gain its first diehard ally in the Arabian Peninsula – one that has oil, produces its own weapons, and can defend itself without costing Tehran money, manpower or resources.
Yemen’s geography is of strategic importance to China too:
With the US, UK and western countries in general having supported the aggression against the Yemeni people, Ansarallah is more likely to choose to align with China, Iran, and other unaligned nations.
Reports indicate that Saudi Arabia spent well over $300 billion on its war on Yemen. Six years later, it is on the verge of being soundly defeated, with only Marib blocking that path. Marib is the city that will soon dictate the terms that end this war, and perhaps the end of Saudi power projection as we know it.
https://thecradle.co/Article/analysis/3514
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Saudi Arabia’s Dilemma in Yemen: How to Get Off the Tree
After six and half years of intensive war that drained the Saudi political, military, and financial resources, nothing has been achieved in Yemen. On the contrary, every move they made backfired.
Perhaps the fact that Yemen was the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula and therefore had far inferior military capabilities, in addition to many internal divisions, lead the Saudis to anticipate a simple and short venture. One should note that Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest spenders in the world on defense and weapons imports and Yemen, with its modest army, was no match to the Saudi military might and US-made weapons and technology possessed by the kingdom. More importantly, the Yemen campaign was the first project of the new rising star of the Saudi royal family, Mohamed Bin Salman, then the Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defence.
But everything has gone wrong for the Saudis. Literally everything. After six and half years of intensive war that drained the Saudi political, military, and financial (with reports revealing that the Yemeni war costs KSA around $20bn per year) resources, nothing has been achieved.
But what’s more catastrophic for the Saudis is the way military operations are going.
When the aggression started in 2015, Saudi Arabia had absolute dominance in battles. They were bombing Sanaa, Saada (Ansaru Allah’s stronghold in Northern Yemen), and other locations with ease. Yemen was almost defenseless in the face of air raids and was unable to induce significant damage to Saudi Arabia in any way.
Since 2016, things began to change: Shots of primitive missiles launched from Yemen started arriving at the Southern border areas of KSA. The Yemeni missiles program progressed further with speed and intensity. Missiles were increasingly targeting military bases and airports in more areas in the southern part of KSA with a noticeable failure from the Saudis to intercept them.
It didn’t take long for the new reality to impose itself on the region. In 2019, UAE announced its withdrawal from Yemen and pulled back its forces from the battlefield.
The Saudi war project in Yemen has failed miserably on all fronts, and it seems that Saudi rulers are finally recognizing it. Saudi Arabia is finding itself isolated and alone in the battle, abandoned by its closest ally the US, and with Yemeni rockets posing a constant threat to its cities and oil facilities.
The recent military developments on the Marib and al-Hudaydah fronts are indicators of the Saudi war on Yemen entering its final stages.
The Saudis need help; somebody has to help them save face and get off the tree.
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Saudi Arabia cannot find a way out of Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition’s withdrawal from a key port underscores its struggles (paywalled)
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[from 2017] “Women Nowadays Do Anything.” Women’s Role in Conflict, Peace and Security in Yemen
Our research reveals that the war has had many complex consequences for Yemeni women, who have been severely affected by the violence that has spread through the country, including in gender-based forms. It has had a socioeconomic impact, as many women have been left responsible for running households and taking care of children by themselves. Displacement, the absence of income and basic services, the impact of the conflict on overall family health, the security and education of their children, and the proliferation of small arms are only some of the issues that have put women under psychological strain and at physical risk.
At the same time, women have been active agents in the political, conflict and security dynamics in both governorates. While only rarely engaged in direct combat, many women have contributed to the ‘war effort’ in other ways, including preparing and delivering food and water to fighters, nursing the wounded, manning checkpoints, fundraising and encouraging their husbands and sons to fight. On the other hand, women have led and participated in peacebuilding initiatives. They have contributed greatly to humanitarian efforts, particularly through first aid, child protection and psychosocial support within the community. Throughout the conflict, women have also been integral in developing strategies to secure their safety and that of their families, to provide for their children’s needs, and to contribute to the well-being of the wider community.
Full document: https://carpo-bonn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Heinze-Baabbad-Women-nowadays-do-anythingupdate.pdf
cp2a Saudische Blockade / Saudi blockade
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Film: Watch CNN's report:about the fuel ships released at the end of March2021 AD and the statement of the Executive Director General of the Yemeni Oil Company Eng.Ammar
https://twitter.com/noamen13/status/1463218227874603016
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
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Launching the 16-day campaign to combat violence against women in Yemen
Coinciding with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which falls on November 25 of each year, HUMAN ACCESS through the Protection and Livelihood Support Project, funded by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), launched a 16-day campaign to combat violence against women. It is a global campaign launched by the United Nations in 1991 as a means to combat all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide.
