Dies ist die Fortsetzung von Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 807, Teil 1 / This is the sequel of Yemen War Mosaic 807, part 1:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-807-yemen-war-mosaic-807
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 Aden-Regierung im Südjemen / Separatists and Aden 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 Kulturerbe / Cultural heritage
cp13c Wirtschaft / Economy
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Kampf um Hodeidah / Hodeidah battle
cp19 Sonstiges / Other
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 Aden-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Aden government
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council Offers Hope Amid Uncertainty
The Council’s Disparate Ideologies and Goals
There is no doubt that the selection of the Presidential Leadership Council was done with an eye toward political balancing, as half of its members are northerners and the other half are southerners, reflecting the historical differences that have marked Yemen for decades, even after the 1990 unification of the country’s north and south. It seems that the members were also chosen because of their links to either the Emiratis or the Saudis who have their own ideological and political favorites in Yemen and who, they believe, would advance their own particular interests.
Doubts about the Council’s Effectiveness
The fact that these Council members were all chosen by countries outside of Yemen has led some Yemenis to question their legitimacy. As one specialist recently stated: “The council wasn’t formed through Yemeni-Yemeni talks, it was the result of exterior forces.”
Although the Council’s diversity reflects the different sections of the anti-Houthi Yemeni factions and is, therefore, almost fully representative, the question arises as to how it can govern effectively when these factions and militias have such different goals, backed by their outside patrons. For example, the Saudis and their Yemeni allies seem to want a unified Yemen to include former members of the government of the deceased former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, whereas the Emiratis and their allies seem to want a separate southern Yemen and are strongly opposed to Islah because the UAE is dead set against the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates.
But Facts on the Ground Are Working in the Council’s Favor
Nonetheless, in the short-term at least, the fact that the truce has been holding is working to the Presidential Leadership Council’s benefit. Two specific reasons stand out: Yemenis have not enjoyed even a temporary cessation of hostilities for a long time, and the new executive body is in fact operating on Yemeni soil.
The Presidential Council is trying to present itself as a unifier for the anti-Houthi coalition while working toward a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Indeed, Hans Grundberg, the UN’s special envoy for Yemen, is trying to work with both the Council and the Houthis to extend the truce and then move toward negotiations that would be aimed at a political settlement. Whether this process succeeds is a different matter altogether because many developments could derail the process.
Will the Current Ceasefire Be Extended?
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The division ravages the recently formed Presidential Council in Saudi, against the background of the STC’s rejection of Al-Alimi’s decision to merge its security and military units under the command of the Ministries of Defense and Interior, amid moves by the British and Saudi ambassadors and the commander of the coalition forces to avoid the deterioration of the situation among the components of the Council.
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1529174062118932481
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STC threatens to explode the situation in Aden and threatens to head towards the Bab al-Mandab strait. The head of the "Southern Transitional" funded by the UAE, held an emergency military meeting with the most prominent leaders of his militia in four southern governorates, including the #Aden city. Media outlets affiliated with the “transitional” reported that a member of the #Riyadh Presidential Council - head of the “transitional” Aidarous al-Zubaidi, urgently summoned, during the early hours of today, Tuesday, the commander of the “fourth military region” in the Ministry of Defense of the coalition, Fadl Hassan al-Omri, instructing him to raise the readiness combat, and raising it to the general military position in Bab al-Mandab, al-Anad axis, Karsh and Kharaz.
Activists on social media confirmed that Al-Zubaidi's military meeting with the region's commander who turned against the "Hadi government" during the confrontations with the "transitional" militia in August 2019, a clear message of threat to detonate the situation in #Aden, and the use of Bab al-Mandab as a card to pressure not to merge and subjugate his militias To lead the #Riyadh Presidential Council headed by Rashad Al-Alimi. It is noteworthy that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are seeking to integrate all the militias they established in the southern provinces under the leadership of the Riyadh Presidential Council, including the brigades of terrorist elements from al-#Qaeda and #ISIS that are fighting in the ranks of the coalition on the #Marib front, after the #Bayda districts were liberated from those elements.
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1529176951390445571
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UAE-backed STC militia storm local meeting in Socotra
The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia on Tuesday stormed a meeting of the local council on the island of Socotra province, southern Yemen.
Local sources confirmed that the UAE-funded militia stormed the local council members’ meeting on the island, while they were in a direct meeting with the Governor Ramzi Mahrous, affiliated with Islah Party, via the Internet by the zoom application.
The STC militia prevented members of the local council on the island from continuing to meet with Mahrous, who was expelled from Hadibo city, the capital of Socotra Island, in June 2020, according to the sources.
The UAE has imposed its control over Hadibo with the help and complicity of the Saudi forces, which removed their military posts from the entrances to the city.
https://en.ypagency.net/261692/
Film: https://twitter.com/Adelalhasanii/status/1529052630294700034
Photos: https://twitter.com/Adelalhasanii/status/1529020965098770432
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STC forces kidnapped a local official in Socotra Governorate Local sources confirmed that the STC forces had kidnapped a local official in the Socotra Archipelago. And local sources told "Herut News" that the forces of the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council kidnapped the director of the Socotra governor's office. The sources added that the STC forces kidnapped Mahdi Salim, director of the Socotra governor's office, and took him to an unknown destination.
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1529161297694232584
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Officer, his child injured in assassination attempt in Hadhramaut
A police officer loyal to Saudi-led coalition and his child were injured in an assassination attempt on late Monday evening, medical sources in Hadhramaut said.
https://en.ypagency.net/261688/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/24/police-officer-wounded-by-assassination-attempt-in-hadhramaut/
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Yemeni President urges int'l support for reforms
President of the Yemeni Leadership Council (LC) on Monday called for international support to make military, economic and service reforms in the war-torn country.
At a meeting in Aden with the British ambassador to Yemen, President Rashad al-Alimi told Richard Oppenheim that his LC and government need international support to rehabilitate and improve services in areas retaken from the Houthi group, Aden in particular.
The government plans to make reforms in the military, security and counterterrorism institutions, in addition to economic, service and judicial reforms, he added, according to the Aden-based Saba news agency.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29676.html
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Dutch ambassador: Thrilled to visit the Female Police Academy in Aden for a 2nd time, with Deputy Vice Minister @bmtazelaar and exchange with the female officers. Several work in leadership positions now. (photo)
https://twitter.com/pd_hof/status/1529112056770744327
Comment: Female Police Academy in Aden is an achievement toward better access to policing services. Women role within police sector has 2be widely reactivated, it’s much required now. Women deployment at police stations is a pressing need for women &children.
https://twitter.com/HanaShowafi/status/1529115925198389248
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Political sources said that Saudi Arabia exerted pressure to prevent the holding of any events to celebrate the anniversary of the unification of the two parts of Yemen, and according to the sources, Saudi Arabia has invoked the preservation of the unity of the Presidential Council to prevent any event on the 32nd anniversary of the reunification of the country, which raises fears of the A_Alimi Council legitimizing the secession of the south .
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528789081110495236
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Officer loyal to Islah escapes assassination attempt in Hadramout
https://en.ypagency.net/261604/
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One killed, 2 injured in armed clashes in Lahj
The sources affirmed that armed clashes broke out between UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s factions in Khwr Omairah area of Al-Medharaba district, which resulted in death of one of Taiz sons and wounding of two citizens from Al-Sabiha tribes.
https://en.ypagency.net/261567/
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STC supporters mobilize in Yemeni provinces to revive separation
Thousands of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) supports on Saturday took to streets in many Yemeni southern and eastern cities to revive the 28th anniversary of disunity declaration and separation call.
The provincial capitals of Hadhramout, Shabwa, Lahj and Socotra saw many rallies on Saturday morning following a call from the separatist STC.
The campaigners raised flags of what was known as Yemen's democratic republic, and voiced calls for restoring the southern state and ejecting the northern troops from southern provinces.
In an official statement, the STC hailed the public masses that took to streets to "express the southern people's solid will and adherence to their right to restoring their state and deciding their fate."
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29657.html
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President Al-Alimi salutes the broad national and regional alignment against the brutal Houthi coup
In his speech to the Yemeni people at home and abroad, on the eve of the 32nd National Day of the Republic of Yemen, President Al-Alimi referred to the implications of the exceptional national consensus within the framework of the Presidential Leadership Council.
The President said, "The alignment of the goal and decision partners from the south and north of the homeland in the temporary capital, Aden, reflects the determination of all forces to restore the state, and move to a more participatory space in which Yemenis determine their future on the basis of coexistence as they have been and have done since God created this good land, and from on her".
In the general executive context, the Chairman of the Leadership Council affirmed the priority of the economic issue in the plans and directions of the Council and the government of political competencies, including working to activate exports, develop revenues, and regularly pay the salaries of public service employees, the armed forces, security and pensions.. Again, the commitment of the leadership and the government, By improving services in all governorates, at the forefront is the temporary capital, Aden, which will receive special attention, befitting its position, history, city, beauty, goodness and purity of its residents.
President Al-Alimi stressed that the council will work primarily to combat corruption through the development of the control and accountability body, and the selection of a new supreme national anti-corruption body to succeed the existing body.
President Al-Alimi and members of the Leadership Council valued the precious sacrifices of the heroes of the armed and security forces, in defense of constitutional legitimacy, the republican system, and national unity.. He reiterated his directives to the government to expedite, within one month from now, the establishment of the National Authority for the treatment and care of the wounded and injured of the army, security and resistance, and the families of the martyrs among them, and to issue A law with a special fund for its resources.. affirming the continuation of efforts to unify the military and security establishment, in accordance with the Riyadh Agreement, and announcing the transfer of power, through a military and security committee, which will be announced within the next few days.
and also https://debriefer.net/en/news-29662.html
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Al-Alimi dissolves STC forces
Rashad al-Alimi, head of Riyadh-formed Presidential Council has responded to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s show off its forces and its siege imposed by its supporters on al- Al-Ma’ashiq Palace in the city of Aden, southern Yemen, who refuse to celebrate Unity Day .
“The unification of the military and security establishment will continue, under the Riyadh agreement, and the declaration of the transfer of power, through a military and security committee will be announced in the next few days,” al-Alimi said in a speech marking the anniversary of Yemen’s Unity.
The STC is desperately trying to hinder the integration of its formations with forces loyal to the Islah Party in the ministries of defense and interior in the pro-coalition government, as this means stripping it of the force and turning it into a political entity.
https://en.ypagency.net/261442/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/22/saudi-led-leadership-condemns-southern-yemeni-separatists-on-unity-day/
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Qana Resort, #Shabwah Governorate, will open soon. Pictures by Mahssan Alawlaqe
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1527966423309598721
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Aden Marks 28th Anniversary of Disengagement Declaration
A special ceremony was held in the capital Aden on Saturday to mark the 28th anniversary commemoration of the disengagement declaration 21 May 1994.
The event was co-organized by the Southern Transitional Council and civil society organizations under the slogan The South Asserts its Demands for Land Restoration and Independence - The South was made for and by its people.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/35079
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Film: Yemen - Southern Transitional Council commemorated southern secession in Aden
The Southern Transitional Council organized a ceremony in Aden attended by the council’s leaders and community based organizations, to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the southern secession from northern Yemen that took place in 1994.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_THDSG_AAr8
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People of Mahrah reject suspicious calls by coalition, its tools
The Sit-in Committee of Mahrah warned of new moves by the Saudi-led occupation forces aimed at spreading chaos and violence in the province by their tools.
The committee’s spokesman, Ali Bin Mahamed, called on all the people of Mahrah to reject calls by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) for events aimed at dragging the people into conflicts, spreading hatred and provoking fighting among the province’s people.
Bin Mahamed said the STC’s calls are “Out-of-Tune” and the Mahri consensus, calling on the local authority, security and military agencies to shoulder their responsibilities in preventing chaos in Mahrah.
He stressed that the sit-in committee will not stand idly by and will not allow those whom he described as “militias” to tamper with the security of Mahrah people.
https://en.ypagency.net/261275/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/20/protest-movement-in-mahrah-rejects-continued-saudi-uae-destabilisation-plots/
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Tensions returned to Abyan
Tensions returned to Abyan governorate due to conflicts between the Saudi-led coalition’s multi-loyalty military factions in the coastal province.
