... Der Waffenstillstand, Chancen und Risiken – Gegenwart und Zukunft der jemenitischen Geopolitik inmitten lokaler und regionaler Konflikte –Internationaler Mechanismus zur strafrechtlichen Verfolgung von Kriegsverbrechen im Jemen dringend notwendig – Ölmultis hinter der drohenden Ölkatastrophe der FSO Safer – Waffenhandel: Krieg im Jemen „Made in France“ – und mehr
October 4, 2022: Truce in Yemen was not extended and ended Oct. 2 – Why the Houthi side did not agree to an extension of truce and critics to this decision– Consequences of ending the truce – The truce, chances and risks – The present and future of Yemen's geopolitics amid local and regional conflict – Urgent and necessary need to establish an international criminal accountability mechanism for Yemen – Oil giants behind looming FSO Safer oil spill – Arms trade: War in Yemen “Made in France” – and more
Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Kursiv: Siehe Teil 2 / In Italics: Look in part 2: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-825b-yemen-war-mosaic-825b
Klassifizierung / Classification
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
cp2 Allgemein / General
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
cp6 Separatisten und Aden-Regierung im Südjemen / Separatists and Aden government in Southern Yemen
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp8a Jamal Khashoggi
cp9 USA
cp9a USA-Iran Krise: Spannungen am Golf / US-Iran crisis: Tensions at the Gulf
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
cp13b Wirtschaft / Economy
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Kampf um Hodeidah / Hodeidah battle
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A = Aktuell / Current news
B = Hintergrund / Background
C = Chronik / Chronicle
D = Details
E = Wirtschaft / Economy
H = Humanitäre Fragen / Humanitarian questions
K = Krieg / War
P = Politik / Politics
pH = Pro-Houthi
pS = Pro-Saudi
T = Terrorismus / Terrorism
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
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Der vergessenste Krieg der Welt
Die Menschenrechtslage im Jemen ist trotz eines Waffenstillstands katastrophal. Der Hunger breitet sich aus. Das hat auch mit dem Krieg in der Ukraine zu tun.
Im Jemen gibt es kein zentrales Menschenrecht, das faktisch garantiert wäre – noch nicht einmal das Recht auf Leben oder das Recht auf Nahrung. Und nicht nur das macht das an Saudi-Arabien grenzende Land auf bittere Weise besonders. Hinzu kommen der außergewöhnliche Umfang aller Menschenrechtsverletzungen sowie die lange Dauer der schweren Menschenrechts krise.
Größter Treiber dieser Krise ist der bewaffnete Konflikt, der 2015 begann.
https://issuu.com/amnesty_de/docs/amnesty-journal-september-oktober-2022/s/16708486
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Yemen war: seven years of war between Huthis, coalition
The conflict in Yemen between the Iran-backed Huthi rebels and pro-government troops escalated in March 2015 when a Saudi-led military coalition intervened in support of the loyalists.
The civil war has killed hundreds of thousands of people, directly and indirectly, according to the United Nations.
A truce in place since April ended on Sunday with no agreement to renew.
Here is an overview of the conflict:
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20221003-yemen-war-seven-years-of-war-between-huthis-coalition
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Film: Ongoing conflict in Yemen has caused mass displacement, hunger and disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6S1_Zs-EgU
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Film by Oxfam: More than 7 years to the conflict, the crisis remains one of the world's worst humanitarian Crisis and the response remains severely underfunded. #Yemen's displaced communities are the most hit by the crisis
https://twitter.com/OxfamYemen/status/1573972614921551872
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
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Der Waffenstillstand im Jemen ist am 2. Oktober ausgelaufen -
Jemen: Schuld daran sind vor allem die Unnachgiebigkeit, Dummheit und Selbstüberschätzung der Huthis.
Alle anderen Konfliktparteien, die jemenitischen und die internationalen, einschließlich der iranischen Verbündeten der Houthis, hatten zugestimmt und gefordert, den Waffenstillstand im Jemen zu verlängern, der am 2. April begonnen hatte und seitdem zweimal verlängert worden war. Nur die Seite von Sanaa (die Huthis) war anderer Meinung und lässt den Waffenstillstand heute, Oktober 2022, auslaufen und weigert sich, ihn noch einmal zu verlängern.
Das ist einfach dumm. Die Seite der Huthis behauptet, dass ihre Hauptforderungen überhaupt nicht erfüllt worden sind (Bezahlung der Gehälter derStaatsangestellten in den von den Huthis gehaltenen Gebieten aus den Einnahmen des jemenitischen Öls, das zu 100 % in dem von der Aden-Regierung gehaltenen Südjemen gewonnen wird; vollständige Aufhebung der Blockade des Nordjemen zur See und zur Luft [Hafen von Hodeidah und Flughafen Sanaa])
Selbst wenn dies voll und ganz zutreffen würde, ist es offensichtlich, dass ein Waffenstillstand die erste und wichtigste Voraussetzung dafür wäre, dass diese Forderungen erfüllt werden könnten (ob vollständig oder nur teilweise), auch wenn noch viele Verhandlungen erforderlich wären. Ohne Waffenstillstand, in einem Zustand von Krieg und Kampf, wird es unmöglich sein, Fortschritte bei der Erfüllung dieser Forderungen der Huthis zu erzielen. Im Gegenteil, alle durch den Waffenstillstand erzielten Fortschritte, insbesondere bei der (wenn auch nur teilweisen) Aufhebung der Belagerung des Hafens von Hodeidah und des Flughafens von Sanaa, werden vom ersten Tag der erneuten Kämpfe an wieder rückgängig gemacht werden.
Die Behauptung der Huthis, dass ihre Unnachgiebigkeit in diesen Punkten notwendig wäre, um die „humanitären Belange“ zu unterstützen, ist einfach gesagt „gequirlte Scheiße“. Die „humanitären Belange“ wird der größte Verlierer sein, wenn der Waffenstillstand endet und die Kämpfe wieder aufgenommen werden – jede Waffenruhe, selbst eine ziemlich „schlechte“ und unvollkommene, wird für die „humanitären Belange“ viel besser sein als das, was jetzt passiert.
Die Selbstüberschätzung der Huthis, die sie der Welt durch mehrere Militärparaden demonstriert hatten, gibt ihnen die Illusion, dass sie den Jemenkrieg wirklich gewinnen und somit alle ihre Forderungen mit Gewalt durchsetzen könnten, falls sie sie nicht auf friedlich Weg erreichen könnten. Aber das ist offensichtlich eine üble Fehleinschätzung.
Offensichtlich sind die Huthis so stark – wie sie es demonstriert haben – , dass sie den Krieg sicherlich nicht verlieren werden. Aber wenn man die internationalen Verbündeten der Gegner der Huthis berücksichtigt, ist es auch offensichtlich, dass die Huthis diesen Krieg ebenfalls nicht gewinnen können. Daher wird jede Wiederaufnahme des Krieges und der Kämpfe nur dazu führen, dass die Pattsituation, den der Krieg in den letzten Jahren erreicht hatte, fortgesetzt wird, mit viel mehr Zerstörung, vielen Toten und Verletzten, zerstörten Leben und einer immer weiter zusammenbrechenden Wirtschaft.
Wozu also das alles? Alle Seiten werden in einem solchen Szenario nur verlieren. Die Huthis, die jahrelang von der vom Westen geführten „internationalen Gemeinschaft“ isoliert wurden, sind jetzt intellektuell auf ihr jemenitisches Kernland beschränkt und können nicht verstehen, dass sie nicht gegen eine Koalition gewinnen können, die die USA, Großbritannien, Saudi-Arabien und die Emirate umfasst. Ein dauerhaftes Ende der Kämpfe und weitere Verhandlungen, auch wenn sie recht schwierig wären, wäre das Beste, was auch der Seite der Huthis, allen anderen Parteien und der jemenitischen Bevölkerung passieren könnte. Nur ein begrenzter Verstand würde das nicht sehen.
Endlich eine Einigung durch Verhandlungen zu erzielen, bedeutet immer auch einen Kompromiss. Es ist schwer zu erkennen, dass diese einfache Tatsache von den Huthis akzeptiert worden wäre. Die Huthis werfen der anderen Seite vor, ihre Verpflichtungen gemäß den Regeln des Waffenstillstands nicht erfüllt zu haben. Auch wenn man dies als zutreffend ansieht, muss doch zugegeben werden, dass die Huthis selbst ihren eigenen Verpflichtungen ebenfalls nicht nachgekommen sind. Sie können die andere Seite nicht auffordern, alle ihre Verpflichtungen zu erfüllen, und sich gleichzeitig selbst weigern, dies ebenfalls zu tun. Das Problem der Blockade von Taiz ist aufgrund der Unnachgiebigkeit der Huthis nicht gelöst worden, da die Vorschläge der Huthis nicht ausgereicht hatten, um den Bedürfnissen des unter der Huthi-Blockade leidenden Taiz gerecht zu werden.
Die Seite der Huthis hatte nachdrücklich gefordert, dass die Staatsangestellten in den von den Huthi gehaltenen Gebieten endlich aus den Öleinnahmen des Südjemens bezahlt werden sollten, wie es in den Waffenstillstandsbestimmungen festgelegt war. Aber warum hatten die Huthis selbst nie die Bestimmungen des Stockholmer Abkommens von 2018 erfüllt, wonach die Einnahmen der von den Huthis gehaltenen Häfen Hodeidah und Ras Ifa als Beitrag zur Zahlung der Gehälter der Staatsangestellten an die Zentralbank des Jemen überwiesen werden sollten? Welche Summe hat die Seite der Huthis in den letzten vier Jahren für diesen Zweck gezahlt? Offensichtlich ist es 0,00. Also? Und könnte die Huthi-Seite allen Ernstes verlangen, dass alle ihre Milizen und Kämpfer, die gegen die Regierungstruppen von Aden kämpfen, auf die Liste der Staatsangestellten gesetzt werden sollten – damit die Regierung von Aden selbst aus diesen Öleinnahmen ausgerechnet selbst diejenigen bezahlen sollte, die gegen sie kämpfen? Das wäre so eine Absurdität, auf die nur völlig vernagelte Köpfe kommen könnten.
Somit wird der Jemen jetzt eine Phase der Zerstörung, des Todes und des Leidens durchleiden. Und daran sind hauptsächlich die Huthis schuld.
Nun, es wäre immernoch nicht zu spät, es doch noch besser zu machen – by Dietrich Klose
Erklärung der Huthi-Delegation zum Waffenstillstand: https://www.saba.ye/de/news3205164.htm
and version in English:
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Yemen truce ended October 2
For a great part, Houthis' intransigence, stupidity and overconfidence has to be blamed.
All other parties to the conflict, the Yemeni and the international ones including the Houthis’ Iranian allies, had agreed and demanded to extend the Yemeni truce, which had started on April 2 and since then had been prolonged twice. Only the Sanaa (Houthi) side disagreed and lets the truce expire today, October 2022, refusing to renew it once again.
This is merely stupid. The Houthi side claims that its main demands had not been met at all (payment of state employees in the Houthi-held territories from the revenues of Yemeni oil, which is 100 % extracted in Aden-government hold Southern Yemen; fully removal the blockade of Northern Yemen by sea and by air [Hodeidah port and Sanaa airport]).
Even if this would be fully true, it’s obvious that a truce would be the first and main precondition that these demands could be met (whether fully or only partially), even if still a lot of negotiations would be needed. Without a truce, in a state of war and fighting, it will be impossible to achieve any progress in fulfilling these Houthi demands. On the contrary, all the progress which had been achieved due to the truce, especially in (even if partly only) lifting the siege on Hodeidah port and Sanaa airport, will be reversed from the very first day of renewed fighting on.
The Houthi claim that their intransigence in these points would be necessary to support the “humanitarian file” simply spoken is “bullshit”. The “humanitarian file” will be the greatest loser when the truce ends and fighting is resumed – any truce, even a quite “bad” and imperfect one, will be much better for the “humanitarian file” than what is happening now.
The Houthis’ overconfidence, which they had demonstrated to the world by several military parades, gives them the illusion that they could really win the Yemen war and thus reach all their demands by force, in case they could not reach them peacefully. But this obviously is a bad miscalculation.
