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... Jane Ferguson: The fighting here doesn't just risk the lives of those inside the city. Hodeidah's port is a lifeline for millions across Yemen. Most of the food imported into rebel-held Yemen comes through this port, and if fighting were to reach here and shut it down ...
Beth Murphy: It's been nearly 30 years since Yemen's last diphtheria outbreak. The first case in this latest crisis came in August 2017. Since then, the disease has spread to every corner of the country, as the war has made it difficult to inoculate children and also moved ...
... More than 3,000 were killed in November, the deadliest month since the group started collecting data. It said 37 percent of civilians killed in Yemen in 2018 died in Hodeida. The figures do not include the last few months of 2014, when the Houthi rebels captured the Yemeni capital ...
... to 1962, led by imams who came exclusively from Sada families. Complex factors today Houthis continue to focus on protecting the Zaydi region of north Yemen from state control. However, they have also forged coalitions with other groups – some of them Sunni – unhappy with Yemen’s persistent high unemployment and ...
... envoy, the U.N. special envoy, had trouble getting these two sides in the same country just a few months ago. But, really, traditionally, in Yemen, and even in this war over the past four years, the difficulty has not been getting the sides to agree to different things. It ...
McConnell urged senators to vote for the measure, which he said "does a good job capturing bipartisan concerns about both the war in Yemen and the behavior of our Saudi partners more broadly." The resolution also calls the war in Yemen a "humanitarian crisis" and demands that all parties seek ...
Nick Schifrin: While the U.S. supports the talks and is pushing to end the war, the administration is resisting punishing Saudi Arabia or targeting the Saudi defense minister, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But opposition to the war in Yemen and to MBS, as he's known, is now ...
U.N. officials, however, have sought to downplay expectations from the talks, saying they don't expect rapid progress toward a political settlement but hope for at least minor steps that would help to address Yemen's worsening humanitarian crisis. Yemeni voices from both sides continued to make some last ...
... month alone, and has displaced at least 134,000 families since June, according to the U.N. office for humanitarian aid.In an appeal from Yemen, the regional director of the U.N. agency for children called for an immediate end to the years-long war. "Yemen today is a ...
In Yemen, the U.N. has called for a cease-fire in the conflict between Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition backed by the U.S. No official death toll exists, but Save the Children says 85,000 children have died since the war began from a combination of violence, hunger and disease. Nick Schifrin talks to Greg Ramm,...
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