According to media sources, the troops of the “111th Brigade” loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) refused the deployment of troops from the Presidential Protection Brigades on “the Shaqar- Ahor- Ataq” road, under pretext that that they were affiliated with the Muslim brotherhood ( Islah party).
The Presidential Protection Forces deployed near 111th Brigade points on the way, justifying the deployment to secure the road, based on instructions from the Minister of Defence in the Coalition-backed government, the sources said.
The same sources added that tensions at their highest as the command of the 111 Brigade rejected the Saudi-backed defense Minister’s orders and considered him a part of the problem.
They pointed out that a tribal mediation is trying to defuse tensions after military movements.
https://en.ypagency.net/261286/
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UAE occupation adopts anti-Yemeni unity event in Socotra
The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) has called on its supporters to stage demonstrate tomorrow to demand the disengagement from Yemeni unity on the UAE-held island of Socotra.
https://en.ypagency.net/261301/
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STC leader injured in assassination attempt in central of Abyan
seriously injured during in an explosion caused by caused by an improvised explosive device (IED), while he was on his way home.
https://en.ypagency.net/261316/
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Insan Rights, Freedoms Organization reveals abduction of Yemeni journalist
Insan Rights and Freedoms Organization revealed on Friday a crime of abduction committed by the forces of the so-called "National Army" in the city of Marib on journalist Naziha Nasir Ali al-Junaid.
In a statement received by SABA, the organization explained that the forces of the so-called national army abducted journalist Naziha al-Junaid upon her arrival in Marib.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187594.htm
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Southern Resistance calls for standing against Brotherhood in Abyan
The members of the Southern Resistance in Abyan's Khobar Al-Maraqsha area called on, in a statement today, all the tribal forces in Ahwar district to band together with the Southern Resistance against the militias of Islah party, the Yemeni arm of Muslim Brotherhood organization.
The statement issued after the Brotherhood's militias having deployed 'unacceptably' large number of armed men along the areas of Ahwar over the past two days.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/35073
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2 civilians killed in armed clashes in Shabwa
The clashes erupted between militia of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) and gunmen believed to be loyal to Tariq Afash, military commander backed by the UAE, local sources reported.
https://en.ypagency.net/261226/
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Attack leaves two militants loyal to STC killed in Shabwah
At least two militants loyal to the UAE-backed Transitional Council (STC) were killed and another wounded on Wednesday in an attack in Shabwah province, southeastern Yemen.
This was reported by Yemen News Portal based on testimonies of local sources.
According to the sources, tribesmen from Al al-Haddar gunmen fired a hail of bullets at security guards in a school which being used as exam centre in Bayhan, west of the province.
https://en.ypagency.net/261091/
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Tariq forces carry out new deployment in Aden
A UAE-backed military faction, led by Tariq Saleh has reinforced their deployment in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday.
This was reported by Yemen News Portal based on testimonies of well-informed sources.
This followed the UAE’s start of restructuring the Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s forces in Aden and integrating its factions into the ministry of defense in the coalition-backed government.
According to the sources, hundreds of joint forces led by Tariq Saleh, deployed during the past hours, in all entrances and exits of the directorate of Sira, and the streets leading to the directorate.
The sources explained that the forces set up checkpoints in some outlets and neighborhoods of Sira, amid apprehension by the STC’s factions.
On Wednesday, a member of the so-called Presidential Council ( Tariq Saleh) launched a large-scale recruitment campaign in the southern provinces, in a move that could end the presence of the STC’s military, which is losing its positions successively.
https://en.ypagency.net/261181/
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Al-Qaeda sends “50” of its members to Shabwah
Military sources revealed on Wednesday that dozens of al-Qaeda members have arrived on the outskirts of Shabwah province, southern Yemen, Yemen News Portal reported, citing sources.
This coincided with the escalation of the terrorist organization’s public movements in the rich-oil province.
The sources confirmed that more than 50 al-Qaeda members arrived in the past hours at the outskirts of the Usiylan District, near the eastern border of Marib province.
It is not yet known whether al-Qaeda’s deployment near the oil area of Shabwah is part of a plan to attack oil fields, or a new scenario for an attack on Sanaa forces stationed south of Marib, as the group intensifies its presence in Marib, along with coalition factions.
Al-Qaeda elements have recently been heavily deployed in areas which are under control of Saudi-led coalition’s factions in the southern provinces, like Shabwah, Hadhramaut and Abyan.
https://en.ypagency.net/261186/
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Washington ‘cautiously optimistic’ about renewal of Yemen truce, US envoy says
Mr Lenderking told The National that extensive intra-Yemen and regional talks were under way to renew the truce that expires on June 2.
“We are cautiously optimistic, but there's a lot of hard work that has to be done over the course of the next two weeks,” he said.
The US envoy described the truce as a possible game-changer in the more than seven-year war.
“There really is a big drop in fighting. No cross-border attacks … the truce provides the best chance that Yemen has had since this conflict began to really turn a corner to end the violence, to move into a political process that allows Yemenis to decide the future of their own country,” he said.
Washington is hoping to capitalise on this by achieving another temporary truce that will ultimately lead to a permanent ceasefire.
“We are we definitely talking about [ending the war] and thinking about it,” Mr Lenderking said.
“The UN is working on a framework that is based on the consultations that they've been hosting over the last two months in Amman.”
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2022/05/25/washington-cautiously-optimistic-about-renewal-of-yemen-truce-us-envoy-says/ = https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/world/washington-cautiously-optimistic-about-renewal-of-yemen-truce-us-envoy-says/ar-AAXGTmM
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Will the Current Ceasefire Be Extended?
However, while the ceasefire has obviously been popular with the Yemeni people, the Houthis may be using this period to regroup and recalibrate. They may still have their eye on capturing Marib province with its oil resources and may be gearing up for such an offensive as soon as the truce formally ends in early June. If they are successful on the battlefield, not only would they benefit from the oil resources in that region, but they would be able to discredit the President Leadership Council and break up the coalition it represents.
On the other hand, the Houthis know that the majority of the people under their control in northern Yemen may not share their ideological goals as a militant, anti-Sunni, and anti-Western organization. If they were to launch an offensive after the two-month truce ends, the Saudi-led coalition would undoubtedly close the airspace over Sanaa airport again and prevent supplies from coming into Hodeida. Such closures would hurt millions of Yemenis, but there is a very good chance that the Houthis would be blamed by the populace for this situation as much as the Saudi-backed forces for scuttling a ceasefire. Hence, the Houthis would have to think twice about restarting an offensive, as it could prove politically risky.
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#Sanaa sets its conditions for extending the UN armistice Today, the Sanaa government announced its conditions for extending the United Nations truce declared in Yemen, stressing the need for the Saudi-led coalition to abide by the implementation of the terms of the truce in force, before extending it. Member of the negotiating delegation of the Sanaa Authority, Abdul-Malik Al-Ajri, said in a press statement, "The performance of the aggression countries in the armistice is not optimistic, and they did not implement its most important provisions in the two weekly flights." He added: "The spy flight did not stop, and we warned the United Nations that any breach would be dealt with, and we are still exercising restraint." He continued, "We have not yet discussed the issue of extending the armistice with the United Nations so far, and we are focusing on implementing the terms of the armistice first in the required manner, and any extension will be by improving humanitarian conditions." Al-Ajri added: "As long as there is no commitment to the terms of the armistice, on what basis are we looking to extend it?" He stressed, "If there is an extension of the truce, it will be in light of the evaluation of the previous stage and the improvement of humanitarian conditions." Al-Ajri pointed out that "the issue of opening roads was employed in the context of justifying the aggressions siege of ports and airports and covering it up." He stressed "the keenness to alleviate the suffering of the people," explaining that "in the circumstances of the confrontations there is a forced closure of some main roads to preserve the safety of citizens." Al-Ajri @alejri77
considered that "the measures in Taiz were imposed by military necessities to preserve the lives of citizens, while closing the ports and the airport is without justification." He pointed out that "the military committee went for dialogue and has a package of options, whether in Taiz or elsewhere," stressing "the keenness to make the best use of the truce."
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1529214661136199680
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UN SPECIAL ENVOY CONCLUDES A MEETING WITH YEMENI ECONOMIC EXPERTS ON PRIORITIES FOR THE PEACE PROCESS
The UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, concluded today a two-day meeting with Yemeni economic experts from diverse backgrounds to consult on priorities for the multitrack peace process. Participants underlined the momentum provided by the truce on economic issues and identified opportunities for incentivizing further progress.
Discussions centered on identifying key issues to be addressed in a future dialogue between the parties and in the economic track of a UN-led multitrack process. Issues discussed included the coordination of financial and monetary policies, currency exchange rate stabilization across Yemen, public revenues, the financing of public service salaries, the rising costs of goods due to freedom of movement restrictions and double taxation, reconstruction, as well as other strategic questions of priority. Furthermore, discussions emphasized the need for coordination in vital sectors that could have a direct impact on civilians and their livelihoods.
Participants also highlighted challenges faced by the private sector and ways to address those challenges to help revive the Yemeni economy in a manner that serves the public good and the future of Yemen.
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Yemen’s warring sides expected to discuss Taez siege in Amman
Yemen’s warring sides are expected to meet in Jordan on Wednesday to discuss an end to the siege of the central city of Taez, a move that could open another channel of dialogue after an agreement was made to operate flights between Sanaa and Cairo.
“Taez is the most important element for us right now. We need to ensure that all blockages have been lifted before we can extend the ceasefire,” Hamzah Al Kamaly, Yemen's deputy minister of youth, told The National.
“All eyes are on the Taez meeting,” he said.
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The UN Envoy kicked off today a two-day meeting with Yemeni economic experts, with the participation of international stakeholders, to consult on immediate, short and long-term priorities for economic issues to address in the peace process in #Yemen
https://twitter.com/OSE_Yemen/status/1528732469641502721
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Sanaa discusses with UN “Safer” reservoir problem, implementation of humanitarian truce terms
The [Sanaa gov.] Minister of Transport, Abdulwahab Al-Durra, on Monday called on the United Nations to play its role in solving the problem of the Safer reservoir, according to the previously concluded agreement in this regard.
During his meeting today with the United Nations Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, William David Grisley, the Transport Minister urged the United Nations on the speed of maintenance of the “Safer” ship as it threatens the environment in the Red Sea.
https://en.ypagency.net/261574/
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Taiz file soon at negotiation table in Jordan
The Yemeni government and Houthi teams are expected to meet together this week in the Jordanian capital of Amman to negotiate reopening one of Taiz's crossings following an official call by the UN special envoy for Yemen.
The government team on Saturday received an invitation from the UN envoy's office to hold talks with the Houthis on lifting the Taiz blockade, government senior negotiator said.
"The discussions will take place by the middle of this week and will focus on reopening Taiz's closed roads and ending the suffering experienced by people because of the Houthi blocked imposed on the city," Abdul Kareem Shaiban added in remarks carried by Xinhua.
These developments come one day after the Houthis sent the names of their negotiators to the UN envoy's office.
"Our goal is to reopen the roads as they were before the Houthi war started against the governorate in 2015," Shaiban said.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29656.html
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Sanaa’s military team heads to Jordan to discuss violations of armistice, opening roads
The Sanaa government’s military team to discuss violations of the UN armistice, monitor the ceasefire and open roads left Sanaa International Airport on Sunday on board a UN plane to the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Political sources revealed that the two teams of Sanaa government and the Riyadh-backed Presidential Council government will hold talks tomorrow, Monday, in Jordan.
According to the sources, the Sanaa team is taking an initiative to open Al-Hawban Road in Taiz city after removing the military sites near the road from both sides, and the initiative also includes opening the northern crossing and the Ghorab Road west of the city.
https://en.ypagency.net/261466/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/22/yemeni-diplomatic-team-to-meet-with-saudi-led-delegation-in-jordan/
and also https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187797.htm
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Military committee to discuss violations of UN armistice arrives in Amman
In a press statement after its arrival, the committee said: “We hope that Amman’s discussions will pave the way for opening humanitarian corridors and stopping violations, in a way that leads to ending the siege, and stopping the aggression.”
https://en.ypagency.net/261530/
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Yemeni LC reiterates support for extended truce
The [Aden] Yemeni Leadership Council (LC) is committed to constant support for efforts aimed at extending the 2-month truce announced by the UN on 2 April, LC President said on Saturday.
