Dies ist die Fortsetzung von Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 793, Teil 1 / This is the sequel of Yemen War Mosaic 793, part 1:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-793-yemen-war-mosaic-793
Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Kursiv: Siehe Teil 1 / In Italics: Look in part 1
Klassifizierung / Classification
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
cp2 Allgemein / General
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
cp12b Sudan
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
cp13b Söldner / Mercenaries
cp13c Kulturerbe / Cultural heritage
cp13d 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
Klassifizierung / Classification
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(Kein Stern / No star)
? = Keine Einschatzung / No rating
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
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
Aden verbleibt in der Hand der Separatisten im Süden. Ihre medien verbreiten eine große Menge von parteiischen Berichten, die das Narrativ der Separatisten überihren Hauptgegner, die Islah Partei (genannt "Muslim-Bruderschaft"), über die Kämpfe in Abyan und Shabwa, ihre Herrschaft in Aden und den von ihnen kontrollierten Gebieten verbreiten. Der Versuch der Saudis, die Hadi-Regierung und die Separatisten zur Umsetzung des Abkommens von Riad zu zwingen, ist wohl zum Scheitern verurteilt.
Aden remains in the hands of southern separatists. Their media are spreading a bulk of biased reports, showing their narrative of their foes from Islah Party (labeled “Muslim Brotherhood”), the fighting at Abyan and Shabwa, their self-rule at Aden and the areas under their control. The Saudi attempt to force the Hadi government and the separatists to implement the Riyadh agreement, seems to fail.
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Yemeni Activists Demand Naturalization Of “Foreigners
Activists called on Maeen government to activate the law granting a Yemeni mother her nationality to her children from her foreign husband.
https://www.dailyyemen.net/2022/03/10/yemeni-activists-demand-naturalization-of-foreigners/
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Abdulmalik to Asharq Al-Awsat: Ukraine Crisis Impacts Yemen’s Wheat Imports
Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik revealed that the Ukraine-Russian crisis has cast its shadows over Yemen’s wheat imports amid soaring oil rates.
Abdulmalik stressed that the priority of his government during the coming period will be to consolidate stability and political consensus, warning that any political turmoil will greatly affect efforts to enhance security, stability, and recovery.
“Exceptional efforts are being made to strengthen the recovery paths in Yemen, especially after the Riyadh Agreement, and many reforms have taken place, but the challenges that have now arisen with regard to the crisis of Ukraine and Russia, and its impact on wheat imports in Yemen, and the high prices of oil derivatives that affect transportation throughout the country,” said Abdulmalik.
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Marib: Today, the Higher Institute of Health Sciences celebrates the graduation of a new batch of 92 male and female graduates from its students in the departments of pharmacy, laboratories and a physician assistant (photos)
https://twitter.com/Abo_Saad_aa/status/1501609493133676550
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Emirati Movement to Impose Reality on Socotra before Start of Yemeni Peace
UAE launched on Tuesday, a wide campaign to market the Yemeni island of Socotra as the eighth emirate. This coincides with the start of international moves to advance a peace process, which indicates Abu Dhabi’s efforts to seize the strategic island as a gain.
The campaign was led by the Adviser to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Abdul Khaliq Abdullah, who published a picture of the island, which he attached to a tweet, in which he talks about the desire of the people of the island to officially join the Emirates.
Abdullah’s presentation coincided with the results of his country’s inventory, which has acquired the island since 2017, with a media campaign launched by southern and Emirati activists to demand the inclusion of the island as an eighth emirate.
https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2022/03/09/163526/
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Great tension heralds military confrontations in Hadramout
Sayoun district of Hadramout province, eastern Yemen, on Wednesday witnessed great tension between the UAE-funded Salafist groups and the Islah Party militia loyal to the “Hadi government”.
Informed sources told Yemen Press Agency that political and military leaders affiliated with Islah and loyal to the military commander Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar are apprehensive about the presence of Al-Hajouri Salafist group militants in the district, accusing the group of working for the UAE in Sayoun.
The sources pointed out that the situation is very tense in the district
https://en.ypagency.net/255729/
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Saudi Arabia intends to dismiss military leaders loyal to Islah in Najran
Saudi Arabia intend to dismiss commanders affiliated with Islah Party and “Hadi government” from the brigades of the Saudi-led coalition forces in the southern border of the Kingdom, Informed sources told Yemen Press Agency on Wednesday.
The sources said that the Saudi forces began dismissing prominent military leaders from the military brigades of the so-called “Sixth Military Region”, which were withdrawn from the Saudi fence between the Kingdom and the north of Jawf, to defend Saudi cities that are under attacks of Sanaa forces.
https://en.ypagency.net/255758/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/10/saudi-arabia-dismisses-hadi-affiliated-military-commanders/
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STC launches campaign of arrests in Aden
UAE-backed Southerner Council (STC)’s militia launched on Wednesday a massive campaign of arrests in the city of Aden, affecting those affiliated with the General People’s Congress (GPC) party.
Activists from the city said that the militias vowed to confront the GPC’s supporters in Dar Saad area, due to disputes that erupted between the two factions affiliated with the Emirates.
https://en.ypagency.net/255762/
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Protest denounces insecurity in Mocha city
The City of Mocha in Taiz province witnessed an angry demonstration condemning of the insecurity city which is under the control of pro-UAE factions located on the west coast of Yemen.
https://en.ypagency.net/255706/
Photos: https://twitter.com/Naseh_Shaker/status/1501558784967254024
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Film: It's #InternationalWomensDay! So let's celebrate the inspirational #women of east #Yemen who aspire to play a greater role in #conflict resolution & #peacebuilding.
https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall/status/1501213292496400385
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Besatzungsaktion der VAE: Ansiedlung von Israelis auf Insel Sokotra
Bei ihrer jüngsten Besetzungsaktion haben die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, VAE, einen Plan für den Bau von Wohnkomplexen für Zionisten auf der jemenitischen Insel Sokotra auf den Weg gebracht.
Laut Yemeni News gaben verantwortliche Quellen aus der zurückgetretenen jemenitischen Regierung am Mittwoch bekannt, dass das emiratische Khalifa Bin Zayed-Institut die Umsetzung eines Plans für den Bau von Wohneinheiten für israelische Offiziere, Soldaten und Militärexperten auf der jemenitischen Insel Sokotra auf einer gemeinsamen Militärbasis der VAE gestartet habe.
Dies geschieht während in den vergangenen Wochen dutzende israelische Familien, getarnt als Touristen, auf die jemenitische Insel Sokotra gekommen sind.
Informierte Quellen berichteten auch, dass die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate offiziell mit der Finanzierung des Baus einer Militärbasis des zionistischen Regimes im Jemen auf der Insel „Abdul Kuri“ im Archipel von Sokotra begonnen haben.
Die Quellen betonten, dass sich die Militärbasis neben dem israelischen Operationsgebiet in Sokotra befindet.
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Newly leaked report shows plans for Zionist settlement on Yemeni island of Socotra
Official sources in the Saudi-led coalition backed government have revealed on Tuesday the details on an Emirati plan to support a Zionist settlement in the Socotra Archipelago in Yemen.
This was reported by Yemen News Portal, based on the testimonies of Hadi’s official sources
The sources confirmed that the Khalifa Bin Zayed Foundation has adopted a project to build housing units for Israeli officers and soldiers located in the joint UAE-Zionist bases on the strategic Yemeni island.
Moreover, the sources explained that the housing project paves the way for the settlement of the families of Israeli officers, as dozens of them have been brought over to Socotra in the past weeks.
Furthermore, the same sources noted that the UAE plan aims to expand a more permanent Zionist military presence on the island, which seeks to drain the wealth and its capabilities of the Yemeni island, and turn it into a broad intelligence center.
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4 STC militants kidnapped in Shabwa
Four members of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia were kidnapped on Tuesday in Shabwa province, eastern Yemen, local sources reported.
The sources stated that security forces of the so-called “Tariq Afash” factions kidnapped the STC militants, who are from Shabwa, after they returned to Ataq city coming from Aden city.
https://en.ypagency.net/255655/
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2 bodies of soldier, citizen found in Aden
Citizens in the port city of Aden, southern Yemen, found on Tuesday a body of member of the UAE-backed “security belt force”, named Yasser Mohammed Al-Raymi, in Sheikh Othman district, local sources said.
Another body of a citizen, named Ayman Ahmed Mohammed Al-Amiri, was found in his car
https://en.ypagency.net/255640/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/08/two-more-bodies-found-in-aden-as-security-chaos-continues/
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Man killed in Lahj armed clashes
https://en.ypagency.net/255642/
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High-way robbers make the forgotten misery of Taiz's three million residents worse
As if the Houthi militia's blockade is not enough, high-way robbers outside Aden port city ambush any fuel tank trucks heading for the besieged Taiz city forcing truckers to pay prohibitive amounts of money causing the prices of fuel to increase to prohibitive levels. Petrol and gas station owners pass the resulting increases on to customers.
The high-way robbery takes place in Toor Al-Baha unpopulated region and truck driver refusing to pay may be killed or wounded.
STC militiamen exploit the lack of governmental control in the highways to intercept the commercial (especially fuel) shipments for Taiz and make the suffering of Taiz's three million residents worse on the conditions already caused by the Houthi seven year siege.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-55026
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STC seeks to deploy forces in east, south Yemen after abduction of two foreigners
The Southern Transitional Council is seeking to deploy its forces in regions controlled by the internationally recognised government in southern and eastern Yemen, citing failures of the government after a German and Mexican working for Doctors without Borders were abducted in Hadhramaut province.
The two foreigners were abducted by unidentified gunmen on Saturday while driving on the road between the district of Al-Abr and the area of Al-Khashah in western Hadhramaut.
The council's spokesperson Ali Al-Kathiri condemned the abduction as a cowardly terrorist operation.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-28990.html
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Four casualties in blast targeting police station in Aden
Four soldiers were injured on Sunday in a blast that targeted a police station in the Yemeni interim capital, Aden.
An explosive device was planted inside a motorcycle before exploding at Dar Sa'ad police station north Aden
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29002.html
and
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4 killed, injured in Aden armed attack
About 4 militants were killed and wounded in an armed attack targeting one of police stations in the city of Aden, south of Yemen.
According to local sources, members of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia attacked the station in Dar Saad area, with various types of offensive bombs.
https://en.ypagency.net/255411/
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Saudi-Emirati Occupiers, Mercenaries Fabricating Fuel Crisis in Southern Provinces
With a green light from the pro-aggression government, the local markets in the southern governorates have turned into an open market for black market hackers with oil. After the Aden Petroleum Company was selling a liter of gasoline at a price of about 700 riyals last month, it doubled the prices of the same substance and recently approved raising the price of oil in the occupied local markets to more than 24,000 riyals.
However, it failed to supply the local market with oil, even though the ports in those governorates are open and the US-Saudi aggression has not closed them, or imposed a blockade on them, like it is in the port of Hodeidah.
According to local sources, the black markets in the governorates of Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Shabwa and Hadramawt have rebounded to high levels during the past months and have become the first source for obtaining oil in the southern markets. Moreover, intensification of the conflict between the tools of aggression and its mercenaries in the occupied governorates increased, as a result of the government’s attempt to restore its economic arm in the city of Aden, represented by the Petroleum Company, which has been under the control of the STC of the Emirates for half a year.
The crises of oil have escalated in the southern markets recently, in conjunction with the pro-aggression government, led by Muin Abdul-Malik, issuing a decision restricting the import of oil to the Petroleum Company in Aden. The move caused the traders of oil to become alienated, as the company deliberately confiscated 30% of their imports for the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) and seized them by force. The decision doubled the scope of black markets, and resulted in an increase in the price of a liter of oil to 3000 riyals, and the price of a 20-liter canister to 60,000 riyals in the occupied southern markets.
Local sources in the city of Aden accused Hadi and the STC of being involved in blackmailing citizens, fabricating crises related to oil, and colluding with black market hackers, in which petroleum and diesel are available in commercial quantities and sold at exaggerated prices.
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Al-Huraizy mocks Saudi claims to operate Al Ghaydah Airport
Head of the anti-foreign occupation sit-in committee in Mahra, Sheikh Ali bin Salem al-Huraizy, mocked the Saudi claims to operate Al Ghaydah Airport of the province.
In a meeting, which was held on Sunday, to discuss the latest developments in the province and Yemen in general, Al-Huraizy considered the allegations of opening Al-Ghaydah Airport by Saudi Arabia as throwing dust in the eyes, and diverting people’s attention from reality.
He stressed that “the airport is still under occupation’s control for preventing people from entering it.”
https://en.ypagency.net/255427/
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UAE replaces workers of Hadibo port in Socotra with others
The UAE forces replaced the workers of Hadibo port, the capital of the island of Socotra, with others from outside the port to unload one of its suspicious ships that arrived last week, informed sources said on Saturday.
The sources stated that the workers brought by the Emirati forces to the port unloaded the Emirati ship’s cargo without being subject to inspection and customs.
A dispute arose between the port workers and the administration, which caused the ship’s unloading to be
https://en.ypagency.net/255350/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/06/uae-using-external-workers-to-unload-suspicious-cargo-in-socotra/
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Deutscher und mexikanischer Mitarbeiter der Hilfsorganisation Ärzte ohne Grenzen entführt
Im Jemen sind zwei Mitarbeiter der Hilfsorganisation Ärzte ohne Grenzen entführt worden.
Eine Militäroperation zur Verfolgung der Entführer sei eingeleitet worden.
