Yemen

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen unleashed a barrage of airstrikes on the capital and a strategic Red Sea city, officials said Saturday. At least eight people were killed.

The overnight airstrikes on Sanaa and Hodeida — both held by the Houthis — came a day after the rebels attacked an oil depot in the Saudi city of Jiddah, their highest-profile assault yet on the kingdom.

SANAA, March 25 (Reuters) - Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger.

Rmeishi, who is in the ninth grade, helps his family by working at his father's car repair garage in the capital Sanaa and hopes later to have a trade job as a mechanic, plumber or electrician.

20 March 2022; MEMO: US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking and Hollywood actress and Special Envoy for the UNHCR Angelina Jolie agreed to work to ease the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, Anadolu Agency reported.

"The two Special Envoys agreed to work together to ease the humanitarian crisis & help end the #Yemen conflict," said a Twitter post on The US State Department – Near Eastern Affairs account.

ADEN, Mar 19 (NNN-YPA) – A senior commander of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch was killed, in armed confrontation yesterday, with the Houthi militia for seizing key areas in the country’s oil-rich province of Marib, a military official said.

“Ferocious fighting erupted between the Houthi rebels and some fighters belonging to the al-Qaeda group, in the southern parts of Marib, during the past several hours,” the local military source said, on condition of anonymity.

17 March 2022; MEMO: A former Yemeni minister yesterday warned of a "new plot led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to strike the Republic of Yemen and legitimise the division of the country."

15 March 2022; MEMO: A Houthi official said, on Tuesday, that Saudi Arabia cannot be a mediator in the Yemen war, remarking on a Reuters report of a Gulf Arab initiative to hold consultations among Yemeni parties in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with Reuters reporting this, as well.

Mohamed Ali Al-Houthi, head of the Houthi Supreme Revolutionary Committee, said, "Riyadh is a party in the war not a mediator."

16 March 2022; MEMO: After more than seven years of war, Yemen is becoming a "chronic emergency" and "there are grave risks in chronic emergencies, namely inertia and fatigue," a senior UN official said yesterday.

15 March 2022; MEMO: Houthi forces in Yemen have killed at least 80 Sudanese and 15 Saudi soldiers fighting within the Saudi-led Arab coalition during a military operation in the city of Haradh, Hajjah Governorate, a pro-Houthi channel reported yesterday.

ADEN, Yemen, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced Saturday that 10,200 children were killed or injured since the conflict escalated in Yemen nearly seven years ago.

"The actual number is likely much higher," UNICEF Representative to Yemen Philippe Duamelle said in a statement.

"Following the intensification of the conflict in 2021, violence has continued to escalate this year and as always children are the first and most to suffer," Duamelle said.

ADEN, Mar 12 (NNN-YPA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), warned that, millions of Yemeni people are at risk of famine, as a result of the country’s years-long military conflict and sharp deterioration of its economy, calling for urgent action.

“Children in Yemen are starving not because of a lack of food, but because their families cannot afford food,” the UNICEF said in a statement posted on Twitter.

The UN organisation said, “The impact of the economic collapse on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen cannot be understated.”