Yemen

ADEN, Oct 7 (NNN-SABA) – At least 12 members of the Houthi group were killed Tuesday, as pro-government Yemeni forces repulsed a rebel attack, in the country’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah.

According to the military source, who asked to remain anonymous, “the Houthi militia launched a large-scale armed attack against government military locations, in Tuhyata district.”

“The soldiers valiantly engaged in intense armed confrontations with the Houthis and aborted their assault,” the source said.

SANAA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- A UN plane brought Yemeni civilian patients to the Houthi militia-held capital Sanaa in Yemen on Sunday after they were airlifted earlier this year to Jordan to undergo treatment for critical illness.

The "UN flight carrying civilian Yemenis and their companions just landed in Sanaa," the World Health Organization (WHO) tweeted.

"Thanks to the UN medical airbridge, the patients received treatment in Jordan for different chronic conditions for which they could not be treated inside Yemen," WHO said, without specifying how many had returned.

04 Oct 2020; MEMO: The Yemeni Physicians and Pharmacists Syndicate announced on Friday that 63 doctors have died of COVID-19 in the country, Yemen Shabab reported.

This came in a statement regarding Dr Ali Abu-Zalat, of Egyptian origin, who died on Wednesday after contracting COVID-19 in Hadhramaut.

MARIB (Yemen), Sept 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hadi Ahmed wearily sets up a tent in Yemen’s Marib province, after fleeing fighting yet again in the government’s last northern stronghold which is under intense pressure from Houthi rebels.

The Iran-backed fighters have long held the capital Sanaa which lies just 120 kilometres away and are mounting a fierce campaign to take the oil-rich province.

23 Sep 2020; MEMO: Emirate-backed Yemeni forces on Sunday fired shots to disperse angry protesters who demonstrated against the deterioration of public services in the eastern governorate of Hadhramaut.

Eyewitnesses told the Anadolu Agency that “angry demonstrators blocked the main streets in the city of Al-Mukalla, in the centre of the governorate, and set tyres on fire to protest against the deterioration of public services, mainly the power cuts.”

13 Sep 2020; MEMO: The United Nations (UN) announced on Thursday that it closed down 70 per cent of life-saving reproductive health programmes at the start of September due to lack of funds, the UN Population Fund in Yemen (UNFPA) reported.

10 Sep 2020; MEMO: The United Nations Children’s Fund has said that around eight million children are now out of school in Yemen due to the war and Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF gave the details in a tweet with a video earlier this week to mark International Literacy Day 2020.

09 Sep 2020; MEMO: The Houthi will close Sanaa International Airport to relief flights including the United Nations from today.

The group’s foreign ministry said in a letter sent to the United Nations that flights to Sanaa airport will be stopped as of today claiming that the internally recognised Yemeni government and Arab coalition have prevented the entry of oil derivatives needed to operate the airport.

SANAA, Sept 7 (NNN-SABA) – Yemen’s Houthi militia said, they launched an attack on a Saudi border airport, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported Sunday.

The attack on Abha International Airport came, in response to “the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes on Yemen,” the television said, citing a statement by the Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Sarea.

The Houthi television did not provide details on the weaponry used in the alleged attack, but in their previous attacks, ballistic missiles and bomb-laden drones were used.

01 Sep 2020; MEMO: A separatist official has accused Saudi Arabia of hindering the implementation of a power-sharing deal, known as the Riyadh Agreement, for southern Yemen, reported Anadolu Agency.

“The denial of return for southern leaders to Aden by Saudi Arabia is an obstruction of the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement,” Rami Muthana al-Sumaidi, a leader of the UAE-backed separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC), said on Monday.