Yemen

02 Feb 2021; MEMO: Yemen's Houthi group on Sunday said it held the Saudi-led Arab coalition responsible for the country's economic and humanitarian crises, calling for a fact-finding committee to investigate the coalition's activities in Yemen.

26 Jan 2021; MEMO: The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen on Sunday pledged to prevent the implementation of decisions made by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi without prior consultations, the Safa news agency reported.

This comes ten days after the president's decision to appoint the speaker of the Shura Council and two deputies, as well as a Public Prosecutor. The STC and two other parties rejected these nominations.

11 Jan 2021; MEMO: Yemen's Houthis have threatened to attack "very sensitive" sites in Israel, Rai Al-Youm reported yesterday, after reports emerged that the occupation state was reenforcing its military in the south of the country ahead of a possible confrontation.

SANAA, Jan 7 (NNN-SABA) – UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, yesterday met with Yemeni President, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

They discussed a UN-brokered plan to push forward peace in Yemen.

Griffiths would be flying to Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, in the coming days, for meetings with Hadi’s government.

The UN envoy recently proposed an agreement between the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels to enable resumption of political talks to end the war.

04 Jan 2021; MEMO: Aden International Airport reopened yesterday after a Houthi-led missile attack on the terminal last week, local media has reported.

The attack took place on Wednesday moments after new cabinet members landed on a flight from the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. At least 25 people were killed and 110 others were injured.

SANAA, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed when artillery shelling hit a wedding in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Houthi rebel-run al-Masirah TV reported on Saturday.

The shelling, which was launched on Friday evening, also wounded seven other people in the marriage ceremony in Al-Hawak district, south of the port city, the television cited a statement by the Houthi-controlled health ministry as saying.

ADEN, Jan 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 26 people were killed when explosions rocked Yemen’s Aden airport moments after a new unity government flew in, in what some officials charged was a “cowardly” attack by the Houthi rebels.

Although all government ministers were reported to be unharmed in Wednesday’s attack, more than 50 people were wounded with the casualty toll feared likely to rise.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said one of its employees was among those confirmed dead, with another three wounded.

ADEN (Reuters) -Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck targets in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday in retaliation for attacks in the southern port city of Aden the previous day that took place as officials in a government backed by Riyadh arrived there.

The coalition accused the Houthi movement, which it has been fighting for six years, of staging the attack on Aden’s airport and a second one on the presidential palace.

31 Dec 2020; MEMO: Some 172,000 Yemenis have been displaced during 2020 due to the years-long bloody conflict across the country, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced in a report yesterday.

"Since the start of 2020 until 26 December, 28,659 families, representing 171,954 Yemenis, have been displaced from their homes due to several factors, mostly the country's raging conflict," IOM said.

30 Dec 2020; MEMO: Yemen tribal leaders in the southern Abyan province yesterday called on the Saudi-led Arab coalition to put pressure on the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) to force it to hand over the province's capital of Zinjibar to government security forces in accordance with the Riyadh Agreement.