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... Yemeni city of Marib has displaced around 10,000 people in the past month, the U.N. migration agency said Thursday. The clashes escalated as Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels intensified their push to take the provincial capital from government forces. Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since ...
... s poorest are not left behind. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak said the roughly 1 million doses Yemen was given are not enough to vaccinate even the most vulnerable portions of its population. Yemen has a long way to go toward vaccinating ...
Yemen has been fighting a civil war since 2014, when Iran-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital of Sanaa and much of the northern part of the country, forcing the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia. A Saudi ...
Mr. Al Araby (through translator): Between us Yemenis, we are brothers. We are one Yemen. North, south all are Yemenis. Saudis and Emiratis, they don't want Yemen to be one country united, but as Yemenis, whether it's the north or the south, we are the same, we have ...
... the recent push for peace here. Saleh Mohammed (through translator): We think the new president, Joe Biden, is much better than the last one towards Yemen. He wants to stop the war in Yemen, unlike the last one. We hope to be able to go back home, but thousands of ...
... search of safety, in search of the promise of hope, hope for an end to this war. If efforts for a cease-fire do not succeed, these families will flee again. They are running out of places to go. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Jane Ferguson in Marib, Yemen.
... casualties were 13 people residing in makeshift settlements for displaced families, added the UNHCR. The escalation in violence has so far displaced over 13,600 Yemenis in Marib, which already hosts a nearly one million of Yemen's internally displaced people, said the statement. Almost 80 percent of the newly ...
Nick Schifrin: From the outside, it seems that that momentum is negative. There have been 30 attacks by the Houthis into Saudi Arabia this month alone. The Houthis have launched a major offensive in Marib. It's one of the remaining strongholds in the north of the Yemeni government. Saudis ...
... and commercial vessels in international waters,” the departments of State and Treasury said. They said the Houthis play “a significant role in the conflict in Yemen and exacerbate the dire humanitarian plight of the Yemeni people.” Mohammed Abdul-Salam, a spokesman for the Houthis, said the sanctions show the U ...
"We can only end the humanitarian crisis in Yemen by ending the war in Yemen. And so the United States is reinvigorating our diplomatic efforts to end the war," Blinken said. Other major pledges came from Germany ($241 million), the United Arab Emirates ($230 million), the United Kingdom ($123 ...
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