The campaign consists of a variety of events and activities i
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/launching-16-day-campaign-combat-violence-against-women-yemen
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Knowledge, Practice and Coverage Survey Report: Taiz Governorate, Yemen (August 2021)
This KPC survey was conducted at the household-level in areas of intervention across Taiz Governorate, to measure the knowledge, practice, and coverage of key Health, Nutrition, and WASH, indicators in these communities. Using LQAS methodology, data was collected from 19 households in each survey area to provide reliable estimates of coverage and program performance. The total sample size was 152 households (from eight survey areas).
Prevalence of fever and diarrhea among children were both high. These could be explained by poor access to safe drinking water and essential hand washing supplies. Healthcare utilization rates for maternal, newborn, and child health services were generally poor, and the uptake of recommended IYCF and hygiene practices were found to be suboptimal.
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Lebensmittelpakete für hungernde Kinder im Jemen
Der Aichacher Förderverein Aktion Jemenhilfe und die Jemen Kinderhilfe unterstützen 233 Familien mit mehr als 1700 hungernden Kinder in dem Bürgerkriegsland
„Die Lage im Jemen ist nach wie vor entsetzlich!“. In einem dramatischen Jahresbericht versucht Aenne Rappel, langjährige Aichacher Vorsitzende des Fördervereins Aktion Jemenhilfe und der Jemen Kinderhilfe, die unbeschreibliche Not der jemenitischen Bevölkerung in Worte zu fassen.
Nahezu täglich erhalte die Aichacher Hilfsorganisation Bilder von unterernährten Kindern aus dem bitterarmen Umland des Jemenhilfe-Krankenhauses in den Bergen von Al Mihlaf. Der dortige Leiter, Dr. Arafat (Sohn des verstorbenen Jemenhilfe-Vertrauten Scheich Sadeq), habe Anfang diesen Jahres in einem dringenden Appell um Hilfe für die hungernden Menschen aus der Gebirgsregion gebeten, weil ständig unterernährte Kinder zu ihm gebracht wurden (wir berichteten). Aus einer von Dr. Arafat erstellten Liste an Bedürftigen habe die Jemenhilfe zunächst knapp 400 Hungernde, meist Witwen mit Kindern, Behinderte, Kranke und amputierte Kriegsverletzte, mit monatlichen Lebensmittelpaketen unterstützt. Laut Rappel konnte ihre Organisation „dank großzügiger Spenden“ die Anzahl der Hilfsempfänger auf mittlerweile 233 Familien mit 1711 Kindern erweitern. Diese werden nun „solange unsere Mittel reichen“ von der Jemenhilfe mit Grundnahrungsmittel in Form von Reis, Bohnen, Mehl, Zucker und Öl versorgt.
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UNICEF helps to establish a training program for Community Health and Nutrition Workers in Yemen
Support local families, detect malnutrition cases and help people receive the necessary medical help in Dhamar and Lahj Governorates
“We do this for children,” says Bodor Al-Dohmaly, one of the health and nutrition volunteers from Dhamar Governorate, Yemen. Bodor is among the volunteers who have recently finished a 2-day training session organized in the Dhamar governorate that enable volunteers to provide health and nutrition services in the community.
Community Health and Nutrition Volunteers support local families, detect malnutrition cases and help people receive the necessary medical help. Today they operate in Dhamar and Lahj Governorates
“After finishing the course, volunteers start working in the field right away,” says Lutf Zaid, one of the trainers.
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Mideast in Pictures: Malnourished children in Yemen's Hodeidah crave food
http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/24/c_1310330726.htm = https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1239888.shtml
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CARE zum Jemen: "Alle zwei Stunden stirbt eine Mutter bei der Geburt - alle zehn Minuten ein Kind an einer vermeidbaren Krankheit"
Die internationale Hilfsorganisation CARE warnt, dass sich die Situation im Land nach fast sieben Jahren Krieg immer weiter verschärft. 21 Millionen Menschen, zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung, sind auf Überlebenshilfe angewiesen. Es fehlt an Benzin, Wasser, Nahrung und grundlegender medizinischer Versorgung, dennoch ist die humanitäre Hilfe im Jemen noch nicht einmal zur Hälfte finanziert.
