Humanitarian Situation

Yamanyoon- 30 Oct 2017 The Saudi-American aggression and its mercenaries have continued their heinous crimes against the Yemeni people and targeted residential areas during the past hours. A girl has been killed by the aggression…

Yamanyoon- 29 Oct 2017 Britain continues to sell arms to Riyadh despite widespread outrage over its conduct in Yemen. British sales of military equipment to Saudi Arabia have topped £1.1bn in just six months, according to Government…

Yamanyoon- 29 Oct 2017 Even the UK courts believe our arms sales to Saudi Arabia are wrong – which is why we were acquitted of criminal damage this week Motivated by our Quaker belief and our political principles, we stressed that we…

Yamanyoon- 28 Oct 2017 Prisoners held in an informal detention facility controlled by the UAE forces in Yemen have been subjected to mistreatment and torture. That’s according to Human Rights Watch which is now calling on the Emirati…

Yamanyoon- 28 Oct 2017 UN aid chief Mark Lowcock on Saturday voiced alarm at the "shocking" humanitarian conditions in Yemen.  Concluding a five-day mission, his first to Yemen, the UN head of humanitarian affairs and emergency…

Yamanyoon- 25 Oct 2017 TWO peace activists who attempted to disable fighter aircraft destined for Saudi Arabia to attack Yemen appeared in Burnley magistrates’ court yesterday accused of criminal damage. Sam Walton, a Quaker from…

Yamanyoon- 24 Oct 2017 The UK has approved sales of the Tornado aircraft, which is partially manufactured by BAE systems; BAE's Tactica armoured vehicles, valued at $580,000; vehicles and tanks; and $1.48bn worth of grenades, missiles…

Yamanyoon- 24 Oct 2017 Mona al-Zoraigi stands, a forlorn figure in the dilapidated kitchen of her bombed-out apartment, consumed with guilt that she cannot provide her youngest child with the one thing he has been yearning for most.…

Yamanyoon- 24 Oct 2017 Smiling and sitting down to bread and milk with her family, Yemeni teenager Saida Ahmed Baghili is barely recognizable a year on from the photo of her emaciated frame that came to symbolize the country’s humanitarian…

Yamanyoon- 23 Oct 2017 More than 11 million Yemeni children need humanitarian aid as a result of a war raging since March 2015, the UN's humanitarian coordination agency OCHA said on Monday. The Saudi aggression intervened in Yemen…

Yamanyoon- 21 Oct 2017 The world must be told the story of a collapsing and suffering country, a story that largely has been ignored despite the UN calling it ‘the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.’ Ignored, despite grave…

Yamanyoon- 18 Oct 2017 A family of six members have been killed in a US-backed Saudi-led aggression airstrike on the family's house in northeastern province of Jawf overnight, a local security said. A child of the same family was…

Yamanyoon- 18 Oct 2017 The US government’s support for Saudi Arabia in its brutal war against Yemen highlights that Washington and Riyadh threaten human rights and are indifferent to human suffering, says an American analyst.…

Yamanyoon- 18 Oct 2017 The Saudi war on Yemen – now into its third year – continues to take a toll on millions of children, with their education now under threat, adding to an already long list of bitter hardships including malnutrition,…

Yamanyoon- 18 Oct 2017 A former official at the United Nations and professor of international law slammed the UN and certain Western governments for their support for the Saudi regime’s war on Yemen that has led to a deteriorating…

Yamanyoon- 17 Oct 2017 Asher Orkaby reviews the origins of the war on Yemen and describes the horrible humanitarian catastrophe that it has created. Here he notes that the Saudis’ justification for the intervention was made up to win…

Yamanyoon- 17 Oct 2017 US President Donald Trump will keep selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, which is committing war crimes in Yemen, because he is a businessman who does not have moral qualms about such issues, an analyst in New York…

Yamanyoon- 17 Oct 2017 The United Nations said the cholera epidemic in Yemen has become the largest and fastest-spreading outbreak of the disease in modern history as the Western-backed Saudi regime continues daily bombardments of the…

Yamanyoon- 16 Oct 2017 As a candidate, Trump claimed Saudi Arabia was behind 9/11. But in the first eight months of 2017, the U.S. has delivered a total of $1.56 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia.   Before President Donald Trump…

Yamanyoon- 16 Oct 2017 The U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war and naval blockade in Yemen has sparked a cholera epidemic that has become the largest and fastest-spreading outbreak of the disease in modern world history. There are expected to be…

Yamanyoon- 16 Oct 2017 The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) warned that the future of up to 4.5 million schoolchildren in the war-torn Yemen is uncertain as thousands of teachers refuse to attend classes for…

Yamanyoon- 16 Oct 2017 Some 32 per cent of cholera deaths in Yemen are children under the age of 15 due to Saudi airstrikes and blockade, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday. “Children under 15 represent 50 per cent…

Yamanyoon- 11 Oct 2017 Riyadh- Angry reactions bubbled up as the United Nations published a report on children rights violations in Yemen citing  information provided . But in fact, Saudi has committed  more aggressive cromes, saadah…

Yamanyoon- 11 Oct 2017 by Kate Kizer and William D. Hartung Yemen is in the midst of one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in modern times, and the United States and its allies in Saudi Arabia bear a large part of the…

Yamanyoon- 11 Oct 2017 Late last year, the Kota Nazar, a Singaporean ship with 636 containers of steel, paper, medicine and other goods, set sail to Hodeida, the largest cargo port in war-torn Yemen. It never got there. Like dozens of…

Yamanyoon- 9 Oct 2017 The ongoing war on Yemen was instigated by the region’s major power, Saudi Arabia-led coalition of Persian Gulf states. The fighting — especially airstrikes by Saudi and United Arab Emirates pilots — has devastated…

Yamanyoon- 9 Oct 2017 The US is helping Saudi Arabia wage a war in Yemen, largely in secret. A congressman from California wants to bring it into the open. Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat, and three other members of the House…

Yamayoon- 9 Oct 2017  One of the latest victims of the cholera epidemic that has killed more than 2,000 people in Yemen had yet to even take her first breath. Her mother Safaa Issa Kaheel, then nine months pregnant, was brought into a…

Yamanyoon- 5 Oct 2017 Ten thousand people have died. The world’s largest cholera epidemic is raging, with more than 530,000 suspected cases and 2,000 related deaths. Millions more people are starving. Yet the lack of press attention on…

Yamanyoon- 5 Oct 2017 Yemen continues to suffer in silence as the world turns away from its ongoing misery. Despite two and a half years of brutal war, the average American remains oblivious to the inconvenient truth that the United…