... Die Tragödie der von schlechter Medizin getöteten Kinder ängstigt kranke Patienten –Warum sich die Beziehungen zwischen den USA und Saudi-Arabien so schnell verschlechtert haben – und mehr
November 1, 2022: Transitional justice is Yemen’s only path to healing – How women made use of tribal norms to mediate conflict in Yemen – Victims of landmines – The death of 10 leukemia-stricken children and the US-Saudi blockade on Yemen – Tragedy of children killed by bad medicine sends chills through sick patients – Why U.S.-Saudi relations have deteriorated so rapidly – and more
Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Kursiv: Siehe Teil 2 / In Italics: Look in part 2: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-829b-yemen-war-mosaic-829b
Klassifizierung / Classification
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
cp2 Allgemein / General
cp2a Allgemein: Saudische Blockade / General: Saudi blockade
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
cp6 Separatisten und Aden-Regierung im Südjemen / Separatists and Aden government in Southern Yemen
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp9 USA
cp9a USA-Iran Krise: Spannungen am Golf / US-Iran crisis: Tensions at the Gulf
cp9b Beziehungen der USA zu Saudi-Arabien und den VAE / US-Saudi and UAE relations
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp12b Sudan
cp13a Söldner / Mercenaries
cp13b Kulturerbe / Cultural heritage
cp13c Wirtschaft / Economy
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Kampf um Hodeidah / Hodeidah battle
cp19 Sonstiges / Other
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A = Aktuell / Current news
B = Hintergrund / Background
C = Chronik / Chronicle
D = Details
E = Wirtschaft / Economy
H = Humanitäre Fragen / Humanitarian questions
K = Krieg / War
P = Politik / Politics
pH = Pro-Houthi
pS = Pro-Saudi
T = Terrorismus / Terrorism
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
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Wikipedia: Militärintervention im Jemen seit 2015
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milit%C3%A4rintervention_im_Jemen_seit_2015
and English version:
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Wikipedia: Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian%E2%80%93led_intervention_in_Yemen
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Film: Die vergessene Not der Kinder im Jemen und Deutschlands Beihilfe zum Massenmord
Der Genozid Saudi Arabiens und seiner Kriegskoalition sowie die Beihilfe zum Völkermord im Jemen - insbesondere durch die NATO/EU-Mächte USA, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Deutschland etc., müssen sofort gestoppt werden. Die Regierungen der westlichen Wertegesellschaft leisten mit ihren Waffenlieferungen an kriegführende Länder der Saudi/Emirati-Kriegskoalition Beihilfe zu Völkermord, Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit, Kriegsverbrechen und Beihilfe zur Aggression gegen den Jemen, alles Verbrechen die das Völkerrecht unter Strafe stellt und nicht verjähren! Helfen Sie mit, diesen irrsinnigen Völkermord der saudischen Kriegskoalition im Jemen, die Blockade zu Land, Luft und zur See, die massiven Rüstungsexporte der NATO/EU-Mächte an kriegführende Länder sowie den US-Drohnenkrieg - gesteuert über die US-Airbase Ramstein, zu beenden! Europäisches Parlament fordert von EU-Staaten die Einstellung sämtlicher Rüstungsexporte an die saudische Koalition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WReFQTNmkmg
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
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Truce or no truce: Transitional justice is Yemen’s only path to healing
Failure to renew the April United Nations (UN) brokered truce in Yemen has let millions of Yemenis down, especially those hoping that real progress would be made this time in implementing the truce’s conditions, which involves the siege on Taiz—the country’s third largest populated city, which has been under siege by Houthis since 2015—and payment of civil servant’s salaries. A statement by the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, confirmed that negotiations continue despite this setback.
Nevertheless, such consultations still fall short when it comes to the principles of transitional justice. In fact, none of the peace processes in Yemen are truly based on a human rights and transitional justice approach. Mediators who have spoken to me fear that addressing transitional justice issues complicates the process and impedes progress in the negotiations. For them, the priority is to secure a ceasefire and the appeasement of the parties who sit at the negotiating table. This disregard for human rights puts the interests of the parties to the conflict above the thousands, if not millions, of victims who were impacted by the conflict in Yemen.
Include women in transitional justice
As the war completes its eighth year since September 2014, there is a real need to integrate various components of transitional justice into the peace process. This includes truth-telling committees, accountability, reparations, preservation of national memory, institutional reform, and national reconciliation.
This should be done in a gender-responsive manner, specifically taking into account the needs of women and girls—not only as victims, but also as active stakeholders in transitional justice mechanisms, including active participation in all the national reconciliation bodies.
Yemeni women have already proven their capabilities in this regard and beyond
Why transitional justice benefits all
It is important for mediators and peace negotiating delegations to understand that transitional justice measures are not only in the interests of victims, but can include a safe exit for violators if they confess, apologize, seek forgiveness, commit to non-repetition, and adequately compensate victims. In this way, these files can be closed after the victim’s satisfaction is achieved. Without that, the files of violations remain open and can be referred to local criminal justice or international courts, such as the International Court of Justice, if the victims are not redressed before the national courts. This is because such violations of war crimes and crimes against humanity do not fall under the statute of limitations.
Nevertheless, there is an inclination to speak of national reconciliation as a replacement or cover for transitional justice (indicated in the discussions in local mediation efforts, which want to repeat Saleh’s amnesty deal of 2011 in future peace agreements). The logic behind this is to turn the page on the past and not open these files that will unravel the wounds. Such logic is not new. It happens after every cycle of violence in Yemen, including the armed conflicts between 1962-1970 in the north, the 1986 war in the south, and the war between the north and south in 1994.
The path forward
Transitional justice is a fair and effective approach that has been applied by many countries that have experienced violent civil wars, such as Rwanda.
Yemen will not reach peace without a peace process that is based on human rights, gender equality, and transitional justice. This is the only way to protect future generations from renewed cycles of conflict and enable them to live with the dignity, safety, and prosperity they deserve – by Hooria Mashhour, a political and human rights activist, is the former Minister of Human Rights during the Consensus Government (2012 – 2014) and a founding member of the National Reconciliation Movement.
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How women made use of tribal norms to mediate conflict in Yemen
Since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen in 2014, women have played instrumental roles as first responders and informal peacemakers in their communities. Despite being excluded from formal negotiations, Yemeni women have mediated inter- and intra-community disputes including the release of detainees, opening humanitarian corridors and stopping the recruitment of children by armed actors. To do so, women often use Yemeni tribal principles such as respect for and protection of women and the unarmed population which remain strong throughout the country. According to these norms, women are categorized as du’afa, meaning weak or powerless, which paradoxically accords them the protection necessary to move in and out of conflict zones without being targeted, and engage in mediation efforts. Such efforts resulted in many successes, including the release of political detainees and prisoners of war, and the reopening of roads around Taiz city, actions that have in fact become central UN confidence-building measures.
Mediating disputes and ceasefires.
Holding a formal position may also give women a mandate to mediate disputes. For example, a woman who was elected to a community committee in Taiz, for instance, took responsibility for mediating disputes related to women’s access to resources and inheritance since she could more easily connect with female disputants than her male colleagues. Another female mediator in Taiz, similarly, noted that since 2015, local committees were formed in order to resolve disputes in the absence of effective authorities, and through her position on one such council she was able to contribute to the opening of the Taiz border crossing located at the frontline.
Yemeni women have also played important roles in preventing and resolving conflicts between the government and tribes, and averting conflict between influential tribes. For example, a dispute erupted between members of two different tribes in Hajjah, north-western Yemen, over conflicting land claims and escalated into a full armed battle between the two tribes, resulting in over 60 deaths. A woman mediator was able to convince the tribal leaders to gather a group of men who would camp out on the contested land until a resolution was found.
In Marib, east of Sanaa, several stories also emerged of women publicly shaming armed men to get them to stop fighting and fulfil their protective responsibilities, in some cases using highly symbolic public actions such as shaving their hair.
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Victims of Mines in Al-Qabaytah
Despite the risks of armed conflict in their villages, those who were unable to go are destitute, without the means to leave, and rely solely on farming and grazing in their communities. They would have no other option to rely on as a source of living if they decide to relocate. They are therefore compelled to remain against all risks.
One of the incidents of land mines and explosive objects took place in the village of Qadash, Qabbaytah District. It was on the second day of Eid al-Adha, July 10, 2022. Its victims were two young local girls, one died instantly. The other was wounded by shrapnel and evacuated for treatment to Médecins San Frontières (MSF) hospital in Aden.
On the incident morning, Yamama Ahmed Al Emadi(16 years old) and her 15-years-old cousin Yasmine Mansour Al Emadi were, as usual, herding sheep on Jabal Afra’ Al-Soud pasture overlooking the western side of the Qadash village in the sub-district of Karesh, Qabbaytah.
That day, at about 11:30 a.m., while they were returning with their sheep, a land mine exploded in the middle of the mountain. Yamama was instantaneously killed as a result of injuries in her neck, abdomen, and lower limbs. Yasmine was hit with shrapnel on the right side of the chest. The explosion also killed about 21 of the victims’ sheep, which were turned into shreds at the site of the explosion.
“As I arrived in our village that day from a nearby area, cattle herders came carrying the wounded Yasmine, as well as my daughter Yamama who was covered in her blood and had passed dead,” said Yamama’s father, 46-year-old Ahmed Al-Emadi.
“I was shocked by that situation, I could not control myself, and I fell to the ground crying bitterly,” he continued sadly.
“Yamamah, my eldest daughter, was my right hand. I relied on her for everything. She helped me with farming and cattle grazing. In this village, we depend on on farming and livestock as our sole source of living,” he concluded.
Residents accuse the Ansar Allah (Houthis) armed group of indiscriminate planting of land mines and explosive objects in the mountains of the region. According to locals, the armed group plants mines and other explosive objects in the mountains and the areas separating them from the positions of the opposing party in order to protect their fronts from any advance by the other side.
Not far from the tragedy of Yamama and Yasmin, and in a rural place called Al-Dubai, also in Qabbaytah, a 7- years-old Ghaida Abdo Abd al-Baqi suffered the orphan’s bitterness after her father died when she was four. She then lived with her mother and siblings in poverty. In addition, the area where she lives is an interface zone between the warring parties (the forces of the internationally recognized Yemeni government and the Ansar Allah “Houthis” group).