Karl-Otto Zentel, Generalsekretär CARE Deutschland:
"Es ist unvorstellbar, dass im Jemen alle zwei Stunden eine Mutter bei der Geburt stirbt und alle zehn Minuten ein Kind an einer vermeidbaren Krankheit. Neben der schlechten Gesundheitsversorgung ist der Jemen mit einer enormen wirtschaftlichen Krise konfrontiert. Viele Jemenitinnen und Jemeniten kämpfen mit einer drohenden Hungersnot. 16 Millionen Menschen leiden Hunger und zwei bis drei Millionen Kinder unter fünf Jahren müssen aufgrund von akuter Unterernährung behandelt werden, dennoch passiert zu wenig. Die internationale Gemeinschaft muss jetzt handeln und die eingegangenen Versprechen einhalten und humanitäre Akteure wie CARE unterstützen, Leben zu retten."
https://www.presseportal.de/pm/6745/5082840 = https://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2021-11/54589236-care-zum-jemen-alle-zwei-stunden-stirbt-eine-mutter-bei-der-geburt-alle-zehn-minuten-ein-kind-an-einer-vermeidbaren-krankheit-007.htm
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UNICEF_Yemen concluded today the payment cycle#11 of #UnconditionalCashTransfers to 1,429,570 households across #Yemen. Our #UCT program in partnership w/SWF has shown efficient management of the project components and contributed to making this cycle a success.
https://twitter.com/SFDYemen/status/1463952044511879173
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Yemen: Humanitarian Response Snapshot (September 2021)
the 2021 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP) remains largely underfunded – as of September 2021 only US$2.68 billion of the $3.85 billion needed had been received. In addition, a fuel crisis has increased needs and ongoing access issues hinder the aid operation. An alarming increase in levels of food insecurity and acute malnutrition is forecasted by the year’s end. In the first nine months of 2021, 183 humanitarian organizations continued to deliver aid to an average of 11.2 million people per month.
While the number of people reached with assistance remained low across many cluster areas, partners continued to provide support to millions of people – an average of 10.7 million were reached each month with food assistance, over 3.5 million were reached with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, 538,416 were supported by Health Cluster partners and 1.11 million received nutrition treatment.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-response-snapshot-september-2021
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Yemen: Organizations' Monthly Presence (September 2021)
In September 2021, 118 organizations implemented Humanitarian Response Plan activities in all of Yemen’s 333 districts. Eight UN agencies were active in all districts, 44 international NGOs were active in 249 districts, and 66 national NGOs were active in 324 districts. The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) had the largest number of organizations – 55 implementing activities in 289 districts. The Health Cluster had the largest coverage – 41 organizations active in 323 districts. In other large cluster areas, 38 Protection Cluster partners worked in 263 districts, 32 Nutrition partners worked in 323 districts, and 28 WASH partners worked in 148 districts.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-organizations-monthly-presence-september-2021-enar
and for single provinces and regions:
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-abyan-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-sana-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-hajjah-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-raymah-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-marib-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-dhamar-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-amran-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-sadah-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-taiz-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-ibb-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-al-jawf-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-ad-dali-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-turbah-sub-hub-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-al-makha-sub-hub-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-lahj-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-aden-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-september-2021
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UNICEF plane arrives at Sana'a Airport
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3165442.htm
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Film: Yemeni Journalist @Naseh_Shaker explained the ongoing humanitarian crisis in #Yemen.
https://twitter.com/anewstheedge/status/1463862539725516811
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A female university student suffering financial hardship in Yemen's besieged city of Taiz committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise building on Tuesday/Multiple websites
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52306
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SFD Yemen Nutrition sensitive Cash Transfer Program in Hodeidah providing cash and health education
SFD Yemen Nutrition sensitive Cash Transfer Program is delivering an integrated response to curb down malnutrition effectively in the remote areas of Alhodeida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH0PyK0Aylo
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In Yemen, education comes too late for millions of children
This year, around two million school-aged children were forced to drop out of school in Yemen due to conflict and poverty. This is two times more than in 2015, when the conflict began to escalate.
Unlike boys, girls rarely have to drop out of school to work. But their schooling is also often delayed due to the conflict. Marwa, 11, was also forced to flee her home due to the conflict. “I fled my village with my brother, his wife, and their son because we were scared,” says Marwa. Because of the displacement, she lost two academic years.
For the students who are able to get to school, there may not be a teacher there to greet them. Over 170,000 teachers, or two-thirds of the teaching workforce countrywide, have not received a regular wage for four years. As a result, many teachers have changed careers, leaving a teacher shortage in places like Dhubab.
With no professional teachers available in his village, Abdo Salem, a 27-year-old father of two, decided to step in and teach for free. He had just graduated from university and couldn’t face the children in his village losing out on more years of school because of the conflict.
But the school is surrounded by landmines, and one day, as he was walking to school with a friend, he stepped on one of them. "I lost my leg because of the explosion,” says Abdo. “But thank God nothing happened to my friends."
With the support of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is now providing incentives to courageous teachers like Abdo, both in Dhubab and Al-Dhalea districts. The volunteer teachers were tested, interviewed, and have now received essential teacher training. They have also been provided with materials such as notebooks and bags.