Ärzte ohne Grenzen bestätigte, dass die Organisation den Kontakt zu einigen Mitarbeitern im Jemen verloren habe. Weitere Einzelheiten könne man aus Sorge um die Sicherheit der Kollegen nicht bekannt geben.
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Doctors Without Borders workers kidnapped in Yemen -sources
Gunmen in Yemen have kidnapped two foreign employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in eastern Hadramout governorate, a security source and two other local sources said.
The medical charity told Reuters it had lost contact with some of its staff in Yemen and that it could not share more details at this time out of concern for their safety.
The security source said the employees were a German and a Mexican and were taken from their car by gunmen that security forces believed to be linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
https://www.reuters.com/article/yemen-security-msf-int/doctors-without-borders-workers-kidnapped-in-yemen-sources-idUSKBN2L3035 = https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/doctors-without-borders-workers-kidnapped-in-yemen--sources/47406636
and also http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/20220306/61c63d2029db4c7aaa18881cfd8d5c41/c.html
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34631
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Hadi meets leaders of parties
Yemen's internationally recognised President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi stressed the need to combine all national and popular efforts to preserve Yemen amid growing threats lurking it.
The country is passing in a crucial turning point which requires all to put aside their differences, he said at a meeting with the leaders of the political parties at his residence in Riyadh.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-28966.html
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
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JOINT STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN YEMEN | HRC 49
49th Session of UN Human Rights Council, Item 2 General Debate
Delivered by H.E. Paul Bekkers, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
I have the honor to deliver this statement on behalf of 50 countries*. In recent months, the international community has been witnessing with great concern a rapid intensification of hostilities and cross-border attacks in Yemen and the region. This upsurge in hostilities as well as reports of killings of civilians, of strikes impacting civilian infrastructure and of human rights violations and abuses are a cause of great concern to us all.
In this context, all parties are called upon to comply with their obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law. In particular, we reiterate the vital importance of ensuring humanitarian access and the protection of civilians, including humanitarian and health workers and their facilities, as well as the importance of access for human rights workers to conduct impartial documentation and investigations into alleged human rights abuses and violations.
https://geneva.usmission.gov/2022/03/08/joint-statement-on-yemen-hrc-49/
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Grundberg initiates consultations on his Framework
The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg started in Amman on Monday, a series of consultations with a view to addressing immediate needs and long-term issues required to make progress towards a political settlement, OSESGY reported.
Bilateral meetings with leaders from several Yemeni parties will take place the first week. Over 100 Yemeni men and women from political parties, the security and economic sectors, and civil society will be consulted over the next few weeks in Jordan and in Yemen.
https://osesgy.unmissions.org/un-special-envoy-grundberg-initiates-consultations-his-framework
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France welcomes Amman consultations on Yemen
France welcomes the UN consultations launched in Jordan Monday by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg with the participation of several Yemeni parties, security and economic sectors, and civil society, including youth.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34638
and
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US State Dep.: Welcoming the Launch of UN Consultations on Yemen
The United States welcomes today’s launch of inclusive consultations by UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg. Through consultations with a wide range of Yemeni political and civil society groups over the next few weeks, the UN Special Envoy seeks to finalize a new, comprehensive peace process framework. These consultations provide a valuable opportunity for Yemenis to discuss a renewed vision for a political resolution to the conflict.
We call on all Yemeni groups to participate fully, meaningfully, and in good faith in the UN consultations.
https://www.state.gov/welcoming-the-launch-of-un-consultations-on-yemen/
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UN envoy continues consultations with Yemen's political parties
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg continued on Wednesday his consultations with Yemeni political parties in a bid to resume peace talks.
The envoy's office said in a statement that he held bilateral meetings in Jordan's capital Amman with the representatives of the Yemeni parties, aiming to create a framework for a comprehensive solution to end the protracted civil war.
The envoy has met with leaders of the General People's Congress Party, as well as the delegations of the Islah Party, the Yemeni Socialist Party, and the Nasserist Unionist People's Organization, the statement said.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/20220310/57aa9e16af0d4f4ebed07dc59d38cede/c.html
and also https://osesgy.unmissions.org/gallery-consultations-representatives-al-islah-party-8-march-2022-amman-jordan = https://twitter.com/OSE_Yemen/status/1501197055695413248
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34649
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Media Development Roadmap in Yemen
On Tuesday, February 22, a roadmap for media development in Yemen was announced during the final meeting of the Yemeni media coordination group, organized by the Studies & Economic Media Center (SEMC) in partnership with the UNESCO office to the Gulf States and Yemen.
This activity was part of a larger project launched by UNESCO in January 2021, to support media organizations in Yemen with the overall objective to promote coordinated actions among media development initiatives to reinforce and diversify the media landscape in Yemen.
As a first step, UNESCO, in partnership with RNW Media, conducted a research to identify media development technical entities working in the field of media development in Yemen, resulting in the creation of an interactive digital map
https://en.unesco.org/news/media-development-roadmap-yemen
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»Menschen benötigen vor allen Dingen Frieden«
Schauspielerin Angelina Jolie setzt sich schon seit Jahren für Geflüchtete ein. Nun hat sie bei einem Besuch im Jemen auf das Leid der Menschen in dem Bürgerkriegsland aufmerksam gemacht.
Hollywoodstar Angelina Jolie ist in den Jemen gereist, um sich ein Bild von der dramatischen Lage der Menschen in dem Bürgerkriegsland zu machen. »Ich bin in Aden gelandet, um vertriebene Familien und Geflüchtete zu treffen«, schrieb die 46-Jährige bei Instagram.
Zudem wolle sie die Menschen in dem Krisenland unterstützen und von vor Ort berichten. »Die Situation hier ist eine der schlimmsten humanitären Krisen der Welt: 2022 wurde jede Stunde ein Zivilist getötet oder verletzt«, schrieb die Schauspielerin. Mehr als zwei Millionen Kinder hätten nicht die Möglichkeit, eine Schule zu besuchen.
Erneut rief die Schauspielerin nun zum Frieden im Jemen auf: »Nach sieben Jahren Krieg benötigen auch die Menschen im Jemen Schutz, Hilfe und vor allen Dingen Frieden«, hieß es auf einer Texttafel in ihrem Instagram-Eintrag.
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhHQvzoXOcw = https://de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/angelina-jolie-besucht-familien-jemen-130504592.html = https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x88pwvz
und
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Angelina Jolie vor Ort: Auch in Jemen brauchen Geflüchtete Hilfe
In einem Instagram-Beitrag weist Jolie darauf hin, dass es genau wie in der Ukraine auch in Jemen Menschen gibt, die Frieden brauchen.
"Diese Woche waren eine Million Menschen gezwungen, vor dem schrecklichen Krieg in der Ukraine zu fliehen", teilt Jolie auf ihrem Instagram Account mit. "Wenn wir etwas aus dieser schockierenden Situation lernen, dann, dass wir nicht selektiv entscheiden können, wer Unterstützung verdient und wessen Rechte wir verteidigen. Jeder verdient das gleiche Mitgefühl. Das Leben der zivilen Opfer eines Konflikts ist überall gleich viel wert. Nach sieben Jahren Krieg brauchen auch die Menschen im Jemen Schutz, Unterstützung und vor allem Frieden."
https://de.euronews.com/2022/03/08/angelina-jolie-besucht-familien-im-jemen
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UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie calls for protection and support for the people of Yemen, and an end to the conflict to stop human suffering
Jolie urged the international community to increase its support for the severely underfunded humanitarian response, ahead of the High Level pledging conference for Yemen to be held on 16 March, and to redouble efforts to seek an end to the violence. More than 4 million people have been displaced in the past seven years.
At a site in Lahj Governorate in south Yemen, where people who have fled home over the past few years are living in flimsy shelters, displaced families told Special Envoy Jolie how they lost their homes, loved ones and livelihoods, describing how the conflict had shattered their hopes for their children and families. Mudeera, a mother of five who has been displaced from Taiz for the past four years, said that none of her children went to school, had a birth certificate or been vaccinated. Every day she struggles to feed them anything other than tea and bread.
In north Yemen, at a site for internally displaced people, Jolie met 65-year-old Maryam, who has been displaced since 2016 and who lost her husband to the conflict. She told Jolie how three of her granddaughters had passed away because the family was unable afford the healthcare they needed.
During her visit and on International Women’s Day today, Jolie witnessed the catastrophic impact this conflict has had on Yemeni civilians
Jolie said:* ‘The level of human suffering here is unimaginable. **For every day that Yemen’s brutal conflict continues, more and more innocent lives are lost and more people will continue to suffer. **We live in a world where suffering and horror dominates headlines, but where such headlines can result in overwhelming displays of compassion and international solidarity. I hope this compassion and solidarity will be extended to the people of Yemen, who urgently need a swift and peaceful resolution to this conflict – and to other displaced people, whoever and wherever they are in the world.*
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'Everyone deserves the same compassion': Angelina Jolie visits Yemen amid attack on Ukraine
Angelina Jolie is visiting war-wrecked Yemen in a show of solidarity for displaced families struggling amid the country’s ongoing civil war.
"This week a million people were forced to flee the horrific war in Ukraine. If we learn anything from this shocking situation, it is that we cannot be selective about who deserves support and whose rights we defend," Jolie wrote Sunday on Instagram. "Everyone deserves the same compassion. The lives of civilian victims of conflict everywhere are of equal value. After seven years of war, the people of Yemen also need protection, support and, above all, peace."
She called the situation in Yemen "one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world."
https://en.ypagency.net/255681/
Film: https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/unhcr-special-envoy-angelina-jolie-visits-yemen/video/df655c3123500319bcc248f86dc62a49 = https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/unhcr-special-envoy-angelina-jolie-visit-id744570675?chan=8gwsyvzx
Video for Jolie from Sana'a where she visited Sana'a the old city in addition to DP camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0YVB4VP66k = https://twitter.com/MohammedBSal/status/1501594012855291910
Visits in DP camps: Look at cp4
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[Sanaa gov.] FM meets with UNHCR’s Goodwill Ambassador “Angelina Jolie” in Sanaa
https://en.ypagency.net/255676/
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UN-Gesandte Angelina Jolie im Jemen vor Fundraising-Gipfel
Die Hollywood-Schauspielerin Angelina Jolie hat am Sonntag den vom Krieg zerstörten Jemen besucht, um Solidarität mit vertriebenen Familien zu zeigen, in der Hoffnung, Unterstützung für eine bevorstehende Spendenkonferenz zu mobilisieren, sagten die Vereinten Nationen.
Jolie, UN-Sondergesandte für Flüchtlingsfragen, landete in der südlichen Küstenstadt Aden, um sich dort mit Familien und Flüchtlingen zu treffen. Aden ist Sitz der international anerkannten Regierung.
Das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk sagte, es hoffe, dass Jolies Besuch die Aufmerksamkeit auf die wachsenden humanitären Bedürfnisse im Jemen, dem ärmsten Land der arabischen Welt, vor der jährlichen hochrangigen Geberkonferenz für den Jemen am 16. März lenken werde.
https://germanic.news/un-gesandte-angelina-jolie-im-jemen-vor-fundraising-gipfel/
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UN envoy Angelina Jolie in Yemen ahead of fundraising summit
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie on Sunday visited war-wrecked Yemen to show solidarity with displaced families in hopes of mobilizing support for an incoming fundraising conference, the United Nations said.
Jolie, who is special envoy for the U.N. on refugee issues, landed in the southern coastal city of Aden to meet with families and refugees there. Aden is the seat of the internationally recognized government.
The U.N. refugee agency said it hopes that Jolie’s visit would draw attention to growing humanitarian needs in Yemen
and by UNHCR: https://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2022/3/622477214/unhcr-special-envoy-angelina-jolie-arrives-yemen-meet-affected-conflict.html
Widely circulated photos in social media: https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1500569244966305792
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Yemeni gov't calls for pressures on Houthis to apply prisoner deal
The Yemeni UN-recognized government calls for international pressures on the Iranian-backed Houthi group to apply the Stockholm Agreement immediately, particularly in terms of prisoner swap information minister said on Friday.
The Houthi group is "fully responsible for the safety of abductees and prisoners.. forcibly disappeared at al-Saleh detention compound" east the southwestern city of Taiz, Moammar al-Eryani added in a release.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-28978.html
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Öltanker im Roten Meer soll nach Jahrzehnten leergepumpt werden
Eine seit Jahrzehnten drohende Ölpest vor der Küste des Bürgerkriegslandes Jemen ist möglicherweise abgewendet.
Nach Berichten mehrerer Nachrichtenagenturen haben die Huthi-Rebellen eine Vereinbarung mit den Vereinten Nationen unterzeichnet. Sie war im Februar ausgehandelt worden und sieht vor, die Ladung des Öltankers „FSO Safer“ zu bergen, der seit den 1980er Jahren ungesichert im Roten Meer liegt. Geplant ist demnach, die Öltanks leerzupumpen. Einen konkreten Zeitplan gebe es aber noch nicht, heißt es. Der UNO-Sondergesandte für den Jemen, Grundberg, gab zu bedenken, dass die Huthi ihre Zusage wieder zurückziehen könnten.
Der Tanker wurde in den 1970er Jahren in Japan gebaut und in den 1980er Jahren an die jemenitische Regierung verkauft. Sie wollte mit dem Schiff bis zu drei Millionen Barrel Exportöl lagern, das aus Feldern in Marib gepumpt wurde, einer Provinz im Osten des Jemen. Die ‚FSO Safer‘ ist 360 Meter lang und verfügt über 34 Lagertanks. Er hat derzeit mehr als eine Million Barrel Rohöl an Bord.