Ghaida, her mother Dalilah Abdel Samad (40 years old), and her brother Azzam Abdo )16 years old( were landmine victims that exploded in the Al-Dabi area of Qabbaytah, inflicting shrapnel wounds on her and her brother and killed her mother.
https://mwatana.org/en/mines-in-al-qabaytah/
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Death of 10 leukemia-stricken children put the spotlight on US-Saudi blockade on Yemen
Eight out of the nine children who were seriously ill have recovered, according to the Health Minister amid calls for lifting the US-backed Saudi blockade on the entry of drugs including those for cancer patients.
At Al-Kuwait Hospital in Sanaa, where 19 children with leukemia were injected with a "smuggled and contaminated" drug that resulted in the death of 10 children, Abdullah Ali Mahdi has been very vigilant about contraband drugs and used his own method, which saved the life of his five-year-old leukemia patient, Waleed.
“I bought all medicines from Egypt because Yemen is under blockade and most medicines are smuggled into Yemen,” 49-year-old Mahdi, father of Waleed, told Al Mayadeen English. “Without this method that saved my son's life, Waleed would have been one of those dead or seriously ill.”
Waleed is one of 1,539 children receiving treatment at the leukemia center of Al-Kuwait hospital, according to figures shown to Al Mayadeen English by Haitham, the admittance officer of the leukemia center.
The Ministry of Health said in a statement on October 13 that 19 leukemia-stricken children at Al-Kuwait hospital had received a "smuggled and contaminated" drug, causing the death of 10 children with the remaining 9 still receiving treatment.
Some media sources say the smuggled drug is known as “Methotrexate”, which was manufactured in India by a company named Celon Labs. Al Mayadeen English sent the company a request for comment via email but did not respond as of the time of publishing this piece.
Al Mayadeen English met with the head of the Leukemia Unit at Al-Kuwait Hospital, Abdulrahman Al-Hadi, but he didn’t allow us to meet with the 9 other children still receiving treatment nor did they provide us with the contact details of the dead children’s parents at orders of the court looking into this case.
Al Mayadeen English contacted Yaser Al-Zendani, prosecutor of the Court for the Western Capital District of Sanaa, who declined to interview the parents because publishing their opinions “will affect the course of the trial.”
In an interview for Al-Masirah TV, Taha Al-Mutawakel, Minister of Health, said on October 21 that he had formed a committee with members from the Supreme Medical Council, the Supreme Authority for Medicines, and the National Cancer Center headed by the Minister of Health to find out the truth about what happened in the leukemia center.
“We arrested the head of the Supreme Authority for Medicines and his deputy and referred them to the Attorney General on the grounds of failure to give full testimony, and the case is now in the court,” reported Al-Masirah, citing Al-Mutawakel.
Al-Mutawakel said after 15 days the laboratory analysis at the Supreme Authority for Medicines proved that the drug, methotrexate, was contaminated.
“19 children were injected with a dose of “methotrexate”, 10 children died, 8 cases improved, and one case is still in intensive care,” Al-Mutawakel said.
Amid the war on Yemen, the US-backed Saudi blockade on the country, including entry of some medicines, has created large smuggling networks, including drugs.
“The contaminated drug was smuggled into Yemen because Sanaa airport is under blockade,” explained Mahdi.
The Ministry of Health said it took measures when it received reports of the drug that caused complications for the children by testing it and found it was smuggled and contaminated.
The Ministry said in a statement it closed a pharmacy at Al-Zubairi Street without naming it. However, Al Mayadeen English looked into the name of the pharmacy and found out it was “New Pharma”, which was closed for selling the drug.
An employee at the New Pharma who asked to remain anonymous said the Pharmacy has been closed but its owner was detained for two days and was then set free.
Causes of leukemia
There is no obvious reason for leukemia infection, but it is reported that when a person is exposed to high levels of radiation in a contaminated environment like cluster bombs, infection is inevitable.
In 2016, Human Rights Watch accused Saudi Arabia of “using US-made cluster munitions near civilian areas in Yemen, leaving behind unexploded submunitions.”
“I’m sure that radiation of cluster bombs used in Yemen is the main reason behind most infections of children, including my child Waleed,” Mahdi told Al Mayadeen English.
Mahdi said the Saudi cluster bombs “played a vital role” in the infections of children with leukemia and the “blockade still prevents entry of their medicine causing their death.”
Mahdi pointed out that the leukemia center’s resources at Al-Kuwait hospital are “limited, the building is small and not enough to accommodate all cases.”
State of emergency
Abeer Al-Sanaani, a medic at the leukemia center, said when the staff learned the children were infected with the contaminated drug after the children had suffered from complications, the center was under a state of emergency.
Al-Sanaani said the countries of invasion of Yemen and their blockade were responsible for the deaths of the 10 children. “If Sanaa airport is opened, the drugs will be properly imported without being smuggled and subjected to bad storage,” she said.
She reiterated that the “prosecutor’s office must take action against the smugglers, the Indian company, and the countries of aggression responsible for the blockade.” – by Naseh Shaker
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Yemen: Tragedy of children killed by bad medicine sends chills through sick patients
With patients often forced to buy smuggled medicine due to devastated health sector, many wonder if their treatments could also be tainted
Through years of nationwide medicine shortages, Yemenis have been able to find life-saving smuggled medications by seeking out the pharmacies and hospitals that stocked them, or even the smugglers themselves.
But when news broke last week that the children had died from contaminated smuggled chemotherapy medicine administered at a hospital in the capital, Sanaa, terror spread among patients relying on smuggled medication for treatment.
"The complications suffered by the sick children was a result of a drug smuggled from outside the country that reached a pharmacy in the capital, which was then purchased by the patients' families," Mohammed al-Ghaili, the head of the Supreme Authority for Medicines and Medical Supplies, said on 17 October.
Yemenis now feel that taking the only medicine available to them is a gamble.
Ashraf said that the drug he needs cannot be found legitimately, and his only solution has been to buy smuggled medication.
"I know that the smuggled medicine may not have good results and may worsen my health, but I can't afford to travel abroad, and the original medicine isn't available on the local market," said Ashraf, who has never heard about cancer patients dying because of trafficked medicine until now.
"Sometimes I can't even find the smuggled one, and I need to wait for days or weeks until it arrives from abroad."
Yemen's health sector has been devastated by the ongoing war between the rebel Houthis and the government backed by a Saudi-led military coalition, with more than half of the country's medical facilities paralysed.
Medicines that have disappeared from the market have unpopular alternatives that both patients and doctors avoid, leaving it to smugglers to fulfil demand.
The use of smuggled medicines has become increasingly common around the country amid inaction by health ministries in both Sanaa and Aden, the provisional seat of the government.
Mohammed, a pharmacist in Sanaa, said that some pharmaceuticals are no longer available because either their agents can't import them or the importing companies have closed down altogether due to restrictions on movement to Yemen.
Meanwhile, a number of pharmaceutical companies refuse to send their products to Yemen because they cannot guarantee that they would be properly handled at the right temperature and under the right conditions.
Mohammed, whose pharmacy stopped buying smuggled medicine from traders following the incident, said he had not been aware of their danger until he heard the news about the children's deaths.
He said that, while there are several pharmaceutical factories in Yemen, people do not trust locally manufactured medicines - which was the case even before the war - and prefer imported products.
"It's not only patients but even some doctors don't trust Yemeni medicine, and this means they will go for smuggled ones, which may have been brought in in conditions that are not ideal for their viability," Mohammed said.
The pharmacist noted that medicines have long been smuggled into Yemen, and people would buy them because they were cheap.
"This isn't new, but the new development is patients resorting to buying smuggled and expensive medicine because the original ones are not available on the market any more," he said.
The children's deaths have sparked anger on social media against the health ministry in Sanaa and the different public medical institutions.
The Houthis blame the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen for the widespread use of smuggled medicine, while they are often accused of blocking or holding up deliveries of humanitarian aid.
Anees al-Asbahi, doctor and spokesperson of the health ministry in Sanaa, said that the 38 companies that used to import medicine have left Yemen due to restrictions imposed by the coalition.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-children-killed-bad-medicine-chills-sick-patients
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Who Is Telling the Truth?
In an interview, Hussein Ibish discusses why U.S.-Saudi relations have deteriorated so rapidly.
Hussein Ibish: It’s very hard to explain what went wrong in a series of at times indirect meetings over a long period in which one was not personally involved. But my sense is that, in general, Americans believed they had a strong commitment from Saudi Arabia to maintain production and pricing at certain levels over a prolonged period of time, whereas the Saudis believed they had committed to not allowing the price to go too high, as opposed to agreeing not to take defensive actions if prices began to fall precipitously in their view. And they may well have believed that they had already fulfilled their commitments regarding production quotas by the time the October 5 OPEC + meeting took place.
The biggest source of the misunderstanding, though, has to do with diverging contexts. The whole Western world—Russia included—is now divided into pro- and anti-Vladimir Putin camps, and there is a shared sense in the West that the Ukraine war is a macro historical inflection point of tremendous significance, redefining strategic and international relations for the foreseeable future. Therefore, everyone is expected to take a side.
However, this is not how the conflict is viewed in the developing world, particularly in Asia and Africa, including by the Saudis. Very few countries in Asia and Africa accept the need to reevaluate their strategic calculations and restructure much of their foreign policy because of the Ukraine war, which to them is a limited border war in far-off Eastern Europe. Most are happy to side with Ukraine at the United Nations and provide humanitarian aid when possible, as Saudi Arabia recently did to the tune of $400 million. But the idea that Ukraine is now the primary lens through which all aspects of international relations must be judged and measured is simply not shared by the developed and developing worlds. And this really lies at the heart of the U.S.-Saudi misunderstanding over the oil pricing and production quota issue.
The United States expected Saudi cooperation and loyalty on this issue, and a willingness to take a huge hit for the international community because of the crucial importance of the Ukraine war. Saudi Arabia has at stake its socioeconomic viability, because it has a few precious decades remaining in which to build a viable post-hydrocarbon economic future. This is as urgent a project as any could be. Strategic planning to accomplish this radical and extremely ambitious transformation has been built around the de facto OPEC+ cartel created with Russia in 2016 and the hard-fought and dearly-won dominance that Saudi Arabia established in its pricing and production war with Russia in 2020.