The 32nd anniversary of the Yemeni Unification comes as "we sit together with goal and decision partners from south and north of the homeland as one team and one nation to restore the State and move to a more participative space where the Yemenis would decide their future on coincidence basis," Rashad al-Alimi added in speech to the national day.
"The last few weeks of the truce taught us an important lesson on how to stand by constantly with our people, and to make concessions.. in order to end their suffering."
The truce should be applied completely, particularly the reopening of roads in Taiz and other cities, the Yemeni leader said.
He called for international pressures on the Houthis to complete the swap of prisoners and forcibly disappeared people, and to pay civil servants' salaries from fees levied on oil tankers arriving at Hodeida port.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29662.html
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UN Envoy consults Yemeni women on multitrack peace process design and priorities
The UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, met today with a diverse group of Yemeni women peace activists, experts, civil society and private sector actors and leaders as part of his efforts to consult on the Framework for the multi-track peace process, including priorities that factor in the experiences and perspectives of Yemeni women and youth. The meeting also discussed the implementation and renewal of the truce.
“While continuously encouraging the parties to ensure women’s meaningful participation in the peace process remains a priority for me, it is also important that we integrate the views of Yemeni women into the design of the peace process to ensure it is sensitive to the issues that Yemeni women and youth face,” said Mr. Grundberg.
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Houthis say they with extended truce ending Yemenis suffering
Chairman of the Houthi Supreme Political Council on Sunday said his group is not against extension of the ongoing UN-brokered truce, which he dubbed as "not encouraging enough".
"We're not against expanded truce," Mahdi al-Mashat said in a speech on the 32nd anniversary of the Yemeni Unification, "but it's impossible to accept any truce during which Yemenis' suffering persists."
The Houthi official called for real, encouraging cooperation that leads to improved human and economic virtues in any future de-escalation.
The UN truce held thanks to patience and restraint highly practiced by Sana'a, he said, as the Saudi-led coalition "disappointingly dealt with pledges stated in the truce."
More humanitarian and economic solutions need to be discussed as a priority to ease the suffering lived by the "Yemeni besieged people," Mashat added.
People felt no difference under the truce that was not "encouraging enough since the coalition obstructed operation of flights to planned destinations - excepting for two flights - and hindered smooth movement of ships."
He reiterated support for "real, sustainable peace based on the needed end to aggression, blockade and occupation; reconstruction; and treatment of the hostile war's impacts."
Peace process needs phased, multiple work courses, he said, blaming the lingering war on the Arab coalition's wrong visions and the international stance biased in favor of the aggressive countries.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29673.html
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[Sanaa] President calls for highlighting unity meanings
President of the Supreme Political Council Mahdi al-Mashat on Sunday called on scholars, intellectuals, writers, and media professionals to highlight the meanings of unity.
He expressed absolute confidence that all the bets of Yemen's enemies have failed, but all indications show that the battle is still long, as the countries of the aggression, led by the USA and Britain alongside with the international community supporting and siding against Yemen still endanger the country.
President Al-Mashat also stressed the keenness for a real and lasting peace based on the basic fundamental demands of a total end to the aggression, siege, occupation, reconstruction, and addressing all the effects and repercussions of the aggression.
He also expressed deep sorrow of the aggression coalition's disappointing way to deal with the obligations stipulated in the armistice terms
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187842.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/261519/ and https://en.ypagency.net/261516/
and by Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/yemen-security-truce-int/houthi-top-official-says-group-not-against-extending-truce-in-yemen-idUSKCN2N80F2
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[Sanaa gov.] Transport Minister calls on UN to pressure other party to open main corridors, roads to citizens, travelers
The Minister of Transport, Abdelwahab Al-Durra, on Saturday called on the United Nations to pressure the other party to abide by the truce and open corridors, crossings and main roads for citizens and travelers across the country.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187685.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/261378/
My comment: Well, just do it yourself and open all roads to Taiz.
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Houthis name team negotiators to discuss reopening Taiz roads
The Houthi group has given the UN a list naming its negotiators to discussions on reopening main roads in the Yemeni southwestern governorate of Taiz, Xinhua quoted a Yemeni firsthand sources as saying.
The Houthis handed the names of their team's members to the UN special envoy's office, he added.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29639.html
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[Aden gov.] Yemeni diplomat unveils attempts to impose fait accompli truce
The Yemeni issue is experiencing an awful, very dangerous blackmail by some parties abusing the keen desire to achieve peace and end war, the Yemeni ambassador to the UK said on Thursday, without naming these parties.
This blackmail comes from these parties' construing the peace efforts exerted by government and Arab coalition as a desire to reach peace by any means, as widely circulated by Houthi supporters, Yaseen Saeed Noman added on Facebook.
There are restless attempts to impose a certain truce establishing fait accompli conditions, as wished by the Houthis, he said.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29623.html
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Insan Organization For Rights & Freedoms (@IRFOYemen) released a statement on latest developments regarding the UN-brokered truce in #Yemen. (text in image)
https://twitter.com/Naseh_Shaker/status/1527398501860184067
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Special Envoy consults diverse group of Yemeni public figures
The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, concluded today a two-day meeting with a diverse group of Yemeni public figures. The meeting comes as part of his consultations with Yemeni groups on the way forward, including their priorities for economic, political, and security tracks. Participants discussed the implementation and extension of the Truce, as well as ways to capitalize on its momentum to initiate a comprehensive political dialogue.
https://osesgy.unmissions.org/special-envoy-consults-diverse-group-yemeni-public-figures
Photos: https://twitter.com/Ibrahim4Yemen/status/1527405017610735621
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Alejri: UN-sponsored Truce Not Substitute for Humanitarian Agreement
Member of the [Sanaa gov.] National Delegation, AbdulMalik Alejri, affirmed that the UN-sponsored truce is not a substitute for the humanitarian agreement, including services and salaries.
“Humanitarian agreement was supposed to be resolved during the truce to become a longer term agreement,” Alejri said in his Twitter account on Wednesday evening.
"The truce is almost over, and the Cairo-Sana'a flight was not conducted, nor it entered post-truce discussions," he added, blaming the Saudi-led aggression and the United Nations for any repercussions.
and also https://en.ypagency.net/261197/
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Abdulsalam: US-Saudi Aggression Did Not Abide by Terms of UN-sponsored Truce
The head of the [Sanaa gov.] National Delegation confirmed that the countries of the aggression did not abide by the terms of the UN-sponsored truce, as they wasted a month and a half of the truce without any trip to and from Sana’a International Airport.
"The terms of the truce stipulate two flights per week and to two specific destinations, Amman and Cairo, but the Saudi-led aggression did not abide by,” Mohammed Abdulsalam wrote in his Twitter account on Wednesday evening. “It wasted a month and a half of the truce without any trip to and from Sana’a International Airport."
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Peace of work: Yemen’s fragile ceasefire
The current truce in Yemen could lead to negotiations on a long-term ceasefire. But this would require greater concessions by the Houthis and sustained diplomatic engagement from regional powers such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Iran.
The two-month truce in Yemen’s long-running conflict is set to expire at the end of May. There are several reasons to hope that the warring parties will extend the agreement – not least a recent decrease in violence in the country and the resumption of flights to and from Sanaa airport. However, the situation is fragile and there is still a risk that the truce could collapse, particularly if the Houthis are unwilling to reciprocate the concessions made by their opponents.
To be sure, there will continue to be divisions within the government, particularly between members of northern-dominated General People’s Congress and southern groups linked to the STC. However, with the Islah party marginalised, the UAE will likely align with Saudi Arabia by throwing its weight behind the Yemeni government. This could allow for a more pragmatic and effective approach to ending the Gulf military intervention.
In light of these developments and the Houthis’ cross-border attacks on vital oil industry infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and the UAE earlier in the year, the Arab coalition has now made a series of concessions to the Houthis as part of the truce – steps that it was previously unwilling to make. The Arab coalition implemented several key trust-building measures that could lay the groundwork for a nationwide ceasefire.
But, while the Arab coalition and the Yemeni government have signalled that they are ready to shift gears in the peace process, the Houthis have not responded with the same level of compromise. And the Houthis have yet to implement some components of the truce, such as their commitment to reopen roads, particularly those in Taiz.
So long as the Houthis are ambivalent about the peace process, there will be a risk that the Arab coalition’s concessions and political manoeuvring could backfire, potentially resulting in further military escalation. The war has reminded the Houthis’ dominant military wing of just how much they can gain through violence, leaving peace negotiations as merely part of a strategy to make more gains rather than to compromise.
If the Houthis are willing, this could create an opportunity for warring parties to begin constructive talks over a wider and more sustainable ceasefire, as well as a long-term political settlement. The truce shows that the most effective peace efforts will come from regional powers such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Accordingly, it is vital that Iran, the Houthis’ main backer, and other countries that maintain dialogue with them support efforts to move towards peace negotiations.
However, after almost eight years of conflict, it is clear that neither the Yemeni warring parties nor their regional backers have much interest in protecting the interests of the Yemeni people.
https://ecfr.eu/article/peace-of-work-yemens-fragile-ceasefire/ = https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/05/24/how-long-can-yemens-fragile-ceasefire-hold/
My comment: This is too much siding with the Saudi coalition. It’s concession hardly are this impressive.
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Conflict cessation Houthi condition to reopen Taiz crossings
The Houthi group on Tuesday introduced a new condition for reopening Taiz city's crossings, southwest Yemen.
"Reopening Taiz roads is attainable" but "after conflict is ended and military sites are removed by both parties," member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council tweeted.
"Once the other party agrees, we'll start the step at once," Mohamed Ali al-Houthi added.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29604.html
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SPC: Request to extend armistice is under study
The [Sanaa] Supreme Political Council (SPC), in its meeting on Wednesday headed by President Mahdi Al-Mashat, referred a request to extend the armistice to study, according to the evaluation of the current phase of the armistice to end on June 2.
The Council urged on taking into account the extent of the aggression coalition's commitment to the terms of the current truce, and placing the opening of roads in Taiz and other provinces according to the truce terms among the priorities that are being worked on to alleviate the suffering of the citizens.
The SPC noted the importance of the commitment of the United Nations and the aggression coalition that controls oil and gas wealth, port revenues, and the operations of the Central Bank, whose functions were transferred to Aden, to pay the overdue salaries to all state employees.
In the meeting, the SPC members expressed their dissatisfaction with the obstruction of the entry of fuel ships to Hodeida port, the delay in the conduct of flights, the failure to open the Cairo destination so far, and the United Nations negligence in carrying out its duty as it should in this regard.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187398.htm
https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/houthi-rebels-mull-extending-un-brokered-truce-in-yemen-57255 = https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/yemens-houthi-rebels-consider-extending-truce
https://english.news.cn/20220519/fad67377b64c4bd289d71fb7cc075343/c.html
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
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Deeply disturbed to learn that the Saudi government has begun demolishing much of Jeddah, one of the country's most diverse and historic cities.
500,000 residents displaced to build a "futuristic" landscape cleansed of its people, a travesty of immense proportions.
Jeddah was the Hajj gateway to the Red Sea and the world - pilgrims from all over passed through it. Local Hijazi culture integrated many influences from across Africa and Asia as a result. In efforts to preserve its distinct culture, Hijaz historically resisted Saudi rule for years.
The destruction of Jeddah is part of Saudi government project called "Jeddah Central" to build luxury apartments, hotels, etc around its historic center.
Under the excuse of slum clearance, they're wiping away the ethnically-diverse working-class areas that ring the old city and re-writing the city's history.
Demolition of Jeddah follows a similar process in nearby Mecca, which has largely been destroyed to make way for hotels and malls. The city's diverse history bulldozed in the process, its landscape cleansed to portray a new image of Arabian identity that was isolated from the rest of the world - and in which the Saudi family was in control.
These sites don't go well with the story the government wants to tell about Saudi history, which downplays its diversity and how the Kingdom has hosted different traditions, migrants, and rulers.