NRC has also built new schools next to the destroyed ones in these villages, which have been equipped with whiteboards, chairs and toilets.
https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2021/in-yemen-education-comes-too-late-for-millions-of-children/
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5K kidney failure patients may die in Yemen
Yemeni patients’ struggle for life is worsening amid the ongoing Saudi war, especially for those with chronic diseases such as kidney failure. Yemen’s health officials warn that over thousands of kidney patients may die if they don’t go abroad for treatment.
The Saudi-led war on Yemen has devastated the country's health care system so that individuals with chronic diseases don’t have access to life-saving treatment. Yemen's Ministry of Health says the number of kidney patients has exceeded 4,850 -- most of them may die if they don’t get the chance to travel abroad for a kidney transplant.
The number of dialysis centers in Yemen is not enough to meet the needs, with patients having to wait for hours for dialysis sessions. Most of the centers has to reduce the number of dialysis sessions for each patient to cope with the large number of patients. The fuel crisis in Yemen is also piling up pressure on hospitals, forcing many dialysis centers to close down.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/11/24/671254/Yemen-kidney-failure-patients
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Yemen Food Security Outlook, October 2021 to May 2022
Despite large-scale humanitarian assistance in Yemen—which provides a key source of food and income for around half the population—food gaps persist for many households due to both high levels of need and challenges in targeting. Across most of the country, Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Crisis! (IPC Phase 3!) outcomes are expected to persist throughout the projection period at the governorate level alongside deteriorating purchasing power, with worst-affected households expected to face Emergency (IPC Phase 4) or Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) outcomes. In Marib, should SBA forces take Marib City, humanitarian assistance is expected to be disrupted for around one to two months as humanitarians negotiate access. During this time, widening consumption gaps and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes are likely for worst-affected households—particularly among recently displaced households expected to have lower levels of income and limited coping capacity.
Overall, the rate of depreciation of the Yemeni Rial (YER) has accelerated in IRG areas, despite a period of appreciation in early October alongside the announcement of an additional round of the Letter of Credit import financing mechanism. As of October 31, the exchange rate in Aden depreciated to reach 1,350 YER/USD
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-food-security-outlook-october-2021-may-2022
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Yemen Joint Market Monitoring Initiative: October 2021 Situation Overview
The JMMI incorporates information on market systems including price levels and supply chains. The basket of goods to be assessed includes 10 non-food items (NFIs), such as fuel, water, and hygiene products, reflecting the programmatic areas of the WASH Cluster. The JMMI tracks all components of the WASH and Food Survival Minimum Expenditure Basket (SMEB) as well as other food and non-food items.
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UNDP: Recovery in Yemen possible despite fast-deteriorating situation
If war stops now, new report projects Yemen can eradicate extreme poverty within a generation
The report projects that in the last six years the crisis has caused Yemen to miss out on US $126 billion of potential economic growth.
New York – A new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report projects that war-torn Yemen, currently among the poorest countries in the world, can end extreme poverty within a single generation, by 2047 – provided that the conflict devastating the country for the last six years ends now.
Through statistical modeling analyzing future scenarios, the report shows that the securing of peace by January 2022, coupled with an inclusive and holistic recovery process, can enable Yemenis to reverse deep trends of impoverishment facing the country and see Yemen leap to middle-income status by 2050, while eradicating extreme poverty which now affects 15.6 million people. The report also projects that malnutrition can be halved by 2025, and that the country can achieve $450 billion of economic growth by 2050 in an integrated peace-and-recovery scenario.
“This report on Yemen provides new insights into the world’s worst humanitarian and development crisis. Millions of Yemenis continue to suffer from the conflict, trapped in poverty and with little possibility for jobs and livelihoods,” said UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.” The study presents a clear picture of what the future could look like with a lasting peace including new, sustainable opportunities for people. To help to get there, the entire UN family continues to work with communities throughout the country to shape a peaceful, inclusive and prosperous future for all Yemenis.”
The report, carried out by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures at the University of Denver, is the third installment of the Impact of War on Yemen series. Like the previous editions, the report uses an integrated statistical modeling technique that forecasts future scenarios.
While identifying potential peace dividends, the report also contains grim projects of future trajectories should the conflict continue into 2022 and beyond.
If the conflict continues through 2030, the report projects that it will have taken 1.3 million lives by that year. Moreover, the report shows that a growing proportion of those deaths will not occur due to fighting, but due to second-order impacts that the crisis is waging on livelihoods, food prices, and the deterioration of basic services such as health and education. Thus far, the report projects that 60 percent of deaths from the crisis have been caused by these secondary factors – a proportion projected to grow to 75 per cent by 2030 if the war continues.
In this way, the report sheds light on the lesser-known yet widespread impacts that a persisting crisis in Yemen will continue to have across key dimensions of development and well-being. The crisis has already pushed an additional 4.9 million people into malnutrition, and the report projects that this toll will grow to 9.2 million by 2030 if the war persists; by the same year, the number of people living in extreme poverty would surge to 22 million, 65% of the population.