If Americans have been left with the suspicion that Saudi Arabia is siding with Moscow, Riyadh has been left with the suspicion that Washington expects it to abandon its existential development project and casually cast aside the crucial relationship with Russia around which the project is built in order to side with Ukraine. Neither impression is correct in my view, but it seems to me that this divergence in perspectives lies at the heart of the misunderstanding over what Saudi Arabia had, or had not, agreed with Washington earlier this year on oil pricing and production.
MY: Some articles in media outlets have suggested that the Saudi decision to cut output was actually aimed at the domestic U.S. political scene, the goal being to favor Republicans in the upcoming congressional elections, who would gain from the Democratic administration’s inability to control inflation. What do you think?
HI: I find this extremely unconvincing. I just don’t think that this is the nature of Saudi decisionmaking on such a crucial issue as oil pricing, given their apparently sincere conviction that prices were headed toward $60 or even $50 a barrel, which could prove catastrophic for their development strategies. So, I’m pretty sure the decision was taken for economic and strategic reasons. The Saudi project of building a post-hydrocarbon economy is an existential challenge
https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/88274
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The U.S.-Saudi Spat Is Over More Than Just Oil Prices
But this latest row is not just a dispute over oil prices between Washington and Riyadh. It is a more fundamental divide between Washington and most of its security partners in the Middle East over what’s at stake in the war in Ukraine, and more broadly how each side sees the current geopolitical map.
The gaps were already widening because of a U.S. desire to do less in the Middle East—a fatigue with the region that spans across the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. Regional perceptions of a U.S. retreat combined with, and contributed to, a growing assertiveness on the part of regional powers to tackle challenges on their own, whether countering popular uprisings following the Arab Spring or intervening in regional wars.
But if the cracks in U.S. ties with regional partners like Saudi Arabia were long in the making, the war in Ukraine has exposed them more starkly and revealed differing views of the global stakes.
In the U.S. narrative embraced by the Biden administration, the international order is increasingly bifurcating into a bloc of largely democratic states dedicated to a rules-based international order and a bloc of states led by authoritarians seeking to undermine that order, with the U.S. and its allies on one side, and China and Russia on the other. In the view of U.S. officials and many analysts across the political spectrum, the war in Ukraine clearly demonstrates who is on the right side and showcases that it pays to be an American ally. To paraphrase a U.S. analyst who spoke at a recent workshop I attended, this war is as simple as it gets—it’s the good guys against the bad guys, and the good guys are winning.
This framing has bipartisan support in the United States. A Chicago Council on Global affairs poll from August showed little “Ukraine fatigue” among the U.S. public.
The narrative among even the closest U.S. partners in the Middle East could not be more different. They do not see Ukraine as “their” war. They resent that, after having ignored the Middle East for years, the U.S.—in their view—only started paying attention to it again when the war affected global oil supplies and thus gas prices for American consumers. They ask, Why doesn’t the West care about our wars? Why didn’t the West care about Iran’s military involvement in Syria or its drones being used by Houthis and other proxies to target neighboring states? Why are Iranian drones all of a sudden seen as a major threat now that they are being deployed to kill Ukrainian civilians, but not when they were killing Arabs?
This explains why Iran’s transfers of drones and missiles to Russia is not raising the same alarm in the Middle East as it has in Washington and European capitals, nor is it seeming to turn Arab states that are hostile to Iran against Russia. In their view, they have been living with this threat for some time, but the West is only waking up to the problem when a European country is targeted. Kuwaiti professor Bader Al-Saif captured the mood when he tweeted, “The ‘West’ now gets to see firsthand what Iranian meddling is all about & why Arab states raise this issue over & over again.”
Because of these differing narratives, unrealistic expectations now exist on all sides. The U.S. cannot expect the region to take its side against Russia, or even against Iran—this is no longer the Cold War when Washington could expect partners to align with it against ideological enemies. Washington is learning that partnerships come with risks, and that just keeping partners on “our side”—which no longer appears feasible at any rate—may not be enough to justify turning a blind eye to their repressive policies at home or destabilizing activities abroad that implicate the United States.
For their part, Washington’s Arab partners are realizing that their expectations of unquestioned U.S. military support regardless of Washington’s regional and international priorities are equally unrealistic.
Ukraine should be a wakeup call for Washington to adjust to these realities and lower its expectations. Outdated transactional relationships based on models like “oil for security” are not working and are sure to keep disappointing – by Dalia Dassa Kaye
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/saudi-arabia-us-relations-oil-prices-opec-russia/
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
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Dengue fever outbreak kills people in Taiz
The epidemic has caused the death of dozens and the injury of more than ten thousand in the governorate since the beginning of 2022 until now. Dengue fever is usually transmitted to humans via the bite of an infected mosquito. The mosquito sucks the blood of an infected person, after an incubation period of 8-10 days, the mosquito is able, by biting people and sucking their blood, to transmit the virus for the rest of its life. Citizens said that the spread of mosquitoes that cause the transmission of fever diseases is a result of open sewage, accumulation of waste, and failure to maintain public and personal hygiene. Citizens in Taiz expressed concern over the alarming spread of fever diseases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqeBL1gTQFM
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Health Minister meets with Gavi's Regional Director cooperation areas
The Minister of Public Health and Population, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakel, met on Saturday in Sana'a, with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi)'s Regional Director, Anne Cronin and the Alliance's Senior Adviser who are currently visiting Yemen, aspects of existing cooperation to support the health sector.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3209069.htm
My comment: This is global oligarch Bill Gates meddling into Yemen’s affairs.
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Partnering to fight COVID-19
WHO in partnership with USAID has mounted successive COVID-19 vaccination campaigns that have immunized nearly 881,000 people to date in IRG-controlled Southern and Eastern Yemen. But vaccination progress has been continually slowed by misinformed and fear-based community rumors.
Only 10.7% of persons living in the 122 districts of 13 IRG-controlled governorates have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine delivered to Yemen through COVAX (a global initiative aimed at providing equitable public access to COVID-19 vaccines). Through COVAX, the US Government provided the Janssen vaccine to Yemen, which has accounted for 40% of all vaccinations currently. WHO co-directs the COVAX initiative with the GAVI vaccine alliance and other partners.
https://express.adobe.com/page/ilpElII0LewFF/
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Five change makers in the Eastern Mediterranean’s polio eradication programme
In WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, the polio eradication programme is working on addressing gender-related barriers to vaccination of children and surveillance for poliovirus. To this end, two Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meetings recently conducted for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the countries where the wild poliovirus is still endemic, also provided guidance on integrating solutions to gender-related barriers into eradication efforts.
Mounting speedy responses by rapid testing
When she was young, Dr Nabila Mohammed Al Moalimi dreamt of being a pediatrician. But when her father was misdiagnosed and given the wrong medical treatment, she decided to play a role in strengthening her country’s laboratories. Now, Dr Nabila serves as the Director of the Molecular Biology Department in Sana’a, Yemen.
After a two-week training session in a polio laboratory in Pakistan, Dr Nabila and a colleague returned to Yemen to start up a new laboratory division in the Ministry of Health’s Central Public Health Laboratory, Sana’a. This will solve a major problem for the polio eradication programme in Yemen.
Thanks to the expertise of Dr Nabila and her colleague, alongside several others, the polio laboratory in Sana’a is now able to perform direct detection of poliovirus soon from stool samples for polio before the final results arrive. They can also tell whether a polio virus is wild or a variant type, which informs an appropriate response.
cp2 Allgemein / General
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Interactive Map of Yemen War
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Saudi Ambassador to Yemen: Houthi Assessment of Int’l, Regional Position is Wrong
Saudi Arabia has warned Houthi militia leaders of the consequences of their actions, urging them to prioritize the interests of Yemenis and choose the path towards peace without dictates or conditions.
Saudi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Jaber, who also supervises the Saudi Program for the Development and Reconstruction of Yemen, said on Twitter that the “Houthis’ reading of the international and regional position is wrong.”
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The Houthi Threat To Oil Markets Is Back
Now we see the specter of a Houthi threat to Saudi oil re-emerge with the failure to renew a ceasefire in Yemen last week. The truce expired on October 2nd after having been extended twice in the past.
Already, violence has returned. Last weekend saw what has been described by Yemeni media as a “massive explosion” near a Canadian oil company’s operations in Yemen, though the cause of the explosion remains unknown, including whether the Houthis were behind it or it was the result of some other dispute. Regardless, the factions fighting in Yemen are all on edge now, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Houthi-Threat-To-Oil-Markets-Is-Back.html
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The Netherlands to Host Second Yemen International Forum in 2023
The second Yemen International Forum will take place in The Hague, Netherlands, in June 2023, the Dutch government and the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies announced on Thursday, October 27, 2022.
Waleed Alhariri, the Sana’a Center’s director for YIF 2023, said that holding the forum in a different country each year reflects a core notion that the YIF can reshape Yemen’s relationship with the world.
“The YIF in The Hague will once again provide a safe and neutral space for Yemenis to address their issues, seek solutions, and discuss ways forward with the international actors also working to resolve the Yemeni crisis,” Alhariri said.
https://sanaacenter.org/publications/news/18957
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Hodeida.. Fisheries receives 69 fishermen held in Eritrean prisons
Red Sea General Fisheries Authority on Sunday evening received 69 fishermen who were being held in the Eritrean authorities' prisons.
Returning fishermen were abducted by members of the Eritrean Navy from Yemen's international territory or territorial waters; Their periods of detention varied from one to 4 months, all of them in hard labour.
According to the fishermen ' ", they were tortured and received only one meal a day that could not be served to a human being.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3209247.htm
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[Sanaa gov.] Local Authority in Hodeida, Fisheries Authority condemn abduction of 20 Yemeni fishermen
The local authority in Hodeida province and the Red Sea General Fisheries Authority condemned on Thursday the abduction of Saudi aggression forces and their mercenaries today for 20 Yemeni fishermen.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3208867.htm
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Houthi Who?