The Saudi government has also used this kind of gentrification as a tool of direct repression. Just a few years back, thousands were evicted from their homes in Awamiya's historic old city - what many at the time decried as gentrification as a tool of political repression and ethnic cleansing against the Shia inhabitants. (photos)
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An all-women crew took off this weekend with the youngest female Saudi pilot on board the @flyadeal flight (photos)
https://twitter.com/StepFeed/status/1528355737566687234
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Saudi Arabia exported #Wahhabism and #Salafism to Arab and Islamic countries. Currently, #Saudi women take off the Niqab, while #Afghanistan women required to wear Burqa. (photos)
https://twitter.com/KawkabAlwaday/status/1528471407469936645
My remark: Flyadeal is a Saudi air line flying domestic flights only.
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Blinken und Khalid bin Salman sprechen über den Iran
US-Außenminister ist mit dem stellvertretenden saudischen Verteidigungsminister zu Gesprächen über den Umgang mit dem Iran zusammengekommen.
Laut einer auf der Website des US-Außenministeriums veröffentlichten Erklärung traf sich Außenminister Anthony Blinken mit dem stellvertretenden saudischen Verteidigungsminister Khalid bin Salman in Washington zu einem Meinungsaustausch über den Iran und die jüngsten Entwicklungen im Nahen Osten zusammen.
Die beiden Seiten erörterten das Waffenstillstandsabkommen zwischen dem Jemen und der saudisch-geführten Kriegskoalition und den Fortschritt der Waffenstillstandsbestimmungen, einschließlich der Wiederaufnahme kommerzieller Flüge vom Flughafen Sanaa und des Imports von Treibstoff aus Al-Hudaidah, und betonten gleichzeitig die Notwendigkeit, den Zugang zu Taiz und anderen jemenitischen Städten unverzüglich zu verbessern.
Blinken und Khalid bin Salman diskutierten auch über den Umgang mit dem Iran
https://parstoday.com/de/news/world-i68838-blinken_und_khalid_bin_salman_sprechen_%C3%BCber_den_iran
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US State Dep.: Meeting with Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken joined Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman’s meeting today with His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in Washington, D.C. The Secretary and Deputy expressed strong support for the UN-negotiated truce and reviewed other recent progress in Yemen, including the resumption of commercial flights from Sana’a and regular fuel imports through Hudaydah, while stressing the need to urgently improve access to Taiz and other cities on the front lines of the conflict. They discussed with the Deputy Minister the enduring U.S. commitment to strengthen Saudi Arabia’s defenses, efforts to counter Iranian threats, and the importance of maintaining strong international support for Ukraine.
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Top Saudi Court Upholds Death Sentence of Two Young Bahraini Nationals
Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has upheld death sentences of two young Bahraini nationals over trumped-up terror charges.
The Riyadh-based supreme court of appeals sentenced Sadiq Majid Thamer and Jaafar Mohammed Sultan to death after finding them guilty of “smuggling explosives” into the kingdom and involvement in terrorist activities.
Human rights organizations and an opposition protest movement described the rulings as “unfair and arbitrary,” saying they were issued based on confessions extracted under torture
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Peace, Taiz in focus as Saudi deputy defense minister meets US special envoy to Yemen
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Khalid Bin Salman met with US Special Envoy to Yemen Tim Lenderking to discuss the latest developments in the Taiz conflict, the Yemen war and the need for UN-backed peace proposals, among other bilateral issues, a tweet from the Saudi minister on Saturday said.
“I affirmed to him the Saudi led Coalition’s backing of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council and its supporting entities, and our aspirations for reaching a comprehensive political resolution to the crisis that will lead Yemen into peace and prosperity,” he said.
He also “reaffirmed the need for the United Nations and the international community to pressure the Houthis into reopening the roads of Taiz, deposit revenues of the Hodeidah port, and engage with peace proposals,” according to the same tweet.
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Anger in Yemen erupts following Saudi execution of a Yemeni
The father of the executed Mohammed Al-Mualmi speaks to Al Mayadeen English about his last call with his son, touching on how the UN and Amnesty International should pressure Saudis to release his body.
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CNN: Saad Al-Jabri offers Saudi authorities a condition to settle all financial, legal disputes
Former Saudi security adviser Saad al-Jabri has offered to settle all financial and legal disputes with authorities in Saudi Arabia if two of his sons are released, CNN reported.
CNN explained that the forced display came through a recent appeal to the White House.
https://en.ypagency.net/261289/
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Saudi-Arabien lehnt “antirussisches“ Vorgehen im Erdölsektor ab
Neben China und Indien lehnen auch Saudi-Arabien und die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate die Sanktionen gegen Russland ab und weigern sich, sich an dem “Erdölkrieg“ des Westens gegen Moskau zu beteiligen.
Vor dem Hintergrund der Ukraine-Krieges und des Anstiegs der globalen Energiepreise scheinen die Golfstaaten sich von den USA immer mehr zu distanzieren. Vor allem Riad zeigt sich in Bezug auf die US-Außenpolitik zunehmend unkooperativ, und stärkt damit Moskau, mit dem es unter anderem seine Ölproduktion koordiniert.
Dabei geht es hauptsächlich um den Erdölsektor, wo Russland und Saudi-Arabien ihre Vorgehensweisen bezüglich des Erdölfördervolumens und anderen Fragen des globalen Ölmarktes zu koordinieren versuchen. Zugleich zählt Erdöl zu den Bereichen, bei denen die Sanktionspolitik des Westens gegen den Kreml offensichtlich nicht aufzugehen zu sein scheint.
cp9 USA
Siehe / Look at cp9a
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Readout of U.S. - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Strategic Joint Planning Committee (SJPC) May 17-18, 2022
The United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia held the U.S.-Saudi Strategic Joint Planning Committee (SJPC) at the Pentagon on May 17-18, 2022. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Colin Kahl led the U.S. delegation alongside Saudi Vice Minister of Defense His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Salman for the Saudi delegation.
The SJPC is the premier bilateral security forum for senior U.S. and Saudi and defense officials to discuss ongoing security concerns and military cooperation with the aim of advancing the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship.
Dr. Kahl and HRH Prince Khalid bin Salman reaffirmed the strength of the U.S.-Saudi defense partnership. Dr. Kahl affirmed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a strategic partner of the United States and underscored U.S. commitment to supporting the Kingdom in defending itself against external threats. The two leaders exchanged views on national defense priorities and the U.S. approach to China as its pacing challenge. They conferred on a broad range of security challenges throughout the Middle East region, including the war in Yemen, maritime threats, and violent extremist organizations.
The delegations spoke extensively about Iran’s destabilizing activities in the region, and Dr. Kahl and HRH Prince Khalid bin Salman agreed to enhance efforts to counter the smuggling of illicit weapons to violent non-state groups in the region.
Dr. Kahl conveyed his full support for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense transformation process
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2022/05/19/US-reaffirms-commitment-to-helping-Saudi-Arabia-defend-itself-from-external-threats = http://en.adenpress.news/news/35076
My comment: Interesting. Never had heard of that. Shows how the US takes sides in the Middle East, Yemen War included. And shows how the US organizes its claimed world supremacy.
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US State Dep.: Today we celebrated the swearing in of @USEmbassyYemen Ambassador Steven Fagin. All of us @StateDept wish him and his team the best as they work with our partners in the Yemeni government to promote economic stability and provide immediate relief to Yemenis. (photos)
https://twitter.com/StateDept_NEA/status/1527377770925281292
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White House working towards first presidential meeting with Saudi Arabia, which Biden had vowed to make a 'pariah'
President Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, could meet for the first time as soon as next month, multiple sources told CNN. A meeting would come after months of diplomatic heavy lifting and represent a turnabout for a US president who once declared Saudi Arabia a "pariah" with "no redeeming social value."
Biden administration officials are in talks with the Saudis about arranging a potential in-person meeting while the President is overseas next month, current and former US officials said. Saudi Arabia currently holds the presidency of the Gulf Cooperation Council, so any engagement between Biden and bin Salman, known as MBS, would likely coincide with a meeting of the GCC in Riyadh, the sources noted.
"You should count on something like this happening, it just comes down to when, not if," a former US official familiar with the discussions said. Saudi officials did not respond to a request for comment.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/joe-biden-mohammed-bin-salman/index.html
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Request for 18-Month Extension and Redesignation of TPS for Yemen
On June 11, 2021, the TPS-DED Administrative Advocacy Coalition sent a letter to Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken asking for an 18-month extension and redesignation of TPS for Yemen
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Let’s Not Grant Saudi Arabia a Blank Check for American Support
Fareed Zakaria’s latest idea for a diplomatic bargain with the country is too clever by half.
Foreign-policy discourse tends to recycle just a few basic narratives, suitably embellished for the moment. One of these tales, dating from the Cold War world and the immediate aftermath of the Iranian Revolution over 40 years ago, has just been retold around the campfire by Fareed Zakaria in The Washington Post as a paradigm for President Biden’s Middle East policy, as a proposal for repairing the strained American relationship with Saudi Arabia.
As explained by Zakaria, the idea would be to fix the Saudi relationship via an audacious offer of a long-term U.S. security commitment of a kind that would be more durable than, say, Obama’s signature on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with Iran, which Trump tore up three years later, but not quite so permanent and absolute as to necessitate Senate approval, as a formal treaty would.
In return for this commitment to wage war against enemies of the Saudi state for decades to come, the Kingdom would agree to: produce an admission by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman regarding his personal responsibility for journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder; halt combat operations in Yemen; pump enough oil to moderate the price; and, most importantly, make peace with Israel.
The politics of such a deal are interesting
Still, guaranteeing the security of a foreign country is a big step indeed, in that it holds the guarantor hostage to the foreign policies of the country whose security is being guaranteed. Therefore, we should carefully scrutinize each element of the deal. The first problem has to do with a bias in temporality. While Saudi Arabia would make time-limited concessions, they would get an indefinite open-ended commitment. Not only would that hold the U.S. hostage to the actions of its ally, but it would also create a moral hazard by tempting Saudi Arabia to take unwise risks knowing they’ve got the backing of the world’s mightiest military.
https://prospect.org/world/lets-not-grant-saudi-arabia-blank-check-for-american-support/
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Trump’s Billionaire Pal Watered Down GOP Platform on 9/11 for Saudis
The feds are now looking into how Trump’s billionaire friend Tom Barrack successfully stripped mentions of 9/11 in the 2016 GOP platform to please the Saudis.
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A War Powers Resolution to end US support for Saudi-led war in Yemen is expected soon. Reps who voted to end US support for war in Yemen before should co-sponsor it
https://twitter.com/demandprogress/status/1526969384048021504
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Sign-up for Yemen War Powers Resolution advocacy
This week Reps. Jayapal and DeFazio are introducing a War Powers Resolution to end unauthorized US support for the Saudi-UAE-led coalition's war on Yemen.
This comes as a crucial time, as the two-month ceasefire between warring parties is set to expire at June 2, and afterwards the bombs could begin dropping again. Indicating that the US will cease support for a conflict with no military solution will be more important than ever to ensure this temporary truce turns into a permanent peace deal.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScL_41JFhe-Ob5p2S4i_HimyKVU6CJHUQ9_5mh7FySGy66kDw/viewform
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U.S. Relations With Saudi Arabia
BILATERAL RELATIONS FACT SHEET
Following recognition in 1931, the United States and Saudi Arabia established full diplomatic relations, with exchange of credentials and appointment of the first U.S. ambassador (initially resident in Cairo) , in 1940. Saudi Arabia’s unique role in the Arab and Islamic worlds, its holding of the world’s second largest reserves of oil, and its strategic location all play a role in the long-standing bilateral relationship between the Kingdom and the United States. The United States and Saudi Arabia have a common interest in preserving the stability, security, and prosperity of the Gulf region and consult closely on a wide range of regional and global issues. Saudi Arabia plays an important role in working toward a peaceful and prosperous future for the region and is a strong partner in security and counterterrorism efforts and in military, diplomatic, and financial cooperation. Its forces work closely with U.S. military and law enforcement bodies to safeguard both countries’ national security interests. The United States and Saudi Arabia also enjoy robust cultural and educational ties with tens of thousands of Saudi students studying in U.S. colleges and universities and scores of educational and cultural exchange visitors each year. The United States also provides promising youth and emerging Saudi leaders the opportunity to experience the United States and its institutions through the International Visitor Leadership Program and various other exchange programs.