Obviously, the Houthis is so strong – as they demonstrated it – that they certainly will not loose the war. But taking into account the international allies of the anti-Houthi side, it is obvious as well that the Houthi side also cannot win this war. Thus, any renewal of war and fighting only will lead to continue the stalement the war had been all over the last years, with a lot of more destruction, of many people killed and injured, of ruined lifes and an even more and more crashing economy.
So what for? All sides only will loose in such a scenario. The Houthis, isolated for years by the Western-led “international community”, now are intellectually limited just to their Yemeni heartland, unable to understand that they cannot win against a coalition including the US, the UK, Saudia Arabia and the Emirates. A permanent end of fighting and further negotiations, even if they would be quite difficult, would be the best thing which could happen to the Houthi side as well, as to all other parties and the Yemeni population as well. Only a limited mind would not see that.
Finally reaching an agreement by negotiations always means some way of compromise. It’s difficult to see that this simple fact has been accepted by the Houthi side. The Houthis blame the other side for not having fulfilled its obligations as prescribed by the rules of the truce. Taking this for granted, it also must be admitted that the Houthis did not fulfill their obligations either. You cannot ask the other side to fulfill all its obligations and at the same time refuse to this by yourself. The problem of the Taiz blockade had not been solved due to Houthi intransigence, as the Houthi proposals had been insufficient to meet the needs of Taiz suffering from the Houthi blockade.
The Houthi side strongly had demanded that the state employees in the Houthi-held territories finally should be paid from the Southern Yemeni oil revenues, as had been specified in the truce regulations. But, why the Houthis themselves never had fulfilled the regulations of the 2018 Stockholm agreement specifying that the revenues of the Houthi-held ports of Hodeidah and Ras Ifa should be transferred to the Central Bank of Yemen as a contribution to pay the state employees’ salaries? Wat a sum did the Houthi side pay for this purpose within the last four years? Obviously, it’s 0,00. So what? And could the Houthi side really claim that all their militia and fighters fighting against the Aden government forces should be added to the list of state employees – so that the Aden government itself via these oil revenues should pay those fighting against it? This would be such an absurdity only totally blocked up heads could come up with.
Thus, Yemen will go through an even worde phase of destruction, death and suffering now. And this mainly is the Houthis’ fault.
Well, it still would not be too late to finally do better. – by Dietrich Klose
Statement of the Houthi delegation regarding the temporary truce: https://www.saba.ye/en/news3205175.htm
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Waffenruhe läuft im Jemen ohne Verlängerung aus
Die Verhandlungen über eine verlängerte Waffenruhe im Jemen sind nach Angaben der Vereinten Nationen vorerst gescheitert. Der UN-Sonderbeauftragte für den Jemen, Hans Grundberg, zeigte sich am Sonntagabend enttäuscht, wollte aber weiter für eine Einigung werben. "Ich werde meine unablässigen Bemühungen fortsetzen, mit den Parteien auf eine rasche Einigung über den Weg vorwärts hinzuarbeiten", teilte er mehrere Stunden nach Ablauf mit. Kurze Zeit später gab es Berichte über erneute Gefechte in mehreren Provinzen.
Im Jemen könnte sich der Konflikt nach vergleichsweise ruhigen Monaten nun wieder verstärken. Hilfsorganisationen schlugen Alarm. Oxfam sprach etwa von "schrecklichen Nachrichten" für die Menschen im Land. "Eine verlängerte und erweiterte Waffenruhe hätte der Bevölkerung entscheidende Vorteile verschafft", teilte auch Grundberg mit.
Grundberg hatte versucht, diesmal eine Verlängerung um sechs Monate zu erreichen und diese an zusätzliche Bedingungen zu knüpfen. Unter anderem geht es um die Öffnung wichtiger Straßen in Tais im Südwesten, um Mittel zur militärischen Deeskalation und um die Freilassung von Gefangenen. Die Hoffnung war auch, die Feuerpause in einen dauerhaften Waffenstillstand zu verwandeln.
Die Entwicklung vom Sonntag sei "zutiefst enttäuschend", teilte der Norwegische Flüchtlingsrat (NRC) mit, der sehr aktiv ist im Jemen. Es sei eine "verpasste Gelegenheit", Zivilisten zu helfen. "Millionen sind jetzt gefährdet, wenn Bombardements, Beschuss am Boden und Raketenangriffe weitergehen", teilte Oxfam mit.
Die Huthi-Rebellen lehnten Vorschläge über eine Verlängerung am Sonntag ab, weil diese "keinen Friedensprozess" einleiteten. Der Oberste Rat der Huthis teilte nach einem Treffen in der Hauptstadt Sanaa mit, dass der Vorschlag den Forderungen der Aufständischen nicht gerecht werde. Die Regierung hatte am Samstag erklärt, den Vorschlag erhalten zu haben und diesen "positiv behandeln" zu wollen.
und sehr ähnlich https://www.nzz.ch/international/jemen-die-hintergruende-des-buergerkriegs-ld.1556197
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Waffenruhe-im-Jemen-laeuft-aus-article23626092.html
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Vom Frieden weit entfernt
Jemen: Auslaufende Waffenruhe permanent gebrochen. Aufhebung der Blockade Voraussetzung für Friedensverhandlungen
Denn die zuerst im April vereinbarte Waffenruhe war nicht nur die erste ihrer Art seit 2016 – es war auch festgelegt worden, Verhandlungen über einen langfristigen Friedensvertrag zu führen.
Dass genau dies nicht geschehen sei, bemängeln die Ansarollah (»Huthis«), die den Norden des Landes mit der Hauptstadt Sanaa kontrollieren, wo 70 Prozent der 30 Millionen zählenden Bevölkerung leben. Die Ansarollah fordern eine vollständige Aufhebung der seit 2016 bestehenden See- und Luftblockade, die für die laut UNO derzeit größte humanitäre Krise weltweit verantwortlich sind. Der Jemen muss 90 Prozent seines Bedarfs importieren, darunter Lebensmittel, Kraftstoff und Medikamente. Erst kürzlich kam die Weltorganisation gegen Folter im Bericht »Folter in Zeitlupe« zu dem Schluss, die von der Kriegskoalition aufrechterhaltene Seeblockade habe erheblich zum Hungertod der jemenitischen Zivilbevölkerung beigetragen und könne als Folter angesehen werden.
Weiter werfen die Ansarollah der Kriegskoalition vor, allein in den ersten vier Monaten die Waffenruhe 25.578mal gebrochen zu haben. Schon Anfang August hatte der Leiter ihrer Verhandlungsdelegation, Mohammed Abdulsalam, angekündigt, einer Verlängerung »gemäß den derzeitigen Bedingungen« nicht zuzustimmen. Zudem hat die Koalition entgegen der Vereinbarung weiter Treibstoffschiffe beschlagnahmt, obwohl diese bereits die Kontrollen der Vereinten Nationen durchlaufen hatten. Ein weiterer Grund, der Verlängerung nicht zuzustimmen, seien fehlende Garantien für die Auszahlung der Gehälter und Renten von Staatsbediensteten. Die Ansarollah betonen seit Monaten, dass eine diesbezügliche Einigung unabdingliche Voraussetzung für eine Fortsetzung der Waffenruhe sei.
Mit dem Scheitern der Verhandlungen am Wochenende droht jetzt eine neue Eskalation – von Wiebke Diehl
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/435869.krieg-im-jemen-vom-frieden-weit-entfernt.html
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Yemen's warring sides fail to extend UN-backed ceasefire
In a statement, UN envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said he “regrets that an agreement has not been reached today." He did not call out the Houthis by name for failing to agree to his proposal but thanked the internationally recognised government for “engaging positively” in talks to extend the cease-fire.
He called on leaders to continue to endeavor to reach an agreement.
“I urge them to fulfill their obligation to the Yemeni people to pursue every avenue for peace," he said.
On Saturday, the Houthis said that discussions around the truce had reached a “dead-end," and said that they were continuing to advocate for a full opening of the Sanaa airport, and lifting of the blockade on the key port city of Hodeida.
In the hours leading up to the deadline, a Houthi military spokesman threatened international oil companies still working in the country to leave or their facilities would be seized, saying that the fossil fuels belong to the people of Yemen and could be used to pay public servants' salaries.
“Our armed forces are able, with God’s help, to deprive the Saudis and Emiratis of their resources if they insist on depriving our Yemeni people,” Yahia Sarea wrote on Twitter.
April’s truce had originally established a partial opening of the Sanaa airport and the Red Sea port of Hodeida. The ensuing months have seen flights start again from the capital’s airport to Jordan and Egypt.
It also called for lifting a Houthi blockade on Taiz, the country’s third largest city. But little progress has been made there, after talks aimed at reopening local roads stalled. Another sticking point is how salaries of public employees will be funded, many of whom have not been compensated for years.
Sunday’s statement came a few days after Grundberg met in Sanaa with the top leader of the Houthis, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi
“Millions will now be at risk if airstrikes, ground shelling and missile attacks resume,” said Ferran Puig, country director in Yemen for the international charity Oxfam, reacting to the news of the truce expiring.
Analysts say it remains unclear if further talks could make progress, with Houthis feeling empowered and the coalition fighting them splintered by inter-alliance trouble.
Peter Salisbury, an expert on Yemen with Crisis Group, an international think-thank, said the Houthis have been behaving as if they had more leverage throughout the negotiations, because they were more willing than the other side to return to war.
But the truce has led to a significant overall lull of direct warfare despite claims of violations by both sides. International charity Save The Children said that the truce had led to a 60% decrease in displacement and a 34% drop in child casualties in Yemen.
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-united-nations-yemen-civil-wars-sanaa-ba7d97673e3330ba85a34e6b11560c31 = https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20221002-yemen-s-warring-sides-fail-to-extend-un-backed-ceasefire
and also https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-ceasefire-ends-no-agreement-extend-un
https://english.news.cn/20221003/2f06253b34bf427686dcc822eb43f88f/c.html
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STATEMENT FROM THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY ON THE NEGOTIATIONS TO EXTEND AND EXPAND THE NATIONWIDE TRUCE IN YEMEN
“The truce that began on 2 April 2022 has offered a truly historic opportunity for Yemen. Building on the positive outcomes of the past six months, I submitted another proposal to the parties on 1 October to extend the truce for another six months, with additional elements.”
The proposal includes the payment of civil servant salaries and pensions, the opening of specific roads in Taiz and other governorates, additional destinations for flights to and from Sanaa airport, unhindered entry of fuel ships into Hudaydah port, strengthening deescalation mechanisms through the Military Coordination Committee and a commitment to urgently release detainees. It also includes the initiation of negotiations for a ceasefire, the resumption of an inclusive political process, and wider economic issues, including public services.
The UN Special Envoy regrets that an agreement has not been reached today, as an extended and expanded truce would provide additional critical benefits to the population. “I am grateful for the constructive engagement at the leadership level from both sides over the past weeks. And I appreciate the position of the Government of Yemen on engaging positively with my proposal. I will continue to work with both sides to try and find solutions.”
As negotiations continue, the UN Special Envoy calls on the parties to maintain calm and refrain from provocations or any actions that could lead to an escalation of violence. “I urge them to fulfill their obligation to the Yemeni people to pursue every avenue for peace. Ultimately, Yemenis need an end to the conflict through an inclusive political process and a negotiated settlement. I will continue my relentless efforts to engage with the parties to quickly reach an agreement on a way forward.”
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The most prominent points that led to stalled negotiations to renew truce in Yemen
Negotiations to renew the truce between Sana’a and the Saudi-Emirati coalition have stalled due to the failure to reach an agreement guaranteeing the implementation of Sanaa’s demands, especially regarding the salaries of the state’s employees, Media outlet reported.
According to Al-khabar Al-Yemeni website, the proposal, which was recently submitted by the UN envoy and announced by the pro-coalition authority, was not clear and did not include many important points. It also included points that Sana’a rejected, as follows:
The UN proposal did not include anything confirming the continuity of spending in the armistice and afterwards, which Sanaa rejects, as it considers that the salary of state employees is a fundamental right that cannot continue to be denied and Sana’a maintains that the obligation to provide state salaries should be unrelated to the war.
The proposal did not include any guarantees of its fulfillment, which Sanaa rejected, due to the coalition’s previous lack of commitment in many matters, most notably the trips to Cairo.