A History of Unlikely Alliances in an Uncertain Yemen
he Houthi tribal movement, supported by Iranian finances and weaponry, has captured Yemen’s capital city of Sana'a, forcing the resignation of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi. In the streets of Sana'a, fighters chant, “Death to America, death to Israel, curses to the Jews, and victory to Islam.” The great irony of this slogan, of which members of the Houthi family are likely unaware, is that the Houthis were receiving weapons and support from Israel decades before receiving military aid from Iran. The Houthi movement and their loyal tribes have long been opportunistic recipients of international support, [subscribers only]
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2015-03-25/houthi-who
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Film: Ukraine vs Yemen The West’s Moral HYPOCRISY!
The deadly conflict in Yemen, which has been raging for years with no signs of letting up, is being called the "Forgotten War" because most of the world's attention has been deliberately focused on Ukraine. One thing is sure: The War in Yemen exposed the West’s hypocrisy as its shows full support for Ukraine while intentionally ignoring the atrocities committed in Yemen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_cp2wq7ek
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17 fishermen returned after being abducted by Saudi aggression forces
The General Authority for Fisheries in the Red Sea received Monday, At the landing centre al-Luhaia District, 17 fishermen were abducted by forces Saudi aggression is in the Red Sea.
The Director General of Ports and Lodging Centres at Aziz Al-Ataeni, SABA, the Department has received instructions from the Commission's President and Vice-President to receive and care for fishermen; and provides all services and facilities with transportation fees for their safe return to their parents.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3208467.htm
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Sanaa calls for formation of int’l committee to investigate coalition’s violations against fishermen
https://en.ypagency.net/276420/
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[Sanaa] Fisheries Ministry condemns increasing Saudi violations against fishermen
https://en.ypagency.net/276356/
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Yemenis Want and Need Sustainable Peace.' Where Does the Truce's Collapse Leave Yemen?
Fortunately, the warring parties are mostly continuing to adhere to the truce's terms for now, despite its collapse, and are still permitting mediation to continue under U.N. auspices. But the end of the truce has put Yemen in a new state of uncertainty. Although all-out warfare has not broken out again, there are serious concerns it might at any point.
Despite that humanitarian relief, however, the situation in Yemen under the truce remained tense and difficult, with the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition accusing each other of truce violations.
The United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom and others in the international community are all currently calling for the truce to be put back in place. Yet doing so would require convincing powerful stakeholders in Yemen, chiefly the Houthis, that they could benefit from restoring the truce—a challenge, to say the least. The Houthis view the status quo as favorable to them.
To avert an even worse humanitarian disaster, U.N. agencies and donors in Western countries must work toward finding solutions to Yemen's unresolved political issues in the hopes of securing a lasting peace, not just another pause in the fighting. "Bringing the truce back without ensuring that there is a clear roadmap towards a resolution of the conflict is just one more band-aid to the Yemen crisis," said Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy, the director of NatCen International, a global social policy program at the National Centre for Social Research in the U.K. "Yemenis want and need sustainable peace."
But that will require taking stock of how international affairs, particularly in relation to the war in Ukraine and worsening food insecurity in Africa and the Middle East, have changed since the truce was struck in early April.
"With the war in Ukraine and its impact on the global economy, the pressure on Yemen's already devastated economy has increased. Donor support has also waned significantly and alarmingly," El Taraboulsi-McCarthy said. "The international community should get better at considering how all of Yemen's challenges are interconnected—political, economic, social, humanitarian—and how they have changed."
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Public concern over Houthi shelling of Al-Dabba oil port
Citizens of Aden governorate in southern Yemen expressed concern over resumption of war after Houthis targeted Al-Dabba oil port in Hadhramaut governorate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VocOf5bSZWU
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The Future of Yemen and Reimagining Humanitarian Engagemen
Our guest speakers were Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy, Director of NatCen International, and Ibrahim Jalal, Research Fellow at the Yemen Policy Center. In 2022, Yemen remains one of the largest humanitarian crises and aid operations in the world. The crisis has been exacerbated by the war on Ukraine and declining humanitarian funding. A 2022 UN flash appeal for humanitarian support in Ukraine managed to fund 68.2 per cent of the target whereas only 2.1 per cent of the UN's humanitarian response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsswb-n35Eg
cp2a Saudische Blockade / Saudi blockade
Siehe / Look at cp1
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YPC: aggression holds diesel ship "Sundus"
YPC spokesman Issam al-Mutawakil said the US-Saudi aggression detained the diesel ship "Sundus" although it has been inspected in Djibouti.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3208623.htm
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
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In Yemen, the Al-Aktur Road is a Lifeline for 60,000 People
More than seven years of conflict have devastated the critical infrastructure in Yemen. Roads that are a lifeline for many remote communities have been badly damaged by the conflict and made worse by torrential rains brought on by climate change. Journeys that used to take an hour, can now take more than five to six hours as vulnerable families struggle to access basic services such as healthcare.
Families in the village of Al-Aktur in the Jabal Al-Sharq district, Dhamar governorate suffer from difficulty accessing the city center, where key services such as healthcare are located. The delays in access to medical care can lead to health complications or even death. These roads get worse during the rainy season as the torrential floods wash away the roads.
Thanks to funding from the European Union (EU), DRC has been able to rehabilitate three sites in Jabal Al Sharq by leveling and paving the roads with stone and working to drain stormwater alongside the roads. This work helped to improve the lives of around 60,000 people in Jabal Al Sharq.
Prior to DRC’s intervention, the people in Al-Aktur village repaired the road damage themselves, especially when the road got affected by the rainy season and rockslides occured. DRC targeted these volunteers and included 153 of them within its Cash for Work program. The Cash for Work program provides temporary employment to vulnerable populations while building their capacities. The money they earn helps to support their families and is re-invested in their local communities (photos)
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Film: Yemen: Rainwater Harvesting Provides Access to Clean Water
Yemen is one of the world’s most water-scarce countries, with access to this precious resource made harder by conflict. Rainwater harvesting improves access to water and eases the burden on women and children who traditionally collect water. World Bank and partners work with local communities to build rainwater harvesting systems, providing work opportunities and access to safe drinking water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYrwBH068t0
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Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan 2022
https://fts.unocha.org/appeals/1077/summary
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Yemen: Health Cluster Achievements (September 2022)
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-health-cluster-achievements-september-2022
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“MISK”..Protecting children and mothers for a healthier Yemen
Among the most affected governorates is Taiz, with a health system on the verge of collapse and ongoing crises that continue to threaten the health and nutrition of children and mothers. Urgent interventions to provide healthy nutrition services to the most vulnerable families have become crucial.
For this reason, the project to enhance multiple, integrated and sustainable nutrition and health services "Mother and Child Health", known as the Third Phase (MISK) project, is implemented by HUMAN ACCESS with the support of Doctors Worldwide Turkey (DWWT).
The project started in August 2022 and will end in January 2023 for the third phase. It provides its services through the Al-Wafa’a Health Center in Al-Mudhaffar district, Taiz Governorate. Supporting and operating a health facility in Yemen is very important, with less than half of health facilities operating at full capacity, according to UN agencies.
The project provides life-saving emergency nutrition interventions for children under the age of five, and pregnant and lactating women, in addition to improving the state of public health services in general, and maternal and child health in particular.
https://humanaccess.org/m/media-reports/protecting-children-and-mothers-for-a-healthier-yemen
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[Sanaa gov.] Minister Of Health: Kidney Transplantation Operations Resumed At Al-Thawra Hospital In Sana’a
https://www.ansarollah.com/archives/561982
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Yemen WASH Cluster - Humanitarian Dashboard (January - September 2022)
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Yemen Silently Starves
https://christianaidministries.org/category/yemen-silently-starves/
A gift of pure water
https://christianaidministries.org/yemen-silently-starves/a-gift-of-pure-water/
A rare respite in Yemen war
https://christianaidministries.org/yemen-silently-starves/a-rare-respite-in-yemen-war/
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USAID: Yemen: USG Response to the Complex Emergency (Last Updated 09/30/22)
https://reliefweb.int/map/yemen/yemen-usg-response-complex-emergency-last-updated-093022
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Yemen - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #12, Fiscal Year (FY) 2022
The UN-brokered truce between Al Houthi forces and the KSA-led Coalition has allowed for a significant rise in fuel imports, mitigating fuel price inflation, as well as increased freedom of movement and reduced civilian casualties.
Emergency levels of acute food insecurity are expected from August to October in Abyan, Hajjah, Lahij, and Marib governorates, FEWS NET reports.
Between July and August, 80 percent of Yemen experienced torrential rainfall and flooding. By September, more than 73,800 households across Yemen experienced flood damage to shelters and food supply stocks.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-complex-emergency-fact-sheet-12-fiscal-year-fy-2022
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Download: Data analysis Medical statistics on Yemen Country with graphs, charts, analytics in background | Yemen country Revealing world map 4K|60 FPS, data analysis Medical science technological
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Kuwait society funds setting up of oxygen cylinders factory in Yemen’s city of Marib
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Audio: Father's seven-year 'heartache' as three children remain in war-torn Yemen seeking evacuation
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Film: Yemen Humanitarian Fund 2021
UNICEF has provided over 22 million liters of fuel to 15 governorates in #Yemen, with support from the Yemen Humanitarian Fund.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh_uE-ZAWQo
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Yemeni farmers turn to planting wheat as prices bite
Some Yemeni farmers have turned to planting their own wheat as global disruptions dent imports and send prices soaring in Yemen where a seven-year conflict has pushed people deeper into poverty and left millions hungry.
Farmer Khaled Maasar said most Yemenis cannot afford foreign wheat with prices rising to some 20,000 riyals, equivalent to $33. Food price inflation had already doubled in just two years in some part of the country.
“If the farmer works in the field and this gets him an income - then this is a great blessing. This is what is pushing people back to farming wheat,” he said.
“As a result of the Ukrainian crisis, people who never planted crops before have now started to cultivate (wheat) in their lands,” said farmer Abdo Mohsn Sinan. “Now people are making use of their lands, which is better than relying on imports.”
Large-scale local production of wheat in Yemen is challenging as irrigation water is scarce, and infrastructure to make use of rainfall is lacking.
