The Yemeni government has ordered a ban on the entry of a ship carrying "polluted" diesel affiliated with the World Food Program (WFP) to the port of Mukalla in Hadramout. In an official memorandum issued by the head of the Anti-Corruption Authority, Afrah Badwelan, it was ment...
Daily Brief The United Nations has confirmed that Yemen faces two extreme climate conditions: severe drought and intense floods. This has exacerbated economic instability in the country, prompting the UN to choose the Marib governorate as a focal point for transitioning from emergenc...
Thirty-eight Yemeni fishermen returned home on Wednesday after several weeks of detention in Eritrea. Yemeni authorities the 38 men returned after spending more than two months in an Eritrean prison. A group of 54 Yemeni fishermen imprisoned in Eritrea for a year arrived in the Houthi-co...
The Philippine government said on Wednesday that 17 of its citizens are among the 25 sailors held hostage by the Houthis in Yemen. On Sunday, the Houthis seized the Israeli-linked Galaxy Leader, which was traveling under the flag of The Bahamas in the Red Sea. They diverted it to Yemen&#...
Yemen’s Houthi, who seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Red Sea, were backed, supported and potentially trained by Iranian authorities, a U.S. official said. New photos of the helicopter-borne Houthi attack on the Galaxy Leader show "all the signs" that I...
Japan has approached Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) group in a bid to secure the release of the Galaxy Leader, hijacked in the Red Sea. Japan says it is "directly approaching" the Houthis, who seized a cargo ship in the Red Sea on Sunday, reported Al Jazeera English. Tokyo sa...
Fifty-four fishermen arrived in Al-Hudaydahprovince after months of kidnapping and torture in the prisons of the Eritrean authorities, the Houthi-run Saba News Agency said on Sunday. The Deputy Head of the Red Sea Fisheries Authority, Abdul Malik Sabra, said some...
The International Organization for Migration stated that 29 Yemeni families were displaced during the past week in several Yemeni provinces despite the relative calm in the country. In its weekly report, the organization mentioned that its displacement tracking matrix documented the...
The Yemeni government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) are failing to fulfill Aden residents' right to electricity and water, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the start of the conflict in Yemen, the residents of Aden have experienced frequent shutoffs of water and elec...
The United Nations International Organization for Migration announced on Monday that 1,169 African migrants entered Yemen in October, a 25% decrease compared to September 2023. The organization attributed the drop to the deployment of military checkpoints along s...
The Houthi group has launched ballistic missiles on various Israel targets, including in the Red Sea city of Eilat, the group's military spokesperson said on Tuesday. The launch came "after 24 hours of another military operation by drones on th...
The Health and Population Office in Yemen's Marib province reported approximately 667 suspected cases of cholera since the beginning of the current year. This figure was declared during a meeting at the Health Office in Marib on Monday. The meeting involved representatives from ...
The Yemeni Coast Guard on Sunday rescued 26 migrants of African nationalities after their boat sank in international waters off the coast of Mocha to the west of Yemen. The state-run Saba News Agency reported that 26 African migrants were rescued out of a total of 75 people, including wo...
The Houthi group announced an increase in fuel prices in areas under their control in northern Yemen. In a release, the Sanaa-based oil company stated that "after calculating the costs of fuel ships recently arriving at the ports of Al-Hudaydah through fuel product importers, the fu...
The Yemeni government warned against Houthi efforts to drag the country back into a full-scale war after the truce the country has seen since April last tear. Minister of Information Muammar Al-Eryani, said in a statement on X, "We warn against the dangerous and continuous...
Tim Lenderking, the U.S. special envoy to Yemen, has warned that peace efforts on Yemen must not be wasted as the Gaza-Israel war rages on. "We've made tremendous progress on the peace process, and these peace efforts should not be squandered," Mr Lenderking told ...
The Yemeni government said that the Houthi group is behind the assassination attempt on the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Saghir bin Aziz. Information Minister Muammar Al-Eryani said the assassination attempt was carried out by detonating a car bomb while bin A...
The National Army forces repelled Monday an attack by the Houthi group on a number of sites in Taiz province, southwest of the country, military sources said. The sources said that armed confrontations broke out between army forces and the Houthi group following the latter's attack o...
The International Crisis Group has said the Houthi group's involvement in the ongoing Gaza conflict poses risks to Yemen and bolsters its agenda. In its report, the group emphasized that the renewal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has allowed the Houthi forces to enhance their ag...
The Yemeni riyal fell to a new low of 1,540 against the dollar in Yemeni government-governed provinces on Saturday. Media reports said the Yemeni riyal breached a record low of 1,500 against the dollar for the first time in years, compared to a prior low of 1,400 in July. Since early 202...