Information indicates that the proposal excluded a large segment of Yemen’s employees, including the salaries of the Ministry of Defence and Interior, as well as the pensions of retirees of the Ministry of Defence and Interior, although Sanaa demands the salaries of this segment according to the 2014 statements.
According to the information, the proposal did not include guarantees to address the disbursement of employees’ salaries and retirees’ pensions which have been cut off since the end of 2016.
The proposal links the salary disbursement procedure to the government loyal to the coalition, and despite Sana’a’s proposal that the procedures be through the United Nations, this proposal was rejected.
The government loyal to the coalition refused to specify the type of currency, which Sana’a considered an attempt to impose acceptance of the printed currency without a cash cover, which would cause the currency to collapse in its regions.
The pro-coalition government refused to guarantee the disbursement of the proceeds from Yemeni national resources and left its position on this point unclear in the proposal, which Sana’a rejects, and considers it an attempt to delay it later
https://en.ypagency.net/274310/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/10/03/the-most-prominent-points-that-led-to-stalled-negotiations-to-renew-truce-in-yemen/
and main points again here:
Sana'a rejected @OSE_Yemen @UN truce extension for the following 1) Not specifying a clear timetable nor an accepted mechanism nor a commitment for the continuation of current and late salary disbursement, 2) No commitments to pay the salaries of the Ministries of Interior and Defense personnel in Sana'a, 3) Not specifying the currency of payment of salaries (#Saudi #KSA Riyals, #Yemen-i [old Sana’a approved notes or new non accepted Aden #CBY notes], dollars or euros), 4) Paying salaries through the central bank in #Aden, not via the banks in Sana’a, 5) Lifting all restrictions on Sana’a Airport and the Red Sea ports (#Saleef or #Salif port and #AlHudaydah #Hodeda #Hodeida #Hudaida #Hodeidah port), 6) Ensuring the continuity of all the above.
https://twitter.com/BashaReport/status/1577011948272881665
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This thread contains a semi official account of why Sana'a refused to renew the UN brokered deal in Yemen.
https://twitter.com/Shuaibalmosawa/status/1576663131849256962
To clarify the reasons for the leadership in Sana’a’s refusal to extend the armistice, and the fallacies that have been marketed in the media and tools of the countries of aggression about their approval of the issue of salary payment: First, the proposal did not refer to any assurance about the continuity of salary payments during the truce and beyond, in the event that it expires.
As the matter is a permanent right of the people and is not subject to the continuation of the war or not. The countries of aggression and the United Nations tried to evade the matter and entrust it to mercenaries, while our leadership demanded that the procedures on this matter be between them and the United Nations only.
No guarantees were provided to ensure the payment of salaries, in an attempt by them to repeat and repeat the scenario of Cairo flights, from which only one flight was carried out, and other items that they evaded implementing according to what was stated in the armistice agreement, and refused to put decisive guarantees that do not accept manipulation around the matter.
The proposal excluded a large segment of state employees from paying their salaries, including employees of the Ministry of Defense and Interior, although the exchange, according to the demands of our leadership, includes state employees included in the 2014 statements, and they want to split the exchange for certain categories of state employees and exclude others.
Likewise, the mercenaries refused to pay salaries from oil revenues as being certain and fixed, as the salaries of all employees were spent from them over the past decades.
They also refused to specify the type of currency through which salaries will be paid, in order to put the leadership in front of the fait accompli and spend it in the new forged currency, which will contribute to the destruction of the economy significantly, as is the case in their areas of control.
They ignored the issue of disbursing all the interrupted salaries since 2016, and they did not put any guarantees to address this problem, meaning they intend to start paying each month only with their own currency! And the transfer of the issue of interrupted salaries to an unknown period, which was rejected.
https://twitter.com/Hameed_Sharwan/status/1576660693000261632
My comment: Even if taking all this for granted, not prolonging an imperfect truce is much worse for all Yemenis.
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Yemen ceasefire expires with country poised for more war, not peace
Houthi rebels are emerging ‘winners’ — flexing their power and leverage — while the Saudis remain mired in a conflict they can’t get out of.
The expiration of the six-month-old ceasefire without an extension in Yemen is a major setback for Saudi Arabia, which remains stuck in an expensive quagmire that it desperately wants to quit.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has made ending the war in Yemen a top priority, so it will also be damaged by the end of the truce. The Zaydi Shia rebels known as the Houthis, on the other hand, are the winners in the war and are flexing their power.
The Houthis demonstrated their military capabilities in a large parade late last month to mark their capture of Sana’a eight years ago.
The Houthis are intensely anti-American and do not trust Washington to be fair interlocutors given longtime American support for the Saudis diplomatically and militarily.
If full scale combat is resumed, the Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman — now Saudi prime minister — is the big loser. The 2015 Saudi intervention in Yemen — a reckless move, poorly planned and poorly executed — is his signature foreign policy initiative. MBS will now be stuck in a war he cannot win, and which leaves Saudi cities open to attack by missiles and drones. Worse, if the Saudis resume air strikes in the north, there is a high probability of civilian casualties, which will further damage the Kingdom’s already bad public image.
Unfortunately, the United States has no leverage with the Houthis. Biden’s laudable goal of ending the war is in jeopardy, and he has no good options to get back to the ceasefire. The only hope now is international pressure, else the Yemeni people will continue to suffer the most – by Bruce Riedel
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Does the end of Yemen’s truce mean return to full-blown fighting?
Why has the truce not been extended?
Both sides blame each other for allowing the deal to expire.
April’s truce had originally established a partial opening of the Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport and the key Red Sea port of Houthi-held Hodeidah, with the ensuing months seeing flights resume at the airport for the first time since 2016,
The truce also called for the lifting of a Houthi blockade on Taiz, the country’s third largest city. But little progress has been made there, after talks aimed at reopening local roads stalled.
Another sticking point has been the funding of the salaries of public employees. Many of them have not received salaries for years.
What was the effect of the truce on the ground?
The ceasefire has brought a sharp drop in fighting in the war despite claims of violations by both sides.
Will a new ceasefire be agreed upon?
The UN envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said the efforts to extend and expand the truce for another six months had not been successful. “The UN special envoy regrets that an agreement has not been reached today, as an extended and expanded truce would provide additional critical benefits to the population,” a statement said.
What will happen if the fighting resumes?
The Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, has already issued a warning to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which have been targeted in the past with missile attacks. “The [Houthi] armed forces give oil companies operating in the UAE and Saudi Arabia an opportunity to organise their situation and leave,” Saree tweeted.
Ferran Puig, country director in Yemen for the international charity Oxfam, said “millions will now be at risk if air strikes, ground shelling and missile attacks resume”.
Humanitarian organisations have called on both sides to put aside their differences and “extend the arm of diplomacy”, pointing out that aid to 23 million people out of a total population of 30 million will be severely affected.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/3/is-fighting-about-to-return-to-yemen-explainer
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A Moment of Truth for Yemen’s Truce [written before extension of the truce]
Yemen’s six-month truce is up for renewal on 2 October. The UN and external powers should redouble their efforts to forge agreement on an expanded deal. If those look set to fall short, however, they should propose interim arrangements that avert a return to major combat.
The UN has proposed an expanded truce. But wrangling over a deal to reopen Huthi-controlled roads in and around the city of Taiz – and Huthi demands for salary payments for civil servants in rebel-held areas as an inducement to continue the détente – have pushed the truce to the verge of collapse.
If the parties cannot strike a bargain, the conflict may return to, or even exceed, previous levels of destructive intensity, with the prospects of a negotiated settlement becoming still more distant. UN mediators and outside powers involved should push the parties to compromise, but if the expanded truce looks out of reach, they should prepare options short of that to keep the guns silent – and the belligerents talking to each other – for at least another two months.
Taiz in a Knot
Taiz city – a transport and commercial crossroads linking Yemen’s north and south – has been contested since the war began.
The road closures have severely affected life in Taiz. All-too-frequent traffic accidents cause regular shortages of food and fuel. A flourishing war economy, in which ostensible rivals trade fuel and other commodities across internal boundaries while supposed allies fight one another to run smuggling rackets, serves to deepen insecurity in and around the city.
The severing of Taiz’s roads registered low on the international list of priorities until recently. Successive UN envoys to Yemen sidestepped the issue.
In April, however, the Taiz issue started to get more attention, thanks to the UN-brokered truce.
Taiz Roadblock
Physical roadblocks around Taiz are now a political barrier to sustaining and expanding the truce. Both the Huthis and the government say they are not interested in indefinitely extending the present arrangement. Each wants more concessions from the other in exchange for prolonging the détente. The UN has thus sought to negotiate a broader version of the truce, which it first proposed in June. The upgraded truce would last for six, rather than two months (the current version has already been renewed twice), and would include additional confidence-building measures to lay the groundwork for peace talks. Standing in the way of the expanded truce are government calls for progress on Taiz, the unfulfilled provision of the old deal, as well as the new Huthi demands related to salaries for civil servants. The Huthis say they will not make a new deal unless the government immediately starts paying salaries to those civil servants working in the areas they control, Yemen’s main population centres. In turn, the government says it will not even talk about salary payments until the Taiz road issue raised in the original truce agreement is resolved to its satisfaction.
The holdup appears to be a disagreement over one road in particular.
There are reasons to suspect that the Huthis might be more interested in running down the clock on the truce than trying to find a compromise on Taiz. Some Huthi officials believe the truce, which includes halting cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia and the UAE, is a major concession in itself. They refuse to do more unless further climbdowns are linked to a nationwide settlement or at least until the government starts paying salaries in Huthi-run areas. Others in the Huthi camp argue that rebel fighters’ morale might decline if the leaders give up more. But perhaps most importantly, the Huthis perceive that their rivals have been weakened by bouts of infighting in the PLC, which may have tipped the military balance of power further in the Huthis’ favour.
A Divided Leadership Council
“Now everyone is legitimate, and no one is legitimate”, a Yemeni journalist said of the anti-Huthi armed factions, adding that the PLC made it easier for anti-Islah forces to attack their rivals, even those who had been part of the pre-PLC military or security services, which the PLC is meant to be combining with other forces under its command.
That is precisely what happened.
An Unwelcome Distraction
If the PLC’s formation was meant to present the Huthis with a single credible negotiating partner, it has thus far backfired. The infighting has deflected attention from the truce, thrown efforts to unite the military factions into disarray and undermined the PLC’s credibility.
The Huthis may also be banking on Saudi Arabia’s desire to exit the war to allow them to avoid making concessions. With the PLC in freefall, Riyadh may calculate it is better to get a bad deal on Taiz, pay salaries in Huthi areas and edge Yemen toward a final settlement than to risk further territorial losses. What is clear is that none of these considerations have much to do with the technical details of the UN’s proposals on which roads to open. The current Huthi position appears to be about extracting the maximum possible benefit from the negotiations without giving much of anything up in return.
The Cost of Failure
If, indeed, that is the Huthis’ calculus, it may prove mistaken. The rebels are under increasing pressure in areas they hold to address an economic crisis that has not eased since the truce began. While more fuel flowed into Hodeida, easing shortages at the pump, rising prices on world markets made fuel, food and other basic goods more expensive.
Averting a Collapse
Time has not yet run out on hopes of expanding the truce. The best bet for Grundberg is to short-circuit negotiations.
Ideally, the parties would agree on the UN’s expanded truce option, but if not, a middle-ground arrangement that buys the UN a little breathing room may be the least bad outcome available to Grundberg. The parties could agree to a two-month rollover of the truce, or a more limited expansion of its terms and length. Such a deal would at least go some way toward keeping violence at bay. It would, nonetheless, bode ill for larger prospects for peace, illustrating that the parties have little interest in converting the truce into a lasting ceasefire, let alone comprehensive political talks. It might also indicate that the UN is locked into a cycle in which it expends energy addressing piecemeal issues, like roads and salaries, rather than a wider political settlement. If 2 October indeed passes without an expanded truce, the UN and the countries backing its initiative should redouble their efforts on Taiz’s roads and the question of salaries in order to keep the option of an expanded truce alive. More broadly, though, Grundberg should explore ways to break out of the above cycle, pressing his case for a political process beyond the truce by clearly laying out his plans for negotiations to end the war – by Peter Salisbury and Veena Ali-Khan
and main ponts in thread: https://twitter.com/peterjsalisbury/status/1575864553224966145
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The truce in Yemen between the Urgency of New Developments and the Risks of reality [written before extension of the truce]
Some parts of the brief truce agreement are ambiguous. The agreement refers to a comprehensive cease-fire, consultations to open the roads in Taiz, and opening the port of Hodeidah, and operating flights from Sana'a International Airport to specific destinations. The two parties engaged in consultations in the Jordanian capital, Amman, but talks stopped after the Houthi attack on Taiz in August, and the government delegation suspended consultations. The attack led to local and international condemnation that angered the Houthis.
