Yemen

ADEN, Yemen, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's government has announced reopening a main airport for domestic flights in the country's southeastern province of Hadramout after being suspended for nearly six years.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Yemen said in a brief press statement on Friday that it was pleased to fully resume air navigation at Al-Rayyan International Airport located in the country's oil-rich province of Hadramout.

09 Apr 2021; MEMO: The United Nations yesterday warned of the "imminent collapse of the health situation in Yemen," stressing that tut is "untolerable."

"20.1 million people in Yemen are in need of medical assistance," United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Twitter.

It added that 51 per cent of the country's health facilities were fully functioning, noting that "67 out of 333 districts do not have doctors."

05 Apr 2021; MEMO: A leader of the Yemeni Houthi rebels, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, has called on Iran not to stop uranium enrichment before the parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement return to the deal.

"If Iran accepts to stop [uranium] enrichment before [other parties] implement the agreement, it will repeat the mistake of the previous agreement, which was not implemented despite the guarantees, and the negotiation will be linked to the [Iran] missile program later," Al-Houthi wrote on Twitter.

01 Apr 2021; MEMO: Yemen's Houthi group said today that they carried out drone strikes targeting "sensitive and important" sites in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, Anadolu Agency reports.

"Today, the air force managed to carry out an offensive operation in the capital of the Saudi enemy, Riyadh, with four drones," the group's spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said in a statement.

He said the drones targeted "sensitive and important sites and the strike was accurate."

01 Apr 2021; MEMO: War-torn Yemen received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, UNICEF said, one week after the country's coronavirus committee warned of a public health "emergency".

28 Mar 2021; MEMO: A top Yemeni commander was killed Saturday in clashes with Houthi rebels in the eastern Marib province, a military source told Anadolu Agency.

"Major General Amin Al-Waeli was killed at the Kassara front in the province on Friday evening," the source, who preferred not to be named said, adding that the commander was killed while on the battlefront northwest of Marib.

27 Mar 2021; MEMO: British Ambassador to Yemen Michael Aron has conveyed that the alternative to the Saudi initiative to end the conflict in Yemen is the retention of war for several years in the future, Aram Media reported on Friday.

In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Aron called for the Houthis, who rejected the initiative, to rethink their position and take steps towards peace.

23 Mar 2021; MEMO: Yemen's Houthi group said Monday that it targeted Saudi Arabia's Abha International Airport with a drone attack, Anadolu Agency reported.

"This afternoon, the Air Force [of the group] carried out an attack operation on Abha International Airport with Qasef-2K drone, and the strike was accurate," the group's spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement.

He went on to assert that the group's operation "will continue as long as the aggression and siege continue."

22 Mar 2021; MEMO: Saudi Arabia presented a new peace initiative on Monday to end the war in Yemen, including a nationwide ceasefire and the reopening of air and sea links, but Houthi said the offer did not appear to go far enough to lift a blockade, Reuters reports.

SANAA, Mar 21 (NNN-SABA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels said yesterday, three tear gas bombs, fired by their riot forces, are the cause of the deadly fire, that broke out earlier this month, inside a migrant detention centre in Sanaa, and killed at least 45 African migrants.

There were a total of 862 African migrants in the seven-ward migrant detention centre, and the accident took place on Mar 7, in Ward No. 1, which hosted 358 of the detained African migrants, according to the Houthi-controlled interior ministry’s statement.