U.S. Cooperation with Saudi Arabia
The United States and Saudi Arabia have a longstanding security relationship. Saudi Arabia is the United States’ largest foreign military sales (FMS) customer, with more than $100 billion in active FMS cases. Through FMS, the United States has supported three key security assistance organizations in Saudi Arabia—the Ministry of Defense, the National Guard, and the Ministry of Interior. Since the 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has also played a vital role in military and civilian construction in Saudi Arabia.
Additional programs support closer cultural, educational, and institutional ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-saudi-arabia/
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Trump fundraiser Barrack sought UAE investment while lobbying for country, prosecutors say
A billionaire fundraiser for former U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign sought investment from two United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth funds at the same time he was illegally lobbying for the country, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
In a new indictment filed in federal court in Brooklyn, prosecutors said an investment management firm run by Thomas Barrack received capital commitments from the unnamed UAE funds totaling $374 million in 2017, after receiving no new funds from the country from 2009 to 2016.
That came as Barrack, who chaired Trump’s 2017 inaugural fund and was a frequent guest at the White House, was secretly lobbying the Trump administration for the UAE between 2016 and 2018, prosecutors said
Barrack last year pleaded not guilty to an earlier indictment on seven criminal counts and is awaiting trial, scheduled for this fall.
The new indictment charges Barrack with nine criminal counts, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent and making false statements to authorities. His lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
and also https://emiratesleaks.com/uae-paid-374-million-to-trump-adviser-to-gain-political-influence/?lang=en
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Recruited by Ford a century ago, Michigan’s Yemeni community has come into its own
The origin story of how the Yemeni community in Michigan is an interesting one. Way back in the early 1900s, Henry Ford started recruiting Yemeni workers to work at Ford's factories. After a few years, Ford sent for more workers and the Yemeni American community began to grow. People who gained citizenship during their time working for Ford brought family over and started lives in Michigan while remaining close to their family back in Yemen.
Now more than 30,000 Yemeni Americans live in Michigan. In recent years, the civil war in Yemen, and subsequent humanitarian crisis, has driven a new wave of immigration. The Yemeni community lives largely in Hamtramck and Dearborn, but it differs in several ways from other Arab American communities in the area.
“The Yemeni community is a distinct community that really deserves to be looked at in its own right” says Brian Stone. “Often umbrella terms like Middle Eastern or Arab Americans are used, and it really papers over the things that are specific and unique, special about the Yemeni community."
Stone is the the English language editor for the Yemeni American News. He says Yemeni have a unique culture and cuisine, and they speak a distinct dialect of Arabic.
cp9a USA-Iran Krise: Spannungen am Golf / US-Iran crisis: Tensions at the Gulf
Siehe / Look at cp9
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Biden made final decision to keep Iran’s IRGC on terrorist list
The president relayed his commitment to Israel’s prime minister.
President Joe Biden has finalized his decision to keep Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on a terrorist blacklist, according to a senior Western official, further complicating international efforts to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Another person familiar with the matter said Biden conveyed his decision during an April 24 phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, adding that the decision was conveyed as absolutely final and that the window for Iranian concessions had closed.
Bennett later confirmed the contents of his conversation with Biden last month in a tweet. “I welcome the decision by the US Administration to keep Iran’s IRGC on the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list — which is where it belongs,” he added.
The United States placed the IRGC on its “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” list in 2019. The designation was part of the “maximum pressure” campaign then-President Donald Trump imposed on Iran after pulling the United States out of the nuclear deal, which had restricted Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief.
Biden administration officials have spent more than a year in often-indirect discussions with European, Iranian and other officials aimed at reviving the nuclear agreement. But while the negotiations have made significant progress, the IRGC’s terrorist designation has become a major stumbling block to a final restoration.
Iranian officials want the United States to lift the terror label before Tehran returns to compliance with the nuclear deal. But the United States has refused to do so, unless Iran offers some security-related concessions beyond the nuclear agreement.
U.S. officials point out that the IRGC terrorist designation was technically never part of the nuclear deal itself, and they say that the deal could be restored with the designation still in place. But supporters of a return to the deal argue that the terror label was among a host of non-nuclear penalties Trump imposed on Tehran partly to make it politically and legally harder to revive the agreement.
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Saudi foreign minister says some progress in talks with Iran
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Tuesday that there had been some progress in talks with Iran but "not enough" and that the kingdom's hands remain outstretched to Tehran.
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Iran's president visits Oman with trade deals expected
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Oman on Monday with trade deals on the agenda and as international talks on Tehran's nuclear programme hang in the balance.
Raisi, on his second Gulf visit since taking office in August, was greeted by Sultan Haitham bin Tareq at the airport and received a 21-gun salute at the royal palace, an Omani statement said.
Raisi's one-day trip comes at a time when renewed talks on restoring a 2015 nuclear deal are at a stalemate. Oman played a mediating role between Tehran and Washington in the build-up to the original agreement.
and also https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220523-iran-president-arrives-in-oman-for-official-visit/
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Iran determined to reach strong, lasting agreement in Vienna talks, FM to Borrell
Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Tehran is determined to reach a strong and lasting agreement in Vienna talks that aim to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
In his telephonic conversation with the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday night, the top Iranian diplomat reaffirmed Iran’s seriousness and goodwill to reach a deal in Vienna.
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Raisi reist nach Oman
Wie exklusiv von der Nachrichtenplattform «Amwaj Media» vermeldet, will der iranische Präsident Ebrahim Raisi Anfang kommender Woche nach Oman reisen. Er nimmt eine persönliche Einladung von Sultan Haitham bin Tareq Al Said an, der damit Bemühungen um einen Abbau von Spannungen zwischen der Islamischen Republik und sunnitischen Golf-Monarchien fortsetzt.
In der omanischen Hauptstadt Muskat laufen dazu direkte Gespräche zwischen Vertretern Saudi Arabiens und Irans, dies allerdings auf einer niedrigen Ebene. Raisi will in Muskat anscheinend über den Jemen hinaus ausloten, ob Oman bei Kontakten mit westlichen Mächten hilfreich sein kann.
https://www.tachles.ch/artikel/news/raisi-reist-nach-oman
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All eyes are on Ukraine, but another crisis is brewing in Iran
Even as the Ukraine war rages in the heart of Europe, we should not forget about another flash point threatening Western security: Iran and its expanding nuclear program. Unless we can get the 2015 nuclear deal back on track, we are headed to a new conflict with Tehran. President Biden and European leaders have acted swiftly and decisively on Ukraine; now they must take steps to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear threshold state.
To this end, Enrique Mora, the European Union’s coordinator for Iran nuclear deal negotiations, recently visited Iran to help salvage a deal stuck in the political quicksand in both Washington and Tehran. Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate, including members of Biden’s Democratic Party, passed a measure asking that a deal with Iran should also cover non-nuclear-related issues — an almost-certain dealbreaker. Meanwhile in Tehran, appetite for an agreement is dwindling as hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi boasts about doubling oil sales since he took office last August, despite U.S. sanctions.
Though negotiations on the essence of the deal are effectively concluded, the Europeans are trying to break a deadlock on the issue that continues to snarl the works: the U.S. designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. This designation is a largely symbolic measure with little or no relation to the dispute over the nuclear program. Washington and Tehran would be foolish to allow domestic ideological positions to sabotage a nuclear deal that managed — against heavy odds — to survive the presidency of Donald Trump.
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
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Film: British Ambassador to #Yemen Richard Oppenheim visited today Yemen's interim capital, Aden. @RJOppenheim said he had "fruitful conversations with PLC Head Dr Rashad al-Alimi and other members on the truce."
https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1528790688376270850
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Britain slashes humanitarian aid by 51% despite global food crisis
Ministers have been accused of choosing the “worst moment in history” to slash the foreign aid budget, as provisional figures showed that UK overseas humanitarian funding was cut by more than half last year.
MPs and charity campaigners say the aid budget urgently needs to be increased to cope with the Ukraine conflict and the risk of famine in Africa.
Separate figures published in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) annual report last year revealed direct UK aid and planned aid to Ethiopia fell from £241m in 2020/21 to £108m in 2021/22, a cut of 55%; aid to Kenya fell from £67m to £41m, a cut of 39%; and aid to Somalia fell from £121m to £71m, a cut of 41%.
One of the largest global humanitarian crises is in Yemen, devastated by eight years of civil war. About 24 million people need help, including nearly 13 million children. UK aid to Yemen fell from £221m 2020/21 to £82m in 2021/22, a cut of 63%.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/britain-slashes-humanitarian-aid-51-070042393.html?guccounter=1
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House of Commons: Yemen: Humanitarian Aid
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered on 17th May 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made about the current impact of UK humanitarian aid on (a) malnourished Yemeni children and (b) Yemen.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2022-05-10.503.h&s=speaker%3A25350
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
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Von einem Jungen aus Jemen zum Nachbarschaftsfest: So gelingt Integration
Fest unter Freunden: 50 Frauen, Männer und Kinder finden sich auf dem Hof Stork ein und feiern den ganzen Tag über ihre bunte Nachbarschaft. Alles begann mit Gerhard Taake und seiner aktiven Hilfsbereitschaft.
Gerhard Taake (73) könnte längst seinen wohlverdienten Ruhestand genießen. Wäre er nicht, fast zufällig, im Jahr 2000 auf Kalid (7) aufmerksam geworden. Kalid stammt aus dem Jemen, wurde als Kriegsflüchtling schwer verletzt im Bünder Krankenhaus behandelt und dort insgesamt 15 mal operiert. Kalid war alleine in Deutschland und durchlebte diese schwere Zeit ohne seine Familie, die aufgrund der Grenzschließung nicht nachreisen konnte. So wurde Gerhard Taake zum Ersatzvater für den kleinen Kalid und besuchte ihn regelmäßig.
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
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Macron: Political solution only way to end Yemen crisis
http://en.adenpress.news/news/35086
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Mohammed bin Zayed's election to UAE president 'just a formality'
Already unofficially in charge for a number of years, the new leader succeeds his brother Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who died on Friday, as head of one of the most powerful countries in the Middle East.
In fact, the election was "just a formality." The Federal Supreme Council, the body made up of the rulers of the seven emirates of the UAE, unanimously appointed the man nicknamed "MBZ" as president.
A police state
The UAE Constitution does not limit the presidency of the country to the ruler of the capital emirate. Article 51 states that the head of state is elected from among the members of the Supreme Council, which means that, in theory, the emir of one of the other six city-states could be a candidate to lead the country. But the imbalance of wealth between oil-rich Abu Dhabi and the other emirates is such that a kind of centralization has emerged, at the expense of the UAE's federal purpose.
Dubai, the country's glamorous shop window and the only emirate that could potentially overshadow Abu Dhabi, had to give up its ambitions when the financial crash hit in 2008. In exchange, Abu Dhabi saved the city from bankruptcy by bailing out its over-indebted real estate sector.
and
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THREAD on key points and the choices facing Mohammed bin Zayed and Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi has a firm lock on the presidency even though the UAE constitution does not assign the position of president to any of the emirates and notes merely that the seven rulers will elect one of their number for a five-year (renewable) term.
The fact that the ruler of Abu Dhabi has, for a second time, been elected president, unopposed, suggests that the presidency is now in fact assigned to Abu Dhabi despite the carefully-worded language of Article 51 in the UAE’s 1971 constitution.
There is no recent precedent for appointing a new crown prince, as Sheikh Zayed had deprived Sheikh Khalifa of the ability to choose his own successor when he named Mohammed bin Zayed deputy crown prince in 2003, a year before he died.
Whether Mohammed bin Zayed decides to appoint one of his brothers or instead chooses one of his sons may provide a glimpse into the balance of power within the sprawling Al Nahyan family that, barring illness, he may reasonably expect to head for at least another two decades.
MBZ will exercise strong & active leadership so the position of crown prince will be less high-profile (in a decision-making capacity) than it has been over the past decade, in which case the decision is more about who takes Abu Dhabi (& the UAE) forward into mid-century.
https://twitter.com/Dr_Ulrichsen/status/1528726968333737987
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Skandal um verschwundene Kinder in Israel: Graböffnung am Montag
Usiel ist eines von Tausenden von Kindern jüdischer Einwanderer aus dem Jemen und anderen orientalischen Ländern, die laut Zeugenaussagen in den 1950er Jahren in Israel unter ungeklärten Umständen verschwanden.