Die Nachrichtenagentur AP hatte im Juni 2020 interne Dokumente erhalten. Sie zeigen, dass bereits Meerwasser in den Motorraum des Schiffes eingedrungen ist. Nach Einschätzung von Experten sind die Schäden irreparabel. Die „FSO Safer“ droht demnach, zu sinken.
und auch https://de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/huthi-rebellen-stimmen-un-plan-173749075.html
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Yemen's Houthis agree U.N. proposal to offload decaying oil tanker
Yemen's Houthi movement has signed an agreement with the United Nations to deal with a decaying oil tanker threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off the war-torn country's coast, a Houthi official said.
U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said last month that there was an agreement in principle to shift the oil from the tanker Safer to another ship. He gave no timeline.
The Safer has been stranded off Yemen's Red Sea oil terminal of Ras Issa for more than six years, and U.N. officials have warned it could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska.
"A memorandum of understanding has been signed with the United Nations for the Safer tanker," Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, said in a Twitter post late on Saturday.
A deal had previously been reached for a technical U.N. team to inspect the deteriorating vessel, built in 1976, and conduct whatever repairs may be feasible, but final agreement on logistical arrangements did not materialise.
No maintenance operations have been carried out on the Safer since 2015
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-safer/yemens-houthis-agree-u-n-proposal-to-offload-decaying-oil-tanker-idUSKBN2L304S = https://news.yahoo.com/yemens-houthis-agree-u-n-070323641.html = https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/yemens-houthis-agree-u-n-proposal-to-offload-decaying-oil-tanker-924649
and also film: https://twitter.com/pd_hof/status/1501126416544452608
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UN and Yemen rebels agree to transfer oil from Yemen tanker
The United Nations and Yemen’s Houthi rebels have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at resolving the environmental threat posed by a tanker carrying more than 1 million barrels of crude oil that has been moored off the coast of the war-torn Arab nation since the 1980s, the U.N. said Monday.
The FSO Safer tanker’s long-term presence in the Red Sea has raised fears of a massive oil spill or explosion that could cause an environmental catastrophe.
Under the MOU, a short-term solution would transfer the oil from the Safer to another ship, along with a longer-term solution, he said.
But the MOU, dated March 5, makes clear the proposal’s implementation is contingent on mobilizing donor funds.
The MOU was signed by David Gressly, the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, and Ibrahim Al-Seraji, chairman of the committee overseeing the agreement established by the Houthi authorities in Sanaa, as well as Abdullah Mohamed Fahem & Co.
It states that the United Nations will “make all efforts to mobilize the necessary funds” and that all signatories acknowledge that the authorities in Sanaa “bear no financial obligations” for the project. But it says the Houthi authorities “are committed to providing all facilities for the success of the project.”
The MOU states that a temporary tanker may be required to transfer the cargo from the FSO Safer and that the United Nations will provide the temporary vessel which will remain near the Safer tanker.
In the longer term, it says “the United Nations is committed to providing and supplying a replacement equivalent to the FSO Safer suitable for export with a target of 18 months.”
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UN-Houthi tanker salvage deal concerns Yemen maritime experts
A long-sought deal may avert environmental disaster but rebels' free replacement vessel is worrying observers
Experts on Yemeni maritime issues have raised concerns over a recent deal between the UN and Yemen’s Houthi rebels to unload a leaky oil platform that threatens to spill its cargo into the Red Sea.
A maritime security analyst and a former UN investigator said the deal might avert environmental chaos, but it also grants the Houthis a free replacement for the FSO Safer, even though the group has reneged on past deals.
“This is a triple win for Houthis, who already sold the oil in the FSO Safer and now will save face without paying one dollar,” said Fernando Carvajal, research director at South24 and a former UN investigator.
“Whatever deal by the UN ends the potential catastrophe at Ras Isa [oil terminal] is a good deal, but keep in mind that this is potentially worse than” previous efforts to broker deals with the Houthis, Mr Carvajal said.
The UN and the Houthis on March 5 signed an agreement to unload about 1.1 million barrels of oil from the vessel, which is stranded 8 kilometres off Ras Isa port on Yemen’s Houthi-held west coast.
The agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The National, says the UN is “committed to providing and supplying a replacement equivalent to the FSO Safer suitable for export” to the rebels within 18 months.
The Houthis are to grant access to the vessel but “bear no financial obligations”, says the deal.
The timeline has yet to be established, as the UN must first raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to carry out the inevitably complicated and delicate maritime operation.
Ian Ralby, chief executive of maritime security consultancy IR Consilium, said he was “cautiously optimistic” about the deal but that “time was running out” for the UN to raise cash for an effective operation.
“The devil is definitely in the details and there's a lot that will have to be worked out in order to first implement this initial agreement,” Mr Ralby said.
The Houthis’ replacement vessel, he said, would “preserve the equity” the group has in the FSO Safer so they could carry out long-held plans to export Yemeni crude in the future.
“They see that as being the potential backbone of a future Houthi economy,” Mr Ralby said.
“This would give them the prospect of that or at least maintain that prospect indefinitely.”
My comment: By a UAE news site. there should be no such considerations claiming that such a deal would be in favour of the Houthi side (i. e. government of Northern Yemen). It sounds just strange to me that the UN now should have a problem to get less than 1 Million US$ to start this operation.
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[Sanaa gov.] Hodeida Governor: We hope Dutch ambassador’s move will result in addressing “Safer” ship file
The Governor of Hodeida province, Mohammad Quhim, on Sunday expressed his hope that the move of the Dutch ambassador to Yemen, Peter Derrek Hof, would bear fruit in addressing the file of the oil “Safer” reservoir.
This came during his meeting with the Dutch ambassador and Head of the United Nations Mission to Support Hodeida Agreement (UNMHA), Michael Beary.
https://en.ypagency.net/255415/
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Außenminister [der Regierung in Sanaa] trifft den Vertreter des UNCHR im Jemen
Der Außenminister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah traf heute anlässlich ihrer Ernennung zur neuen residierenden Repräsentantin in der Republik Jemen mit der Repräsentantin des Hohen Flüchtlingskommissars der Vereinten Nationen (UNCHR), M. Amaratunga, zusammen.
Bei dem Treffen wurden die bestehenden Vorkehrungen für den Besuch der UN-Botschafterin des guten Willens, Angelina Jolie, in der Republik Jemen in der kommenden Zeit erörtert.
https://www.saba.ye/de/news3177966.htm
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Yemeni Foreign Minister meets with UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie
The Foreign Minister of the National Salvation Government, Hisham Sharaf, has met on Tuesday in the capital Sanaa with the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Angelina Jolie, who is currently visiting Yemen.
In the meeting, Sharaf welcomed Jolie and the accompanying delegation in Sanaa, and stressed the importance of the visit as a means to highlight the grievance of the Yemeni people, who have been subjected to aggression and siege for the past seven years.
and also https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220309-unhcr-envoy-angelina-jolie-holds-talks-with-houthis/
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UN Goodwill Ambassador “Angelina Jolie” to visit Yemen soon
[Sanaa gov.] Foreign Minister, Hisham Sharaf, met in Sanaa on Saturday with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)’s Resident Representative, Maya Ameratunga, on the occasion of her appointment in Yemen.
The meeting discussed the existing arrangements for the visit of the UN Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, to the Republic of Yemen during the coming period.
https://en.ypagency.net/255327/
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Analysis - UNSC’s Yemen war addressing: deterring or fueling?
While the world is busy watching Ukrainian crisis, the UN Security Council at a Tuesday meeting voted to renew arms embargo on Yemen. The resolution, adopted with 11 affirmative votes and 4 abstentions, says all of body of Yemen's Ansarullah resistant movement will be covered by the arms sanctions. The movement has been under weapons sanctions since 2015 according to UNSC 2216 resolution, with the UN every year extending the restriction.
UNSC resolution apparently biased
The UNSC approved 13 resolutions from March 2015 to July 2021 on Yemen war, waged against the already-impoverished nation by a Saudi-led Arab coalition.
In all these resolutions, although Saudi Arabia and its ally the UAE glare as the aggressors, the UNSC not only did not condemn Riyadh and Abu Dhabi's unabated and indiscriminate attacks on the civilians, all-out siege, and occupation of parts of Yemen like ports and islands in an apparent violation of its sovereignty but also condemned the defensive measures of the Yemenis, moving in line with the aggression countries' plans.
This politicized view can be seen in several Security Council resolutions since the preliminary 2216 resolution.
Resolution 2216 explicitly condemned Ansarullah while Saudi Arabia had started the war against Yemen. One of the important points of this resolution is that without pointing to Saudi Arabia it accused Ansarullah and took a stand against it. The resolution does not even make a call for Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to stop daily bombardment of Yemeni people and infrastructure.
This resolution shaped the basis for the UNSC addressing of the war over the past 7 years. The newest version of the resolution "strongly condemns the cross-border attacks" on Saudi Arabia and the UAE by the Yemeni movement.
The UN regularly ignores reports by its own institutions like World Health Organization and children's fund UNICEF which have issued several reports so far warning that Yemen is facing a grave famine and humanitarian crisis because of ongoing Saudi and Emirati attacks. But whenever Yemeni forces tighten the noose on Riyadh and Abu Dhabi on the battleground, the UNSC rushes to help the aggression countries with meetings and resolutions against Yemen resistance.
When the UAE sent a letter to the UNSC on 18 about retaliatory attacks by Ansarullah on the Emirati cities, the UNSC issued a statement on January 23 condemning the strikes as "heinous terrorist attacks."
Actually, in Yemen case, policy and interests are apparently put before rights and the UNSC has focused on advancing the goals of one side of the war.
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Security Council Adopts US-Saudi-UAE Aggressive Agenda Ignoring Yemen's Suffering
It is not Resolution 2624 alone, but rather the approach of the UN Security Council that angers the people of Yemen.
On the verge of the eighth year of the US-Saudi aggression, the Yemenis tried to deliver their message to the world. They spoke and found no one to listen. The world pretended to be blind.
The Yemeni people have no choice but to use the language of deterrence so that the Security Council can understand that it is committing grave mistakes against Yemen by its collusion with Washington to kill Yemenis.
Although Resolution 2624 “forbidding the export of arms” does not bring anything new to the besieged country, the insistence of the Security Council to be a tool that performs the requests received from the US-Saudi countries is enough to awaken the fires of hatred in the hearts of Yemenis.
The council had to abide by the tasks for which it was established to maintain security and peace among the members of the international community, but if the council were to turn into a tool in the hands of a state like the UAE, this calls for correcting the imbalance by all possible means available, including using missiles .
The Council took an important part of its precious time, as the world is busy with the Ukraine war, in order to discuss the concerns of the Emirates, without wondering, where are the arms import contracts for the Yemenis?
The Council, through its resolution, ignored the recommendations issued by the United Nations' international and regional expert group, to stop arms exports from the United States, Britain and France to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
It also Ignored the war crimes committed against civilians in Yemen
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Explained: The implications of UN's recognition of Houthis as terrorists
The terror status will hurt the Houthis from several sides as the group will now struggle to access financial, commercial and arms routes.
No peace without Houthis
Dr Elisabeth Kendall, Senior Research Fellow in Arabic & Islamic Studies, at the Pembroke College in University of Oxford, is, however, unsure about the efficacy of the UN move.
“While many acts of the Houthi leadership can be viewed as terrorist, the issue is that labelling the entire movement as terrorist is unlikely to help secure a sustainable resolution to the Yemen conflict,” she tells TRT World.
“There can be no peace settlement in Yemen without the Houthis being a part of it. This places one more stumbling block in the path of mediation efforts. Rather than sidelining Houthi hardliners, it is likely to strengthen their position.
“Other elements in the resolution that support a more inclusive political process should be welcomed.”
Kendall adds that there is a real risk that the terrorist designation will hamper the distribution of life-saving aid to those in Houthi-controlled areas who need it most, despite the resolution noting that this is not the intention.
Diplomats involved in drafting the text of Houthis’ designation as “terrorist group” and UN officials say that the term has no legal force and does not mean the entire Houthi community has been designated as a terrorist organisation.
Designating the Houthis as terrorists will serve only to confirm their existing biases, according to the Foreign Policy.
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I have just read UN Security Council resolution 2624 and found it in ITSELF a serious threat to peace and stability in Yemen and the region. Besides, the resolution violates justice and equality principles between conflicting parties stated in Quran.
The resolution allows UN State Members manufacturing weapons like US to continue selling weapons to KSA & UAE but depriving Yemenis like Ansar Allah from their right to resist the aggressors by imposing an arm embargo on them.