This paper discusses the future of the truce in the country, the violations perpetrated during the truce and the parties involved in those violations. It focuses on developments affecting the truce and the breaches by each party. It also highlights Houthis conditions and the regional and international positions.
What positive impacts did the truce have?
For the Yemeni government, the truce was an obligatory track due to Saudi and Emirati pressure. It led to a new transitional phase in the coalition/government camp with the declaration of the Presidential Leadership Council on April 7. For the Houthis, it was an opportunity to enhance their position and a break from international pressure on them in relation to the Iranian negotiations over the United States return to the nuclear deal.
The United Nations and the international community failed to make the truce permanent, or to extend the duration to more than two months in each extension. The third extension of the truce, which ends on October 2, 2022, was very difficult as the Houthis refused it. Several developments during the same period are dealt with in this paper.
1. The cease-fire
2. Hodeidah Port and Sana'a Airport
3. Opening of roads in Taiz
Variables during the truce
The truce, which has lasted for six months, provides a summary view of the position of each of the warring parties after eight years of fighting, and reveals their future intentions. During this period, several factors and variables that might determine the future of the truce emerged. These new developments might determine the future of the crisis in Yemen as well.
4. Internal Variables
- Extension of the truce: New incentives were supposed to emerge at each phase of the truce extension.
Strengthening the truce and perpetuation of harmony
The ceasefire in Yemen remains the only obligatory path for both parties to the conflict at present. However, success in reaching a political settlement that ends the war is tied to several factors.
- Continuous renewal:
The longer the duration of negotiations and renewal, the more polarized the positions of the two parties. Therefore, the truce shall not be renewed if its articles are not implemented. The Houthis must implement their commitments promptly. Failing that, the truce will reach a dead end and the internationally recognized government will not be able to control the people's resentment of the Houthis, the Saudi-led coalition and the government itself.
- The United Nations:
Apparently, the United Nations has not benefited from its experiences, as the Houthis have repeatedly managed to outsmart it. Two points are indicative in this regard: a) the language of any agreement must be accurate and clear. Grundberg does not seem to have benefited from the experience of the Stockholm Agreement, where the Houthis took advantage of the loose language of the agreement and utilized it to their advantage regarding the withdrawal from the city of Hodeidah and depositing the Hodeidah port revenues to a special Central Bank account. This issue recurs regarding the opening of the roads in Taiz in the recent truce agreement. The UN envoy for Yemen fails to refer categorically to opening the main roads known to the population. Therefore, any talks about the extension or broadening of the scope of the truce shall be expressed in clear and precise language, detailed and precisely defined so that the Houthis - or any other party - cannot evade the agreement. b) Imposing penalties for breaching the truce to ensure its full implementation and avoid civilian casualties or force violators of the truce to pay exorbitant compensation to the families of the victims. The Houthis were responsible for committing more than 94% of the violations, which include the greater number of civilian casualties. The lack of penalties encouraged the Houthis to commit more abuses.
- The internationally recognized government:
There is no alternative to the harmony of the Presidential Leadership Council and its constituent parties.
- The international community:
The Yemeni crisis should be dealt with outside the framework of hostility with Iran and the satisfaction of the Arab Gulf states. Militias and sub-national entities should not be encouraged because of their own ambitions or interests. Therefore, the following measures shall be taken:
Conclusion
It seems that the continuation of the truce is a mandatory option for local and international parties. Although the Houthis do not see appropriate incentives for its continuation, the return to war threatens their negotiations with Saudi Arabia, and negatively affects the Saudi-Iranian negotiations as well, at a time when Tehran needs Riyadh’s understanding to succeed in the nuclear agreement with the international community.
In contrast, the Yemeni government and the Saudi-led coalition seem unprepared to accept any new Houthi conditions, especially as the Houthis have not implemented any of UN articles of the first and second truce agreements and the Stockholm Agreement.
It is, therefore, difficult to accept a truce on the terms of the Houthis. Any military action to impose what they view as the conditions of the victor will make the whole truce a dismal failure, at a time when the war in Yemen faces international and regional rejection for several reasons, paramount among which is the American, European and regional need for extending the truce.
In addition to the Iranian need for the continuity of dialogue with Saudi Arabia, Qatar will host the World Cup in November. The GCC wants the championship to be held in a quiet regional environment. Moreover, The United States approaches the midterm elections. The Biden administration seeks to make progress in one of the files of the elections campaign and to promote ending the war in Yemen, especially after it failed in isolating Saudi Arabia. European countries also need to ensure the uninterrupted flow of oil and gas as the repercussions of the Ukrainian-Russian war threaten sources of energy at a sensitive time; i.e. the approach of winter.
If the truce fails and hostilities are resumed, a return to ceasefire and reaching a peaceful settlement will be more difficult. The implications of such a scenario will not be limited to Yemen, but will be regional and international as well.
https://abaadstudies.org/news-59913.html
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The Present and Future of Yemen's Geopolitics amid Local and Regional Conflict
Abstract
Yemen has been lead to the dire situation it faces today due to the conflict of local and regional powers which have sought to control strategic areas in Yemen, thereby dismantling the country’s territorial integrity. Yemen’s strategic location holds high geopolitical value for regional and global powers. This has led to attempts to exploit its geopolitical value by dismantling its unity and subjugating parts of the territory to hegemonic projects. Yemen’s primary challenges are territorial division, societal fragmentation, economic structural destruction, and governance vacuum, the combined effect of which has been state failure. Yemen is also passing through a dangerous phase that threatens the country’s territorial integrity. Locally, the Southern Transitional Council (STC) seeks to establish an independent state in Southern Yemen, while the Shiite Houthi group in the North seeks to reshape Yemen’s map on sectarian grounds. Moreover, regional actors, namely the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Iran, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)actively support local proxies in the conflict to pursue their own objectives. Consequently, local actors are engaged in hybrid warfare and are consumed in multiple conflicts in desperate attempts to redraw Yemen’s geopolitics. This study demonstrates the complexity of the ongoing conflict in Yemen and examines how local and foreign rivals seek to dominate strategic areas of the country in their quest for influence and control. Such a conflict can affect the geopolitical significance of post-war Yemen. The study uses the descriptive-analytical method, as well as visual aids and maps to demonstrate the geography of the conflict.
Conclusion
The study has discussed the geopolitical dynamics of the local conflict and its impact on the geopolitics of the country, the goals of the local actors to reshape geopolitics, and the willingness of some regional powers to dismantle Yemen on sectarian and tribal grounds to implement their regional geopolitical agenda. It has argued that the Yemeni actors are unable to dismantle geography into two countries, as the Houthis and the STC imagine. It has also concluded that the Houthi group’s continued control of the densely populated northern mountainous areas still poses a threat to the country’s territorial integrity, civil peace and social fabric and helps prolong violence and civil strife. TheSTC’s project of secession of the southern regions from the northern regions, with clear Emirati support, remains another obstacle to rebuilding the Yemeni national state.
It has also found that the recent attempts of the Arab coalition informing the PLC are not sufficient to preserve the country’sterritorial integrity. Rather, this would require taking practical steps that would enable the Yemeni state to carry out its political, military, security and sovereign tasks, and supporting it economically, rather than supporting non-state actors like separatist forces.
At the level of regional conflict, the study found that the UAE’s continued military presence in Yemeni areas, mainly the ports and islands, as well as Bab al-Mandeb, does not help to end the status quo, but rather opens the door wide to regional competition and the militarization of the Red Sea. The study concluded that Iranian strategy based on military and ideological expansion in the region undermines Yemen’spost-conflict integrity. Rather, Yemen may be divided into several de-facto independent statelets under tribal and ideological groups, which would represent a threat to regional security and international interests, including energy supplies.
In a nutshell, achieving comprehensive national reconciliation is one of the most important factors to preserving Yemen’s sovereignity. To implement peace, international support must be available to push the regional powers to rapprochement before confidence can be built between the different components of Yemeni society. The legacy of the current conflict will be one of the most pressing challenges, including preserving Yemen’s sovereignity within the framework of a federal state. Hence, stakeholders must work towards a unified federal Yemen that could contribute to stability and security in the region – by Adel Ahmed Dashela
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Urgent and Necessary Need to Establish an International Criminal Accountability Mechanism for Yemen
The passage of eight years of devastating conflict in Yemen is an important test of States’ commitment to upholding human rights values.
A criminal accountability mechanism for Yemen remains urgent and necessary, said Mwatana for Human Rights today. In this way, Yemen’s civilian victims are guaranteed their rights, reparations are provided, and those responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law are held accountable.
In conjunction with the 51st session of the Human Rights Council, in Geneva, Mwatana called on States to lead efforts to establish a new international criminal accountability mechanism whose mandate includes investigating human rights and international humanitarian law violations and submitting public reports on the human rights situation in Yemen, as well as collecting, preserving, and analyzing evidence, and building files for future possible criminal prosecution.
Radhya Al-Mutawakel, Chairperson of Mwatana for Human Rights, said, “States are involved in bargaining over political interests when it comes to accountability and redress in Yemen. They evade their moral, legal, and humanitarian duties towards victims in Yemen. Countries have taken a serious stand on the horrific violations in Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Indeed, that is what the victims in Ukraine deserve. However, the problem of double standards and the sin of discrimination between victims and perpetrators have again emerged in the world.
The heavy record of human rights violations that have accumulated over the 8 years of devastating conflict in Yemen is an important test of the extent to which States are committed to uphold human rights values for all.”
Al-Mutawakel added, “If the international community is serious about its efforts to ensure lasting peace in Yemen, accountability and reparation are the two main pillars that must be taken into account. One of the first steps to this end is the establishment of an independent international criminal accountability mechanism for Yemen.”
Mwatana urged all human rights defenders around the world, both entities and individuals, to deal firmly with efforts to circumvent the demands of Yemeni victims to establish an independent international criminally-focused investigative mechanism for Yemen.
This statement shows digits of violations and abuses committed by the parties to the conflict in Yemen. These incidents have been documented by Mwatana since the Human Rights Council ended the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (GEE) in October 2021. Mwatana said that the documented incidents confirm the continuing suffering of civilians in Yemen, despite the truce in place since April 2022.
Since last September, Yemen has witnessed military escalations in several Yemeni governorates, increasing the levels of violence against civilians. The Saudi/UAE-led coalition intensified its air attacks until early this year. These attacks focused, in January 2022, on the governorates of Sana’a, Saada, Al Hodeidah, Marib, and Shabwa, causing civilian casualties, including women and children, and causing material damage to civilian objects. Mwatana, in cooperation with Human Rights Watch, issued a statement regarding 3 air attacks that killed about 80 civilians, including three children, and wounded 156 others, including two children.
Mwatana also documented three bloody ground attacks launched by Ansar Allah group (Houthis) on Marib and Taiz. On Sunday, October 3, 2021, a ground attack with 3 missiles launched by Houthis on the residential neighborhood of Al-Rawdah in Marib killed 2 children and wounded 9 other civilians. In late October 2021, a ground attack involving shelling on Al-Khair Mosque residential neighborhood in Taiz killed 3 children and wounded 3 civilians, including a child. Another ground attack on July 23, 2022, on a residential neighborhood in Taiz killed a child and wounded 11 others.
In early August 2022, military clashes took place in the center of Ataq city in Shabwa governorate, as UAE-backed forces controlled the city and large parts of the governorate. This resulted in civilian casualties and the devastation of a number of civilian objects.