Mit der "Operation fliegender Teppich" waren rund 50.000 Juden aus dem Jemen in den jungen Staat Israel gekommen. Die Umstände in provisorischen Aufnahmelagern waren oft chaotisch. In der Zeit verschwanden zahlreiche Babys und Kleinkinder unter ungeklärten Umständen - viele jemenitische Juden warfen den israelischen Behörden vor, sie gezielt an kinderlose Holocaust-Überlebende weitergegeben zu haben. Den Eltern habe man erklärt, die Kinder seien im Krankenhaus gestorben und sofort begraben worden. Nach Schätzungen geht es um 1.500 bis 5.000 Kinder.
Viele Schicksale konnten nie eindeutig geklärt werden
und
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Verschwundene Kinder in Israel: Bei Graböffnung zwei Leichen in einem Grab gefunden
Laut der israelischen Organisation Amram, die sich für die Wahrheitsfindung in der Affäre einsetzt, stammten zwei Drittel der verschwundenen Kinder aus dem Jemen, der Rest aus Nordafrika sowie dem Iran und dem Irak, einige wenige vom Balkan.
Mit der "Operation fliegender Teppich" kamen rund 50.000 Jüdinnen und Juden aus dem Jemen in den jungen Staat Israel. Die Umstände in provisorischen Aufnahmelagern waren oft chaotisch. In der Zeit verschwanden zahlreiche Babys und Kleinkinder unter ungeklärten Umständen - viele jemenitische Juden warfen den israelischen Behörden vor, sie gezielt an kinderlose Holocaust-Überlebende weitergegeben zu haben.
Den Eltern habe man erklärt, die Kinder seien im Krankenhaus gestorben und sofort begraben worden. Nach Schätzungen geht es um 1.500 bis 5.000 Kinder.
Viele Schicksale konnten nie eindeutig geklärt werden - so wie das von Usiel. Der Junge erkrankte im Alter von 10 Monaten an Kinderlähmung. Für die Nachbehandlung mussten die Eltern, die damals außer Usiel schon drei weitere Kinder hatten, weit fahren.
Nach einer Öffnung von Archiven 2016 war der zuständige Minister Zachi Hanegbi zum Schluss gelangt, Hunderte jemenitischer Kinder seien den Eltern weggenommen und weggegeben worden. Im vergangenen Jahr hatte die Regierung Entschädigungszahlungen in Höhe von 162 Millionen Schekel (rund 46 Millionen Euro) für betroffene Familien angekündigt. Dies wurde jedoch von Angehörigen als "Schweigegeld" verurteilt.
Die betroffenen Familien werfen den israelischen Behörden eine systematische Verschleierung seit Jahrzehnten vor.
https://web.de/magazine/panorama/skandal-verschwundene-kinder-grab-liegen-leichen-36957356
und auch https://www.zeit.de/news/2022-05/23/verschwundene-jemenitische-kinder-in-israel-grab-geoeffnet
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Audio: E45 - Putting the "You" in UAE w/ Annelle Sheline
https://www.americanprestigepod.com/p/e45-putting-the-you-in-uae-w-annelle
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Yemen: EU’s support to avert an environmental disaster in the Red Sea
The European Union (EU) will provide €3 million in support of the UN-coordinated plan to address the environmental threat posed by FSO Safer tanker in the Red Sea.
The FSO Safer is a rapidly decaying super tanker moored off the coast of Yemen, holding an estimated 1.14 million barrels of light crude oil. It is at imminent risk of spill or explosion, creating a potential humanitarian, economic and environmental catastrophe in Yemen and the Red Sea
My comment: Not very impressive.
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IMO Secretary-General urges support for FSO Safer plan
International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Kitack Lim has urged further financial support for a UN-coordinated operational plan to address the threat of a major oil spill from the FSO Safer, moored off Yemen, after a pledging event in The Hague saw donors pledging US$33 million in new funding.
https://www.miragenews.com/imo-secretary-general-urges-support-for-fso-787174/
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Mohammed bin Zayed ist der neue alte starke Mann am Golf
Nach dem Tod von Emir Khalifa ist dessen Halbbruder Mohammed bin Zayed jetzt offiziell der Herrscher über Abu Dhabi. In Wahrheit bestimmt der 61-Jährige aber schon lange die Politik der Emirate – und gilt manchen gar als mächtigster Mann Arabiens.
Die eigentliche Macht im Staat lag bei MBZ. Er war es, der aus dem schwerreichen, aber lange Zeit politisch unbedeutenden Petro-Staat am Golf eine Militärmacht formte, die ihre Interessen in der Region mit brutaler Konsequenz verfolgt. Heute kommt im Nahen Osten niemand mehr um sie herum.
Bin Zayed kontrolliert einen der reichsten Staatsfonds weltweit und gebietet über sechs Prozent aller Ölreserven der Welt. Seine Armee liess er in Jemen und Libyen kämpfen. Er verhängte ein Embargo gegen Katar und schloss Frieden mit Israel. Die Europäer betteln ihn um Gas und Öl an, die Israeli schicken ihm Waffen und Spionagesoftware. Selbst Wladimir Putin nennt ihn einen «Freund». Die «New York Times» bezeichnete MBZ deshalb schon 2019 als den mächtigsten Mann Arabiens.
Aber unter Joe Biden ist das Verhältnis zu Washington gestört. Die Emirate fühlen sich von den Amerikanern im Stich gelassen, nachdem diese nichts gegen die Drohnenangriffe der Huthi unternommen hatten.
Gemeinsam mit Saudiarabiens Kronprinzen Mohammed bin Salman, den er lange protegiert hatte, fährt bin Zayed einen eigenständigen Kurs. Im Ukraine-Krieg wahrt er strikte Neutralität.
cp12b Sudan
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Sudanese Security Forces Kill Protester During Fresh Anti-coup Demonstrations
https://sudantribune.com/article259070/
and also https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/05/22/682511/Sudan-one-killed-anti-coup-demonstration
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
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#Ukraine: Apparently, we were right in asserting that Ukraine is receiving Iranian weapons seized from the Houthis by the United States - here we see a pristine Iranian mortar in the hands of the Ukrainian army.
The mortar itself is very interesting - it very closely resembles an Iranian HM-15 81mm mortar but as the source claims uses 82mm mortar bombs. The name of this particular variant is also stated - HM-19.
We have not encountered such a designation anywhere before, but we believe these mortars are produced specially for Houthis in Yemen, where 82mm mortar bombs of Warsaw Pact are pretty common (thread)
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1527691142023847938
cp13b Kulturerbe / Cultural heritage
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Photos: Old City of Sanaa, UNESCO World Heritage
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[Sanaa gov.] Ministry of Culture condemns aggression targeting of Al-Qattaba archaeological mosque in Khokha district
The Ministry of Culture condemned on Friday the targeting of the US-Saudi-UAE aggression, Al-Qattaba Archaeological Mosque in al-Khokha province in Hodeida, which dates back to the Ayobe era.
The Ministry stated in a statement received today by SABA that the hostile forces and their mercenaries, with the support of the takfiri forces and with the mercenaries of the aggression in the district of Khokha, had recently caused destructive damage to the mosque's roof and also targeted the core part of its rear, as a first stage in order to replace it and construct a new construction on its site.
The statement deplored all the flimsy arguments and false claims made by those force
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187601.htm
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Film: A beautiful videos and pictures from #Yemen, always enhances my #mood. #Sanaa has been inhabited for more than 2,500 years.
https://twitter.com/KawkabAlwaday/status/1527028094825005056
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Terrorists in Saudi ranks damage ancient Temple of Awwam in Ma'rib
Yemeni antiquities in the city of Ma’rib have been subjected on Wednesday to an act of sabotage by extremists in the ranks of the Saudi-led coalition forces and terrorist elements.
Local residents in Ma’rib province said that saboteurs belonging to extremist Salafist groups in the ranks of the coalition, broke a number of inscriptions in the historic Awwam temple, south of Ma’rib city.
The residents called on the de facto authorities in Ma’rib province and the coalition forces to carry out their duties in protecting the ancient monuments of Yemen from sabotage by groups they described as “enemies of the country.”
This comes after two weeks of reported Emirati looting of antiquities across the occupied city of Ma’rib.
Journalist Anis Mansour, a former advisor to the coalition-backed government’s embassy in Riyadh, revealed, in a tweet on Twitter on May 10, the smuggling of ancient slabs bearing inscriptions in Musnad script that were looted from the Awwam temple by the UAE occupation forces.
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/19/terrorists-in-saudi-ranks-damage-ancient-temple-of-awwam-in-marib/ = https://en.ypagency.net/261142/
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Photo: Wadi Doan (Al-Khuraybah)
https://twitter.com/HanaShowafi/status/1526929798634799107
cp13c Wirtschaft / Economy
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Yemen Joint Market Monitoring Initiative: April 2022 Situation Overview
The JMMI is a monthly survey of market systems. The basket of goods assessed includes 10 non-food items (NFIs), such as fuel, water, and hygiene products, reflecting the programmatic areas of the WASH Cluster. The JMMI tracks all components of the WASH and Food Survival Minimum Expenditure Basket (SMEB) as well as other food and non-food items. In addition to price monitoring, the JMMI includes indicators of market fuctionality, such as questions to infere the supply chain, vendors' constraints and ability to meet demands.
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Film: Support beekeepers to restore honey production in Yemen
The livelihoods of Yemeni beekeepers have been severely disrupted by ongoing conflict and economic shocks. To improve smallholder beekeepers' productivity and resilience, a FAO project supported by the World Bank and funded by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, supported 700 small-scale beekeepers (4 percent of them women) to enhance honey production. Beekeepers received trainings on honey production, bee feeding, use of the equipment. FAO provided eight modern beehives containing bee colonies to each of the targeted 700 small-scale beekeepers. Additionally, farmers were supported with honey extractors (one for every five beekeepers) and honey production kits to enhance honey production in targeted areas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstLOL2BwrA
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
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New martyr eulogy from #alQaeda in #Yemen has some unusual features - He's from #Indonesia - He died of leukemia, not in action (#AQAP recognises non-combat deaths as martyrdom but tends not to make them poster boys) - No location is given (no date either, but that's more normal) (images)
https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall/status/1528851830117220353
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#AlQaeda #Yemen releases new spy video, 12th since 2014. Celebrates 2019 execution of informer behind 1st #drone strike in Yemen 2002 that killed Abu Ali al-Harithi who planned Limburg tanker attack. Fits #AQAP pattern of reviving old series (here, "Harvest of Spies" 2014-16) (images)
https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall/status/1528451522882830343
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CIA Supported Terror Cells in 1990s Yemen
Few knew the USA was supporting al Qaeda in 1990’s Yemen until CIA contractor Billy Waugh made these confessions in his 2004 autobiography ‘Hunting the Jackal’ that is:
“I worked right there with these al-Qaeda operatives and heard these arguments* firsthand many times, especially during an assignment in Yemen” (* against US foreign policy)
and
“I have spoken to some of those terrorists*, and they consider terror attacks against the general public their only outlet to hurt and destroy the infidels who have wrongly ousted them from their homes so many years in the past.” (* al Qaeda and related organisations)
The Historycommons.org 9/11 data base records that based on Waugh’s career with the CIA his training of al Qaeda fighters in Yemen must take place between 1989 and 2001. I suspect it was around 1993, after Osama bin Laden was exiled to Sudan in Summer 1991 and prior to the 1994 Yemen civil War;
https://thequietmancunian.com/reports/cia-supported-terror-cells.html
cp15 Propaganda
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Biden must do more than extend condolences to repair relationship with United Arab Emirates
A common sentiment in this country bleeds out of just about any conversation: The United States and the Biden administration have been a major disappointment.
During my weeklong visit (as part of a no-strings-attached reporting trip the United Arab Emirates government partly financed), that was the overall vibe — a deep feeling of abandonment by a supposed ally, of being a bit jilted.
That means President Joe Biden has his work cut out for him to hold onto a strongly anti-terrorist ally in a strategic region, one that took a big risk for Washington in signing the Abraham Accords to help build a new Mideast alliance with America and Israel.
