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... Judy Woodruff: On Monday, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that it will send more than $2.5 billion in humanitarian aid and financial assistance to war-torn Yemen. This comes after nearly three years of a Saudi-led military operation, backed by the United States, to beat back ...
... William Brangham: In the day's other news, the new year brought more slaughter in Yemen. Security officials and witnesses say at least 23 people died in airstrikes by the Saudi Arabian coalition. The strikes targeted the port city of Hudaydah on the Red Sea. It's held by ...
e over 100,000 missiles right now aimed at Israel. It's an existential threat. The Saudis fear, for good reason, the same thing in Yemen. Judy Woodruff: But you're saying that that fear is overblown? Stephen Seche: I think the fear is genuine. I do think it is ...
... one more life ended amid the conflict, a man central to Yemen's recent modern history. Ali Abdullah Saleh spent more than 30 years as Yemen's president. He was forced from office amid Yemen's Arab Spring in 2012. A wily navigator of Yemen's often-shifting loyalties and ...
... U.S. conducts airstrikes against the terrorists. In January, a Navy SEAL was killed in a raid in Central Yemen. Abdulwahab Alkebsi was born in Yemen. He's now the deputy director for programs at the Center for International Private Enterprise. Abdulwahab Alkebsi: The conflict in Yemen, unfortunately, right now ...
... m joined now by Jamie McGoldrick. He's the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Yemen. Welcome to the "NewsHour." JAMIE MCGOLDRICK, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen: Thank you. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Can you just give us a snapshot of how the humanitarian situation is in Yemen right now? JAMIE MCGOLDRICK: Well ...
... A two-dose vaccination campaign is expected to launch next year in high-risk areas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzHxtugIsk0 Watch a PBS NewsHour report on the food crisis and cholera outbreak in Yemen. READ MORE: Attacks in Syria and Yemen are turning disease into weapon of war
... the humanitarian sector are desperately calling on there to be no bombing of the main port through which 90 percent of the food gets into Yemen. And Yemen is one of four countries that are threatened by famine. And a unique coalition of eight American-led NGOs have come together ...
... Vaccines and other lifesaving drugs have been intentionally blocked from reaching civilians. All of this has created public health catastrophes — a massive cholera outbreak in Yemen, and new outbreaks of once-vanquished diseases like polio and measles in Syria and Yemen. These put millions of children at risk for death ...
As the U.S. continues to work with Yemen and the UAE on counter-terrorism operations, an Associated Press investigation has found that hundreds of men captured in the hunt for al-Qaida militants are being detained in prisons run by those countries, where allegations of human rights abuses and torture are rife. AP Reporter Maggie Michael, who...
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