While urging that peace is the only viable way forward to end the suffering in Yemen, the report also calls upon national, regional, and international stakeholders to adopt an inclusive and holistic recovery process, across sectors and inclusive of the entirety of Yemeni society.
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
Siehe / Look at cp1
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#Yemen: this Yemeni migrant swam from Morocco to Spain, along with a friend. Spanish Coast Guard arrested, brutally beat them, then took them back to Morocco and threw them into the sea while he was still unconscious. His body is still missing, activists wrote on Facebook Friday. (photo)
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1464269425230721026
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UNHCR Yemen Operational Update, covering the Period 16 - 26 November 2021
As frontlines approach the southern entrance of Marib city, hosting sites and civilian populations located in the city's outskirts face immediate safety concerns. On the western front, nearly 1,930 displaced families in IDP sites in Sirwah district are now five kilometres away from the ongoing clashes, with increasing concern for their safety. UNHCR's partner in Marib, Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS), in coordination with the Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster, is currently seeking relocation plans for these households to safer areas in Marib al Wadi, should there be a sudden displacement.
Since the beginning of the year, UNHCR has distributed more than $62 million in cash assistance to over 175,000 displaced Yemeni and refugee families (some one million individuals). A large portion of this assistance went to displaced Yemenis, four times more at risk of hunger than the average Yemeni population. The latest post-distribution monitoring data reveal that up to 91% of beneficiaries spent the assistance on food and over 20% on rent.
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Roundup: Int'l call grows for de-escalation of Yemen's conflict to protect civilian safety
International organizations have expressed their grave concern about the safety of civilians in Yemen, as the conflict continues to escalate in the war-ravaged country.
In Yemen's oil-rich province of Marib, intense battles are still raging between the government forces and the Houthi militia who are attempting to capture the central city of Marib that hosts nearly 2 million displaced people.
http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/26/c_1310333185.htm
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In pics: classrooms at primary school in Hajjah, Yemen
http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/25/c_1310331102.htm
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UNHCR, Kuwait sign agreement to provide clean water for Yemeni IDPs
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34118
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Developments of the New Displacement Situation - Rahba-Harib-Al-Juba-Jabal Murad-Al Abdiyah-Sirwah Districts -Ma'rib Governorate
The recent military escalation of the Houthi militia on the southern districts of Marib Province during the past months of September and October caused the displacement of more than ( 93,378 ) IDPs. This displacement is the third time or more as families move from one displacement site to another trying to find better resources and places that are safe and more suitable. This forced displacement resulted from this escalation has multiplied the burdens and tasks as well as the needs of IDPs as these families should be contained after losing their homes, sources and savings and everything they have in order to escape the hell of war and survive.
The displaced families join crowded displacement camps within the Districts of Marib City and Al-Wadi (The Valley), which are already overcrowded for thousands of families and dozens of camps in their geographical area and surrounding areas, sites and displacement camps with limited access to basic services. The recent waves of displacement have exacerbated the displacement crisis and increased the need for new IDPs living in a long-term displacement and in need of support. As humanitarian relief workers struggle to arrange and meet the needs in a limited way, the need for more funding, projects, interventions and capacities to help alleviate the suffering of IDPs in Marib Province.
The new displaced families continue to live in very poor living conditions as most of the families in the host community and formerly displaced families share a narrow shelter or one small tent without a minimum of their needs.
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New Internal Displacement - Alabr, Hadramaut Governorate October- November 2021, 24 November 2021
Al Abr District is one of Hadramaut Governorate districts. It is located in the east of Hadramout. I t has a population of about 6000. Currently, the district hosts thousands of IDPs. There are (3401) households with (19659) individuals. Over the period Oct. and Nov. 2021, the district received hundreds of displaced households that come from different governorates. (211) with (1899) individuals arrived the district over Oct. and Nov. 2021. They arrived from Marib, Shabowah and Albayda. This report shows the number of displaced persons and their needs in the new sites
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Yemen: humanitarian crisis in Marib worsening day by day, agencies say
Displaced Yemenis are struggling to access aid as fighting intensifies in southern governorate
The humanitarian situation in Yemen's Marib is worsening by the day, with more than 45,000 people fleeing their homes as the Iran-backed Houthi rebels push forward with their offensive to take on Yemen's southern city, several humanitarian agencies said on Wednesday.
The battle for Marib began in February and has intensified in recent weeks, with Houthi gains across the gas and oil-producing region, and increased air strikes by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition to deter them.
"We've not witnessed this much desperation in Marib in the last two years as we have in the last two months," said Christa Rottensteiner, the UN migration agency's Yemen chief representative.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it predicts at least a tenfold increase in migration.