And it’s going to take more than simply extending condolences for the death last Friday of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan by sending a high-powered delegation, led by Vice President Kamala Harris, to the Gulf in an attempt to mend the frayed relationship.
“This is a major charm offensive on the part of the Biden administration to repair relations,” Omer Taspinar, a Brookings Institute expert, told Reuters.
The only problem is that this administration lacks a) charm and b) sound foreign policy.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/20/biden-must-do-more-than-offer-condolences-to-repair-truce-with-uae/
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Saudi Press: Saudi Arabia Exerts Exceptional Efforts to Achieve Security and Stability in Yemen
Al-Riyadh newspapers reported in its editorial that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is exerting exceptional efforts to achieve security and stability in the Republic of Yemen and alleviate the human suffering of its people, in addition to exerting unremitting efforts for putting an end to the ongoing conflict.
Saudi Arabia supports international and international efforts to reach a permanent political solution, in accordance with the three references; Gulf initiative and its executive mechanism and the outcomes of the comprehensive national dialogue and UN Security Council Resolution 2216, the paper said.
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2356583
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Yemen’s Houthis and the expansion of Iran’s Axis of Resistance
Key Points
Iranian-sourced nonnuclear proliferation in Yemen — ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — is part of a larger pattern in the Middle East that tests the current regional security architecture. The Yemen conflict has provided Iran with a live-fire testing ground for longer-range capabilities. Houthi-fired Iranian-sourced ballistic missiles and UAVs provide data to feed back into Iranian weapons development cycles. Additionally, the Houthis have innovated new tactics with Iranian-sourced UAVs, tactics since adopted by Iranian-backed Iraqi militias, showing the transfer of knowledge between theaters.
The Houthis’ expansion of the scope of Yemen’s conflict has created a growing requirement to defend US personnel based in the region and support Gulf partners against ballistic-missile and UAV attacks. The missile defense systems in place to counter the Iranian-sourced Houthi threat are expensive, especially compared to the relatively low-cost weapons the Houthis use. Counter-smuggling operations have had a limited impact. Targeting Iranian-sourced components to render them ineffective before they are transferred might produce more asymmetrical results.
The United States must develop a comprehensive approach to Yemen and the region that reflects the new reality of the Houthis as part of Iran’s Axis of Resistance. The Houthis’ incorporation into the Axis broadens the means of action at Iran’s disposal to advance its regional interests, especially as Iran seeks to contest deepening Israeli-Emirati ties.
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https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1528803774063681538
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Saudi Arabia Aspires to Reach a Comprehensive Political Resolution in Yemen
Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman asserted the Kingdom’s “aspiration for reaching a comprehensive political resolution to the crisis” in Yemen.
Prince Khalid met with the US Special Envoy for Yemen, Timothy Lenderking, in Washington to discuss the latest developments in Yemen.
Prince Khalid said on his Twitter account that he “affirmed to him [Lenderking] the Saudi-led Coalition’s backing of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council and its supporting entities, and our aspirations for reaching a comprehensive political resolution to the crisis that will lead Yemen into peace and prosperity.”
and also https://wcysus.org/news_details.php?lng=english&sid=753
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UAE warns of swarming drone assassins in ‘dystopian future’ war
UAE ambassador to the UN Lana Nusseibeh warned on Monday of swarms of assassin drones being sent out in cross-border raids, as groups such as Yemen’s Houthi rebels incorporate ever-deadlier smart weapons into their arsenals.
Ms Nusseibeh urged Security Council members to crack down on the spread of artificial intelligence systems and drones before we enter a “dystopian future” of terrorists sending out killer robots.
My comment: This is ptropaganda, as state actors like the UAE, the US and others exactly will do this, even before other governments like Yemen’s Sanaa government will be able to.
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Glorification of death & hatred cause rise in relatives murder in Houthi areas
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-56040
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What gains Houthis have made so far without offering any concession?: Social media
The opening of Sana'a Airport is a gift that has surprised Hezbollah and Iran. It must be so, because the party and Iran have been using the facility as training facility and using the civilian aviation into a private property/Facebook post by Waleed Alaneed
The airport's opening eventually plays into the hands of the Houthi militia, not the people in Sana'a and the ostensible commercial and civilian purposes used propagated now by the media will fade as time goes on/FB post by Abdulkader Ahmed
No one minds opening the airport if it is for the benefit of the people. It is a must. But not under the reign of Houthis who will use it for their own military purposes and exclude the benefit of the public/Tweets by Yaser Mo'ajeb.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-56041
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Film: Iran’s Proxy Network in Yemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdeyF7kjatk
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'The UN envoy shuttles between Riyadh & Aden, and keeps pressuring the party that gives in
Fuel and other imports keep flowing to Hodeidah port. Millions of dollars keep flowing, likewise, to the treasury of the terrorist Houthi militia. Free Iranian oil to finance Iran's war on Yemen and the region. Information say oil imports have increased by more 200% during the truce, and food imports increased by 40%. All of this happens as the UN is continuously shutting between Riyadh and Aden to pressure the warring party that seems gullible, gives and offers concessions after concessions to the militia. In return, the militia increases in arrogance and violence."
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-55991
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How Iran Gains from the Ceasefire in Yemen
This optimism is unearned. The ceasefire likely gives Iran an achievement. What gives theocrats in Tehran an advantage is unlikely to lead to a meaningful peace.
The hope that Iran is sincere in pursuing peace is understandable. The humanitarian costs in Yemen are catastrophic.
But hope alone does not make for good policy. While the Iranian regime and the Houthis don't always see eye-to-eye, and Iran may, at times, struggle to control them, it is well-established that the Houthis are a regime proxy.
Yet there has been a strange habit on the part of much of the Western media and a chunk of Western politicians to portray the entire war as being a Saudi-led aggression into the internal affairs of another country—ignoring Iran's role – by Clifford Smith, director of the Middle East Forum's Washington Project
https://www.meforum.org/63164/is-the-ceasefire-in-yemen-a-gain-for-iran
My comment: Look where the author comes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Forum: According to the organization's website, they promote "American interests and works to protect Western civilization from the threat of Islamism"
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More Saudi coalition „We are benefactors“ propaganda
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2356841
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2356827
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2356340
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2355740
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2355714
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2355700
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2355134
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2355118
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
Fast keine Luftangriffe seit Beginn des Waffenstillstands.
Almost no air raids since the beginning of the truce.
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Saudi coalition air raids and shelling day by day
May 21: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338311429652542/
May 20: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338311009652584/
May 19: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338310606319291/
May 18: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338310212985997/
May 17: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338309876319364/
May 16: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338309449652740/
May 15: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338007343016284/
May 14: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338006869682998/
May 13: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338006473016371/
May 12: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338006109683074/
May 11: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338005719683113/
May 10: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338005346349817/
May 9: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338004733016545/
May 8: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338004109683274/
May 7: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338002443016774/
May 6: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338002099683475/
May 5: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338001559683529/
May 3: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338001199683565/
May 2: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2338000646350287/
May 1: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2337999426350409/
April 30: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2337394329744252/
April 29: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2337393813077637/
April 28: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2337393323077686/
April 27: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2337392903077728/
April 26: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/2337392376411114/
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
Der Waffenstillstand hält überwiegend; beide Seiten werfen sich Verstöße vor.
The truce mostly holds; both sides accuse each other of violations.
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Yemeni army and Houthi militias accuse each other of truce violations in Yemen
Both sides say they agree to the UN's proposed truce extension, but continue to carry out attacks
The Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels continue to accuse each other of violating the truce established on 2 April, the longest so far since the beginning of the war. This truce established by the UN has not been respected by either of the warring parties, which continue to carry out continuous attacks with drones and artillery fire.
The Yemeni army has claimed that the Houthis have violated this truce more than 4,276 times by mobilising fighters and launching drone and missile attacks, even as the militia indicated it accepted its renewal. These attacks, the Yemeni Defence says, have been carried out against government forces in Marib, Taiz, Saada and Hajjaj. "The Houthis are defying the truce and international resolutions. They have adhered to the truce," Abdu Abdullah Majili, a general and spokesman for the Yemeni army, told the Arab News portal.
However, according to the Houthis, the Yemeni army has not stopped carrying out attacks during the truce either. So much so that this morning the militia has denounced the shooting down of a drone belonging to government forces that has left at least three dead in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
(A K pS)
Mujalli: Houthi militia committed 4276 breaches against the UN-brokered truce
(A K pS)
The Media Center of the [Aden gov.] Yemeni Army said that government forces foiled a Houthi attack in Maqbana district, west of Taiz province, adding that the #Houthis committed 65 breaches to the truce on Sunday on the frontlines of Hodeidah, Taiz, Al Dalea, and Marib.
https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1529181410279440386
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[Sanaa gov.] Yemeni Air Defenses Shot Down Fighting Drone by US-Saudi Air Force
The Yemeni Armed Forces announced that the air defenses had shot down a Chinese- made Wing Loong2 fighting drone operated by Saudi Air Force in Sa'adah governorate, at dawn.
"Our air defenses shot down a fighting drone with a locally-made missile, in the airspace of Ketaf district, while violating UN-sponsored truce" the Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said.
and also https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/24/second-saudi-spy-drone-in-one-day-shot-down/ = https://en.ypagency.net/261677/
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 135 violations of humanitarian, military truce within 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3188123.htm
(A K pH)
[Sanaa gov.] Army shoots down Saudi spy plane off Najran
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3188103.htm
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Drohne über Sanaa angeschossen: Mindestens drei Tote nach Absturz im Jemen
Am Montag ist eine Drohne über der jemenitischen Hauptstadt Sanaa abgestürzt. Nach Angaben der Houthi-Rebellen starben drei Menschen, drei weitere seien verletzt worden. Es soll sich um eine saudische Spionagedrohne handeln, die von Luftverteidigungssystemen abgeschossen wurde.
https://de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/drohne-%C3%BC-sanaa-angeschossen-mindestens-095953107.html
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Downed drone in Yemen’s capital kills three
Three other people are injured after Houthis shoot down what they called a Saudi-led coalition drone over a busy area.
At least three people have been killed in Yemen’s capital Sanaa when an armed drone crashed in a busy neighbourhood after being shot down, Houthi officials said.
The health minister in the rebel Houthi administration that runs Sanaa said another three people were injured on Monday when the drone landed in a commercial area, the official news agency reported.
In a statement, the Houthis said that their air defence system downed the drone and that it belonged to the Saudi-led coalition, which backs the Yemeni government in the country’s war.
“Our air defences downed a Chinese-made CH4 armed spy plane belonging to the Saudi air force with a surface-to-air missile,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Twitter.
Video from the scene showed what appeared to be a damaged pilotless aircraft in a street surrounded by security forces and onlookers. Footage showed wreckage of a drone near the Yemen Mall shopping centre at the city’s lively al-Ruwaishan intersection, and a man lying on the street near a car.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/24/downed-drone-in-yemens-capital-kills-locals
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187975.htm and https://www.saba.ye/en/news3188002.htm
Films: https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1528848172948365312
https://twitter.com/HanaShowafi/status/1528839430961876993 = https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528829698981109764
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ejmy-UOXgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxXotsRIjg
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1528826110523412487
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528812753112145930
Photos: https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1528821151820038147
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528807482004586496
https://twitter.com/KawkabAlwaday/status/1528858016551796737
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528871066936156160
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528835023197061122
and
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The CH4 is not only a spy plane, but also a fighter plane that carries several missiles and bombs, and it launched several strikes in the past few days on several areas. For several days, it has been flying over Sanaa, in continuous violation of their alleged truce.
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528878873345200128
My remark: Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASC_Rainbow#CH-4
and
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Al-Ezzi: Sending suicide or espionage marches to the capital, Sanaa, is more than just a breach,we may have to respond. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Sana’a government, Hussein Al-Ezzi, said that “sending suicide or spying rallies to the capital, Sana’a, is more than a mere violation of the armistice.” Al-Ezzi added, "According to analysts, this operation is a message from the coalition to end any truce, now and in the future, especially since the United Nations has not issued any condemnation so far."
Al-Ezzi concluded by saying, “Based on the correctness of that reading, Sana’a may be forced to respond, and this is undoubtedly its natural right, and to God things will become.”
