Yemen

24 October 2022; MEMO: The Houthis yesterday threatened to directly attack international oil tankers in response to the "looting of the wealth" of Yemen, senior official Mohammed Bukhaiti said.

Commenting on the targeting of Al-Dhabba oil terminal in the Hadhramaut governorate, Bukhaiti wrote on Twitter: "This attack was a warning to the oil tanker commissioned to steal Yemen's oil. The attack was not aimed at targeting the terminal."

ADEN, Oct 23 (NNN-YPA) – An explosion yesterday, struck an ambulance, carrying a medic team of the southern pro-government Yemeni forces, in southern Abyan province, killing five medics on board, a security official said.

“A remotely detonated Improvised Explosive Device (IED) struck an ambulance, carrying a military medical team of the southern troops, while passing through a main road in the Al Mahfid district of Abyan,” the security official said, on condition of anonymity, adding that, the blast also destroyed the ambulance.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels said they targeted a cargo ship Friday off an oil terminal in the war-wrecked Arab country’s south to prevent pro-government forces from using it for oil exports. A Greek company owning the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker said it sustained no damage in the attack by explosive-laden drones.

ADEN, Oct 18 (NNN-YPA) – The Yemeni internationally-recognised government, yesterday, ordered its armed forces to raise combat readiness, for major changes in the war-torn Arab country, in the upcoming days.

The government also ordered “all the pro-government military and security units,” to “prepare for fully restoring state institutions from the grip of the Houthi militia,” said a government statement, released by the state-run Saba news agency, following a government meeting held in the southern port city of Aden.

ADEN, Yemen, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- An official of Yemen's pro-government security forces and four soldiers were killed in an explosion that struck their vehicle in the country's southern province of Abyan on Sunday, a military official told Xinhua.

"The explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device targeting a patrol of the pro-government southern security forces in Mudiyah district of Abyan Province," the local military source said on condition of anonymity.

The explosion also injured three security personnel, the source confirmed to Xinhua.

6 October 2022; MEMO: The Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak, said the government is keen to renew the ceasefire agreement with the Houthi group, and to openly solve all problems through dialogue, Anadolu news agency reported.

3 October 2022; MEMO: Fighting has resumed between the Yemeni army and the Houthi militia on several fronts, hours after a truce ended and the UN failed to broker an extension. The truce has been in place for six months, but expired at 7pm local time yesterday.

ADEN, Oct 2 (NNN-YPA) – An updated UN proposal, calling for an extension of the existing truce, set to expire today, has been received by both sides of Yemen’s warring parties, but its fate remains unclear.

According to a government statement, released by Yemen’s state-run Saba news agency, yesterday, “the government has just received an updated proposal from the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to expand the truce starting from today.”

SANAA, Oct 3 (NNN-YPA) – UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced yesterday no agreement has been reached to renew the expired truce between the Yemeni warring parties.

“The UN Special Envoy regrets that an agreement has not been reached today (yesterday), as an extended and expanded truce would provide additional critical benefits to the population,” his office said in a statement.

3 October 2022; MEMO: Yemen's Houthis on Saturday warned foreign oil companies working in areas controlled by the internationally recognised government to cease operating or risk coming under attack.

The Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah TV reported that the head of the group's Supreme Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, issued instructions to prepare official communications to all foreign companies and entities involved in "looting Yemen's sovereign wealth" to immediately cease their activities.