UN estimated 377,000 civilians be killed by end of 2021, but that remains a figure for the UN just because they were killed by US weapons at the hands of Saudis. The resolution never included a word of condolence to families of victims, let alone bringing killers to justice.
https://twitter.com/Naseh_Shaker/status/1500829579719716865
referring to https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/un-documents/document/s-res-2624.php
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Political Resolution on Yemen Calls into Question UN’s Impartiality, Competence: Envoy
The Yemeni ambassador to Iran decried a resolution that the UN Security Council has recently adopted about Yemen for giving the green light to the continuation of foreign aggression on his country, saying such a move has cast doubt on the UN’s impartiality and competence.In an interview with Iranian News Agency, Ibrahim Mohammad al-Deilami said the United Nations’ recent resolution, adopted by the “ominous Security Council”, which has described the strikes and military operations by the Yemeni army and Popular Committees against the Saudi-led coalition as “terrorist attacks” would not change anything about his country’s defense plans.
https://www.islamtimes.org/en/news/982999/political-resolution-on-yemen-calls-into-question-un-s-impartiality-competence-envoy = https://en.abna24.com/news//political-resolution-on-yemen-calls-into-question-un%E2%80%99s-impartiality-competence-envoy_1237846.html
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
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Recently-approved Personal Status Law Stems from the Provisions and Purposes of Islamic Sharia and Comes in Line with the Latest Legal Trends and Modern International Judicial Practices, HRH Crown Prince Says
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2335790
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U.S. urges Saudis to review cases of 'prisoners of conscience'
The United States urged ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to review cases of "prisoners of conscience" and lift travel bans and other restrictions imposed on women's rights activists previously released from jail.
My comment: Soft, softer, US to Saudi.
cp9 USA
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Washington’s Hypocrisy In Yemen
Washington criticizes Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine but enables the UAE and Saudis to wage war in Yemen.
In response to the invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is leading a global campaign against Russia. Washington is making it a moral crusade, backed by a popular upsurge in America and especially Europe.
The United Nations Security Council was unable to denounce Moscow’s invasion because of a Russian veto. However, the body approved a resolution, pushed strongly by a belligerent UAE, condemning Yemeni insurgents as terrorists. The Emirates bought Moscow’s support by abstaining on the Ukraine vote.
In an almost hysterical example of hypocrisy, the U.N. body—with the backing of the Biden administration—denounced the insurgents for firing drones and missiles at Saudi Arabia and UAE after the latter two had spent more than seven years bombing Yemeni cities.
Who are the true terrorists?
Washington’s participation in what the Yemenis call the Saudi-American war demonstrates the U.S.’s systemic foreign policy problem. Three successive American administrations have backed an aggressive war, waged by ruthlessly repressive states that have killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions, and left their populations suffering from malnutrition and disease. Far more people have suffered in Yemen than have suffered and are likely to suffer in Ukraine.
Were any other nation—especially an adversary like China or Russia—responsible for this hardship, Washington would be issuing denunciations of and imposing sanctions on the perpetrators. Indeed, there would be cries to haul the villains before the International Criminal Court. Washington, which doesn’t recognize the ICC’s authority, has avoided that indignity, but in September 2020 the New York Times noted the embarrassing connection between American policy and war crimes.
The Obama administration took the U.S. into the conflict without the slightest pretense that important American interests were at stake
And the coalition’s weapons come from America. Reported the New York Times
The answer is to end the war in Yemen. However, the Biden administration continues to sell weapons to the aggressor powers. It has increased direct support for the UAE, deploying ships and planes to help defend the Emirati royals when Ansar Allah shoots back.
The president’s special envoy, Tim Lenderking, is acting as consigliere for the Saudi and Emirati royals, pushing an old U.N. resolution advancing their position. Abdulghani al-Iryani of the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies observed that the “UN council resolutions condemning [the Houthis] and demanding that they must surrender before they go into any serious peace negotiations has made it impossible for them to consider peace negotiations as an option.” In addition to supporting the UN resolution calling the Houthis terrorists, the administration is debating re-listing Ansar Allah as a terrorist organization, even though Abu Dhabi and Riyadh have conducted far more attacks on civilians.
If the U.S. wants to play moral leader in decrying Russian depredations in Ukraine, Washington should stop supporting even worse crimes by Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in Yemen. Hypocrisy may be an inevitable aspect of any foreign policy. Aiding mass murder should not be – by Doug Bandow
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/washingtons-hypocrisy-in-yemen/
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Senate Democrats call on Pentagon to probe civilian casualties in Yemen
Leading US Senate Democrats Chris Murphy and Elizabeth Warren are demanding the Pentagon open new investigations into reports that dozens of civilians were killed as a result of US military operations in Yemen.
In a letter shared exclusively with Middle East Eye, the two lawmakers said the Biden administration should thoroughly investigate "credible reports of civilian harm, including those from Yemen".
Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Warren, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, said new investigations should also include site visits, interviews with witnesses, and information from sources outside the US military.
"We urge you to open new investigations into reports of civilian harm from U.S. military operations in Yemen raised by credible NGOs or external sources, to report publicly and transparently on your conclusions, and to take appropriate steps toward redress and accountability," the senators wrote in the letter dated Tuesday.
"The consequences of U.S. military operations in Yemen have been deep and long-lasting for scores of Yemeni civilians. We look forward to learning how you will work to provide transparency, accountability, and justice for those harmed."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-senate-democrats-call-pentagon-probe-civilian-casualties
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As War Rages in Yemen, the United States Evades Responsibility
The U.S. government has condemned Putin’s war in Ukraine, but it has kept quiet about the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
As the war intensified, it faded from public view, even as the suffering of the Yemeni people worsened. In one of the greatest blows to public oversight, the U.N. Human Rights Council ended the mandate of a U.N. expert panel on Yemen, which had been documenting human rights violations in the country.
“This is a time to increase, not abandon, attention to Yemenis trapped in war zones,” Kathy Kelly wrote in The Progressive.
In Washington, D.C., many officials blame the Houthis for the crisis. Ned Price, a State Department spokesperson, said in January that the Houthis are the “one actor that is primarily responsible for the suffering of the Yemeni people.”
For years, U.S. officials have portrayed the Houthis as a proxy force for Iran. “You have seen us shine a bright spotlight on the level of support that Iran and Iran-backed groups are providing to the Houthis,” Price noted.
Other observers present a more nuanced view. According to Barbara Bodine, a former U.S. diplomat who is now a professor at Georgetown University, both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been propping up a government in Yemen that “has very little legitimacy and very little capacity within the country and in fact has been marked by corruption at a rather remarkable scale.” The Houthis, she explained early last month, “are more of an indigenous player,” even if they are receiving support from Iran.
In Bodine’s view, the Houthis do not depend on Iran as much as the ousted Yemeni government depends on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. “So you have a great imbalance,” she said.
For U.S. officials, a major concern is that a Houthi victory would make it difficult to control the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the major chokepoints in the global energy trade. Every day, oil tankers carry more than six million barrels of oil and oil-related products through the strait.
“A possible stop in commercial shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait would have a significant impact on the world economy, and it is in all our interest to prevent such a spillage or stoppage,” U.S. military spokesperson William Urban said in 2020.
The United States has played a major role in the war.
As the fighting has intensified, U.S. officials have largely kept quiet about the war. Most U.S. leaders avert their eyes from its horrors, unwilling to acknowledge that young Yemeni children are suffering terribly.
“The world can no longer stand idly by as Yemenis suffer from a lack of access to the most basic services,” U.N. official Bouzar said. “We must work together on ending the war and on ending the war now.”
https://progressive.org/latest/war-in-yemen-us-evades-responsibility-hunt-220309/
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Crown princes of Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi 'refuse to work to bring down oil prices unless Joe Biden backs them in Yemen': Venezuela releases two US hostages in a sign of a thawing of relations amid rocketing gas prices
Joe Biden has in the past few weeks tried to speak to Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E.'s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan
Both crown princes turned down the overtures from the White House, amid their simmering anger at the Biden administration
The Gulf leaders are angry by the White House's seeming failure to back them in their proxy war with Iran in Yemen, and concerned about a new nuclear deal
Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. are the only major oil producing nations with sufficient capacity to compensate for the loss of Russian oil on global markets
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Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis
Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won’t help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere
The White House unsuccessfully tried to arrange calls between President Biden and the de facto leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as the U.S. was working to build international support for Ukraine and contain a surge in oil prices, said Middle East and U.S. officials.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the U.A.E.’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan both declined U.S. requests to speak to Mr. Biden in recent weeks, the officials said, as Saudi and Emirati officials have become more vocal in recent weeks in their criticism of American policy in the Gulf [paywalled]
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Scoop: Biden advisers weigh Saudi Arabia trip for more oil
President Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: A hat-in-hand trip would illustrate the gravity of the global energy crisis driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Biden has chastised Saudi Arabia, and the CIA believes its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was involved in the dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
The possibility also shows how Russia's invasion is scrambling world's alliances, forcing the U.S. to reorder its priorities — and potentially recalibrating its emphasis on human rights.
Biden officials are in Venezuela this weekend to meet with the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Some Republicans and Democrats in Washington suggest Venezuela's oil could replace Russia's, according to the New York Times.
Any visit to the Persian Gulf would come amid a busy presidential travel schedule during the next few months.
https://www.axios.com/biden-saudi-trip-oil-b7a91070-8045-4155-9120-a35d59fd7603.html
and audio by Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/after-50-years-of-us-support-the-saudi-and-emirati-leaders-stiff-biden
Comment: This is what the US gets for providing decades of security assistance Clearly, "oil for security" has failed From the perspective of the UAE & KSA, the US is not doing enough to support their security against attacks by the Houthis This is nonsense...
https://twitter.com/AnnelleSheline/status/1501583202321936390
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Red Flag 2022 Exercise Kicks off in USA with Participation of Royal Saudi Air Forces
The 10-day Red Flag 2022 Exercise kicked off today in Nevada, USA, at the Nellis Air Force Base with the participation of the Royal Saudi Air Force and several countries, in addition to the host country.
The first day of the exercise witnessed preparatory meetings to discuss scenarios that will be implemented practically, then participating airplanes carried out prepared combat duties simulating a true war, such as advanced combat operations against fixed and mobile targets, and facing hostile forces with the use of advanced E-Systems and air support.
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2335665
My comment: More training for killers.
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@POTUS ban on #Russian oil destroys #Saudi apologists’”But we need their oil” argument. For over 60 years #US could have used a ban or similar action to advance or defend human / women rights there but it didn’t. Oil was just an excuse
https://twitter.com/AliAlAhmed_en/status/1501250147480702976
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Film: Rally for #Yemen in Oakland! Hear from @DSA_SF reminding us, while #Ukraine is enduring a brutal war, what about #Yemen? Stop the #DoubleStandards
https://twitter.com/Jehan_Hakim/status/1500238695361699840
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Audio / Transcript: U.S. Power and Influence in the Middle East: Part One
In this first episode, Jon explores how the United States became more deeply enmeshed in the Middle East, how its role in the region has changed, and how some people think it needs to change a lot more. He talks with Ambassador Anne Patterson, a career diplomat with more than 40 years of experience in the Middle East and around the globe, most recently as assistant secretary of state for the Near East and North Africa from 2013 to 2017; Andrew Bacevich, a retired army officer, former West Point professor, and the president of the Quincy Institute; and Karim Makdisi, a professor of international relations at the American University of Beirut.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cUHKUxTn3jdsi5PcQ5dzX
https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-power-and-influence-middle-east-part-one
cp9a USA-Iran Krise: Spannungen am Golf / US-Iran crisis: Tensions at the Gulf
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Pence tells Israeli paper: We will tear up any new nuclear deal with Iran
Why could Tehran want to sign anything now? To have a likely ’24 presidential candidate say this now is a deal killer
Former Vice President Mike Pence told an Israeli newspaper on Tuesday that a future Republican administration will tear up any new nuclear deal made with Iran today. Beyond all of the political bloviation, it is important to understand how Pence’s statement undermines the U.S. bargaining position right now in Vienna.
“If the JCPOA finds a way to be resurrected, we will be a part and a voice of a chorus of Americans with that new administration coming into office to end the JCPOA just as quickly as we ended it under the Trump-Pence administration,” he charged in Israel Hayom.
Not only would Republicans withdraw from any new agreement they would bring back President Trump’s (fundam
One of the biggest sticking points on behalf of the Iranian negotiators has been the inability to ensure that any future White House won’t waltz in and rip up the renewed agreement. So far they haven’t been able to get that kind of assurance, even from the Democrats who are supposedly behind getting a deal out the door. Now the GOP in the form of Mike Pence, one of the most high-profile likely candidates for president in 2024, is openly saying it will kill it.
So what does this do?
It means that any carrots the U.S. puts forward in the talks are devalued precisely because we are explicit about their lack of durability. Therefore, Washington has to offer more to achieve the same because of this open lack of trustworthiness.
As I have written elsewhere, this has been a major challenge throughout these nuclear talks. Being unreliable does not put you in a good position to ask for a “longer and stronger” deal.
At the same time, Pence is not lying. If the GOP wins in 2024, I see only two scenarios: either Washington walks out of the deal a la Trump, or it adopts an ambiguous position in which it doesn’t commit to staying and flirts with leaving.
In the latter case, the United States injects so much uncertainty into the situation that international businesses will begin exiting the Iranian market, whether or not any sanctions are lifted from a renewed deal. As such, uncertainty is a de facto sanction.
Not getting what it has been promised, Tehran will likely quit the deal or it will reduce its obligations, as it did from 2019 and onward. But this time around, the JCPOA would likely not be able to take that pressure without collapsing. The nuclear deal dies and with it any hope for achieving any peaceful resolution with Iran.
Naively, many in D.C. are still thinking of how to “strengthen” the deal once it is revived. But I fear that very few have internalized how weak the Western bargaining position is: One can’t ask for more when one simultaneously admits that no American promise can be kept longer than four years.
and main points here: https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1501307981585076227
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Iran FM: Sanctions should not affect Iran’s cooperation with any country, including Russia
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says cooperation between Iran and other countries, including Russia, should not be affected by sanctions imposed on those countries.
Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a Monday phone call with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavro
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Atomverhandlungen in Wien vor Abschluss: Russland fordert von USA Garantien für Handel mit Iran
Der Krieg in der Ukraine wirkt sich offenbar auch auf die Atomverhandlungen mit Iran in Wien aus. Angesichts der aggressiven Sanktionen des Westens gegen Russland fordert Moskau "schriftliche Garantien" der USA, dass die Sanktionen gegen Russland nicht die Umsetzung des neuen Deals mit Iran beeinträchtigen dürfen
Die Gespräche zur Wiederbelebung des Atomdeals mit Iran stehen kurz vor dem Durchbruch, nachdem Teheran signalisierte, letzten Forderungen vonseiten der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) nachzukommen. Der Generaldirektor der IAEA Rafael Grossi sagte im Samstag in Teheran, dass die IAEA verpflichtet sei, offenen Fragen nachzugehen, bevor die neue Einigung erzielt werden kann.
Opera: https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=81672
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Iran nuclear diplomat flies home as pressure grows on Tehran
Iran’s top diplomat at monthslong talks aimed at restoring its tattered nuclear deal with world powers flew home late Monday for a sudden trip, a sign of the growing pressure on Tehran as the negotiations appear to be nearing their end.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency described Ali Bagheri Kani’s trip as being “within the framework of the usual consultations during the talks.” However, the top negotiator for the European Union seemed to suggest whether the talks succeeded or failed now rested with the Islamic Republic.
“There are no longer ‘expert level talks.’ Nor ‘formal meetings,’” Enrique Mora wrote on Twitter, responding to comments by an Iranian analyst. “It is time, in the next few days, for political decisions to end the (hashtag)ViennaTalks. The rest is noise.”
Mora’s comments mirror those of British and French negotiators at the Vienna talks
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Iran seeks ‘creative ways’ to nuke deal after Russian demand
A top Iranian official said Monday that his country is seeking “creative ways” to restore its nuclear deal with world powers after Russia’s foreign minister linked sanctions on Moscow over its war on Ukraine to the ongoing negotiations.
The tweet by Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council, offers the first high-level acknowledgment of the demands of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“Vienna participants act & react based on interests and it’s understandable,” Shamkhani wrote. “Our interactions ... are also solely driven by our people’s interests. Thus, we’re assessing new elements that bear on the negotiations and will accordingly seek creative ways to expedite a solution.”
Shamkhani later tweeted criticism of the United States; earlier, he avoided directly mentioning Russia.
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Russia: Iran, IAEA agree on 'concrete steps' to settle outstanding safeguards issues
A senior Russian diplomat has hailed as "very successful" a recent visit by Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi to Iran, saying both sides decided to take "concrete steps" to settle outstanding safeguards issues in due time.
Mikhail Ulyanov, the head of the Russian delegation to the ongoing talks between Iran and the P4+1 group of countries in the Austrian capital of Vienna, made the remarks in a post on his Twitter account on Sunday, a day after Iran and the IAEA agreed on a roadmap to resolve all outstanding issues, which could help secure the revival of the 2015 Iran deal with world powers.
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Iran to answer UN nuclear questions as deal talks near end
Iran has agreed to supply answers long sought by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, Tehran and the U.N. agency said Saturday, as talks in Vienna over its tattered atomic deal with world powers appear to be coming to an end.
A joint statement by Mohammad Eslami, the head of the civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy, came hours after the two met in Tehran.
It envisions the IAEA reaching conclusions on the discovery of uranium particles at former undeclared sites in Iran by June. The move is separate from the talks over the nuclear deal but could help push them to a conclusion.
But meanwhile, Russia’s foreign minister for the first time linked American sanctions on Moscow over its war on Ukraine to the ongoing Iran nuclear deal talks — adding a new wrinkle to the delicate diplomacy.
Grossi said in Tehran that “it would be difficult to believe or to imagine that such an important return to such a comprehensive agreement ... would be possible if the agency and Iran would not be seeing eye to eye on how to resolve these important safeguards issues.” Safeguards refer to the IAEA’s inspections and monitoring of a country’s nuclear program.
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NEWCASTLE UNITED: HOW SAUDI TAKEOVER IS AFFECTING FOOTBALL IN YEMEN
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Kleine Anfrage zu Rüstungsgütern für den Jemen-Krieg
Nach den Genehmigungen von Rüstungsexporten in am Jemen-Krieg beteiligte Staaten fragt die Fraktion Die Linke in einer Kleinen Anfrage (20/836). Die Abgeordneten wollen von der Bundesregierung wissen, ob sie die Kenntnis der Vorgängerregierung darüber teilt, wonach neben Saudi-Arabien in erster Linie die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate an den Militäroperationen im Jemen beteiligt sind.
Gefragt wird auch nach der militärischen Nutzung von Rüstungsgütern im Jemen-Krieg, die in der Vergangenheit aus Deutschland oder als deutsche Zulieferung über EU- oder Nato-Partner nach Saudi-Arabien oder in die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate geliefert wurden. Die Fraktion fragt, ob diese Lieferungen auch außerhalb der Grenzen des Hoheitsgebiets dieser Staaten die Endverbleibserklärungen nicht verletzen, auf deren Grundlage die Genehmigungen erteilt wurden.
https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-883284
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Film: This is absolute (Eurpoean Union)
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1501673748151390214
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Refusal to condemn Russian invasion highlights SA’s Yemen hypocrisy
The timing of South Africa’s refusal to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, comes precisely as it is reopening a flood of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and has again brought the hypocrisy of the country’s foreign policy into sharp relief.
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[UAE] Ambassador Al Otaiba: “We favor production increases and will be encouraging OPEC to consider higher production levels."
"The UAE has been a reliable and responsible supplier of energy to global markets for more than 50 years and believes that stability in energy markets is critical to the global economy.”
https://www.uae-embassy.org/news/statement-ambassador-yousef-al-otaiba
Comment: Frantic damage control from Emirati ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba “We favor production increases and will be encouraging OPEC to consider higher production levels." What did Biden promise the Emiratis in exchange? To re designate the Houthis?
https://twitter.com/AnnelleSheline/status/1501643051504406528
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES CHOOSES SOLIDARITY BETWEEN OIL PRODUCERS OVER MILITARY ALLIES
“The Gulfies play the blob like a fiddle,” a U.S. intelligence official told The Intercept.
“It’s past time we dispense with the fiction that the United Arab Emirates are a reliable security partner for the United States. Between the allegations of their passing U.S.-origin weapons on to terrorist groups in Yemen to their refusal to condemn Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine, it is clear time and again that they do not share our values or our sense of security,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a House Foreign Affairs Committee member, told The Intercept. “The Biden administration should have stopped the Trump F-35 and drone sales on the grounds of human rights and civilian protection in Yemen, but since they did not, I hope this gives them the push they need to halt that sale immediately,” she said, referring to an agreement former President Donald Trump inked on his final day in office to sell the UAE 50 F-35 fighter jets, drones, and other defense equipment totaling $23 billion.
A senior Democratic Senate aide, who was not authorized to speak publicly, echoed similar frustrations: “When you consider the enormous amount of support, even deference, the U.S. has shown to the UAE, their abstention is really regrettable.”
In addition to Congress, U.S. national security officials expressed dismay at the UAE’s vote. “In supporting Russia on Ukraine, the UAE is not only showing astonishing ingratitude for America’s providing Gulf security for the last 50 years,” said Robert Baer, a retired CIA officer. “And that’s not to mention all the blood Americans have shed.”
The U.S. military acts as a security guarantor for the UAE against regional adversaries like Iran and Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
The tension is unusual for the oil-rich country, whose lavish spending on public relations outfits and think tanks that hire innumerable former U.S. officials has in the past insulated it from criticism in Washington, despite its sordid human rights record, including war crimes in Yemen and jailing of activists domestically. Regarding the U.N. Security Council alone, the UAE has hired dozens of strategic communications staffers to press its interests at the United Nations, as one former senior U.S. diplomat who worked at the U.N. told The Intercept. (Foreign lobbying disclosures with the Justice Department confirm that the UAE’s United Nations mission has signed agreements with the Glover Park Group, a Washington-based communications consulting firm run by several former Democratic White House officials.) The UAE has even hired two former aides to Samantha Power, who currently heads the U.S. Agency for International Development under President Joe Biden.
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/09/russia-oil-uae-ukraine-invasion/
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Former Israeli FM Reveals Details of Hadi’s Multiple Visits to Tel Aviv
Haaretz journalist Amos Harel published on his personal website the details of his interview with Israel Katz, the former Israeli foreign minister. According to Harel, Israel, Katz revealed secret and important information about Israel’s policies in the Red Sea and its role in Yemen’s war, including the close relations between Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the Israeli Mossad and his many visits to Tel Aviv
In response to an Israeli journalist’s question about the war in Yemen, Katz said: “We do not have reliable allies in Yemen. The current president of Yemen, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, has close relations with us, but he is not able to lead the war against the Houthis. When the war in Yemen began, the Yemeni president visited Tel Aviv with the help of Jordan and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. During this visit, we reached an understanding, but the problem is that Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi is not a brave and strong leader, so if you give him an army that is victorious, he will undoubtedly be defeated. However, we cannot close our eyes that Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have a suitable alternative to the current Yemeni president, and therefore providing support for him will remain on our agenda.
The former Israeli foreign minister declared during this interview that: the only source of concern for Israel in the Red Sea is the strengthening of Houthis in the region. This also results from the incompetence of the Saudi government
https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2022/03/08/163296/
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Nasrallah: USA schweigen gegenüber israelischen Verbrechen an Palästinensern sowie Massakern im Jemen
Der Generalsekretär der libanesischen Widerstandsbewegung Hisbollah hat das Schweigen der USA gegenüber den israelischen Verbrechen an den Palästinensern sowie gegenüber den Gräueltaten der von Saudi-Arabien angeführten Kriegskoalition im Jemen verurteilt.
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Sayyed Nasrallah: US remaining silent on Israeli atrocities against Palestinians, massacres taking place in Yemen
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Double standard on war crimes as Yemen deaths overlooked
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly will petition the International Criminal Court to probe alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Good.
Yet, Canada will not do the same for Saudi Arabia, which is waging a seven-year long airstrike offensive in Yemen, an offensive which has seen the Saudi-led coalition bomb schools and school buses, hospitals and funerals.
Canada’s double standard is likely due to its part in arming Saudi Arabia and partly because Yemeni lives don’t matter as much as those of white European ones.
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Anti-money-laundering body puts UAE on global ‘gray’ list
A global body focused on fighting money laundering has placed the United Arab Emirates on its so-called “gray list” over concerns that the global trade hub isn’t doing enough to stop criminals and militants from hiding wealth there.
The decision late Friday night by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force puts the UAE, home to Dubai and oil-rich Abu Dhabi, on a list of 23 countries including fellow Mideast nations Jordan, Syria and Yemen.
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UAE to take robust action against financial crime, money laundering
Senior officials in the United Arab Emirates reaffirmed the Gulf country’s commitment to combat anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported on Saturday.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34627
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Indian arrested by his country for visiting Yemen
An Indian man was arrested by the police in his country for visiting Yemen in violation of the Government of India’s advisory on visiting the country.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34625
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Sudan group: Tribal violence in Darfur has killed 16 people
Tribal clashes this week between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s Darfur killed at least 16 people, a Sudanese medical group said Tuesday as security continued to deteriorate in the war-wrecked western region.
The violence erupted a couple of days ago in the town of Jebel Moon in West Darfur province, which was the scene of deadly tribal violence in recent months, according to the Sudan Doctors Committee. At least 16 others were wounded, it said.
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-africa-sudan-4a6e858f7ac4fd300dbfcec236a0740f
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Roiled by economic crisis, Sudan to float its currency
Cash-stripped Sudan on Monday announced it will float the country’s currency as economic conditions deteriorate further, some four months after a military coup plunged the African nation into further turmoil.
The Central Bank of Sudan said banks and exchange firms will determine the value of the Sudanese pound based on supply and demand. The central bank governor, Yahai Hussein Ganqoul, said there will be no interference from the central bank.
The move is likely to cause a swift increase in prices of commodities and services in response to a drop in the value of the pound.
Ganqoul said the move is part of a package of reforms that aim to stabilize the exchange rate of the pound. Local media report that the currency has been trading at around 570 Sudanese pounds to the dollar on the black market while its official rate was at just over 445 pounds to $1.
https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-africa-sudan-18cea17691dfc66eab610402d4c06d2d
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'Big threat': air defences take centre stage at Saudi arms show
Air defence systems have been front and centre at Saudi Arabia's first defence show as drone and missile attacks increase in the energy-rich Gulf.
Deadly strikes on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates claimed by Yemeni rebels have been the talk of shows held in the two countries in recent weeks.
Six hundred companies from about 40 countries showed off the latest military technology at the World Defense Show in the Saudi capital Riyadh this week.
"There is very much high interest in the region for the capabilities to defeat drones and IEDs," said Bobby Strawbridge of US firm Allen-Vanguard, which makes equipment to block radio-controlled weaponry.
Visitors to the Riyadh show are zooming in on anti-drone and air defence systems, according to Tomas Kossowski, chief operating officer for Advanced Protection Systems.
The Polish firm sold its infrastructure-defence products to Saudi Arabia's national telecoms operator in 2019 and has since been in negotiations with other potential customers. Kossowski said interest from the Gulf in "defending critical infrastructure" was growing every month.