With the termination of the mandate of the United Nations Group of Eminent Experts last October, Yemenis were left on their own with the scourge of war. The Group of Eminent Experts was the only independent international mechanism for documenting human rights and humanitarian law violations and publicly reporting on the human rights situation in Yemen.
Despite the deterioration of the humanitarian situation due to the armed conflict, a lack of funding for humanitarian aid to Yemen has been recorded.
In the report “Returned to Zero“, Mwatana for Human Rights and the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School concluded that the parties to the conflict failed to provide reparations to civilian victims in Yemen. The report finds that the responses of warring parties to civilian harm have been insufficient, both in relation to the scale and severity of the civilian harms caused, and in comparison to their international legal obligations.
The statement below shows the most important patterns of human rights violations committed by the parties to conflict in Yemen that caused serious harm to civilians and civilian objects during the period from September 2021 until late August 2022.
https://mwatana.org/en/sep2022/
and, shorter, in thread: https://twitter.com/MwatanaEn/status/1575569043456937985
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Oil giants behind FSO Safer oil revealed
Large multinational oil companies, including Western giants ExxonMobil, OMV and TotalEnergies, have been using the stranded FSO Safer as a storage vessel for their operations until as recently as 2015, and are likely to be among those that are responsible for the 1.14 million barrels (140,000 tonnes) of oil currently on the neglected ship, according to a new Greenpeace International investigation.[1]
While the United Nations’ plan to remove the estimated 1.14 million barrels (140,000 tonnes) of oil from the Safer has stalled for many months because of insufficient funding, the companies likely to be responsible for the oil onboard, and their subsidiaries, have announced record profits for Q1 & Q2 2022, but have not yet contributed any funds to ensure the Safer rescue operations could begin and prevent a disaster in the Red Sea.[2][3]
Greenpeace International Project Lead, Paul Horsman, said: “The rusting Safer is a disaster in the making. Yet despite the neglected tanker threatening a human and environmental catastrophe in Yemen and the Red Sea, the oil industry has stayed very quiet, even though the US$75 million cost of the salvage operation is but a drop in the ocean compared to the record profits of the oil supermajors recently announced.”
The publication is the result of Greenpeace International investigations to find out which oil companies were involved in the extraction and export of oil via the Marib – Ras Issa pipeline to the export terminal – the FSO Safer, particularly in the period leading up to March 2015 when the terminal was closed. And consequently, which oil companies bear some responsibility, even if not ownership, for the oil that is currently on board the FSO Safer, or are involved as subsidiaries or partners.
From 2010 to 2015, there were 13 operating oil assets (oil and gas-condensate fields) from five blocks in the Marib Basin. Those likely to be responsible for the oil on the Safer are among the Marib basin producers and their subsidiaries and shareholders from the five blocks that fed the pipeline to the Safer.
The five blocks included Block S-1 Damis (An Naeem 01); Block S2 Al Uqlah (Al Kharwah); and Block 5 Dev Jannah (Halewah Sabatayn), and the following owners/operators in 2014:
Occidental was the operator (until 2016) and had 75% ownership of the block S-1 Damis (An Naeem 01);
OMV was the operator of Block S2 Al Uqlah (Al Kharwah) with a 44% share in ownership;
Sinopec Group as parent company had a 37.5% share in ownership of Block S2 Al Uqlah (Al Kharwah) operated by the Austrian company, OMV;
TransGlobe Energy Corporation had part ownership (25%) of the block S-1 Damis (An Naeem 01) that was operated by Occidental Petroleum (until 2016);
ExxonMobil had a 15% share in ownership of Block 5 Dev Jannah (Halewah Sabatayn);
TotalEnergies had a 15% share in ownership of Block 5 Dev Jannah (Halewah Sabatayn).
Greenpeace MENA Executive Director, Ghiwa Nakat, said: “The greed of oil giants knows no bounds. While oil companies like ExxonMobil, OMV and TotalEnergies celebrate their massive profits, an unprecedented environmental and humanitarian disaster is looming in Yemen and the Red Sea. Oil companies are making these huge profits on the backs of vulnerable communities in the Global South, with little regard for their lives and the environment – as oil spills and accidents in Thailand, Peru, Ecuador and Nigeria in recent months have reminded us. This really is a perverse colonial attitude, ‘big oil’ firms exploit natural resources, put communities at risk, greenwash and try to cover their tracks, but display a deafening silence when it comes to stepping up and taking responsibility.”
Greenpeace is calling on international oil companies to foot the bill of the Safer salvage plan.
and report in full: https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/2022/09/39d480dc-fso-safer-the-fossil-fuel-giants-final-report270922.pdf
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Armament. “Made in France” War in Yemen
After the United States, France is the second arms supplier to the Saudi-Emirati coalition involved in the Yemeni civil war since 2015. Who equips and repairs the fighter planes used by the Coalition? Where are their pilots trained? Where are the bombs that fall on Yemeni markets and homes manufactured? This is an investigation into the big French firms that profit from this war, with the backing of the French government.
Ever since March 2015, when the Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, stepped in to fight against the Houthist rebels, the French government has never ceased to deny its involvement in the conflict. “We have not recently sold any weapons that might be used in the Yemeni conflict” or so Florence Parly, Armed Forces Minister claimed in January 2019 on the public radio station France Inter. A few months later, on 15 April 2019, an inquiry conducted by the website Disclose proved the contrary, basing its revelations on a report from the Direction of Military Intelligence (DRM). Not only have French planes, helicopters, tanks, and canons taken part in the Coalition’s offensives, but these weapons may well have been used against civilian populated areas.
Former Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian also went out of his way to maintain the official version. On 13 February 2019, appearing before the National Assembly’s rather passive Foreign Affairs Committee, he insisted that France “has supplied nothing to the Saudi air force.” A mendacious assertion which deliberately ignored the delivery to Saudi Arabia of laser tracing and designation tools manufactured by Thales at least until 20171, as well as the thousands of missiles “made in France” supplied to the military coalition.
In 2019 alone, the French government authorised 47 munitions export contracts for torpedoes, rockets, missiles and other explosive material, totalling one billion euros for Saudi Arabia and another 3.5 billion euros worth for the United Arab Emirates. The following year, in 2020, these authorisations leapt by 40% for Saudi Arabia and 25% for the Emirates. These figures correspond to the number of export licences granted by the highly opaque Interministerial Commission for the Study of War Material Exports (CIEEMG). They enable us to evaluate the cravings of French industrialists and their warring clients, even if at the end of the day, the contracts signed – and kept secret – are often for lesser amounts.
Until now, the French government refuses to reveal the detailed list of weapons supplied to each foreign country. But its public reports, presented to parliament each year, do nonetheless provide some indication of the volume of trade with the two most interventionist countries in the Near-East, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates, respectively the third and fifth-best clients of the French armaments industry. Thus, we do know that between 2015 and 2021, France supplied military equipment, munitions, and maintenance for about 9 billion euros to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the two leaders of the Arab coalition set up to support the Yemeni government against the Houthi rebels.
Because of pressure from the media, weapons deliveries to Saudi Arabia finally began to dwindle in 2020. But they still go on. And this activity remains completely opaque. In the absence of any democratic debate, that war is still being fuelled close to home.
In the name of Orient XXI, I wanted to draw a map showing the location of the French companies that have been profiteering from the escalation of the war in Yemen and from what is now the world’s most dramatic humanitarian crisis. “Once it is established that a company “inhabits” a given place, its role should be known to its neighbours and discussed by them.
Three large French firms are implicated in a war which has killed some 13,000 civilians in seven years: Thales which equips fighter planes and supplies munitions, the Franco-British missile manufacturer MBDA, and the aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation which ensures the maintenance of the Mirage 2000 and has landed record-breaking contracts with the Emirates. Their activities are concentrated in three French regions, Centre, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Île-de-France. On June 1, 2022, four NGOs filed charges against these three French groups for “complicity in war crimes in Yemen.” The opening of a judicial inquiry against arms merchants of that importance would be a first.
In Google maps, see the locations of French firms producing the armaments used in the Yemen war.
“While companies may have an export permit issued by the French government, the decision to export or not is theirs to take, and they are obliged by law to make sure their exports are not going to contribute to violations of human rights, if such violations are known and documented,” says Camille Lavite, of the European Centre for Constitutional Rights and Human Rights (ECCHR). The European Parliament and the Group of International experts on Yemen have demanded several times the suspension of weapons deliveries to the Coalition, because of their utilisation against civilians.
The cease-fire declared by Saudi Arabia on 30 March 2022 did not put an end to either the strikes carried out as part of its operation “Restore Hope” or to the Houthi attacks. In five months ‘time, nearly 400 Yemeni civilians were killed and Riyadh’s Coalition carried out nearly 200 air strikes, also according to ACLED.
In the meantime, France has been helping the Emirates replenish their stock of missiles. On 3 December, the missile manufacturer MBDA landed a contract worth two billion euros to equip 80 planes built by Dassault for the United Arab Emirates. Even if these Rafales will not be ready for several years, the MBDA missiles will be available for immediate use by the Mirage fighter planes already deployed in Yemen. For the French presidency, this “historic” contract is “a major achievement in the strategic partnership between the two countries”.
MISSILES IN CENTRAL FRANCE
Since the Storm Shadow/SCALP missile is a Franco-British program, the production of its components is divided between industrial sites across the Channel and others at Bourges, where MBDA employs a workforce of 1,700. Thus, the Prefecture of the department of the Cher is where the electronic and digital systems equipping these missiles are made. It is also where their munitions are tested – once they are assembled – in laboratories which simulate different flight conditions (subjecting the missiles to extreme heat or cold for example). It is also in Bourges that PMR ASB Aérospatiale Batteries manufactures the thermo-batteries required to propel these missiles over the 400 km which may separate their launcher from their target.
To justify their contracts with Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, industrialists have no qualms about pretending to preserve jobs in France. However, this argument is far from being ratified by trade unions. Inside Thales, the CGT has been agitating for years in favour of a moratorium on the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia and the Emirates for their war in Yemen. Since besides the bombs manufactured in central France, Thales is also the official supplier of targeting tools or “Damocles pods,” for the Saudi and Emirati air forces. These advanced optical systems serve to guide the strikes of fighter planes and avoid collateral casualties. Except when civilians are present on the designated targets. As in the case of the bus carrying schoolchildren, blown to bits by a Coalition strike in August 2013. Saudi Arabia has bought some sixty French pods, the last of them delivered in 2017, to equip its Typhoon and Tornado aircraft (according to the SIPRI). Likewise for the Mirages in the Emirati fleet. And since 2017, Thales has continued to ensure their maintenance.
All these nacelles – of which the Emirates have just placed an order for the latest version, the “Talios” – were produced at Elancourt, a town of 23,000, in the Yveline
The alliance that is beginning to take shape between the unions and some NGOs threatens to rock an industry which up to now has been overprotected by the government, itself a shareholder in several flagships of the armaments sector. More so, as within the industry itself, the pressure of public opinion is beginning to worry Human Resources Departments. Companies criticised on account of the use of their weapons in Yemen are said to have increasing difficulty recruiting young college graduates – by Ariane Lavrilleux
https://orientxxi.info/magazine/armament-made-in-france-war-in-yemen,5899
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
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We did it! Taking an Emmy home for our film Yemen’s Covid Cover-up… So thrilled!! I wish the entire team was here to receive it. Well done to us all! (photos)
https://twitter.com/BBCNawal/status/1575354953022971911
https://twitter.com/ahmedbaider1/status/1575402952952619009
cp2 Allgemein / General
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Interactive Map of Yemen War
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Now the Houthis have rejected the proposal of the @OSE_Yemen to renew the truce in #Yemen, let's take common sense and address the elephant in the room. The unpleasant truth is that the international community do not want to hear the Yemenis who are effected by the Houthis.
Many Western diplomats have adopted a political strategy based on what they prefer to hear rather than what the situation demands. And the Houthis adopted two parallel policies: military escalation on the ground, and political engagement with western diplomats.