In 2021, Yemen produced around 250,000 tonnes of wheat. The government launched a project to add acres for wheat planting.
https://www.reuters.com/article/yemen-security-wheat-idAFL8N31S5XT
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Yemen: Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP) 2022 - Funding Status (26 October 2022)
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Film: Yemenis struggle to drink water amid severe water crisis in Taiz
Yemeni residents of Taiz are grappling with water scarcity due to the lack of water sources and reduced rainfall, especially in the countryside and mountainous areas. Women and children have to travel long distances and wait in long queues to get a 20 liter “gallon” of potable water. Water prices rose significantly as a result of the collapse of the local currency and the increase in fuel prices. People complained to A24 about the difficulties they face daily in obtaining water amid the imposed blockade and deteriorating economic conditions caused by the eight-year war. They called on the government and relevant institutions to intervene to solve the water crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZsE0RKZnJ8
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Intersos: In Yemen every two hours a woman dies in childbirth
In Yemen, access to care is almost impossible, especially for pregnant women. With the help of the European Union, we guarantee medical and psychological assistance to those affected by the conflict
Too many women in Yemen lack access to basic health services every day. Because of the ongoing conflict of more than seven years, more than 20 million people in the country need humanitarian assistance. The health system is hanging by a thread. Only half of all health facilities are still functioning and only 20% provide maternal and child health services. A woman dies in childbirth every two hours. Thanks to the support of the European Union, INTERSOS provides emergency integrated health, nutrition, and protection services to conflict-affected and displaced people in Hajja (Abs and Ku’aydina districts), Aden (districts of Al-Buraiqa and Dar Sa’ad) and Lahj (Al-Ribat IDP camp in Tuban district). The aim of the project is to assist more than 65,000 people.
In Hajja, we provide emergency integrated health and nutrition services through two mobile clinics and the support of four health facilities that we supply with drugs, medical and laboratory equipment, and where we pay for specialized staff, while a network of volunteers is dedicated to raising health awareness in the community. We also operate three ambulances with reanimation equipment to intervene in the most difficult cases and support two district hospitals to which we also supply drugs, and medical and laboratory equipment. To provide emergency protection services integrated with health and nutrition services, our protection experts cover the same catchment areas as the health facilities or mobile clinics, while volunteers take care of reception and assistance.
In Aden and Lahj, we have set up three mobile clinics and community outreach volunteers are working with us to raise awareness community. The mobile clinics are linked to two ambulances with reanimation equipment, which ensures the transfer of emergency cases to referral hospitals in the same areas. We run a Community Centre in Dar Sa’ad and our protection experts, through a semi-mobile team, regularly visit the Al-Ribat IDP site. Volunteers help by supporting protection staff in screening/identification, referral to specialists, community engagement, and awareness of available services.
https://www.intersos.org/en/in-yemen-every-two-hours-a-woman-dies-in-childbirth/
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Evaluating Training Programmes for Better Educational Outcomes
UNICEF supported the “Annual Workshop for the Evaluation of Training, Qualification, and Planning Programmes 2022”
The education sector in Yemen has been strongly affected by the conflict Yemen has been experiencing for over seven years. Actors of the sector got together to identify ways to improve training programmes in 14 governorates.
In order to assess achievements of the training programmes implemented in 2021, and to discuss how to improve the coordination, implementation, and evaluation of upcoming training programmes, UNICEF supported the “Annual Workshop for the Evaluation of Training, Qualification, and Planning Programmes 2022”which was organized by the Training Department in the Ministry of Education and UNICEF, thanks to the generous support from King Salman Relief fund.
More than 80 participants from 14 governorates attended the workshop
https://www.unicef.org/yemen/stories/evaluating-training-programmes-better-educational-outcomes
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Feature: Yemeni students, teachers set up tent classrooms after school destroyed in conflict
"You are the bright future of Yemen," Yahya Kadish, head of a newly rebuilt school in war-torn Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah, kept cheering up the students while walking from one classroom to another to welcome them back to school.
The new school year in the school, located in the village of al-Rawozm under the government-controlled northern district of Abs, started about two months later than other schools as the work to rebuild the school just finished a few days ago.
Hundreds of students and teachers, with the help of the students' parents, have built 11 classrooms with tents, woods and straws in the village, which is 7 km away from their previous school that was destroyed during clashes between the government forces and Houthi rebels.
"We have overcome many challenges with the help of the teachers, the students, and their families, despite the difficulties and the lack of financial support, in addition to the suffering of the continuous interruption of salaries and the deteriorating economic conditions that affected everyone," Kadish told Xinhua.
These new classrooms "serve as a lifeline for the continuation of the educational process," he said.
Though without sufficient funds, equipment and power supply, "we will continue rebuilding our school and teaching our children, and we will continue breathing freedom and we will surely win," the school head vowed.
"The violent clashes have recently expanded, and we found the children's former school became at the middle of the front line, which forced us to resort to constructing these tents and huts," Khalid Jabiry, a teacher, told Xinhua.
"We helped our teachers in building these classrooms, which took us about five weeks of work, and we risked our lives to bring all the necessary materials from far away despite the dangers of mines scattered in the fields and farm," Hasan Mohammed Mubarak, a 13-year-old student, told Xinhua.
The students and teachers are determined to catch up despite the delayed start of the new school year.
https://english.news.cn/20221026/828807955b3f4e488404165f3dd66872/c.html
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Caught Red-Handed, Sana’a Government Kept Blaming Saudi Arabia for Deaths of Leukemia Patients
An initial probe by the health ministry suggested the kids were injected with smuggled and contaminated drugs and that the case was referred to the public prosecution for further investigation.
A closer look at how the Sana’a-based government, mainly led by the Houthi group, dealt with the incident reveals a high degree of irresponsibility.
The incident occurred on Sept 24, but it took the health ministry twenty days to issue a suspicious statement about what happened. In fact, it was only after the victims’ families and rival media outlets took their grievances to social media that the health ministry issued a statement. First, it headlined the statement with “the disastrous consequences of the [Saudi] aggression and blockade on the safety of the people and the decline of the treatment services, with the latest victims being innocent kids.” No one denies that the Saudi war on Yemen has inflicted so much damage on people’s lives and health systems. But blaming the Saudi blockade for the contaminated injections was a lame attempt to deflect the mounting criticism and outrage. The statement said that the drug was not tested by the health department tasked with drug testing before being administered to the patients. It didn’t say why that was the case. It implied that the drug, which is usually given to the patients free of charge, was being held by Saudi Arabia, allowing for the smuggled and contaminated drugs to make their way into the market. That is partly true, albeit it doesn’t exonerate the health ministry of the blame. One should not help an enemy kill its own people if ever that was the case in this incident.
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[Sanaa] Parliament forms committee to search repercussions of death of leukemia children
https://en.ypagency.net/276405/
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Food...the priority of the vulnerable in Yemen
About 19 million people - six out of ten people - are acutely food insecure in Yemen, while 3.5 million people suffer from acute malnutrition with the rate of malnutrition among women and children among the highest in the world. An additional 1.6 million people in the country are expected to fall into emergency levels of hunger, bringing the total to 7.3 million by the end of 2022, according to UN agencies.
A survey conducted by the World Food Program (WFP) in its latest update on food security in Yemen which included a number of families from different parts of the country showed that food insufficiency exceeded very high levels of 40% in 19 Yemeni governorates.
These are alarming numbers and confirm that a catastrophe is looming. Several internal and external factors that contributed to the continued deterioration of food insecurity combined to pose a threat to millions of Yemenis.
This is confirmed by Richard Ragan, the representative of WFP in Yemen, by saying that the food situation in Yemen is "catastrophic".
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/foodthe-priority-vulnerable-yemen-enar
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The War and Pandemic
“I had to walk on foot with my little children for almost five kilometres under the hot blazing sun and above the burning sand until we reached a path to get a ride,” Fatima said.
Fatima was an educated housewife; years before the war began, she had a clinical laboratory diploma, got married, and lived a happy life with her husband and family. However, the fury of the conflict has taken her happiness and joy; the war had sent her husband to heaven, leaving her to be the mother and father of their kids. Mrs. Mujawash's grieve and agony did not stop her not to work for securing bread for her toddlers. Her father`s family had left Al Khokah because of the heavy fire and terror.
“I had no one to back me up or support to alleviate my pain and grieve.” She spoke. The brave mother had decided to take her chances and fled with her children following her family to save her precious treasure (her kids)
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/war-and-pandemic
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New Hope
I started pregnancy the next year after I had my first period (menses). Since then, I got pregnant 13 times between lost and alive babies; however, this is the first time for me to hear about family planning!” In her own words, she said.
False Life Conception
KA thirty-five-year-old, from Nihm district, the north part of Sana`a Governorate, Yemen, should have lived her life as a kid a score and nearly two years ago, yet she got married and became pregnant right after her first period (menses).
Before Mrs. KA had recognized, she is no more a child or had understood the bloody flow and pain she had felt or seen for the first time; she became a child bride. Her parents thought they provided her with a safe and secured life; however, they were committing a horrible crime against their baby girl; they had just buried her a life. The white dress she was wearing was not a wedding gown; it was a coffin covered the innocent living teen girl.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/new-hope
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UNICEF Yemen Country Office Humanitarian Situation Report Mid-Year (Reporting Period: January to June 2022)
Highlights
UNICEF screened 2,280,051 children under five years for malnutrition. Out of these, 121,527 children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) were identified and admitted in Outpatient Treatment Programmes (OTPs).
UNICEF supported the implementation of measles outbreak response campaign in 76 districts of 10 southern governorates reaching 1,239,129 children.
UNICEF and partners provided psychosocial support to 182,143 children and 38,309 adults across the country.
UNICEF faces a funding gap of 72 per cent in its Humanitarian Action for Children as of June 2022. The lack of funding for emergency Health, Nutrition, WASH and Child Protection interventions continues to pose a challenge for an integrated response.
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UNICEF: Every 10 minutes a child dies in Yemen
Families across Yemen wake up every day to devastation, struggling to protect their children in a country marked by years of conflict and widespread poverty. Every day, more than one thousand children under age 5 die from causes like malnutrition and preventable diseases. That’s one child, every 10 minutes. Yemen’s children need life-saving food and medical treatment to survive. Donate and send help to children in conflict.