"There is a big threat here from the constant attacks from drones in the region," he told AFP. "The Yemen border is under constant threat and with our solutions we are able to prevent drone attacks."
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest arms importer between 2016 and 2020, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, on Monday announced an accord with US giant Lockheed Martin to build an air defence system in the kingdom.
The General Authority for Military Industries, which oversees the Saudi defence industry, has made 22 deals with national and international enterprises worth some two billion dollars.
The deals range from the purchase of military systems to the construction of production lines and the transfer of knowledge and training.
The government wants 50 percent of its arms needs provided by Saudi manufacturers by 2030.
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World Defense Show [in Saudi Arabia] Concludes its Activities, Recording Deals and Contracts Worth SR 29.7 Billion in Its 1st Edition
The first edition of the World Defense Exhibition, the leading global event for defense and security, concluded here today under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and it was held during the period from 6 to 9 March with the participation of 600 exhibitors, from 42 countries, attended by more than 80 military delegations, and 65,000 visitors representing 85 countries.
The World Defense Show, organized by the General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI), registered military and defense procurement contracts between local and international bodies with a total value of SAR 29.7 billion, reflecting the exhibition's position as a global platform for quality partnerships industry, and supporting efforts to develop defense and security industries locally and internationally.
These contracts included the manufacture of defense systems and equipment, military equipment, vehicles, ammunition and support services, as the proportion of national companies of these contracts amounted to 46%, amounted to SAR 10 billion, as these contracts will contribute to advancing the process of localizing the military industries in the Kingdom through technology transfer and building the local technical and human capacity.
GAMI had worked with partners to study and review the contracts that were announced, as they were subject to accurate evaluation mechanisms related to the level of technical options and approved international specifications; operations, and contributes to expenditure efficiency.
The exhibition also witnessed the announcement of 22 localization and capacity building agreements with a number of local and international companies specialized in the military and defense industries, with a total value of industrial participation at SAR 8 billion, and included a number of areas such as direct localization work for military systems, and building qualitative capabilities in the targeted industrial fields, such as building production lines, transferring and localizing technologies and services, in addition to training and qualifying national cadres and enabling them to work in the military and defense industries.
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2336137
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World Show Defense 2022 Hosts Leading Women within Women in Defense Program
The World Show Defense (WDS) 2022 has hosted leading women, within the Women in Defense Program, which aims at promoting and empowering women participation in this sector.
The program comes as a part of the activities of WDS's first edition, being held in Riyadh from 6 to 9 March.
The program included participation of Princess Reema Bint Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States, Chief Executive Officer of General Dynamics Phebe Novakovic, and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Rolls-Royce North America Marion Blakey.
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2335894
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Saudi, Lockheed Martin in Missile Defense Deal
Saudi Arabia announced a deal Monday with US firm Lockheed Martin to manufacture elements of the missile defenses of the Gulf state, the target of frequent cross-border attacks by rebels in Yemen.
Its military industries authority, cited by state news agency SPA, approved two projects to produce launchers and other equipment used in the THAAD anti-missile defense system.
The announcement, which did not disclose the value of the deal, comes on the sidelines of an international arms show which opened Sunday in the Saudi capital.
The United States, the oil-rich kingdom’s top ally, deployed THAAD and Patriot defense systems in Saudi Arabia in October 2019 at a time of heightened tensions with Riyadh’s regional rival Tehran.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/03/07/saudi-lockheed-missile-defense-deal/
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Saudi Chinook delivery on schedule, Boeing turns eyes to F-15 upgrades
A Boeing executive said the Saudis have successful used their F-15SA to “kill” cruise missiles fired by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias in Yemen, a missile defense capability that the Kingdom needs.
WORLD DEFENSE SHOW: The first delivery of CH-47 Chinook helicopters to Saudi Arabia will go on as scheduled this year, and a Boeing official tells Breaking Defense that the company is already turning its eyes to potential upgrade efforts for other platforms already operating in the Kingdom.
“The Chinooks are on schedule for delivery, and we are sure that [the Saudi Air Force] will be able to operate those in the Kingdom this year. KSA will be the 21st global operator of the Chinooks,” Rick Lemaster, Boeing’s vice president for international sales in the defense sector, told Breaking Defense at the World Defense Show in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia signed in 2016 a $3.5-billion Foreign Military Sales agreement with the United States to procure 48 Chinooks along with support and parts. Lemaster noted that despite the COVID-19 lockdown and interruption of the supply chain Boeing was able to complete the Chinooks on schedule.
The Chinook deal is hardly the first deal between the Kingdom and America’s largest aerospace company. Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest operators of Boeing-made defense platforms in the Middle East region, with 207 F-15 SA, and 62 F-15 Eagle jet fighters in service. Those are joined by six E/RE-3A AWACS early warning aircraft and seven KC-707 aircraft.
Lemaster said that most of the Saudi F-15SA warplanes that were upgraded recently “are great aircrafts” and don’t require any upgrade. But the company sees potential elsewhere in the fleet.
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US Company to ‘Localize’ Arms Production in Saudi Amid Ongoing Yemeni Reprisal
US arms company Lockheed Martin is to spend more than $1 billion towards “localizing” military manufacturing in Saudi Arabia as Yemen keeps up its reprisal against the kingdom’s 2015-present war on the impoverished country.
Ray Piselli, the company’s vice president of international business, told Asharq Business on Tuesday that the company would be working together with the Saudi General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI), the kingdom’s regulator for the military industry, and Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI), a state-owned military company, to support local Saudi industries.
A day earlier, GAMI had said it was working with Lockheed Martin to make some of the parts for its THAAD missile system, which is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles in the final stages of flight.
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Saudi Ministry of Defense Signs 10 Deals worth SR 7 Billion at World Defense Show 2022
The Saudi Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced today the closing of 10 deals worth more than SAR 7 billion with local and international companies to support the armed forces' capabilities and raise combat effectiveness.
The announcement came as part of the Ministry’s participation in the World Defense Show (WDS) 2022 in Riyadh.
On the third day of WDS, the MoD signed a contract worth SR 3 billion with Hanwha, a Korean defense company, for the Riyal Saudi Land Fores (RSLF) to support its defense capabilities in addition to localization, and supply chain services. The contract was signed by Assistant Defense Minister for Executive Affairs Dr. Khaled Al-Biyari and President of Defense Sector in Hanwha Retired Lieutenant General Yung Kwan.
The MoD also signed three different contracts worth SR 1.700 billion with Alsalam Aerospace Industries to provide maintenance services for the Royal Saudi Air Forces (RSAF). The deal was signed by Dr. Al-Biyari and Alsalam Aerospace Industries CEO Abdul Mohsen Junaid.
The Ministry also signed an SR 800 million contract with the NAVAL Arabian Group to provide the Royal Saudi Navy Forces (RSNF) with vessel technical support services. The agreement was signed by Assistant Defense Minister for Executive Affairs Dr. Khaled Al-Biyari and NAVAL CEO Didier Fouilly.
In addition, the MoD signed an SR 400 million deal with the GDC Middle East to provide technical support for the C130 aircraft for the Royal Saudi Air Forces (RSAF).
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2335676
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Saudi Arabia starts producing drones
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is working on the production of unmanned aerial vehicles locally, the managing director of Saudi military industries company said on Monday.
The company is cooperating with local partners (including the general corporation for Saudi industries) to produce the first drone fully designed by Saudis, Waleed Abu Khalid added at interview with al-Ekhbaria TV.
The drone will be produced and used by Saudi armed forces, he said, as 50% of the Kingdom's military expenditure will be nationalized by 2030.
The company is planning to establish one of the world's largest munitions plants and to nationalize all the defense sectors, the Saudi official added.
Last October, the Saudi military industries company signed a contract with the general corporation for Saudi industries to develop 'Air Guard' drone system inside the Kingdom.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29004.html
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While you weren't looking: Saudi Arabia is hosting a massive gathering of military contractors, its inaugural World Defense Show. Here's Crown Prince MBS visiting Lockheed Martin's booth. Yes, this is the same Lockheed whose US-made missiles are killing innocents in Yemen.
The US has sent its top diplomat in Saudi Arabia to the World Defense Show. Whatever messages the White House and the State Department are telegraphing to Saudi about ending its war in Yemen get drowned out when a high-level representative attends a weapons-contractor confab.
Ultra-connected, high-tech military companies are also attending the Saudi arms fair
https://twitter.com/mideastXmidwest/status/1500866929162133506
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Drones are re-engineering the geopolitics of the Middle East
The Middle East is experiencing a seismic shift in its geopolitics: the dawn of the era of drones. From Syria to Libya and from Yemen to Iraq, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have altered the dynamics on the battlefield. Turkey and Iran expanded low-cost, domestic UAV production, allowing Ankara and Tehran to advance their foreign policy agenda despite economic constraints. In response, Arab nations such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are rapidly developing their own UAV fleets. Non-state actors are another big winner in the drone revolution, as they gain the capability to deploy new tactics and strategies against nation-states. Agile and affordable, drones aren't just a menace to remote conflict zones, but also to states far removed from theaters of war.
The drones from Tehran
Iran ramped up UAV production for both surveillance and offensive operations. The expansion of Iran’s drone capabilities coincided with their integration into Tehran’s military strategy across the Middle East. Iran also equipped its regional proxies such as Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) with Iranian-made drones in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Iranian drone designs offered the requisite know-how for Tehran's proxies to construct their own drone capabilities, which integrated Iranian designs, Chinese wiring, and commercial cameras, sensors, and engines from international manufacturers.
The response from Arab powers
With Turkish and Iranian UAV fleets undermining the strategic posture of the Arab states, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have all been developing their own UAV fleets and anti-drone capabilities.
The UAE: A drone success story
Because of the UAE’s geographic location in the Arabian Gulf facing Iran, its battle against the Houthis in Yemen, and its involvement in Libya, Abu Dhabi has focused on building robust, dynamic military capabilities. Drawing on technological knowledge, strong finances, and growing military and security partnerships, the UAE built a vigorous drone industry that provides Abu Dhabi with regional strategic depth. In this effort, the UAE has looked to China as a reliable supplier of drone technology.
Following the signing of the Abraham Accords, the UAE and Israel are now building a tech coalition that will utilize their respective comparative advantages: Israel's leadership in drone and anti-drone technology and the UAE's financial heft and competence in scaling tech capabilities.
Saudi Arabia: Vision 2030 and geopolitics meet drones
The recent Saudi penetration into the drone industry stems from Vision 2030 and the geopolitical threats to the kingdom.
The Iranian drone attacks on the Saudi Aramco oil processing facility at Abqaiq in 2019 alerted Riyadh to the danger of drones and the immediate need to develop drone and anti-drone capabilities. Following years of geopolitical tensions with Turkey, Ankara announced that Riyadh wanted to buy Turkish armed UAVs, which had previously contributed to military victories in Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Under license from Turkey's Vestel Savunma, two Saudi manufacturers, Intra Defense Technologies and Advanced Electronics Company, have begun co-producing a Turkish-made, medium-altitude, long-endurance Karayel-SU drone.
https://www.mei.edu/publications/drones-are-re-engineering-geopolitics-middle-east
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Russian and Ukrainian weapons compete at Saudi defence show
As the tragic reality of war unfolds in eastern Europe, visitors to a defence show in Saudi Arabia were met with the surreal sight of seeing the latest Ukrainian and Russian military hardware competing for attention in pristine exhibition halls.
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Saudi Arabia struggling to find Yemeni mercenaries for war effort
A Saudi military committee has established camps between Ma’rib and Jawf provinces for the sake of bringing back Hadi loyalist forces who had retreated from its borders.
This was reported by Yemen News Portal based on the testimonies of well-informed sources.
According to the sources, the Saudi committee is using a carrot-and-stick approach to bring back members of Hadi’s forces who were sent to Ma’rib as reinforcements due to the advances of the forces loyal to the National Salvation Government in Sana’a.
The sources confirmed that these forces refused to return due bad treatment and humiliation at the hands of Saudi officers.
Saudi Arabia has set up Yemeni forces that do not belong to Hadi’s military forces, in order to protect their border, while deploying Saudi soldiers in fallback positions in an effort to minimize their own losses on the border fronts.
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/09/saudi-arabia-struggling-to-find-yemeni-mercenaries-for-war-effort/ = https://en.ypagency.net/255719/
cp13c Kulturerbe / Cultural heritage
Siehe / Look at cp1 (Natural heritage: Socotra)
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Der Kampf um die eigene Identität
Seit 2015 herrscht in Jemen Krieg. Nun befürchten manche, dass auch die jemenitische Kultur von den Kriegsparteien gekapert wird. Ob Kaffee, besondere Vogelarten oder Drachenblutbäume: Jemeniten haben viel zu verlieren
Denn seit einigen Jahren versucht das saudische Königreich, die Khawlani-Kaffeebohnen in die Liste des immateriellen Kulturerbes der Unesco eintragen zu lassen. Bislang ohne Erfolg. Ende Januar verkündete das saudische Handelsministerium, dass landesweit in Restaurants, Cafés oder Supermärkten kein arabischer Mokka mehr eingeschenkt wird, sondern nur noch saudischer Mokka. Die Ankündigung steht im Zusammenhang mit einer Initiative des saudischen Kulturministeriums, 2022 zum "Jahr des saudischen Kaffees" zu erklären. Die Bohnen werden als nationaler Schatz sowie für die Bewahrung des saudischen Erbes und der kulturellen Identität gefeiert. Auch auf der Expo in Dubai wird mit saudischem Kaffee geworben.