When the diplomats saw they were making little progress, they started a lasting policy of appeasement. Giving the Houthis too much without receiving anything in exchange - the Stockholm Agreement is a primary example.
https://twitter.com/BShtwtr/status/1576764137421479936
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A new movement has already emerged in #Yemen, movement of Supporters of Imam al-Mahdi al-Hasan al-Tehami, who has been detained by Houthis in Saadah. They have a new slogan too, God is the Greatest, Amt, Amt. (film)
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1576795677660971008
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Oil Minister in Sanaa addresses urgent message to foreign companies
The Minister of Oil and Minerals in the National Salvation Government in Sanaa, Ahmed Daris, on Saturday said: “The Saudi-led aggression coalition and mercenaries looted the country’s wealth, and they should take the warning of the armed forces seriously.”
He added, in a statement, “Foreign and local companies operating in the occupied areas should stop tampering with the wealth of the Yemeni people and looting their capabilities.”
The Oil Minister stressed that as of Sunday, October 02, 2022, “all oil companies must stop extracting any barrel of oil for export abroad.”
Daris indicated that any oil agreements not issued by the Yemeni government in Sanaa are non-binding to the Republic of Yemen.
He stated that Sanaa would take all strict measures to prevent the continuation of looting of Yemen’s sovereign wealth in accordance with international laws.
On Saturday evening, Sanaa armed forces alerted the foreign and local oil companies operating in the Republic of Yemen to follow up on the warnings and instructions to be issued and addressed to them, in conjunction with the end of the truce.
https://en.ypagency.net/274182/
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Sanaa forces issue new alert to maritime shipping companies
Sanaa’s armed forces on Saturday issued a new alert to all marine shipping companies that have destinations to the Saudi-led coalition countries, as well as foreign and local oil companies operating in the Republic of Yemen.
The armed forces’ spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Sarie, said “the armed forces call on these companies to follow up on the warnings and instructions that will be issued and addressed to them as soon as the truce ends in the event that nothing is reached to achieve the rightful demands of our people.”
This came after the issuance of the higher directives to the concerned authorities to address all the marine shipping companies that have destinations to the coalition countries, as well as the foreign and local oil companies operating in Yemen.
Brigadier General Sarie stressed that “the armed forces are fully militarily prepared for any developments.”
The spokesman held the companies responsible for ignoring what would be issued by the armed forces in the coming hours.
https://en.ypagency.net/274173/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/10/01/yemen-armed-forces-issue-new-warning-to-maritime-shipping-companies/
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Sanaa Gov’t issues strongly worded statement
President of the Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, on Saturday issued directives to edit final official correspondences to all companies and entities related to the looting of Yemeni sovereign wealth to stop the looting operations completely.
A statement issued by the Supreme Economic Committee in Sanaa stated that the committee is currently working, in coordination with the competent authorities, to edit those correspondences, which include a notification to all companies and entities, that they must permanently stop looting Yemeni sovereign wealth starting from 6:00pm (Sanaa local time) tomorrow, Sunday, The 6th of Rabi’ Al-Awwal, 1444 AH, corresponding to October 2, 2022, provided that companies or entities bear full responsibility in the event of non-compliance.
The committee indicated that the correspondences that will be addressed to companies and entities involved in looting Yemeni wealth will be based on the constitutional texts and Yemeni laws in force, and the charters and treaties of the United Nations, especially Article No. 19 of the Yemeni constitution, which obligates the state and all members of society to protect and preserve national wealth.
https://en.ypagency.net/274163/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/10/01/sanaa-issues-strongly-worded-statement/
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[Sanaa gov.] Minister of Transport Holds US-Saudi Aggression Responsible for Expected Maritime Disaster
The Minister of Transport in Sana'a, Abdul Wahab Al-Durra, held the US-Saudi aggression responsible for the continued deterioration of the Safer oil tanker in the Red Sea.
Minister Al-Durra said: "The world is on the brink of an unprecedented maritime disaster."
He added that the US-Saudi aggression had suspended for years the maintenance operations, while about 72 sailors and engineers were working on board the ship in charge of maintenance.
The Minister of Transport expected that the maintenance of the Safer reservoir would begin in October, after the completion of the international pledges for the first phase, worth $75 million with the United Nations, according to Almasirah Channel.
And he indicated that the first stage of maintenance includes transferring crude oil from the Safer ship to chartered ships, and returning the stock to a new floating tank as a second stage.
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A lot of chest-drumming and movement on ground in last hours before expiration of truce in #Yemen. This is beyond the usual blinking contest and can't be good. Family in Sana'a and elsewhere anxiously asking, "will airstrikes and shelling immediately resume? Worst than before?"
https://twitter.com/omeisy/status/1576270788230934528
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UAE Seeks To Pass An International Resolution To Divide Yemen In Sake Of Looting Its Wealth: Detailed Report
After stealing Yemen’s oil and gas and selling it to Germany a few days ago, the UAE state started a new movement in the UN Security Council and the United Nations, through which it seeks to pass a new project to divide Yemen.
Diplomatic sources from the United Nations reported that the UAE presented a resolution to the delegates of the member states of the Council that includes returning Yemen to before May 22, 1990, in reference to its division into two states in the north and south.
The UAE state aims, through this new project, according to the sources, to maintain its control over the most important areas of Yemeni oil and gas in the occupied southern and eastern governorates of the country. This way, the UAE can ensure the flow of European funds, especially German ones, to its treasury by selling Yemen’s fuel and gas. It is noteworthy that the UAE signed an agreement a few days ago with Berlin to export oil and gas that is being stolen from Yemen. Another reason to divide Yemen would be to maintain control over Yemen’s strategic islands and ports in the south of the country, which extend from the Red Sea in the west to the island of Socotra.
The sources indicated that the majority of members of the Security Council rejected the Emirati criminal project against the Yemeni people, while some members who support Abu Dhabi’s criminal policy in Yemen requested that they be given a month as an opportunity to study the project and respond to it, perhaps in line with the desire of the regime in the Emirates.
According to observers, the UAE state is trying, through this project, to anticipate the end of its rotating presidency of the Security Council by passing the resolution and establishing its presence in Yemeni lands with the support of its militias in the occupied south.
Moreover, the observers stress that the UAE’s decision completely contradicts what was stated in the statements of the Security Council and the United Nations and the statement of the Quartet, which all affirmed, from the very outset of the war on Yemen, to support the unity, stability and territorial integrity of the Republic of Yemen.
The UAE state has been working for eight years to establish and support criminal separatist groups in southern Yemen with money and weapons and tried to impose a new reality that enabled these groups to control the land in a deliberate effort to re-divide Yemen so that they could continue to plunder its wealth.
https://www.ansarollah.com/archives/552586
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Film: God saved us this afternoon, me and my family from drowning in a car in the #Maqatirah #Lahj liquid due to the torrential rains flowing in the area, which is the alternative road that we have to pass between Taiz and Aden (the time was two hours and became 8 hours), because of the blockade and cutting off the main roads suitable for cars, and we waited for the torrent to stop.
https://twitter.com/EshraqAlmaqtari/status/1575585784891330561
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Landmines in Yemen: Where every step could mean death
A cease-fire in Yemen war has mostly held. Civilian deaths as a result of bombing or shooting have gone down as a result. But they are rising in another area — because parts of Yemen are littered with landmines
But there is another threat that isn't going away, no matter whether fighting stops or not. During the war, many mines were laid and while both sides accuse the other of placing the mines, both deny they have done so.
As a result, some parts of the country have become literal minefields, and for ordinary locals just going about their daily business, there is the omnipresent fear that they might step on one.
On Sept. 22, a joint statement by 30 different humanitarian organizations to the UN's General Assembly, reported on this ongoing problem again. "While civilian casualties dropped by more than 50% during the first three months of the truce, compared to the three months prior, casualties as a result of landmines and unexploded ordnances have continued to rise, even while the truce holds," they wrote.
Humanitarian organizations have also said that mines hamper the distribution of badly needed aid and prevent Yemenis from planting or harvesting crops.
Yemeni authorities have not released any statistics with regard to how many people have been injured or killed by landmines. But Fares al-Hamiri, head of the Yemen Landmine Monitor said his organization has counted 426 people killed by mines, from the middle of 2019 up until August 2022. That includes more than 100 children.
The organization has also registered more then 560 injured in these kinds of incidents. Once again, women and children make up a significant proportion, with 216 children and 48 women among the wounded.
The danger posed by mines in Yemen was exacerbated by recent floods and heavy rain. The excess water not only destroyed the homes of poorer families it also unearthed and floated mines into areas that previously had none.
Clearly it will take a huge effort to de-mine all of these areas, Amin al-Aqili, head of the Yemen Executive Mine action Center, which is run by the internationally recognized government, has said. And most likely decades too, he told local journalists in August.
https://www.dw.com/en/landmines-in-yemen-where-every-step-could-mean-death/a-63281030
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Tawakkol Karman: "Die Ukraine ist auch unser Land"
Ein Gespräch mit der jemenitischen Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Tawakkol Karman über die Frage, wie der Krieg in Jemen mit dem Krieg in der Ukraine zusammenhängt [nur im Abo]
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Nobel laureate attacks Yemeni political parties, calls for countering new occupiers
The Yemeni Nobel laureate, Tawakkol Karman, on Sunday bitterly attacked the country's political parties and elite for failure and treason, as the Saudi-led Coalition "crave after Yemen's coasts and islands."
The 26 September Revolution is a minaret that guides us in the face of Houthi imamate wishing to enslave and repress the Yemenis, the Yemeni activist added, calling for confrontation of the deceptive Coalition seeking to "occupy Yemen's coast and dominate its decision."
The imamate and new occupiers have a common goal to destroy Yemen, she said, highlighting the need for "unity in the face of the Houthi imamate and new occupiers.. to preserve the Yemeni State and republic as the Yemenis' greatest achievement."
Successive events proved that the political parties, ruling elite and opposition were a symbol for failure, treason, defeat and dependence, Kraman said, but the Yemeni people, and not the elite, is to depend on.
She called for an international court specialized in prosecuting those involved in violations and crimes against the civilians in Yemen.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-31103.html
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Document: The document of Imam Ahmad seeks the help and demands of Saudi Arabia and specifies for King Saud the locations of the coup plotters in Taiz to strike them...!!! And he says to King Saud, instigating: “The country is one.”..!!! This was during the attempt to overthrow the Imam by the revolutionary Ahmed Yahya Al-Talaya, the army commander in Taiz on March 31, 1955.
https://twitter.com/diplomat90/status/1575520124345503746
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
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UNICEF continues training community health workers of Yemen
The CHW training course covers essential information about the most severe and notorious healthcare challenges and conditions of today's Yemen
The CHW training course covers essential information about the most severe and notorious healthcare challenges and conditions of today's Yemen: malnutrition, and healthcare for pregnant women, young mothers, and infants.
During the training, local health workers learn to deal with acute malnutrition, detect risk factors in pregnant women and children, conduct immunization, etc. In addition, mentors of the UNICEF CHW programme teach them how to communicate with people and explain to them the importance and efficacy of vaccination and other medical procedures.
https://www.unicef.org/yemen/stories/unicef-continues-training-community-health-workers-yemen
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Yemen Price Bulletin, September 2022
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year.
Wheat flour is the staple food for most households in Yemen; sorghum and rice are most often consumed as a substitute. Households are heavily dependent on imported wheat supplies reaching the regional trading centers of Sana’a City, Al Hudaydah City, and Aden City—critical markets that supply other urban and rural districts. Aden City, located in a trade deficit zone, is the reference market for the southern region and the largest wholesale market with significant storage capacity. Al Hudaydah is an important assembly, wholesale, and retail market in the most populous region in the country where most households are dependent on markets for staple foods. Sana’a City serves as a wholesale and retail market for households in northern and central Yemen, and Sayoun serves as a reference market of the east.