Half of the children in Yemen under the age of 5 are suffering from acute malnutrition, and they need urgent help. UNICEF is working on the ground to screen children, provide life-saving therapeutic food, and ensure health care and medical treatment to help children recover. With so many families facing displacement and poverty, UNICEF is also working to ensure humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable. A donation today will make a difference, no amount is too small.
https://help.unicef.org/yemen-children?language=en
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Food...the priority of the vulnerable in Yemen
About 19 million people - six out of ten people - are acutely food insecure in Yemen, while 3.5 million people suffer from acute malnutrition with the rate of malnutrition among women and children among the highest in the world. An additional 1.6 million people in the country are expected to fall into emergency levels of hunger, bringing the total to 7.3 million by the end of 2022, according to UN agencies.
A survey conducted by the World Food Program (WFP) in its latest update on food security in Yemen which included a number of families from different parts of the country showed that food insufficiency exceeded very high levels of 40% in 19 Yemeni governorates.
These are alarming numbers and confirm that a catastrophe is looming. Several internal and external factors that contributed to the continued deterioration of food insecurity combined to pose a threat to millions of Yemenis.
This is confirmed by Richard Ragan, the representative of WFP in Yemen, by saying that the food situation in Yemen is "catastrophic".
There is no single solution to the food crisis in Yemen, but humanitarian projects meet the minimum food needs of the most vulnerable. This is what HUMAN ACCESS has done through the GFA Food Project, funded by the World Food Program (WFP), which has been able to spare many people the risk of starvation, in a country that an increasing proportion of the population is facing emergency levels of hunger.
Many crises combined to pose a threat to millions
A number of factors have combined to contribute to food insecurity in Yemen, foremost of which is the ongoing conflict for the eighth year in a row, which is the main driver of hunger. Added to this is the economic crisis, which has weakened people's ability to buy enough food.
A previous World Bank report shows that the Yemeni economy has shrunk by more than half since the outbreak of the conflict, with more than 80% of people now living below the poverty line. The collapse is largely manifested in the loss of income and the devaluation of the local currency.
Climate change poses an additional threat to food security in Yemen, which imports 90% of its food. The World Bank expects the Yemeni economy to shrink in the medium term by up to 24% by 2050 due to climate change and the expansion of some phenomena such as desertification and its impact on livelihoods and food security.
The conflict in Ukraine since last February added another blow to food security in Yemen.
Aid is the only source of food for most Yemenis amid challenges
Yemen has been plagued by one of the world's worst food crises. People's resilience has reached a critical point and food aid has become the only source of food for millions of Yemenis. That is why humanitarian organizations, including HUMAN ACCESS, continue to provide aid across the country, ensuring that an average of 12.6 million people receive humanitarian assistance per month. However, these organizations operate in a very difficult environment.
This year has seen an alarming increase in attacks against aid workers in Yemen, according to the Office of the UN OCHA and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen.
65,679 families benefit from the GFA food project in Lahj and Taiz
HUMAN ACCESS, a large humanitarian organization in Yemen, rescues people in emergencies and works to enhance people's access to food aid and services to prevent further deterioration of food insecurity.
https://humanaccess.org/m/media-reports/food-the-priority-of-the-vulnerable-in-yemen
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#SFDhealth continues to support stronger critical health systems in order to build #HumanCapital and drive jobs and economic transformation. Pics on parts of the lately built & equipped FEVER Treatment Center serving the poor #AlHodeidah (photos)
https://twitter.com/SFDYemen/status/1584592226667020289
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Yemen: Several Governorates Humanitarian Presence (3W) - July 2022
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-socotra-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-july-2022
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-shabwah-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-july-2022
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-hadramawt-governorate-humanitarian-presence-3w-july-2022
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Yemen: Monthly Situation Report (September 2022)
September Hightlights
Nutrition
Providing MAM treatment to children U5 and PLW in Sama & As Silw districts of Taizz Governorate.
Health
Reducing morbidity and mortality rates caused by malnutrition and prevalence of diseases by providing an integrated package of life-saving, preventative and enhanced quality health and nutrition services in Sirwah and Harib Al Qaramish districts of Marib governorate
Food Security & Livelinhood
Providing food rations to 53,405 individuals to reduce the severely food insecurity
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-monthly-situation-report-september-2022
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CCCM Yemen - Field Mission Report, IBB 04 TO 08 SEPTEMBER 2022
This mission to Ibb is to assess the situation in this Hub, especially at the end of the rainy season. Main purpose is to visit sites managed by partners, monitor response, gaps, needs, and potential improvements or challenges encounter by site management agencies. Visits was coordinated with participation of shelter and protection colleagues.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/cccm-yemen-field-mission-report-ibb-04-08-september-2022
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Eye clinic run by the Anglican church in Yemen to expand
It has received additional funding from the Episcopal Church in the United States
AN EYE clinic run by the Anglican church in Yemen is to expand, thanks to additional funding from the Episcopal Church in the United States.
The Ras Morbat clinic, in the grounds of Christ Church, Aden, is part of the ministry of the diocese of Cyprus & the Gulf (News, 12 April 2019). Two opthalmologists currently work in the clinic, funded by parishes and individual donations. A third will now be appointed, and will also serve as medical director for the next three years.
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
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Migration along the Eastern Corridor, Report 31 | as of 30 September 2022
The Horn of Africa and Yemen is one of the busiest and riskiest migration corridors in the world travelled by hundreds of thousands of migrants, the majority of whom travel in an irregular manner, often relying on smugglers to facilitate movement along the Eastern Route. This regional report provides monthly updates on the complex migratory dynamics through Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen and Ethiopia based on diverse data sources and consultations with key informants in the four countries. Moreover, it provides information on the main protection concerns for migrants along the journey, information on the spill over effects of the conflict in Northern Ethiopia observed at the border between Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, a specific focus on children and information on the returns from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia, Somalia and Yemen.
https://dtm.iom.int/reports/migration-along-eastern-corridor-september-2022
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RDP Humanitarian Story - Needs Persist Amongst the Displaced (Oct, 2022)
With eight years of humanitarian crisis, Al-Hudaydah has been classified as one of the poorest governorates in Yemen with a high level of food insecurity and water scarcity. The displaced families were forced to leave their homes, possessions and livelihoods due to deadly clashes to seek safety for their children. As a case in point, Omar Hassan fled with his 8 children and wife from their house near the college of engineering which was in the front line of conflicting parties in Al-Hudaydah city during 2017 to be settled in Al-Anbar camp for IDPs in Al-Marawah district of Al-Hudaydah gov. Omar and his family wanted to return back to their home, but the area is now restricted as it’s planted with mines which could endanger their lives.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/rdp-humanitarian-story-needs-persist-amongst-displaced-oct-2022
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HUMAN ACCESS makes a difference in the lives of IDPs in Al-Mudhallal camp
Al-Mudhallal camp is one of the oldest camps in Ataq and one of the symbols of the protracted Yemeni IDP crisis. This camp has turned into a temporary shelter for about 221 families who fled the scourge of war, including Munir, who took refuge there with his family consisting of his wife and six children as IDPs from Baihan District in search of safety.
However, this camp, which houses the most vulnerable displaced and marginalized groups, lacks the most basic life-saving services.
In this environment full of challenges from all aspects of life, the displaced people in Al-Mudhallal camp finally saw hope through the project for the integrated provision of a minimum package of water, environmental sanitation, health and protection services for the most vulnerable displaced.
It is a project implemented by HUMAN ACCESS in Shabwa, specifically in February 2022
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Preceded by training courses.. Distribution of economic empowerment grants to a number of women and girls
HUMAN ACCESS in Marib Governorate distributed economic empowerment grants to women and girls beneficiaries of livelihood programs for the third quarter of the current year 2022 in Al-Mil camps
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12,335 IDP families benefit from distribution of food baskets, hygiene kits and kitchen utensils
HUMAN ACCESS in Marib governorate distributed food baskets, hygiene kits, and kitchen utensils through various projects during the month of September 2022, with the support of several donors, benefiting 12,335 displaced families.
Food baskets were distributed to 1,000 displaced families
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100 illegal immigrants deported from Saada
Saada province’s police deported on Wednesday 100 illegal immigrants, all of whom were of African nationalities.
A security source at the province police stated that the illegal immigrants were transported from the shelter center in the province to the Immigration and Passports Department in the capital, Sanaa, to be later returned to their countries.
https://en.ypagency.net/276485/
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IOM Yemen - West Coast Response update (July - September 2022)
SITUATION OVERVIEW
While the frontlines in the West Coast of Yemen have not shifted since the escalation of hostilities in the first quarter of 2022, heavy rainfall in July and August, low-level armed conflict and the widespread presence of explosive remnants of war (ERW) have put civilians’ lives at risk and endangered the prospects of longstanding peace in the region.
One of the greatest risks along the West Coast comes from ERW which are littered across both former and current frontlines. Despite communities often knowing the locations of many minefields, heavy rains and flooding have moved ERW to unexpected locations including roads, agricultural areas, and civilian neighborhoods. Since the heavy rainfall on 23-24 September, there have been 20 civilian casualties from ERW in Al Hodeidah, including 10 children, which is the highest weekly total since May. UNMHA reported that since November 2021, a total of 242 civilian casualties (101 deaths and 141 injuries) related to ERW have occurred in Al Hodeidah, more than any other governorate. Urgent, emergency measures are needed to clear contaminated areas on the West Coast.
Furthermore, in Hays and At Tuhayta districts in southern Al Hodeidah, daily breaches in the truce and the unstable security situation contributed to operational challenges, including access issues, carjackings, and continued armed conflict between local communities. Access remains restricted in Al Khukhah and Hays town where over 10,000 vulnerable individuals living in 10 displacement sites remain without much-needed assistance. Frequent carjacking incidents in Mawza and Waziyah districts of Ta’iz, and along the coastal route between Al Makha and Aden also severely impacted the movement of humanitarian personnel and cargo. Additionally, IOM experienced access issues and delays at checkpoints within displacement sites and on roads to field operations.