"Communities are being repeatedly displaced and arriving at our sites in dire need," Ms Rottensteiner said, adding that up to 40 displaced people were sometimes sharing one small tent.
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UN-Organisation: Zahl der Vertriebenen im Jemen stark gestiegen
Im Zentraljemen sind im Zuge neuer Gewalt allein seit September mehr als 45.000 Menschen vertrieben worden. Wegen der häufigen Frontverschiebungen flöhen viele schon zum vierten oder fünften Mal, erklärte die Internationale Organisation für Migration (IOM) am Mittwoch in Genf. Sollten die Kämpfe die Provinzhauptstadt Marib erreichen, sei mit Hunderttausenden weiteren Flüchtlingen zu rechnen, darüber hinaus mit einer steigenden Zahlen ziviler Opfer und der Zerstörung ziviler Einrichtungen. Nach Angaben der UN-Organisation verzeichneten die 137 Flüchtlingslager im Gouvernement Marib seit September fast die zehnfache Zahl von Neuankünften. Eine ähnliche Verzweiflung unter der Bevölkerung habe es in Marib seit zwei Jahren nicht gegeben, sagte die IOM-Einsatzleiterin im Jemen, Christa Rottensteiner. Den wiederholt Vertriebenen fehle es am Nötigsten.
https://www1.wdr.de/radio/cosmo/programm/refugee-radio/deutsch/news-deutsch-16552.html
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Alarming Rise in People at Risk Amid Ongoing Hostilities in Yemen’s Ma’rib: IOM
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is sounding the alarm on the worsening humanitarian situation in Ma’rib governorate where armed conflict is taking a heavy toll on displaced persons, migrants and the communities that host them. IOM urgently calls on all parties to end the ongoing hostilities and appeals for urgent funds to support those affected.
Active frontlines have shifted in the past two months more than any time this year. The number of people forced to flee their homes in Ma’rib – many for the fourth or fifth time – has escalated to more than 45,000 people displaced since September, according to IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM).
“IOM is extremely concerned about the prospect that hundreds of thousands of people might be forced to move again if violence reaches the city, as well as rising civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure,” said IOM Yemen’s Chief of Mission, Christa Rottensteiner.
“We join the humanitarian community in calling for an end to hostilities, respect for international humanitarian law and also for urgent resources to scale up the response,” she said.
The governorate’s 137 displacement sites have seen a nearly ten-fold increase in new arrivals since September. As the largest organization working in the area, IOM teams are providing essential relief – including water, sanitation, shelter, household items and cash to cover urgent needs – in 61 sites. Since the beginning of the year, IOM has reached more than 200,000 people in Ma’rib with aid.
“We’ve not witnessed this much desperation in Ma’rib in the last two years as we have in the last two months,” Rottensteiner said. “Communities are being repeatedly displaced and arriving to our sites in dire need of the most basics.”
The Chief of Mission said new influxes of internally displaced persons are straining already overcrowded sites. “We’re now seeing, at times, up to 40 people with no choice but to share one small tent,” she said.
Humanitarian actors are planning for rising displacement to continue
https://www.iom.int/news/alarming-rise-people-risk-amid-ongoing-hostilities-yemens-marib-iom
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Maps: Between 12-14 November, around 6,200 people were displaced to Al Khukhah city and Al Makha district, after forces aligned with the Internationally Recognized Government of Yemen withdrew from Al Hodeidah city and surrounding areas and the De-facto Authority (Houthis) took control of the vacated areas. Assessment and response to the IDPs are ongoing; main reported needs are non-food items (NFIs), shelter, health, food, water and sanitation services
https://twitter.com/ACAPSproject/status/1463205426489663490
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Displaced Yemenis struggle to access aid as fighting intensifies in Marib
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned about the safety and security of civilians in Yemen’s Marib governorate, including more than one million people who are estimated to be displaced. As the frontlines shift closer to densely populated areas, their lives are in danger and access to humanitarian aid is becoming harder.
UNHCR is warning that further escalation of the conflict will only increase the vulnerability of people in Marib – especially those displaced – and is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen. Only a peaceful resolution to the conflict can halt further suffering.
Some 40,000 people have been forced to flee in Marib since September, according to interagency data. This represents almost 70 percent of all displacements in this south-eastern governorate since the beginning of the year. Marib now hosts half of the estimated 120,000 newly displaced countrywide in 2021.
New displacement is exacerbating the existing humanitarian needs, drastically increasing the need for shelter, essential household items, water and sanitation, education, and protection services – particularly for children.
Health conditions such as acute watery diarrhea, malaria, and upper respiratory tract infections, are common among the newly displaced. There is an urgent need for screenings to provide healthcare and prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
Families from the Sirwah district are among the most vulnerable. In recent weeks, many have fled intensified armed clashes, which led to the closure of five UNHCR-managed accommodation sites. Some of these families have already been displaced five times since the start of the conflict in 2015.