Wheat grain and flour prices are susceptible to the exchange rate of the Yemeni Rial (YER) and US Dollar (USD). There are currently two exchange rates split by monetary governance between the Sana’abased authorities (SBA) and the internationally recognized government (IRG).
https://fews.net/east-africa/yemen/price-bulletin/september-2022
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Yemen: Sanaa Floods - Operation Update Report n° 1, DREF n° MDRYE011
Summary of major revisions made to emergency plan of action:
The Yemen Red Crescent Society (YRCS) has continued responding to the flood-affected communities in 16 affected governorates during August and September 2022, with support from IFRC, ICRC, NorCross and QRCS and has assisted more than 6,900 households from the start of the response. However, substantial response gaps remain high as emergency response supplies are depleted due to a lack of funding to the overall humanitarian partners in Yemen. YRCS pre-positioned and recently purchased emergency stocks are also depleted, and the needs and gaps in the targeted affected communities remain high and unmet. The scale-up of the DREF operation will help YRCS to meet the immediate unmet needs of the 1,758 affected households
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Yemen: Multi-Cluster Location Assessment (MCLA)
People in Yemen have suffered the compounded effects of the war, ongoing economic crisis, and disrupted public services. Escalating conflict in 2021 resulted in civilian casualties, increased displacement and further disruption of public services, pushing humanitarian needs higher. Yemen’s collapsing economy – itself a product of the conflict – exacerbated vulnerabilities among poor families. More than 23.4 million people - almost three-quarters of the population- need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2022; an increase of 13 per cent from what was already a frightening figure in 2021.
A concerted effort has gone into improving data collection and analysis to inform the humanitarian programme cycle. The Multi-Cluster Location Assessment (MCLA) is one of the tools designed to enhance evidence-based humanitarian prioritization and resource allocation in the context of high needs and scarce resources.
The Multi-Cluster Location Assessment followed a coordinated approach with the engagement of all relevant stakeholders. The Assessment and Monitoring Working Group (AMWG) in Yemen led the designing phase of the assessment under the overall supervision of the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT).
Aid agencies and government counterparts jointly developed the MCLA data collection tool. A two-stage random sampling approach was used for data collection.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-multi-cluster-location-assessment-mcla-enar
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Targeting the Ultra Poor in Yemen
The Graduation Model in Yemen works in accord with the SWF welfare system. All households in the sample frame came from the SWF welfare lists and receive an average quarterly stipend of YEM 3,000 (US$15). Low-income households were identified using the Progress Out of Poverty Index and are verified as the most poor during SWF field officer visits. These households were then randomly assigned to either a treatment or comparison group. Beneficiaries in treatment households receive training on an income generating activity such as, sewing, raising livestock, or petty trading. As households’ income and food consumption stabilizes, beneficiaries are required to open a savings account at the local post office and are encouraged to reach a savings goal of YEM 10,750 (about US$50) by the end of the two year program. In addition, these low-income households are monitored throughout the program with weekly visits from field officers and receive additional trainings on confidence building, social integration, and sanitation practices.
https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/targeting-ultra-poor-yemen-0?lang=es
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In Yemen, where many schools have been destroyed in the war, children are often attending school in makeshift outside classrooms. YRRF provides school bags and school supplies to ensure that children can continue to attend school (photos)
https://twitter.com/yemenrrf/status/1576277662938849280
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Reproductive health in Yemen: A pregnant woman dies every two hours
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Analysis of long-term climatic changes at Al-Hodeidah-Yemen during the period between 1985 and 2019
From abstract
The annual means of temperature during the past period (1985–2019) were between 26.9 and 30.1 °C. The trend rate between 1985 and 2019 showed an increase in temperature toward a warmer climate for all months and seasons. The increasing rate of annual mean temperature is about + 0.075 °C/year, with an actual increase of about + 0.37 °C/year and + 0.75 °C/decade. At a monthly and seasonal timescale, there is a similar trend rate from December to September, with the greatest rate in November of about + 0.13; 0.11 °C/year. These significantly increasing trends are confirmed by MK statistics (significant at 0.05 level where Z1-α/2 > 1.96). This general trend obviously is related to global warming. In general, the trend across Al-Hodeidah towards a warmer climate demands more effective actions from the Yemeni government and also from the local people to be prepared for increased heat stress, increased water demand, and related adaptation needs [paywalled]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-022-04178-2
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Islamic Relief: Tender for the baseline of provision of secondary health care in four district hospitals in Amran and Hodeida Governorates Yemen (POSHY), Sep
Project summary
This project is designed to improve the access of affected and vulnerable people of 4 districts in Amran and Al-Hodaidah governorates to the lifesaving health services. These districts are (Al-Zuhra district) in Al-Hodaidah governorate and (As-Sawd district, As-Sudah district and Al-Asha district) in Amran Governorate.
IRY proposes this project which is aligned with the first and third health cluster objectives of 2021. The first objective includes increasing access of vulnerable populations including IDPs to the Minimum Service Package, supporting the health system and community resilience at all levels, and prioritizing reproductive health, mental health and psychosocial support, severe malnutrition response and management of non-communicable diseases. The third objective includes strengthening the health system and operational support to health facilities through fuel, water, oxygen, health information management and financial support to healthcare workers and the provision of essential support to critically needed advanced care in priority districts.
The project targets 4 hospitals which will serve beneficiaries including those with mental and disability disorders and the most vulnerable group of the community like mothers and children. Each hospital serves a whole district in addition to nearby districts and IDP sites.
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Aktualisierung der Ernährungssicherheitsaussichten im Jemen August 2022 – Jemen
Die Trockenheit in der Frühsaison und die jüngsten Überschwemmungen verschärfen die Ernährungsunsicherheit bei reduzierter Hilfe
Nach ungewöhnlicher Trockenheit in der ersten Regenzeit von März bis Mai hat starker Regen seit Mitte Juli weit verbreitete Sturzfluten in 18 der 22 Gouvernements Jemens verursacht, was zu Schäden an kritischer Infrastruktur, Häusern, Produktionsanlagen und Lebensmittelvorräten sowie zu Vertreibungsgebieten führte am schlimmsten betroffen. Bis zum 18. August waren rund 36.205 Familien betroffen, die meisten von ihnen in Flüchtlingslagern. Infolge von Ernteschäden sind die Preise für im Inland produzierte Lebensmittel, einschließlich Gemüse, weiter gestiegen.
Am 17. August waren nur 42 Prozent des 2022 Jemen Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP) finanziert.
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WFP Yemen Food Security Update, September 2022
The exchange rate remained volatile in IRG-controlled areas. Since mid April, the Yemeni riyal has lost 19 percent of its value. It was stable in areas under Sana’a-based authorities at around YER 557 per dollar since the agreed truce in April 2022.
In August 2022, average local prices of petrol and diesel slightly decreased compared to the previous month. However, year-on-year, the pumping prices for both petrol and diesel doubled in IRG-controlled areas, while they increased by 22 and 39 percent respectively in areas under Sana’a-based authorities.
The cost of the minimum food basket increased by 65 percent in IRGcontrolled areas and by 31 percent in areas under Sana’a-based authorities over the past year. Consequently, high food prices continued eroding the purchasing power of households. Thus severe food-based coping strategies nationwide are deployed widely.
Fuel imports through Al Hodeidah and Salif ports increased by 219 percent during January-August 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. This increase was mainly due to the agreed truce which facilitated the entry of fuel ships into Red Sea ports since April 2022.
During January-August, total food imports through Al Hodeidah and Salif ports were eight percent higher than during the same period last year, whereas it decreased by 45 percent in the southern ports of Aden and Mukalla.
Continued funding shortages, lack of food stocks and logistic constraints compelled WFP to further reduce the food basket during 2022, particularly during the fourth cycle. Starting from the fifth cycle in September around 13 million beneficiaries will receive a slightly higher food ration, equivalent to 65 percent of the standard food basket.
Food insecurity continued to deteriorate during August. Food consumption marked the worst level over the past four years. Around 58 percent of surveyed households in areas under IRG and 51 percent in areas under Sana’a-based authorities could not access enough food to meet their minimum dietary needs. In 19 governorates, inadequate food consumption passed critically high levels of ≥40 percent.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/wfp-yemen-food-security-update-september-2022
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A great place to learn, for a better tomorrow
Over seven years of grinding war in Yemen, the education sector had extremely deteriorated and a huge number of schools are no more functioning. Yet, hope was glimmering in Abdul Hafedh Hansh’s eyes, the principal of Arwa School; the one who dedicated himself to teach the IDPs and the most vulnerable students in the most prioritized IDPs’ hosting site in Ataq District – Shabwah Gov.
From this perspective, Yemen Family Care Association (YFCA) through the fund of the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF) was able to support this school, as well as students by improving access and quality of education, particularly through providing furniture, constructing classrooms, rehabilitating schools, as well as constructing and rehabilitating WASH facilities.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/great-place-learn-better-tomorrow
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Photos: This is Hassan before (left photo) and after (right photo) treatment. I'm so delighted to have contributed into such effort, trying to make a better place for Yemeni children. You can't tell how happy one can feel when they take part in saving a child's life!
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1575563303954579456
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Film: I met this smart boy, he's supposed to be at school but he collects empty plastic cans & sells it nearly $1 all day to help his family. The endless suffering that Yemeni children have been experiencing for 8Yrs due to war & siege. You can #help via link http://gogetfunding.com/food-and-medicine-for-yemen…
https://twitter.com/ghalebalsudmy/status/1575203846778867712
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In a poverty pocket, the newly SFD-built road provides easy access for 5,000 people fm 20 villages @ AlSifa to the basic services, #livelihoods and attracts tourism into their areas. 40 households benefited from wages of the generated #job_opportunities (#ThiSufal #Ibb) (photo)
https://twitter.com/SFDYemen/status/1575171158420652032
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
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UN: 40% of displaced children are out of school in Yemen
A recent field survey conducted in Yemen by the United Nations revealed that displaced children live miserable conditions.
The data showed that 40 percent of school-age children were not attending school. The percentage of children out of school was slightly higher among displaced people, with 42.5 percent of displaced children do not go to school.
Parents reported several barriers to providing their children with education, including the inability to pay the costs of education and transportation and the children’s involvement in household activities.
Survey respondents were also asked to outline the top three priorities from all their needs. Livelihood support, food, cash, water and health care were among the greatest needs.
The UN said in a previous report "Just over 2 million school-age girls and boys are now out of school as poverty, conflict and lack of opportunities disrupt their education."
http://en.adenpress.news/news/35701
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UNHCR Yemen: IDPs Protection Monitoring Update (1 Jan 2022 - 31 Aug 2022)
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Yemen: Protection Monitoring Assessments by District - Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
https://reliefweb.int/map/yemen/yemen-protection-monitoring-assessments-district-jan-2022-aug-2022
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Die Europäische Union stellt UNFPA über 9 Millionen Euro für lebensrettende Hilfe für die Schwächsten im Jemen zur Verfügung
UNFPA, die Organisation der Vereinten Nationen für sexuelle und reproduktive Gesundheit, begrüßt einen humanitären Beitrag der Europäischen Union (EU) in Höhe von 9,4 Millionen Euro. Die Finanzierung wird fast einer Million der am stärksten gefährdeten Frauen, Mädchen und Vertriebenen im Jemen mit Nothilfe, lebensrettender reproduktiver Gesundheitsversorgung und psychischen Gesundheitsdiensten helfen.
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European Union provides over €9 million to UNFPA for lifesaving assistance to the most vulnerable in Yemen
The funding will assist nearly a million of the most vulnerable women, girls and displaced people in Yemen with emergency relief, life-saving reproductive health care and mental health services. The funds are critical for the continuation of these services at a time when UNFPA’s humanitarian response is being challenged by limited financing and growing humanitarian needs.
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Safe water saves lives
Razzaz Abdo Ibrahim Khamis, one of many displaced people in Western Sahda camp B, is the head of a family that consists of 16 members; six men, four women, three boys and three girls. Like all IDPs, and due to the existing conflict, Razzaz and his family live in hard conditions, as they have struggled to provide basic needs such as food and water.
Western Sahda camp B is located in Sahda area - south of Qataba and next to many other IDP camps.
The camp’s condition is substandard. The inhibitors are suffering from a lack of basic services provisions, such as lack of food and water provision. Besides, the camp is located far away from all the water sources in the area, no governmental water project reached the camp, and the residents cannot afford the high price of water. Regarding this situation, they have no way but to wait for the humanitarian assistance provided by the humanitarian organizations or philanthropists.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/safe-water-saves-lives
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Yemeni activist Fatimah al-Arwali has been reportedly detained by the Houthis for over two months in Sana'a.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1577152923079180288
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Houthis detained sports journalist Abad al-Jaradi from his house in Sana'a three days ago and took him to an unknown location, YJS.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1577150935050379264
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Houthi leader and activit Sulaiman Awaidain al-Ghuli defected to the legitimate government and arrived #Marib city today, according to a tweet on his twitter account.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1576997039287988225
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Mohammed Abdulsalam speaks with EU Humanitarian Coordinator on future of truce
Head of the national negotiating delegation, Mohammed Abdulsalam, has said on Monday that he received a phone call from the European Union Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs.