"Wenn überhaupt, dann ist das unser gemeinsames Erbe. Nun soll der Kaffee nach einer einzelnen Königsfamilie, nach al-Saud, benannt werden. Das kann nicht sein", sagt Yousra Ishaq. Tatsächlich kommt der Khawlani-Kaffee aus dem Grenzgebiet zwischen Saudi-Arabien und Jemen, der antike Stamm der Khawlan bin Amir lebte jahrhundertelang zwischen der saudischen Stadt Dschizan und dem Nordwesten Jemens.
"Nein zum Diebstahl des jemenitischen Erbes"
Viele Jemeniten halten diese Ankündigung für eine weitere Grenzüberschreitung: Nach ihren Städten werde nun auch ihr Kaffee gekapert. Einige Nutzer veröffentlichten Screenshots von Studien, die zu dem Schluss kommen, dass die Ursprünge der arabischen Kaffeekultur in Jemen liegen.
Denn auch dieser kulturelle Konflikt schwelt schon länger. Als die arabische Ausgabe von National Geographic im Jahr 2020 ihre Leser dazu aufrief, besondere Schnappschüsse einzusenden, kritisierten viele Jemeniten, dass es sich bei den Bildern um ihr kulturelles Erbe handelte, nicht um saudisches.
Auch einzigartige Baum- und Vogelarten haben Begehrlichkeiten bei den Kriegsparteien geweckt. Auf der jemenitischen Insel Sokotra, einem Naturparadies im Indischen Ozean, weht an vielen Bauten auch die emiratische Flagge. Seit 2008 ist die Insel, die gerne das "Galápagos des Indischen Ozeans" genannt wird, Unesco-Weltnaturerbe. Wie ein Schirm breiten sich die Äste der manchmal mehr als 1000 Jahre alten Drachenblutbäume aus. Sie haben die Insel berühmt gemacht. Natureindrücke, so andersartig, als hätte man die Welt für einen kurzen Moment verlassen.
Die ehrgeizigen Bauprojekte der Emirate in Form von luxuriösen Apartments und Hotels könnten viele Vögel- und Baumarten vertreiben, befürchten Jemeniten. Auch die Unesco ist alarmiert, sie wird eine Delegation auf die Insel schicken, um den Erhaltungszustand des Welterbes zu prüfen, erzählt der Pressesprecher der deutschen Unesco-Kommission, Timm Nikolaus Schulze. Es sei eine Option, dass die Insel auf die Liste des gefährdeten Welterbes kommt. "Damit will man auf die Missstände aufmerksam machen, um die Natur dort langfristig zu erhalten."
https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/jemen-der-kampf-um-die-eigene-identitaet
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Fighting to retain a national identity
War has been raging in Yemen since 2015. Now some fear that Yemeni culture is also being hijacked by the warring parties. Whether it's coffee, particular species of bird or dragon trees, Yemenis have a lot to lose.
For some years now, Saudi Arabia has been trying to have Khawlani coffee beans entered on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage. So far without success. At the end of January, the Saudi ministry of commerce announced that instead of Arabic mocha, only Saudi mocha would now be served in restaurants, cafes and supermarkets nationwide. The announcement was timed to coincide with an initiative by the Saudi ministry of culture, which has declared 2022 the "Year of Saudi Coffee". The beans are celebrated as a national treasure and a means of preserving Saudi heritage and cultural identity. Saudi coffee is also being promoted at the expo in Dubai.
"If anything, it is our common heritage. Now coffee is to be named after a single royal family, al-Saud. This cannot be," says Yousra Ishaq. Khawlani coffee actually comes from the border area between Saudi Arabia and Yemen; for centuries the ancient Khawlan bin Amir tribe lived between the Saudi city of Jizan and northwestern Yemen. The two countries share a 1300-kilometre border.
Hashtag: "No to the theft of Yemeni heritage"
Many Yemenis consider this announcement to be another border violation: after their cities, their coffee is now being hijacked. Some users posted screenshots of studies concluding that the origins of Arabic coffee culture are in Yemen. They pointed to the birthplace of coffee: arabica beans were shipped to the wider world from the Yemeni port city of Al Mocha – hence the name 'mocha'.
It's a cultural conflict that has been simmering for a long time. When the Arabic edition of National Geographic called on its readers to send in special snapshots in 2020, Yemenis were quick to point out that the images were of their cultural heritage, not Saudi.
Unique species of trees and birds have also aroused covetousness among the warring parties. On the Yemeni island of Socotra, a natural paradise in the Indian Ocean, the United Arab Emirates flag can be seen flying on many buildings. The island, which is often called the "Galapagos of the Indian Ocean", has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008.
Yemenis fear the UAE's ambitious property development projects could drive away many species of birds and trees on the island. UNESCO is also alarmed and plans to send a delegation to Socotra to check the state of conservation on the World Heritage site.
As a then 24-year-old from San Francisco, Alkhansali travelled to his homeland to learn about the ancient Yemeni coffee tradition and market it in the USA.
These young people are looking to instil a little hope into the Yemen narrative, keen to show the rest of the world that things of beauty can also come out of their homeland. "I believe in the power of coffee, we want to introduce local sellers to the outside world," says Alkhansali. Salha Mattar also wants to travel, with her beloved coffee beans in her case.
https://en.qantara.de/content/yemens-youth-fighting-to-retain-a-national-identity
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Tariq Saleh’s gunmen demolish Imam Rifai’s historic dome in Mocha
Al-Qaeda and ISIS takfirist elements on Saturday attacked one of the most prominent historical Islamic monuments in Mocha district in Taiz province, southwestern Yemen.
According to local sources, a group of terrorists affiliated to the UAE- backed militias led by Brigadier General Tariq Saleh stormed the dome of the “El Rifai”, in the Najiba area on the outskirts of Mocha Directorate, and tampered with its contents, before demolishing the dome and burning the mausoleum and shrine of Imam Al-Wali Ahmed Ali Al-Rifai.
https://en.ypagency.net/255357/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/06/takfiri-terrorists-destroy-historical-mosque-and-mausoleum-in-mocha/
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Photo: Dar Al-Noura _ Sbeikh _ Wadi Doan .. #Hadramout _ #Yemen
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1501316483749593089
cp13d Wirtschaft / Economy
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Film: Yemen: Economic Damage of Smuggled Pesticides | Holm Akhdar
Smuggled and banned pesticides have affected the agricultural sector in Yemen, which is considered one of the key non-oil sectors of the Yemeni economy. According to agricultural statistics data, the areas of various crops that stopped producing during the past ten years amounted to about 344,642 hectares of cultivated lands in Yemen. Shocks and losses sustained by the agricultural sector have exacerbated by the war, climate and fuel crisis, besides many other factors, most notably, the increased use of toxic pesticides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVljsbnJs0
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Yemeni riyal significant decline increases citizens’ suffering in southern provinces
The Yemeni riyal on Tuesday continued its frightening decline against foreign currencies in the southern provinces, controlled by Saudi-led coalition, which portends an economic catastrophe that doubles the burdens on the Yemeni citizen.
The Yemeni riyal exchange rate reached 1,279 for one dollar and 336 riyals for the Saudi riyal in the provinces of Aden and Hadramout, in light of the inability of the coalition and the “Hadi government” to limit the collapse of the local currency.
https://en.ypagency.net/255636/
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Challenges and Prospects for Electronic Money and Payment Systems in Yemen
Yemen has a heavily cash-based economy with low levels of financial inclusion. The country’s formal banking sector is highly underdeveloped, undercapitalized and concentrated in urban areas, leaving it inaccessible for the majority of the Yemeni population. Just prior to the current conflict, the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) began reforms aimed at developing Yemen’s financial sector infrastructure and reducing the predominance of cash by improving electronic interbank transactions and local electronic payment systems, including electronic and mobile money services. Given the widespread prevalence of mobile phones among the population, successful reform had the potential to dramatically increase financial inclusion. The onset of the ongoing conflict, however, interrupted progress.
This paper examines the existing regulations surrounding the use of e-money in Yemen, its attempts to adopt e-money services both before and during the conflict, the major players and state of infrastructure in the sector, and the challenges and prospects facing greater adoption of electronic currency in the country.
Given Yemen’s armed conflict, political crisis, deep institutional fragmentation in key state institutions – including the parliament and the CBY – and the underdeveloped state of e-payment infrastructure overall, widespread use of e-money is unlikely to emerge. During the conflict, any enforcement of aggressive unilateral steps by any of the competing parties to the conflict could deepen the division in the institutions involved in operating the e-payment services. Holistic initiatives to strengthen the Yemeni e-money and e-payment ecosystem are invariably tied to ending political division and stabilizing the monetary regime, which must start by unifying the central banks and the official exchange rate.
Until a resolution can be reached, this paper recommends that stakeholders interested in implementing e-money services in Yemen adopt a “do no harm” approach.
https://sanaacenter.org/publications/main-publications/16974
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
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Report: Wanted Norwegian al-Qaida member held in Yemen
A Norwegian citizen who became a member of al-Qaida in Yemen has been arrested in Yemen by the country’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Norwegian broadcaster NRK said Monday.
According to the report, Anders Cameroon Østensvig Dale is being held in a hospital in Sanaa. He is sought at home on suspicion of terrorism and was put on a blacklist by the United States.
Norwegian prosecutor Haris Hrenovica with the Norwegian security service PST said the suspect’s hospital detention “makes us believe that there is an injury.” It was unclear when and how he was apprehended and there was no immediate confirmation from the Houthis.
The broadcaster said Ostensvig Dale converted to Islam in 2008 and visited Yemen several times before eventually joining al-Qaida’s branch there, known as Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
My comment: As useful as a hole in the head. Read: https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/major-risks-cashless-society and https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cashless-society-dangers-racist_l_5f234e95c5b68fbfc880de22
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Guantanamo detainee called '20th Hijacker' of 9/11 repatriated to Saudi Arabia
A man accused of being the would-be 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has been repatriated to Saudi Arabia after two decades detained at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. Department of Defense said on Monday.
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Motives of Foreigners’ Kidnappings Escalation in Yemen
The frightening escalation of targeting process to foreign workers in Yemen has sparked a debate about the identity and motives of those behind these operations, and does it have anything to do with the United Nations reducing the size of its humanitarian interventions? and its efforts to drain what is left in the donors’ treasury, or by the Western American movement in the Yemeni Oil Crescent, and what is the future of international organizations in the “legitimate” areas in the south and east of the country?
where some go to blame international organizations and UN missions for a prominent role in these incidents, at least for not taking security measures to prevent more kidnappings, thus, they allude to the possibility of UN manipulation to drain the rest of Yemen’s aid by disbursing it as ransom. While organizations arranging to leave the country following the United Nations decision to reduce the proportion of humanitarian intervention, in a country that suffers from a humanitarian catastrophe due to the war and siege, which is approaching its eighth year, however, this narrative seems weaker if other dimensions are taken into account, represented by the political struggle of the “legitimacy” parties, in areas that witnessed kidnappings and parties attempt to exploit it in order to achieve field gains, as the call of STC through its official spokesman, Ali Al Kathiri, where he stressed on the necessity of carrying out a military operation for the council’s factions in those areas under the control of Hadi and Mohsen factions, and who accused them of moving the base to mix papers with the approaching to fold their page.
This view may take a dimension closer to reality, and it is like the one that talks about Al-Qaeda resorting to these operations, to pay off a financial deficit and a funding crisis that the organization suffers from, but the most important thing is the operations coincided with Al-Qaeda’s intensification to its media activity, after its websites and pages were represented by Almalahem and Alsahab, which were closed by Western intelligence, not to mention the organization’s concentration of its activity in the region extending from Abyan in southern Yemen to Hadhramaut, reaching Marib and passing through Shabwah.
These areas represent the oil crescent of Yemen, which is rich in oil and gas which the eyes of Western countries and the United States began to look to it, to reduce the size of the escalating global energy crisis due to the conflict with Russia and the attempt of Gulf states to bargain with oil in exchange for concessions, not to mention their high prices compared to the cheaper Yemeni oil and gas due to the previous regime’s agreement with transcontinental companies.
This prompted activists to link the western path with the sudden rise of Al-Qaeda, in a statement published by Al-Sahab video, Al-Qaeda admitted that he had been hacked by Western intelligence.
The kidnapping may have coincided with the organization’s announcement of killing two of its leaders in American raids in Marib and the talk of the American envoy who visited Hadhramaut and Shabwah about an American desire to return to combat terrorism in Yemen is closely related, this may seem the most realistic view, the organization has long provided cover for the movements of the United States and Western countries in southern and eastern Yemen.
https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2022/03/08/163381/
cp15 Propaganda
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Yemen arms embargo renewal may pave new path
The United Nations Security Council's decision to renew its arms embargo on Yemen and label Houthi rebels a "terrorist group" could pave a new path for negotiations, experts said, amid an increased emphasis on a political solution to the conflict in the country.
Rasha Al Joundy, research supervisor at the Dubai Public Policy Research Center, said the resolution was "not intended to complicate the humanitarian efforts in Yemen", but it presents a direct message to the Houthis that there is "an impatience in the international community" resulting from the obstruction of any mediation to end the yearslong war, and pressure will only increase if they keep adopting the same policies.
http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202203/10/WS62293404a310cdd39bc8b8dd.html
My comment: This obviously is BS; the exact opposite will come true.