Despite the concerns that remain on enduring peace on the West Coast, the truce agreement has contributed to a significant decline in displacements when compared to the first and second quarters of 2022.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/iom-yemen-west-coast-response-update-july-september-2022
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UNHCR Yemen: IDPs Protection Monitoring Update (1 Jan 2022 - 30 Sep 2022)
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Yemen: Protection Monitoring Assessments by District - Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
https://reliefweb.int/map/yemen/yemen-protection-monitoring-assessments-district-jan-2022-oct-2022
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UNHCR’s unprecedented US$700m funding gap spells catastrophe for millions
Over recent months, funding shortfalls have forced UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to make cuts to its lifesaving aid to refugees and other forcibly displaced people in a number of operations across the world.
Without an injection of at least US$700 million before the end of the year, UNHCR fears that the next round of cuts in assistance will be catastrophic for people in need.
Already, many operations have had to scale back essential programmes to cope with tighter funding.
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Yemen: UNHCR Operational Update, covering the period from 01 - 09 October 2022
IDP RESPONSE
Since January 2022, UNHCR assessed 14,913 IDP and returnee households (86,351) individuals to detect socio-economic vulnerabilities, humanitarian needs, and protection issues through UNHCRs’s protection monitoring tool in Marib city, Marib Alwadi, Sirwah and Harib of Marib governorate.
UNHCR through its partners Society for humanitarian Solidarity (SHS) and Nahda Makers organization (NMO), distributed 800 emergency shelter kits (ESKs) in Ta'iz, Al Hodeidah, and Hadramawt governorates. In addition, Core Relief items (CRIs) were distributed to 781 IDP families in Ta'iz and Al Hodeidah governorates during the reporting period.
UNHCR and SHS verified the needs of 1,416 HHs for localized shelter units at Alsowayda,
Alsomaya IDP sites in Marib governorate and the supplier started installing the localized shelter at both sites, furthermore, SHS assessed/verified NFIs needs for 483 protracted displaced families in Marib city district.
Under the slogan: "Together, we build educated generations”, UNHCR and its implementing partner SDF delivered awareness raising sessions the importance and impact of education on society and their future.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-unhcr-operational-update-covering-period-01-09-october-2022
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IOM Yemen: Rapid Displacement Tracking - Yemen IDP Dashboard Reporting Period: 16 - 22 October 2022
IOM Yemen DTM’s Rapid Displacement Tracking (RDT) tool collects data on estimated numbers of households forced to flee on a daily basis from their locations of origin or displacement, allowing for regular reporting of new displacements in terms of estimated numbers, geography, and needs. It also tracks returnees who returned to their location of origin.
From 1 January to 22 October 2022, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 9,185 households (HH) (55,110 Individuals) who experienced displacement at least once.
Between 16 and 22 October 2022, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 55 households (330 individuals) displaced at least once. The majority of people moved into/within the
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IOM Yemen Quarterly Migration Overview (July - September 2022)
HORN OF AFRICA-YEMEN MIGRATION TRENDS
In Yemen, where millions continue to grapple with one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, migrants remain among the most vulnerable persons in the country. From July to September 2022, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix recorded over 15,700 migrants arriving to the shores of Yemen, bringing the total arrivals to more than 42,000 thus far in 2022. Among the tens of thousands of migrants arriving, mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia, many continue to face severe protection risks such as abduction, torture, detention and exploitation throughout every step of their difficult journey to neighbouring Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). During the reporting period, and increase in the number of migrants approaching IOM Migrant Response Points (MRPs) in both Aden and Ma’rib for assistance was observed, indicating the severe situation migrants perpetually face throughout the country.
The primary migration routes through the country remain under the grip of ruthless smugglers and traffickers, a reality increasingly indicated by protection monitoring reports. Smugglers in particular maintain strong networks preying on migrant’s vulnerable situations, where extortion, forced/unpaid labour and rape among other forms of abuse are utilized to keep migrants trapped in inhumane conditions. In transit areas such as Ma’rib, smugglers have an undeniable presence and considerable influence over movements in and out of the governorate, onwards to the north of Yemen toward the border with KSA. On the other hand, in areas near landing points, such as Ras Al Ara (Lahj governorate), migrants routinely report physical abuse and detention upon arrival where they are extorted for additional funds before they can be released and continue their journeys. Often, photos of their abuse are sent to family members in their countries of origin in order to provoke them to send money to secure release.
Sexual abuse perpetrated by smugglers against male and female migrants, including children, has also been reported at all transit points in Yemen from the southern coast to the northern border. Further exacerbating the situation, a power struggle between both Yemeni and Ethiopian smugglers has emerged, with smugglers resorting to violence against one another in order to take control of the migrants’ movements – where migrants bear the brutal brunt of consequences.
Yet, these exploitative practices are reportedly common not only while migrants are in transit in Yemen but also while awaiting return. Those who resort to return home independently (due to conditions and lack of available assistance) via the perilous boat journey used to arrive, are routinely forced to work for an indefinite period of time, contained in inadequate shelters and deprived of food, water and other basic needs.
Women and girls continue to be disproportionately at risk of violations, as they remain a high value ‘commodity’ for smugglers and traffickers and as such are becoming increasingly hard to reach by humanitarian and protection actors. During the reporting period, several instances of this reality were observed.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/iom-yemen-quarterly-migration-overview-july-september-2022
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
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Yemen reiterates support for Islamic Republic of Iran against foreign attempts at regime change
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Capital Sana'a witness largest wedding in the region for more than 10,000 groom, bride
The capital, Sana 'a, witnessed Monday the third and largest collective wedding in the region, organized by the General Authority of Zakat, for 10,000, 44 groom and bride.
At the ceremony, the Yemeni Mufti, scholar Shams Al-Din Sharafuddin, blessed grooms with their marriage.
He said: "This blessed day demonstrates the keenness of the revolutionary leadership represented by the revolution leader, Sayyed. Abdulmalek Badruddin Al-Houthi, which has paid much attention to the poor and the needy, and always focuses on this aspect.
He called on decision makers, local authorities, elders and seniors to seek charters and contracts to reduce dowry overreach.
He called on everyone broad social attention, along with the issue of eliminating people's needs.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3209362.htm
and also https://www.ansarollah.com/archives/562267
https://en.ypagency.net/277014/ and https://en.ypagency.net/276960/
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifc5AUDObyE = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=absBrVPtm7w
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-Yuprr-VOGA
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uhavorCwzW4
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/58BkGRW4XL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qZ7GgbMZgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcV76EFrnMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Serx7sdX8U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-n6tHvX0oA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCUcBD3BHQ0
and
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Revolution Leader stresses need to facilitate marriage costs
The Leader of the Revolution, Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, on Monday stressed the need to facilitate marriage and reduce its costs at the level of dowries and other costs that make the issue of marriage difficult.
The Leader of the Revolution pointed out, in his speech at the third collective wedding organized by the General Authority for Zakat in Sanaa for 10,044 brides and grooms, that many customs and obligations that are added to marriage are burdens that make it difficult for the large group of society members who are the poor.
“The enemies seek to exploit the complexities of marriage to spread corruption through their soft war, which is a demonic and corrupting war,” he added.
Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi congratulated the grooms on their blessed collective wedding, and paid tribute to the workers in the General Authority for Zakat, who had a great role in establishing this blessed ritual.
https://en.ypagency.net/277046/
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j126K5saJQQ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/10/31/sayyid-abdul-malik-al-houthi-congratulates-participants-of-mass-wedding-celebrations-in-sanaa/
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Today Houthis blocked zoom & google meet in #Yemen
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1586818600735752194
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‘Unidentified Corpses’ Raise Doubts about Houthi Killing of Detainees
Houthi militias in Yemen announced a few days ago that dozens of bodies were buried in mass graves in Sanaa. The Iran-backed group claimed that those laid to rest were “unidentified.”
Houthis currently face grave accusations of torturing detainees to death, hiding their bodies for some time and then burying them in mass graves across different Houthi-run governorates.
Public Prosecution in Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis, has launched alongside the International Committee of the Red Cross the first phase of burying 28 unidentified corpses, reported the Houthi version of the official Saba news agency.
While Houthi media did not disclose any other details related to the identity of these bodies, a source close to the group’s ruling department in Sanaa revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that there are three women among the 28 getting buried.
According to the source, who requested anonymity, the unidentified bodies were placed in airtight bags so that none of the parties involved in the burial would recognize them.
Reports prepared by the internationally-recognized government reveal that more than 300 abductees who were forcibly kidnapped by the militias had died under torture.
Activists and local human rights organizations had previously accused the militias of digging mass graves for dozens of civilians who died under torture in their detention centers.
Houthis, however, claim that those buried were unidentified individuals found in hospital mortuaries in several cities under their control.
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3959746/%E2%80%98unidentified-corpses%E2%80%99-raise-doubts-about-houthi-killing-detainees = http://en.adenpress.news/news/36822
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Defense Minister: Oil Wealth is Part of Yemen's Sovereignty
The Minister of Defense, Mohammed Nasser Al-Atifi, called on the US-Saudi aggression to stop their absurd aggressive war on Yemen, and if it continues, it will only bring destruction to countries involved and the region.
and also https://www.ansarollah.com/archives/561966
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Houthi Insurgents Prevent Yemeni Women from Domestic, Int’l Travel
Houthi militias are banning women from traveling inside and outside Yemen without a mahram, or a male companion, accompanying them.
According to Yemeni activists, the Houthi authority directed its members at Sanaa airport to prevent any woman from traveling unless accompanied by a male relative. They canceled previous circulars that had been in force for more than a year, which stipulated that women would be allowed to travel if they brought prescriptive consent from their guardians.
Yemeni writers and intellectuals announced their solidarity with women, calling for the coup authority to stop obstructing women's travel rights.
The restrictions will affect the relief work and make it difficult for female workers to reach displaced people and those in need of assistance.
A dignitary in Amran revealed that the militias had created a special security formation for marriage, tasked with setting rules for wedding parties and monitoring compliance with the instructions.
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Houthis force HSA to halt work in Sugar Refinery Factory
Hayel Saeed Anam Group, the biggest manufacturing and trade company in Yemen, announced today the suspension of work in its sugar refinery factory in Hodeida.
This came after the Iran-backed Houthi militia held distribution trucks and detained the general manager of the factory.
In a letter sent to the interior minister of the so-called Houthi government, HAS complained that Security Assistance Director in Hodeida province suspended the company’s activity and obstructed its work by seizing transport vehicles and buses for transporting employees of the company.
