An official Yemeni source in the legitimate government confirmed it has been agreed with the Houthis to exchange more than 1,000 prisoners from each party. The international community is hoping the move will be the beginning of the end of the war in (...)
Following the announcement of the first coronavirus case in Yemen, the UN called for a ceasefire between the warring parties in a country where the healthcare system is already petering on the edge of collapse.
The case, recorded 10 April in the (...)
The UN has called for the release of all prisoners and detainees in Yemen to help address the threat of the Covid-19 coronavirus, and UN Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths stressed last Friday that this need had become all the more pressing due (...)
The Yemeni government dismissed news that the Marib and other governorates had conducted talks with the rebel Houthi militia in the capital Sanaa this week, the Yemeni website Ababil reporting Moammar Al-Aryani, the minister of information, as (...)
A double attack on the military camp of Al-Nasr and a military training base was reported on Sunday. The two sites are located nearby Farda Mount, affiliated to Nahm directorate, east of Marib, Yemen. The attacks were conducted using ballistic (...)
What is happening in Yemen? What are the forces at play and who is pulling the strings? Why does the Reform Party expect a popular revolution to erupt? What are the reasons behind the boycott by the Congress Party of Houthi militias? How can a (...)
There seems to be a crisis between UN envoy Martin Griffiths and the legitimate government of Yemen, with many commentators feeling that Griffiths is not being tough enough with the Houthi rebels.
This has lost him the respect of many Yemenis, (...)
The Yemeni scene is confusing and far from stable, with questions being asked about the announcement by the Houthi rebels of their withdrawal from the port of Hodeida and the Amman negotiations which kicked off on Monday.
The Stockholm Agreement (...)
The Yemeni scene is confusing and far from stable, with questions being asked about the announcement by the Houthi rebels of their withdrawal from the port of Hodeida and the Amman negotiations which kicked off on Monday.
The Stockholm Agreement (...)
Yemeni media sources have revealed that UN Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths has proposed a new political roadmap to resolve the country's ongoing national crisis. A high-level government official told Aden 24 Monday that Yemen was witnessing (...)
Yemen is mired in a raging sea of questions. Aside from its foreign relations and peace developments, Yemen's domestic front is full of agonising intrigue.
Is it the Muslim Brotherhood's Islah Party, the Salafis, Houthi militias or cholera that is (...)
Yemen is mired in a raging sea of questions. Aside from its foreign relations and peace developments, Yemen's domestic front is full of agonising intrigue.
Is it the Muslim Brotherhood's Islah Party, the Salafis, Houthi militias or cholera that is (...)
As the world celebrated Mother's Day on 21 March, Taiz in southwest Yemen was enduring heavy infighting in the Old City between forces affiliated to the Yemen National Army and the Muslim Brotherhood's Islah Party militias, said eyewitnesses.
Twenty (...)
Most Yemenis are mystified about the war that is destroying their country, but slowly the facts are coming to light. The war has turned into a proxy conflict prosecuted by foreign countries, with the Houthi rebels not defending the homeland but (...)
Most Yemenis are mystified about the war that is destroying their country, but slowly the facts are coming to light. The war has turned into a proxy conflict prosecuted by foreign countries, with the Houthi rebels not defending the homeland but (...)
After reaching no tangible results following the Stockholm agreement, a new round of talks between Yemen's warring sides kicked off in Amman on 4 February, focusing on thrashing out a deal for a prisoner exchange and advancing implementation of the (...)
After reaching no tangible results following the Stockholm agreement, a new round of talks between Yemen's warring sides kicked off in Amman on 4 February, focusing on thrashing out a deal for a prisoner exchange and advancing implementation of the (...)
Last year ended with a tone of optimism among Yemenis after the government and Houthis signed the Stockholm agreement on 13 December. Hopes for peace didn't last long though, and soon enough the situation in Yemen regressed.
Houthi militias are (...)
Yemeni women experiencing the horrors of war have been scarred for life. How do they survive and raise their children? What kinds of terror have they seen? Why did organisations defending women's rights disappear from the scene? How many women in (...)
The international community is moving towards peace talks to stop the war in Yemen, particularly after the worst deterioration in human conditions the world has seen this century.
Children are dying of famine, and suicides are on the rise as a (...)
Countries and international organisations are moving to lay the groundwork for peace talks as UN Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths works to set the tone for peace negotiations in Sweden early December. Meanwhile, Houthi militias have violated the (...)
The international community is moving towards peace talks to stop the war in Yemen, particularly after the worst deterioration in human conditions the world has seen this century. Children are dying of famine, and suicides are on the rise as a (...)
Will the war in Yemen come to an end? Will there be a new president or will a presidential council sit at the helm as a prelude to restoring stability? What will Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy to Yemen, do to revive resolutions reached in previous (...)
Will the war in Yemen come to an end? Will there be a new president or will a presidential council sit at the helm as a prelude to restoring stability? What will Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy to Yemen, do to revive resolutions reached in previous (...)
No words can describe the horror and tragedies the Yemenis have been enduring for more than three years. Isn't it time for the people of Yemen to be freed from the Houthis' hands tampering with their fate, drowning them in poverty and nescience? (...)