Meanwhile, rocket strikes close to the sites hosting the displaced are causing fear and panic.
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
(A K P)
Increasing signs of rifts between Houthimilitants and their allied tribal leaders in Sana'a as the latter accuse the former of draining their reserve of young men into the battlefronts/Multiple websites
Signs that the end of Houthis is getting nearer: Tribal chieftains in Sana'a decline to Houthi fighter supply request and threaten to overthrow the militia's rule/Yemen Voice website
Unprecedented tensions between Houthis and Sana'a belt tribes/ Voice of Yemen.
Houthi militias kidnap six tribal chieftains in north Yemen's Hajjah governorate over refusing to supply them with more fighters in the war against the government/Tihama Federal Region.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52349
and
(A P)
Houthi kidnaps 6 tribal chiefs in Hajjah
They refused to recruit new fighters for the front
Yemen's Houthi rebel militia kidnapped 6 tribal chiefs in the west of the country. According to local media, the six sheikhs who refused to recruit and mobilize new fighters in Hajjah Governorate, north-west of the country, against pro-government forces. The Houthi militia kidnapped six elders and notables from the villages of Khairan Muharraq, Aslam, Al-Khamisin and Al-Dana’i, after they had given up taking their children to the front to join its ranks.
https://www.expartibus.it/yemen-houthi-rapisce-6-capi-tribu-a-hajjah/
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Houthis continue to forcibly recruit youths, children
Houthi supervisors and leaders continue to implement a campaign of forcible targeting and recruitment against the residents of the governorate, mostly young men and children, a tribal source told Asharq Al-Awsat.
The source revealed that directives issued less than a week ago by Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, the cousin of the group’s leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, had urged the group’s followers in Ibb to be vigilant and highly prepared and to continue the process of new recruitment among the citizens.
Al-Houthi called for reinforced recruitment to confront the progress pro-government forces are making towards Ibb.
Speaking under the conditions of anonymity, the tribal source revealed that al-Houthi’s directives had prompted Houthi leaders in Ibb to conduct field trips and request meetings with several local tribal leaders to coordinate additional recruitment.
“Most dignitaries of Ibb’s directorates refused attending the meetings with the Houthi leaders, categorically rejecting the group’s demands to mobilize new recruits to battlefronts,” added the source.
Since the start of the campaign in Ibb, Houthis have managed to recruit over 80 individuals, mostly marginalized youths and children from the districts of Ardal Udayn and Mudhaykhirah.
According to the source, Houthis deployed the new recruits to border outposts without first delivering any military training. The rushed deployment came as an attempt to halt the military advancements of pro-government forces.
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3326311/houthi-recruitment-campaigns-target-youths-children-yemen%E2%80%99s-ibb = http://en.adenpress.news/news/34123
My remark: From a Saudi news site, to be read with caution.
(A P)
Yemeni supervisory committee urges UN to act immediately to avoid cataclysmic oil spill disaster
Head of the Supervisory Committee for the Implementation of the Urgent Maintenance Agreement and Comprehensive Assessment of the Safer Floating Tank, Ibrahim al-Siraji, has on Thursday called on the United Nations to expedite the taking of urgent steps to implement the agreement.
The call came with the aim of preventing a cataclysmic environmental disaster in the Red Sea, which could happen at any moment.
Al-Siraji discussed the issue with the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, William David Grassley.
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/25/yemeni-supervisory-committee-urges-un-to-act-immediately-to-avoid-cataclysmic-oil-spill-disaster/ = http://en.ypagency.net/244941/
(A P)
Hostage dies of torture in Houthi jail
Abdulmajid Alloos, an officer who hails from Old Sana'a city and is a loyalist to the government, was held by the Houthis after the militia asserted their control on the capital Sana'a years ago and subjected to continuous torture including physical assault and burning until he finally died, said lawyer Abdulmajid Sabrah.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-52307
and
(A P)
'Tortured' Yemeni colonel dies after five years in Houthi custody
Family of Abdulmajid Aloos refuses to hold funeral without forensic examination of his body
(A P)
Yemen vows to cooperate with BRICS and New Silk Road project
Prime Minister Dr. Abdulaziz Saleh bin Habtoor praised the BRICS initiative as an “international trend in working to reduce the hegemony of the Western liberal system that was built on colonial culture, acquisition and domination.”
This came when the Prime Minister participated in the first annual celebration of the Yemeni BRICS Day, which falls on November 23 of each year, during which the BRICS economic partnership strategy, which includes Russia, India, Brazil and China, was presented.
The Prime Minister said “Yemen, as a country and people, is closer to the BRICS countries, which are distinguished by their peaceful approach, non-colonial history and positive attitudes toward the Yemeni people.”