HAS reiterated that the arbitrary action taken by the Houthi Security Assistance Director in Hodeida is against the law and does not serve the public interest.
https://republicanyemen.net/archives/32266
and also https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1586391851753508864
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Yemeni Markets Flooded With Expired Food Items, Boost Houthi’s Profits
Markets in the Houthi-controlled governorates and the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, are flooded with expired food items.
Regulatory bodies constantly announce the confiscation and destruction of large quantities of expired products from Yemeni stores and markets, and of referring those responsible to justice.
However, Houthis have recently started confiscating the expired products and putting them back on the market to make large financial profits.
In governorates controlled by the militia group, expired food items were previously sold on carts and on sidewalks or were used to produce food items suitable for consumption.
Recently, such products were seen displayed on the shelves of supermarkets although Houthi-run supervisory authorities permanently announce that they have seized large quantities of them.
A businessman from Sanaa told Asharq Al-Awsat that expired food items have spread in the market because they turned into a profit source for the Houthi militias.
He said the rebel group blackmails merchants, confiscates their goods, even if they were not expired, and then threatens them to close their stores and hold them accountable.
The businessman, who wished to remain anonymous, said that to compensate for their losses due to the measures imposed by the Houthi militia, several merchants sell expired materials instead of destroying them.
He said Yemenis buy these products knowing that they had expired only to buy them at much lower prices.
Last week, the Houthi media said the group’s supervisory authorities controlled a company that was storing expired food items before they were recycled in private factories in the capital.
Its owner was arrested along with tons of expired products in five warehouses and factories.
The Houthi-run Ministry of Trade and Industry said 15 brands of expired and recycled goods are sold at the local market under the name of 15 fake international and local companies and of nearly 40 imitated brands.
Observers believe that expired materials are sold in poor neighborhoods, where residents are not aware of the threat they leave on their health.
A source at the Ministry admitted that expired food commodities are flooding the markets, and that Houthi supervisory authorities allow merchants to sell expired items in return for turning a blind eye on selling in broad daylight.
The source, who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat on condition of anonymity, asserts that companies and merchants that support the militias commit these violations and harm the health of citizens without being questioned or held accountable.
He added that many expired materials are also being distributed as aid as part of relief programs provided by the militias to ameliorate their image.
“The Houthi militia often exchange those expired items for relief aid provided by foreign countries and international organizations,” the source stressed.
My remark: By a Saudi news site, to be read cautiously.
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New book: The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition, and Security in the Arab Gulf
As the Houthis have grown in power, having fought the coalition successfully to a stalemate, most published works concerning the group have understandably been "through the prisms of war and conflict". According to the editor of The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition, and Security in the Arab Gulf, Abdullah Hamidaddin, this "has narrowed our understanding of the essence of the movement and limited out ability to grasp the specific ways the Huthis think and believe." This also has an impact not only on Yemen, but also the wider region.
This book attempts to fill the many gaps by providing a holistic and comprehensive analysis of the Houthis and their important place in Yemen and "the Arab Gulf region". Admittedly, upon noting that the volume was put together by Saudi Arabia's King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), I wasn't too optimistic about its objectivity given Riyadh's virulent opposition to the Houthis; yet reading The Huthi Movement… it was both surprising and refreshing to see a balanced and purely academic pursuit supported by the KFCRIS on a topic as sensitive as this to the kingdom's security. As such, the centre should be commended.
The first section of the book sheds light on who the Houthis are in terms of ideology and beliefs. Bernard Haykel's opening chapter provides the reader with a sturdy foundation about the group's doctrinal evolution, highlighting how despite being primarily a religious revivalist movement, the Houthis have strayed from Zaydi tradition, instead offering "a highly politicised, revolutionary, and intentionally simplistic, even primitivist interpretation of the religion's teachings." The chapter stresses that the movement is best understood as having emerged as a reaction to the country's dire economic and political conditions in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and a response by the Zaydi community to the "Salafisation" policy of both the Saudis and the compliant Yemeni government at the time headed by the late, long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Arguably the movement's most important ideological reference is the Malazim (Fascicles) a series of transcribed teachings of their late founder Husayn Al-Houthi, brother of the current leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi. According to Haykel, this body of work is akin to the works of Lenin or Mao and continues to serve as political and religious guidance for the movement and its followers.
Using contemporary digital tools analysing speeches and texts, an interesting contribution is made by Mohammed Almahfali, who looks at the transformation of the dominant political themes under the current and former Houthi leaders. We see a noticeable shift from the heavily-religious mobilisation and activism under Husayn to the more assertive and statesmanlike rhetoric under Abdulmalik, which the writer suggests is part of the movement's "attempt to deal with the international community in order to present itself as an acceptable political alternative."
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Jemen entschlossen, Plünderung der natürlichen Ressourcen des Landes zu stoppen
Jemens Ansarullah-Bewegung verstärkt ihre Drohungen gegen ausländische Frachtschiffe, die versuchen, illegal in jemenitische Gewässer einzudringen, um Öl und andere natürliche Ressourcen zu stehlen.
Dies geschah, nachdem die Regierung kürzlich Warnschüsse auf ein griechisches Ölschiff abgefeuert hatte, das versuchte, illegal geschätzte zwei Millionen Barrel jemenitisches Öl von einem Hafenterminal in der Provinz Hadhramout zu laden.
Die Warnschüsse zwangen das griechische Frachtschiff, seinen Auftrag abzubrechen und mit seinem eigenen Treibstoff und mit leeren Händen nach Hause zurückzukehren.
Nach Angaben der Regierung in Sanaa ist die Beendigung der jahrelangen Plünderung des jemenitischen Naturreichtums von entscheidender Bedeutung, um die jemenitische Wirtschaft anzukurbeln. Es holt den Jemen auch aus Jahrzehnten der Armut und wirtschaftlichen Instabilität heraus, die bereits Millionen von Jemeniten in Armut zurückgelassen haben.
Beobachter glauben, dass die Welt jetzt erkennen muss, dass sie es mit einer neuen jemenitischen Nation zu tun hat. Eine, die niemals ihre Würde und Souveränität gefährden wird.
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The de facto authority of the #Houthis suspended a school headmaster in Ibb city for organizing an event to celebrate the anniversary of the September 26 and October 14 revolutions, which are national holidays.
https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1585685760287571969
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Sanaa threatens with turning poaching ships into burning piles
The Deputy Foreign Minister in the Sanaa government, Hussein Al-Ezzi, on Thursday warned those ships, which steal fish from the Yemeni seas, that they would be turned into “burning piles in the sea.”
In a tweet on Twitter, Al-Ezzi confirmed that the fish wealth of Yemen is not a project available to the thieves, who must be held accountable for their heinous actions.
Al-Ezzi pointed out that Yemen’s fish undoubtedly has a unique taste, and whoever prefers it can get what he needs from it through legitimate means, even through a free request, “but to raze hundreds of thousands of tons without returning to Sanaa – I think this is a shameful and disgraceful act.”
He continued, saying: “Those ships that steal our fish are dangerous to navigation because they will force Sanaa to target them, and if the decision is issued, believe me; you will see them burning piles at sea.”
https://en.ypagency.net/276586/
and
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Hodeida governor warns fishing companies not to approach Yemen coasts
Hodeida governor, Mohammed Qohim, warned fishing companies not to be approached to the coasts of Yemen, especially the western coast.
Qohim said on Twitter,” Looting oil is like looting fisheries, all of which are wealth for the homeland.”
He added that the dredging of the sea would not be tolerated.
https://en.ypagency.net/276646/
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Yemen Strongly Condemns Criminal Attack of Shiraz in Iran
and also https://english.almasirah.net.ye/post/29281/Houthi-Takfiri-Terrorist-Attack-on-Holy-Shrine-in-Shiraz-Will-Increase-Iranians-Unity and https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/10/27/mohammed-al-houthi-condemns-terrorist-attack-on-shiraz-shrine/
https://en.ypagency.net/276602/
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The Houthi group is indifferent to the reactions of the international community and human rights organizations, as it publishes a picture of the child Ahmed Ismail, noting that he was killed while fighting in their ranks, describing him as a "martyr fighter" (photo)
https://twitter.com/abduhothifi/status/1585322889812869122
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YSMO destroys quantities of import banned e-Hookah
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3208860.htm
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The Houthi militia have kidnapped a young activist in Ibb after he criticized the terrorist militia's leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi./Multiple websites
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-61349
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Campaign to seize expired food continued in Sanaa, other provinces
https://en.ypagency.net/276436/
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Heavy clashes underway between two Houthi-affiliated leaders Faris al-Habari and Nabih Abu Nashtan in Arhab northeast of #Sanaa, tribal sources told me. Three have been reported to be dead and many others injured so far.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1585096269533310976
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Yemen: Houthi-Run Hospital Holds Bodies of 22 Newborns
A Houthi-run hospital in Sanaa is keeping the dead bodies of 22 newborns whose families could not pay the discharge costs due to deteriorating living conditions.
In a precedent, the hospital published an ad in a Houthi-run newspaper calling on the bereaved families to come forth to pay their dues and receive the bodies of their newborns.
Houthi militia members who run the hospital threatened to take strict measures, such as burying the bodies, if families did not pay within 14 days from the date of the announcement.
They also vowed to pursue grieving parents and file lawsuits against them, obliging them to pay what they owe.
Houthis failed to disclose how long the hospital has been keeping the bodies.
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3950071/yemen-houthi-run-hospital-holds-bodies-22-newborns
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Al-Houthi: Dialogue is only with the aggression countries
Member of the Supreme Political Council Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi said that there is no dialogue with” mercenaries” but only with countries of the Saudi-led aggression coalition.
“Sanaa announced that there is no dialogue with mercenaries but with the aggressor, so the aggression worked to pressure the UN envoy, so the mercenaries give him a justification to designate the people in the terrorism list, aiming to deny what is documented of their association with the terrorism of America as militias and with an ongoing aggression and siege, in addition to killing, destruction and cutting off the salaries of the Yemeni people,” Mohammed Al-Houthi said on Twitter.
https://en.ypagency.net/276182/
Fortsetzung / Sequel: cp6 – cp19
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-829b-yemen-war-mosaic-829b
Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-828-yemen-war-mosaic-828
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-828 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-828:
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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