Angry residents in Aden in South Yemen have protested repeatedly over the past few days, calling on authorities in the port city to find a solution to the repeated power outages. Power stations in Aden have stopped operating since Sunday, and the outages lasted several hours a day. This ...
Thousands of Yemenis register yearly to join the pilgrimage journey to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. In previous years, the number of applicants exceeded the quota given to Yemen, which means not all applicants were selected. That left many pilgrimage seekers sad and disappointed. This is n...
Hundreds of thousands of children flock every day to summer camps in North Yemen, where the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group dominates. The group organizes summer camps every year and exerts its utmost efforts to push the maximum number of children to participate in this annual activity. T...
The Secretary-General of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, Mohammed Shubaita, was exposed to gunfire in Sanaa today, causing him a serious injury. One of his relatives was killed, and another was injured in the attack. The Yemeni Journalist Syndicate issued a statement, saying the at...
One hundred eighty-eight humanitarian organizations, including several UN agencies, issued a joint statement today, warning that 18.2 million people require help after nine years of war Yemen has been seeing. The appeal came one day ahead of a meeting of high-ranking EU officials in ...
Eritrean authorities released 17 Yemeni fishermen after weeks of being detained in Eritrean prisons, local sources in Al-Hudydah said Saturday. The released fishermen arrived in The coastal area of Al-Khawkhah, where their families and friends gathered to receive them. The fish...
Tribal clashes in Yemen have been recurring, leaving deaths and injuries amidst the continued fragility of the state and the proliferation of militant groups in the country. The latest tribal clash happened late last month in the Al-Had district of Lahj province, leaving a numb...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group held a funeral yesterday for three officers and two soldiers in Sanaa, an event that revealed the renewal of hostilities on the frontlines in Yemen. The Houthi-run Saba News Agency said five officers and soldiers were killed on the frontlines. It did not...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) General Mobilization Authority announced its resumption of open military courses titled "Al-Aqsa Flood. Late yesterday, the Houthi General Mobilization issued a statement, calling on all Yemeni men and youth in Houthi-controlled provinces to communicate ...
The lax control on pesticide importation to Yemen has been in the dark over the past few years. Merchants and smugglers capitalized on the war-created chaos and brought millions of liters of unlicensed pesticides. This has put the health of millions of Yemenis in peril. Lately, a documen...
The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) documented 17 cases of violations against journalists and media institutions over the last three months. The YJS said these violations indicate that journalists and media personnel continue working in a dangerous environment without protection. ...
Several Yemeni provinces have seen heavy rains, causing floods and raising concerns about the repercussions of buried landmines in conflict-stricken areas. Since Yemen’s civil war erupted in 2015, the parties to the conflict have planted thousands of landmin...
The aid suspension in Yemen has brought a new level of suffering for civilians, prompting the Houthi group to call for the resumption of aid distribution to needy families. Secretary-General of the Houthi Supreme Council for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and...
The Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons' Camps in Marib said that 535 fire accidents had occurred in displacement camps in the province over the past three years and three months, leaving 95 civilian deaths and injuries. The Executive Unit attributed the cause o...
Much has been said and written about Yemen's Socotra Island's exotic and beautiful nature. Little is known about the Island's population's ordeals. Today, people in Socotra have no easy Internet access, and it is a service that only the rich can afford. A local officia...
Yemeni fishermen continue facing deadly threats in their daily fishing journeys in Yemen's territorial waters. Attacks by Eritrean authorities or Eritrean pirates are the number-one threat. On Monday, an Eritrean patrol detained two fishermen while fishing in Yemeni territorial w...
Violations against civilians and civilian properties in Yemen keep occurring in several provinces in line with the continued spread of militant groups and the fragility of the state. A recent statement by the National Committee to Investigate Allegations of Human Rights Violations, a...
It has been nine years since Yemen slid into a civil war after the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group ousted the country’s UN-recognized government in 2015, setting the country on the path of chaos. The civil war was coupled with military intervention by the Saudi-led Arab coaliti...
Militant groups in Yemen have proliferated over the past decade, and they have used force and intimidation to impose their agenda and dominate people. The groups, including the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group, Daesh, southern separatists and armed militants in Taiz, resorted to several vi...
Nine years have passed since the Saudi-led Arab coalition launched a military campaign in Yemen on March 26, 2015, to restore the UN-recognized government to Sanaa and incapacitate the Iran-backed Houthi group. Neither the conflict ended, nor the Houthis had been&...
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