(A P)
Political Security in Ibb has detained the journalist Majid Yassin for four days, and I was informed by those close to him that he was detained because of a publication he had about political detainee Muhammad Qahtan.
https://twitter.com/616zahra/status/1463523509989109762
and also https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1463584590908567558
(A P)
Yemen: US peace claim ‘desperate attempt’ to cover up crimes, systematic terrorism against Yemenis
Yemen’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the US hypocrisy over the Saudi war, saying Washington claims to be promoting peace while it is practically supporting the bloody war in a bid to deceive the public opinion about its crimes against the impoverished nation.
In a statement carried by Saba news agency, the ministry said the statements and positions by a number of American officials are based on “double standards,” as they pretend to be calling for an end to the war, while actually pursuing their hostile and oppressive policies against Yemen and its people.
“The phony hype and false claims of the United States about its efforts to achieve peace in Yemen are merely a desperate attempt to deceive the public opinion in the US and other countries,” the statement read.
(B P)
Political Themes of Huthi Movement Leaders in Yemen
CMES researcher Mohammed Almahfali has authored the chapter "Transformation of Dominant Political Themes from the Founder to the Current Leader of the Huthi Movement".
Mohammed's chapter is part of the edited volume The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf (2022, editor Abdullah Hamidaddin). The book brings together the leading experts on Yemen from diverse disciplines to provide readers with a nuanced and multi-layered approach to the understanding the Huthi movement.
Mohammed's chapter (chapter 2) analyzes the political discourse of the Huthi movement by examining the two primary entities that represent the movement’s discourse and work to direct its path, which are the Malazim of Husayn Badr al-Din al-Huthi , the founder of the movement, and the speeches of Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Huthi , the current leader of the Huthis. Forty of Husayn’s lectures and of Abdulmalik’s forty speeches were selected. Then, using the Ghawwas application to extract the most 20 frequent words in both discourses, which enabled us to define the dominant political terms and compare the two discourses. Also, it helped us to use other Critical Discourse Analysis approaches to dig deeply into the political themes and follow up semantics based on empirical data, discovering how the themes emerge and disappear, and linking these findings to the political and social situations.The chapter revealed half of the dominant political themes present in both speeches, and especially showed the dominance of religion over the entire discourse. It also showed that the bigoted language against Jews and Christian was strong and explicit in Husayn’s lectures, while it was indirect in the language of Abdulmalik, and that political terms became more dominant in Abdulmalik’s speech, in line with the movement’s transformation from a movement to a quasi-state. The chapter also showed the shift in identification, from the transnational level at which Malazim discourse argued to the local level dominant in Abdulmalik’s speeches.
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/political-themes-huthi-movement-leaders-yemen
(A P)
President Al-Mashat calls on UN to pressure for ending siege on Yemen
https://en.ypagency.net/244718/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/24/president-mahdi-al-mashat-urges-un-to-finally-take-responsibility/
(A P)
Film: Child exploitation and the industry of extremism in Yemen. The Houthi group forces children to coexist with killing as a supreme religious goal, so it decorates death for children who lost their combatant parents in war and hate life
https://twitter.com/abduhothifi/status/1462840361575985168
(A P)
Parliament warns of suspicious movements of UN, US envoys
The Yemeni Parliament on Tuesday warned of the suspicious movements of the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, and the American envoy, Tim Lenderking, accusing them of standing behind the recent escalation.
In its session chaired by Speaker Yahya Ali Al-Ra’i, the Parliament referred to the two envoys’ meetings with Sultan al-Barakani, Muhammad al-Shaddadi, and others from those it described as “traitors” and “mercenaries” of the Saudi-led coalition, after it had previously voted to drop their membership.
https://en.ypagency.net/244704/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2021/11/24/yemens-parliament-calls-out-suspicious-activities-of-us-and-un-envoys/
(A P)
Saudi Arabia seeks immediate release of US embassy staff detained by Houthis
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned and denounced the terrorist Houthi militia’s storming of the United States’ embassy headquarters in Sana’a, capital of Yemen, and their detention of a number of the embassy staffers, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Fortsetzung / Sequel: cp6 – cp19
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-773b-yemen-war-mosaic-773b
Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-772-yemen-war-mosaic-772
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-772 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-772:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose oder / or http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
Der saudische Luftkrieg im Bild / Saudi aerial war images:
(18 +, Nichts für Sensible!) / (18 +; Graphic!)
http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
http://yemenwarcrimes.blogspot.de/
Liste aller Luftangriffe / and list of all air raids:
http://yemendataproject.org/data/
Untersuchung ausgewählter Luftangriffe durch Bellingcat / Bellingcat investigations of selected air raids:
Untersuchungen von Angriffen, hunderte von Filmen / Investigations of attacks, hundreds of films:
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