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528866614745366528
and
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Abdulsalam: Sending coalition’s spy UAV planes to Sanaa confirms the lack of respect for the truce
https://en.ypagency.net/261629/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/23/ansarullah-spokesman-comments-on-saudi-uav-shot-down-over-sanaa/
and also https://www.saba.ye/en/news3188000.htm
(A K pS)
Journalist killed during Houthi attack on Marib
A journalist escorting the Yemeni army in Marib was killed today, Monday, during a Houthi attack on the city's frontlines. Salah Al-Qaad,a journalist and a senior in the Faculty of Media in Marib, was shot dead by a Houthi militant during clashes between Houthimilitants and government troopers in Aljooba district outside the city of Marib./Multiple websites
In one week, eight people were wounded in 171 Houthi aggressive actions north of the province ofDhale'a [at the borders between the country's north and south]/Ayn Amahrah
The Yemeni army says Houthis have pushed out big military reinforcements including 65 pickup trucks carrying armed personnel and ammunition to Taiz's northern front/Yeni Yemen
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-56060
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The Houthi militia commit 65 truce violations on several fronts/Alhekma Net website
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-56060
(A K pS)
Despite the UN-sponsored truce, government forces downed yesterday a Houthi drone south of #Marib city. (photos)
https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1528795312390815744
(A K pS)
Masam Clears 1,339 Houthi Mines in May's 3rd Week
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Project (Masam) for clearing mines in Yemen, dismantled, during the third week of May 2022, a total of 1,339 mines planted by the Houthi militia across Yemen, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday.
The demining operations included 65 anti-personnel mines, 577 anti-tank mines, 692 unexploded ordnance and five explosive devices.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/35088
and also https://khabaragency.net/news170734.html
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 150 violations of humanitarian, military truce within 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187969.htm
(A K pS)
A woman lost her foot in the explosion ofHouthi-laid landmine in Yemen's Taiz province on Friday.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-56040
(A K pS)
Houthis deploy artillery ad tribesmen mobilize fighters in in Alsalafiya district /Marib Press
The army downs a Houthi drone and repels a fierce surprise Houthi attack in south Marib./Multiple websites
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-56040
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UAE forces constructing illegal military positions near Mocha
An organisation known as the Eekad Platform has on Sunday revealed new details about military establishments on the Yemeni coast of Mocha by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) occupation forces.
The platform released satellite images showing the UAE’s establishments of military runways in the port of Mocha, west of Taiz province.
The photographs showed the construction of a large military runway about 2.5 kilometres long, linked to two main roads, one reaching the port entrance and the other connected to the seaport, where goods and military equipment are received from and to UAE ships.
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/22/uae-forces-constructing-illegal-military-positions-near-mocha/ = https://en.ypagency.net/261537/
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npFZ9_gzCls
(A K pH)
Military source: 5,034 violations of UN armistice committed by coalition within 50 days
https://en.ypagency.net/261521/
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 96 violations in past 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187833.htm
(A K pH)
In New Violation of UN-Sponsored Truce, Saudi Arabia Bombs Sa'adah
(A K pS)
Houthis commit 4376 ceasefire violations
The Iran-backed Houthi militias have committed 4376 violations of the U.N.-mediated truce since it came into effect on April 2, 2022.
The Yemeni army said in a statement on Saturday that the ceasefire violations by the pro-Iran militants took place repeatedly in the governorates of Marib, Taiz, al-Jawf, Hajjah, al-Dhale, Saada and Hodeidah.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/35080
(A K pH)
HOUTHIS DELIVERED FOOD TO BESIEGED DISTRICT USING ROCKETS DURING ONE OF YEMEN’S HOTTEST BATTLES (VIDEO)
On May 21, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) released never-seen-before footage from the battle of al-Durayhimi district in the western Yemeni province of al-Hudaydah.
The battle of al-Durayhimi, which went on for around two years, saw some of the most violent fighting in the Yemeni war. The battle started when a large, heavily-armed force from the Saudi-led coalition, mainly made up of United Arab Emirates (UAE) forces and their proxies, attempted to push the Houthis out from al-Durayhimi in July 2018.
While the coalition’s force failed to capture the district, it was able to lay a siege around it. The tight siege was broken by the Houthis in November 2020 after a successful counter attack.
The footage released by the Houthis, which are a promo for an upcoming documentary on the battle, reveal how the group was able to deliver supplies to its fighters and civilians in al-Durayhimi despite the Saudi-led coalition’s siege.
In the footage, the Houthis can be seen using improvised rocket-assisted containers, similar in general design to rocket-assisted munitions, to deliver food to the besieged fighters and civilians in in al-Durayhimi.
The Houthis also dropped supplies to the besieged fighters and civilians from drones. The group even used a Mi-171Sh helicopter to deliver supplies to the district. It was not known before that the group is operating helicopters left from the old Yemeni military.
Films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFY1HOLhLUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdD40Zi2DOU
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 134 violations of humanitarian, military truce in 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187732.htm
(A K pH)
Saudi armed spy plane downed in Hajjah
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187660.htm
https://southfront.org/houthis-shot-down-turkish-made-saudi-combat-drone-over-yemens-hajjah-video/
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9opZVh-42I&t=1s = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/22/video-footage-shows-wreckage-of-saudi-spy-plane-downed-over-hajjah-2/
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A 20-year-old girl named Islah Mohammed Thabet is reported to have sustained serious injuries in an explosion of a landmine laid by the #Houthis in Moaz'a district, west of Taiz province.
https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1527767371158536192
(A K pH)
Aggression commits 108 violations of UN-brokered truce within 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187595.htm
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 107 violations of humanitarian, military truce in 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187507.htm
(A K pS)
Houthis intensify attacks on civilians in Marib
The Houthi militia have been intensifying attacks on civilians in the province of Marib over the past few days, local sources say.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-55993
(B K pH)
Coalition commits 4,473 violations of UN-brokered truce in 45 days
https://en.ypagency.net/261099/
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 117 violations of humanitarian, military truce within 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187405.htm
(A K)
Ambush leaves four Houthis killed in Yemeni Jawf
Four Houthi militants were killed on Tuesday afternoon in an ambush by tribal gunmen in the Yemeni northeastern governorate of Jawf, local sources said.
The armed men intercepted a Houthi military vehicle to the west Allabinat camp east Hazm city, Jawf provincial capital, and opened fire at the vehicle, the sources added.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29605.html
and also https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-55992
cp18 Schlacht 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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Amid Critical Need, UN Does Not Support Mine Centers, Hodeidah
The head and members of the National Team met with the United Nations' team to support the Hodeidah Agreement to discuss the violations of the humanitarian and military truce by the US-Saudi Aggression and the work of the UN mission in Hodeidah Governorate.
During the meeting, the head of the [Sanaa gov.] national team in the Redeployment Committee, Major General Ali Al-Mushki, held United Nations and international community responsible for every drop of blood shed in Hodeidah Governorate, because they abandoned their responsibilities and didn't support mine centers.
Al-Mushki stressed that truce's essence is the humanitarian aspect, and that US-Saudi aggression is still holding oil and food ships, stressing that the violations of the aggression have not stopped since the announcement of the humanitarian and military truce on the West Coast.
and
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UNMHA’s head praises Sanaa commitment to Sweden Agreement
The head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeida Agreement (UNMHA), General Michael Beary, has praised the great efforts by the Sanaa government for its commitment to the Sweden truce in Hodeida province.
This came during a meeting held on Tuesday with members of the national team in the Redeployment Committee to discuss the Saudi-led coalition’s violations of the UN-brokered humanitarian and military truce and the work of the UN mission in the province.
Beary said “that his team is facing difficulties in working with the other team in order to promote peace between the two parties.”
https://en.ypagency.net/261763/
(A K pH)
Aggression violates Hodeida ceasefire 61 times
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3188121.htm
(A K pH)
Aggression forces violate Hodeida truce 58 times within 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187959.htm
(A K pH)
61 Recorded Violations by US-Saudi Aggression in Hodeidah
and also https://en.ypagency.net/261500/
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Aggression forces shelling injures 10 civilians in Hodeida
10 citizens, all of them women and children, were injured on Sunday in aggression forces shelling on 2 houses in al-Fawaha area in Hodeida province, a local official said.
The official stated that the aggression forces bombed 6 shells by 120-caliber mortar the houses of Omar Mohsen al-Hakimi and Abdullah Abdo Salem Atef in al-Fawaha area between Hays and al-Jarrahi districts.
He stressed that the bombing resulted in the injury of 8 women and 2 children, and damage of a citizen's car, in addition to the death of a number of livestock in the area.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187785.htm
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29661.html
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 73 violations of Hodeida truce within 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187737.htm
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[Sanaa gov.] Land Transport Authority: Line extending from al-Mabrz, Jabal Rass to the district of Hays in Hodeidah opened
https://en.ypagency.net/261271/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/05/20/land-transport-authority-condemns-continued-saudi-blocking-of-roads/
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 98 violations of Hodeida truce within 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187596.htm
https://debriefer.net/en/news-29638.html
(A K pH)
[Sanaa gov.] Ministry of Culture condemns aggression targeting of Al-Qattaba archaeological mosque in Khokha district
The Ministry of Culture condemned on Friday the targeting of the US-Saudi-UAE aggression, Al-Qattaba Archaeological Mosque in al-Khokha province in Hodeida, which dates back to the Ayobe era.
The Ministry stated in a statement received today by SABA that the hostile forces and their mercenaries, with the support of the takfiri forces and with the mercenaries of the aggression in the district of Khokha, had recently caused destructive damage to the mosque's roof and also targeted the core part of its rear, as a first stage in order to replace it and construct a new construction on its site.
The statement deplored all the flimsy arguments and false claims made by those force
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187601.htm
(A K pH)
Aggression forces commit 62 violation of Hodeida truce within 24 hours
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187522.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/261253/
(A K pH)
Aggression violates Hodeida ceasefire 62 times
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3187401.htm
cp19 Sonstiges / Other
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Photos: One of the agricultural valleys in Ibb Governorate
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528798389902745603
Wadi Jarban in Wesab Al Safel, Dhamar Governorate
https://twitter.com/GhalebM0nz1i7/status/1528747796303691778
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Hong Kong-flagged sailboat attacked off Yemen, reports say
A Hong Kong-flagged sailboat is reported to have come under attack on Thursday off the coast of war-torn Yemen, though the circumstances of the incident remained unclear, officials said.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations group said the attack happened off Hodeida, a contested port city that has been a flashpoint in Yemen’s yearslong civil war. It said an investigation was ongoing into the incident, without elaborating.
Dryad Global, a maritime intelligence firm, told The Associated Press that the vessel involved was the Lakota, a 62-foot (19-meter) sailboat flagged out of Hong Kong. Dryad said that those on board were sailing into international water and were reportedly safe.
It wasn’t immediately clear who owned the vessel or how many people were on board at the time of the incident. Satellite-tracking data from MarineTraffic.com analyzed by the AP showed the Lakota just west of the Hanish Islands in the Red Sea between Eritrea on the African continent and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula.
The vessel had been in Djibouti before sailing close to Yemen’s coast. The vessel also had not turned on its Automatic Identification System tracker, which Dryad described as “very strange,” given that the Red Sea is a major international shipping route.
“Several attempts were made to board her,” Dryad said. “Reports indicate she managed to get away.”
The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet said it was aware of the attack, but declined to immediately comment further.
and also https://www.reuters.com/article/shipping-security-yemen-int/ship-attacked-off-yemens-hodeidah-ukmto-idUSKCN2N50LT and https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shipping-security-yemen/ukmto-says-vessel-attacked-off-yemen-security-firm-reports-attempted-boarding-idUSKCN2N50LP
Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-806-yemen-war-mosaic-806
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-806 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-806:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose oder / or http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
Der saudische Luftkrieg im Bild / Saudi aerial war images:
(18 +, Nichts für Sensible!) / (18 +; Graphic!)
http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
http://yemenwarcrimes.blogspot.de/
Liste aller Luftangriffe / and list of all air raids:
http://yemendataproject.org/data/
Untersuchung ausgewählter Luftangriffe durch Bellingcat / Bellingcat investigations of selected air raids:
Untersuchungen von Angriffen, hunderte von Filmen / Investigations of attacks, hundreds of films:
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