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Cholera Compounds Suffering in a Yemen Torn by War
RICK GLADSTONE
Cholera, a waterborne disease that can quickly explode into a public health disaster, has begun to spread in Yemen, a war-ravaged country ill equipped to fight it.
The World Health Organization and Doctors Without…
Getting Dressed for Death
Malak Ali
a Yemeni writer
Reading the title, one might think this article is about funeral fashion, but it is not. This is literally about what to wear if you are about to die, it is a story about Yemeni women. It is a story of dignity…
Saudi Exceptionalism: Trump hates radical Islam, except when you can make money from it
Danielle Ryan
an Irish freelance writer, journalist and media analyst
It’s hard to fully capture the irony — not to mention sheer repulsiveness — of Donald Trump’s decision to make Saudi Arabia the first stop on his inaugural foreign…
Yemen hunger crisis leaves refugee chief ‘shocked to the bones’
Karen McVeigh
Leading humanitarian official Jan Egeland condemns ‘gigantic diplomatic failure’ as funding shortfall threatens to make food aid unavailable to millions by July
A young boy at…
UN accuses Saudi Arabia of using terror laws to suppress free speech
Patrick Wintour
Saudi Arabia has been accused of using anti-terror laws to suppress free expression and failing to carry out independent inquiries into its Yemen bombing campaign in a hard-hitting report published on Thursday by…
Yemen Is Still Being Starved to Death
Daniel Larison
Food imports into Yemen have reached an all-time low:
NRC secretary general Jan Egeland called the situation in Yemen “a gigantic failure of international diplomacy”.
“Nowhere on earth are as many lives…
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YemenExtra
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- Trump continues the policy of cheap extortion of a state that has all its papers at the hands of Uncle Sam.
Since his election campaign and for the first 100 days as a president of the United States, the White House…
The U.S. Should Not Fund Saudi Arabia’s War On Yemen
Sen. Rand Paul
American-built planes with American bombs were used by the Saudis to bomb a funeral procession in Yemen. Over 100 people were killed, and 500 mourners were wounded. Active duty American pilots have been refueling the…
Yemen Could Become the Next Syria: It’s Time the World Stepped in
Zvidzai Maburutse
Senior Program Coordinator, Yemen, at the International Rescue Committee
As a father of three girls, what is happening in Yemen really hits my heart. More than two years of civil war between ethnic groups battling…
Saudi palace coup: The sequel
A Saudi prince needs three sources of power to become king. In order of importance, they are the United States, the royal family, and the Saudi people, although the latter come a distant third in any calculation.
This has been the…