“During the call, we emphasized on our well-known position on the necessity of disbursing the salaries of all employees and pensioners’ pensions as well as ending the arbitrary restrictions on Hodeidah port, and Sana’a airport,” Abdulsalam affirmed on Twitter.
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Supreme Political Council of Yemen warns for retaliation if any aggression continues
The Supreme Political Council warned that the Armed Forces will not stand idly by if the aggression and siege continues, calling on the US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition to immediately end their aggression and siege.
In a statement issued, the Supreme Political Council advised the oil companies operating in the countries involved in the aggression against Yemen “to freeze its activity to avoid being exposed to danger if the aggression insisted on continuing its siege and aggression.”
The Supreme Political Council assured the Yemeni people that the Armed and Security Forces are able to defend and protect the country and restore its rights.
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Film: Celebrations: What the #Houthis have provided to #Yemenis since 2015. #Truckconvoy getting ready to celebrate the Prophet's birthday in #Sanaa, October 7th
https://twitter.com/KawkabAlwadeai/status/1576982507341611008
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Supreme Politician reviews developments of armistice negotiations, approves broad lines for next stage
The Supreme Political Council, in its meeting on Sunday, headed by President Mahdi Al-Mashat reviewed the latest developments regarding the ongoing negotiations on the armistice.
The President was briefed by the Council members on the details of the proposals submitted and the obstacles made by the aggression in order not to achieve the humanitarian file related to paying the employees's salaries and opening airports and ports.
The Council approved the broad outlines and basic points regarding the next stage, based on the steps announced by Sana'a and directed by His Excellency the President yesterday, with the identification of the various tasks required of all the competent authorities.
The Council affirmed that it is studying various options to deal with the new phase imposed by the behavior of the aggression and its mercenaries, and that it will take the necessary measures to preserve the supreme national interest and the sacrifices of the Yemeni people.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3205288.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/274228/
and
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Sanaa vows to bomb airports, seaports of coalition’s countries
The Supreme Political Council in Sanaa has issued a new warning to foreign oil companies operating in countries of the Saudi-led coalition.
The council said, in a statement issued on Sunday evening, “The Yemeni armed forces will not stand idly by if the aggression and siege continue and will put airports, ports and oil companies belonging to the coalition countries in their crossfire”
The statement called on the coalition countries to end their aggression and siege on the Yemeni people immediately.
https://en.ypagency.net/274284/
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President Mashat Instructs Companies to Completely Stop Looting Wealth
Mahdi Al-Mashat, head of the Supreme Political Council, issued directives to edit the final official correspondence of all companies to completely stop looting wealth.
A statement issued by the Supreme Economic Committee stated that the committee is coordinating with the competent authorities to edit these correspondences, and that it must permanently stop looting Yemeni sovereign wealth, starting at six o'clock in the evening Sunday.
The committee indicated that the communications that will be directed to the companies involved in looting Yemeni wealth will be based on the constitutional texts and Yemeni laws that obligate the state to protect and preserve national wealth.
The Supreme Economic Council confirmed that the Republic of Yemen reserves its legal right to deal with all the looting of Yemeni wealth, which was carefully monitored during the past periods.
and
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Army calls oil companies in UAE, Saudi Arabia to leave
The armed forces on Sunday warned the oil companies operating in the UAE and Saudi Arabia of continuing their activities, calling them to leave.
"The armed forces give the oil companies operating in the UAE and Saudi Arabia an opportunity to take the required measures and leave," Armed Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said.
He stressed that this warning will remain in place "as long as the US-Saudi aggression's countries are not committed to a truce that gives the Yemeni people the right to use its oil wealth to pay the salaries of the state employees."
If the UAE and Saudi Arabia insist on depriving us of our resources, the armed forces would be capable of depriving them of their resources, Saree said, adding "everything is possible."
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3205369.htm
and
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Oil Minister: US-Saudi Aggression, Foreign Companies Should Take Armed Forces’ Warning Seriously
The US-Saudi aggression and mercenaries looted Yemen’s wealth, the Minister of Oil and Minerals in the National Salvation Government in Sana’a Ahmed Daris said, stressing that they should take the warning of the Armed Forces seriously.
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Before End of UN-Sponsored Truce, in a Call President Receives Confirmation of Military Readiness
The President Mahdi Al-Mashat had a call with the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, informing them of the latest developments regarding the UN-sponsored truce extension.
The Armed Forces expressed their readiness for the directives of the leadership, stressing that they will be on the side of the Yemeni people in obtaining their legitimate rights.
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Defense Minister: Lands, waters, seas, resources of Republic of Yemen are basis of sovereignty
Minister of Defense, Major General Muhammad Nasser al-Atifi, on Sunday affirmed that the lands, waters, seas and wealth of the Republic of Yemen are the basis of Yemeni sovereignty, and the armed forces are committed to protecting them.
"We will not allow anyone to prejudice Yemeni sovereignty or even discuss it remotely," Major General Al-Atifi said at the ceremony organized by the Ministry of Defense and General Staff to commemorate the anniversary of the Prophet's birthday.
He added :"Everyone must understand that sovereignty should not be neglected as long as our arteries continue to flow with blood and our hearts pulse with loyalty and belonging to Yemen."
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3205287.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/274232/
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Houthi gunman kills and injures seven civilians in Dhamar
A Houthi gunman killed four people and injured three others from the same family in the Houthi militia-controlled central Yemen governorate of Dhamar on Saturday for unknown reasons, local sources have said.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-60972
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Rage erupts in Yemen over Houthis' eviction of al-Hodeidah villagers
The Houthis' campaign to forcibly displace the residents of four villages in southern al-Hodeidah province's Beit al-Faqih district and confiscate their land has sparked local and international condemnation.
On September 12, the Iran-backed group set out with a fleet of bulldozers and armed fighters riding in military vehicles to dislodge the residents of Tarf Yahya Sahel, al-Khodarya, al-Maarif and Bani al-Sabahi in the locality of al-Qasra.
"These lands that were usurped by the Houthi militia in the locality of al-Qasra have been their owners' only source of livelihood for decades," al-Hodeidah provincial spokesman Ali Hameed al-Ahdal told Al-Mashareq.
The militia assaulted the residents "with rifle butts and arrested more than 70 residents of these four villages to seize an area estimated at more than 10 sq km", he said.
The Houthis seized the land on "the pretext that it is endowment lands in order to divide it among individuals affiliated with it", al-Ahdal said.
During their operation, Houthi elements fired live ammunition indiscriminately to intimidate anyone who tried to stand up to them and protect his land, he said.
"The Houthis went to great lengths to arrest anyone who refused to hand over the lands he owns to the militia," he added.
These actions were not confined to al-Qasra, he noted, but extended to Wadi Siham in the direction of the city of Bajel.
"Unfortunately, the Houthis are continuing to seize the lands of residents in the locality of al-Qasra in southern Beit al-Faqih district," he said.
https://almashareq.com/en_GB/articles/cnmi_am/features/2022/09/30/feature-01
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Film: The largest #coffee shop opening today in #Sanaa, the capital city of #Yemen.
https://twitter.com/KawkabAlwadeai/status/1576378389341949953
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Film: Houthis storming and attacking graduation ceremony in Sana'a.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1576038471096934400
Film: Houthis prevented a grad student from putting jasmine on his mother on his graduation ceremony as it violated their religious beliefs and identity.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1575880726020751360
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YNRF says Houthis blamed for 20,000 violations against children
Iran-allied Houthi militias are reported to have committed 20977 incidents of violations against children during the period from 1 June 2018 through 1 June 2022 in different Yemeni governorates.
The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms (YNRF) reported that Houthi militiamen are responsible for 20977 violations of killings, injuries, kidnaping, displacing, recruiting and preventing from education.
http://en.adenpress.news/news/35691
My remark: YRNF is a anti-Houthi fake NGO.
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Sana'a Calls on France to Review Its Diplomatic Position Towards Yemen
Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on France to review its position towards Yemen and present its diplomacy in a better way.
In a tweet, Deputy Foreign Minister, Hussein Al-Ezzi, said, "The so-called "France ambassador to Yemen" has broken all norms and is working with excessive hostility against the Yemeni people."
This statement comes in response to the visit of the French Ambassador, Jean-Marie Safa, two days ago to the city of Mukalla in the Hadhramaut governorate, during which he met with a number of US-Saudi mercenaries' leaders
and also https://debriefer.net/en/news-31128.html
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Sanaa launches projects for martyrs’ families worth 650 million riyals
The General Authority for the Care of the Families of Martyrs on Thursday announced projects for the benefit of the martyrs in Sanaa and the provinces under the Supreme Political Council’s control, at a total cost of 650 million riyals.
https://en.ypagency.net/273993/
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Sanaa forces conduct tests on new strategic weapon
The military media of the Sanaa forces revealed pictures and live scenes of the missions and capabilities of a military armored vehicle that bore the name “Hani” in the desert, mountains, plains and valleys.
The military media stated that the “Hani” armored vehicle, which was unveiled by the Military Industrialization Authority during the 8th anniversary of the September 21 revolution, “in commemoration of the martyr Hani Tomer”, is designed to carry out offensive and defensive tasks and is characterized by flexibility when moving and speed when engaging.
https://en.ypagency.net/273999/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/09/29/yemeni-armed-forces-reveal-new-armoured-vehicle-named-hani/
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Mufti of Yemen: US, Britain Behind Aggression on Yemen
https://english.almasirah.net.ye/post/28678/Mufti-of-Yemen-US%2C-Britain-Behind-Aggression-on-Yemen
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Sanaa lights up in green light to celebrate Prophet Muhammed’s birthday
The Yemeni capital Sana’a and several other Yemeni provinces have been witnessing official preparations for the celebration of the anniversary of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), ahead of the date of 12th of Rabi ul Awwal, often known as” Al- Mawlid An-Nabawi”.
The Yemenis have their own way to celebrate the Prophet Mohammed’s Birthday, Known as Al-Mawlid An-Nabawi (photos)
https://en.ypagency.net/274090/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/09/30/sanaa-lights-up-in-green-light-to-celebrate-prophet-muhammeds-birthday/
Films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1HgAIABM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeReSBQuzsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35n8y-Q4Aw
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Events, Activities All Around Yemen On The Occasion Of The Prophet Birthday
Yemeni directorates,Thursday, witnessed cultural events and activities, commemorating the Prophet’s birthday.
In the events,officials confirmed that the celebration of the birth of the Greatest Messenger embodies the love of Yemenis to the Messenger of humanity.
https://www.ansarollah.com/archives/552627
My remark: Pro-Houthi TV channels are full of films showing these events.
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Mohammad Ali al-Houthi: Misshandlungen des Propheten durch Feinde wird die Jemeniten nur dazu bringen, ihm zu folgen und ihm nachzueifern
Ein Mitglied des Obersten Politischen Rates, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi, sagte: „Die wiederholten Misshandlungen des Edlen Gesandten, möge Gott ihn und seine Familie segnen, durch die Feinde werden das Volk nur vermehren Jemen mit Liebe, Treue und Nachahmung seiner duftenden Sunnah und Biografie.
https://www.saba.ye/de/news3204946.htm
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Revolution Leader: Duty of scholars during current stage is to consolidate faith affiliation and follow example of Messenger of God
The Revolution Leader, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, stressed that it is the duty of scholars, intellectuals and guides, during this stage, to consolidate faith affiliation and the principle of following and following the example of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3204656.htm
Films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kswfPICHw = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzB3o_Ya4UY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A5L6XZ4suo = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_XhykLaWI0
Illumination, films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WST00QpYgjA = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAHOvB5-etg
https://twitter.com/Naseh_Shaker/status/1575181488479686656
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZLz-hUVS2Q
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Films: Yemenis Are Proud of Armed Forces and the Military Parade
Fortsetzung / Sequel: cp6 – cp19
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-825b-yemen-war-mosaic-825b
Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-824-yemen-war-mosaic-824
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-824 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-824:
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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