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Houthis impose media blackout on Jolie's visit
http://en.adenpress.news/news/34643
but
https://en.ypagency.net/255327/
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/06/angelina-jolie-arrives-in-yemen-as-unhcr-envoy/
https://en.ypagency.net/255681/
https://en.ypagency.net/255772/
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
Siehe / look at cp1
Tägliche schwere Luftangriffe der Saudi-Koalition vor allem auf militärische Ziele in den Provinzen Marib, Shabwa, Jawf, Al Bayda, Sanaa.
Heavy air raids on a daily basis, mainly on miltary targets in Marib, Shabwah, Jawf, Al Bayda and Sanaa provinces.
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Saudi coalition air raids and shelling day by day
March 5: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2270992916384394/
March 4: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2270992366384449/
March 3: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2270991733051179/
March 2: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2270991316384554/
March 1: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2270989663051386/
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Najiya
I had warned her against going there.
Luckily though, Najiya worked in the management building’s accounting office, which was relatively far from the hangars that had been set ablaze by falling bombs.
It was a crisp, cold morning. Her body had been spared, not even a single scratch left its mark, but her spirit had been wounded. Disconcerting effects from her psychological scars suddenly afflicted her, completely in contrast with her strong, courageous personality. Whenever she heard explosions, fireworks crackling, or rumbling thunder, she would fall to the ground and take cover beneath a table or chair, or curl up in a corner and cry profusely.
In those moments, when the memory of that day returned to her, she imagined herself as a scorched corpse whose face had been disfigured, hair seared, and skin burned off. There would be nothing recognizable about her. The smell of charred flesh pervaded her nostrils, and she would find herself transported back to the past, stuck between the leveled buildings and corpses as she relived the horror of time freezing and life stopping.
https://www.yemenpolicy.org/najiya/
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3 civilians killed as coalition strikes
The Houthi group on Tuesday accused the Saudi-led coalition of striking a football stadium in Yemen's province of Bayda.
Three civilians were killed and others injured in the attack, the group's youth and sport ministry said.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29011.html
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Aggression's cluster bombs kill, injure 112 women
The Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) monitored the death and injury of 112 women during the period 2015-2021 by cluster bombs dropped by the Saudi-led aggression coalition warplanes on Yemen.
In a report received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the center confirmed the cluster bombs killed 36 women and injured 76 during the past years.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178531.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/255737/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/09/at-least-112-women-killed-and-injured-by-cluster-ammunitions-in-yemen-since-2015/
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20 Houthis killed in new Saudi-led airstrikes in northwest Yemen
At least 20 Houthi fighters were killed in Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah on Friday, the information centre of the [Hadi gov. army] fifth Military Command said.
The coalition targeted Houthi positions in the town of Haradh on the border with Saudi Arabia where battles between the forces of the internationally recognised government and the Iran-allied Houthi group have been raging for weeks.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-28965.html
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Air raids every day
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178602.htm
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178600.htm
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178481.htm and https://en.ypagency.net/255756/
https://en.ypagency.net/255664/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/08/saudi-led-invaders-carry-out-26-airstrikes-across-yemen/
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178369.htm
https://en.ypagency.net/255553/
https://english.almasirah.net.ye/post/24524/US-Saudi-Warplanes-Strikes-Sana-a and https://en.ypagency.net/255490/
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3177991.htm and https://en.ypagency.net/255441/
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178168.htm and https://en.ypagency.net/255311/
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
Im Jemen herrscht ein militärisches Patt. Eine größere offensive mit größeren Erfolgen und Geländegewinnen für eine Seite bleiben seit der Offensive der saudischen Koalition gegen Hodeidah im Jahr 2018 aus. Kleinere Offensiven, ständige gegenseitige Angriffe und Gefechte mit Toten auf beiden Seiten und Opfern unter der Zivilbevölkerung gibt es aber ständig. Besonders betroffen sind die Provinzen Hodeidah, Taiz, Al Bayda, Al Dhalea, der Bezirk Nehm in der Provinz Sanaa, die Provinzen Al Jawf, Marib, Hajjah und Saada.
There is a military stalemate in Yemen. A larger offensive with greater successes and territorial gains for one side has been absent since the Saudi coalition's offensive against Hodeidah in 2018. Smaller offensives, constant mutual attacks and skirmishes killing fighters of both sides and causing victims among the civilian population are constant. The provinces of Hodeidah, Taiz, Al Bayda, Al Dhalea, the district of Nehm in the province of Sanaa, the provinces of Al Jawf, Marib, Hajjah and Saada are particularly affected.
(A K pS)
Two children were killed and three others were injured by a Houthi landmine in Sana'a on Tuesday evening/Bawabati
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-55067
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Two elderly civilians killed by Houthi snipers in Taiz
Two elderly civilians were killed in the past 48 hours by Houthi snipers in Maqbana district, west of Taiz city, Yemen’s third-largest city.
41-year-old Saeeda Salem Alboomy was gunned down today by a Houthi sniper while she was gathering firewood near her home in Al Boomia village, locals said.
She bled to death after she was shot in her right leg by a Houthi sniper positioned in Al Magaesha hill, a resident told Republican Yemen, requesting not to be identified.
https://republicanyemen.net/archives/30531
and also https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1501629192240513026
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-55066
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29 citizens killed, injured due to Saudi crimes in Saada during week
https://en.ypagency.net/255556/
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3 citizens killed by Saudi shelling on Sa'ada
At least two citizens and an African immigrant were killed on Wednesday in Saudi artillery shelling targeted the border district of Munabeh in Sa'ada province, a security official told Saba.
The official indicated that five other citizens, including an African immigrant, were wounded with varying wounds due to the Saudi army bombing onseveral areas of the border districts of Munabeh and Sheda.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178533.htm
https://en.ypagency.net/255722/
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29022.html
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12 Citizens Injured By Saudi Bombing on Sa'adah
12 citizens were injured, Tuesday, by Saudi enemy fire on the border areas of Sa'adah Governorate.
Our correspondent in Sa'adah reported that seven citizens, including two African migrants, were injured by the Saudi enemy's fire in Al-Raqo area in Munabbih border district, Later, five citizens were injured in the areas of Jara'a and Al Sheikh in same district.
https://english.almasirah.net.ye/post/24547/12-Citizens-Injured-By-Saudi-Bombing-on-Sa-adah
and also https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178492.htm
and
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5 civilians injured in Saudi bombing on Saada
Five civilians were injured on Tuesday by Saudi shelling on border residential areas in Saada province, north of Yemen.
A security source in the province said that the Saudi army launched a bombing on the areas of Jara’a and Al Sheikh in the border district of Munabeh, wounding five civilians with varying degrees of injuries.
https://en.ypagency.net/255629/
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Three explosions hit Yemen's Marib, left several killed
Local sources in the Yemeni province of Marib reported that three explosions took place in the province on Monday, one of which targeted the headquarters of the resigned government's Ministry of Defense.
Al-Akhbar Al-Yemeni website quoted the sources as saying that senior leaders of the forces of resigned Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi were killed during the blasts.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/184622/Three-explosions-hit-Yemen-s-Marib-left-several-killed
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Shiit sniper kills elderly civilian in Taiz
The Shiit theocratic militant shot dead 60-year-old Hazaa Hassan Abdu Hamid while he was shepherding goats on Alghabra hill in Maqbana district to the west of the provincial capital, local sources have said.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-55028
(A K pS)
Shia terrorists fire ballistic missile on Yemen's national oil company
Yemen's Shia terrorists fired a ballistic missile on the country's flagship oil and gas company of Safer in eastern Yemen's Marib province on Monday afternoon, it has been reported.
The missile attack which fortunately missed the facility supplying Yemen with all its fuel is the second terror attack of its kind in a week.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-55027
and also https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1501241337852702720
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40 officers, recruits defected from coalition ranks in Marib
Dozens of coalition officers and soldiers in Marib province defected from Saudi-led coalition and joined the national salvation government, informed sources told Yemen Press Agency.
According to the sources, about 40 officers and recruits in the coalition’s 310th and 114th Brigades announced their defection from the coalition forces and joined the fighting with Sanaa forces.
The sources confirmed that the officers and recruits managed to escape from coalition camps in Wadi Abeida, towards Sana’a forces positions in al-Jubah directorate.
https://en.ypagency.net/255575/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/03/08/dozens-of-saudi-led-troops-defect-to-national-salvation-government-in-marib/
(A K pH)
5 citizens wounded due to Saudi bombing on Saada
Five civilians were wounded on Monday due to Saudi bombing on Saada province, a security source told Yemen Press Agency.
The source indicated that the civilians were transferred to
https://en.ypagency.net/255508/
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Citizen killed, another injured in Saudi bombing on Sa'ada
A citizen was killed and another was wounded on Monday as a result of the continued missile and artillery bombardment of the Saudi enemy army on Sa'ada province.
A security source in Sa'ada told Saba that the Saudi enemy army targeted with missiles and artillery shells the border district of Sheda, which led to the death and injury of two citizens.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3178250.htm
https://en.ypagency.net/255440/
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280 government troops killed in northwest Yemen, report
At least 80 government troops have been killed and 200 injured in renewed battles between the forces of the internationally recognised government and Houthis in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah, the Arabi 21 website reported on Saturday.
The battles in the districts of Haradh and Abs resumed weeks ago. They are the fiercest since the two sides started the fight for the province on the border with Saudi Arabia years ago, with both sides suffering heavy losses, it quoted a military source as saying.
At least 750 Houthis were killed in one week earlier this month, local media outlets reported.
On Saturday, the government forces repelled a massive Houthi assault on their positions in the area of Bani Hasan in Abs, the website said.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-28988.html
and
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80 Houthi militiamen killed in fighting, airstrikes in northwestern Yemen
A total of 80 members of the Houthi militia were killed in the ongoing battles with the Yemeni government forces in the country's strategic northwestern province of Hajjah, a military official told Xinhua on Monday.
"Intensified airstrikes and ferocious battles occurred during the past 72 hours in Abs and Haradh districts of Hajjah, leaving around 80 Houthi militias killed and scores others injured," the local military source said on condition of anonymity.
He said that a series of airstrikes struck Houthi military vehicles and gatherings when they were preparing to launch attacks against the government-controlled areas in Abs district of Hajjah.
Meanwhile, a source of the Yemeni government said that their forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition succeeded in thwarting several Houthi attacks against Abs and Haradh districts.
http://www.news.cn/english/20220307/da3d589fedcb414084f77b3456786c20/c.html
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Child killed, two wounded in shelling in northwest Yemen
A child was killed and two were injured in artillery shelling attributed to the Houthi group in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah on Sunday.
Local sources said the casualties occurred after an artillery shell landed in a residential area in the district of Hiran.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-28991.html
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US official says Yemen rebels fire missile into busy Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched at least one missile into the busy waters of Red Sea over the weekend, a U.S. official said Monday, raising the risk of the rebels striking one of the many commercial vessels using a waterway crucial to global shipping.
The missile fire took place Saturday in the Red Sea, the Navy said. An American official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the Houthis had conducted the launch.
“Although maritime traffic was not impacted in this instance, these actions are destabilizing and present a danger to all vessels transiting a critical international waterway,” the Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet said.
My comment: Obviously, the US fleet has no business in the Red Sea. It’s 6000 miles away from the US.
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KSrelief's Masam Project Dismantles 1,086 Mines in Yemen during One Week
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Project (Masam) for clearing mines in Yemen, dismantled, during the first week of March 2022, a total 1,086 mines planted by the Houthi militia across Yemen, including 26 anti-personnel mines, 359 anti-tank mines, 683 unexploded ordnance and 18 explosive devices.
Since the beginning of the project, as many as 323,875 mines have been dismantled.
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2335026
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Houthi rockets killed three civilians and critically wounded two others in north Yemen's Hajjah province on Saturday, local sources said. The wounded are children, one 11 and one 12 years old boys./Voice of Freedom website
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-54990
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Houthi militia fire two rockets on a hospital in central Yemen's Beidha province/September Net website
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-54990
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The Houthi militia mourned 764 militants including senior militants, children and African refugees killed in the terrorist militia's ranks last February/Yemen TV
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-54990
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Civilian injured due to Saudi bombing on Saada
A civilian was seriously wounded on Saturday as a result of Saudi bombardment on the border populated areas in Saada province, northern Yemen.
A security source confirmed the arrival of a wounded person to the rural Razih hospital after Saudi missile and artillery bombardment targeted the border Sheda district.
https://en.ypagency.net/255305/
cp18 Kampf um Hodeidah / Hodeidah battle
Seit dem Abkommen von Stockholm vom 13. Dezember 2018 gibt es einen Waffenstillstand für Hodeidah. Zwar bleiben größere Offensiven aus, kleinere Gefechte gibt es aber laufend, und beide Seiten werfen sich ständig Verstöße gegen den Waffenstillstand vor.
Since the Stockholm Agreement of December 13, 2018, a ceasefire has been in place for Hodeidah. There are no major offensives, but smaller battles are ongoing and both sides constantly are accusing each other of violating the ceasefire.
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Film: Yemen – Yemenis in Taiz celebrate coffee heritage
Taiz Cultural Office organized a coffee tasting festival to encourage coffee cultivation in the Yemeni city, which is famous for producing “mocha” coffee beans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGTsyIJ-Eic
Vorige / Previous:
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-792a / Yemen War Mosaic 1-792a:
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:
