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The Madder Trump Gets, The More Seriously The World Takes Him
YemenExtra
Y.A
The Independent
Robert Fisk
The more dangerous America’s crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the…
Does Donald Trump Know He’s Helping Saudi Arabia Ruin Yemen?
The euphoria over reinvigorating the Riyadh-Washington alliance has reached dizzying diplomatic heights. Both capitals are rejoicing over rejuvenating the decades-old alliance, which had become abrasive during the Obama…
The War on Yemen and the ‘Self-Defense’ Lie
Daniel Larison
Western officials never seem to get tired of repeating transparent lies on behalf of Saudi Arabia:
Britain’s defence secretary said that Saudi Arabia was “simply defending itself” by bombing Yemen in a military…
How diplomacy failed in Yemen and why it will again ?
Nadwa Al-Dawsari
a nonresident senior fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy
On May 11, key southern political leaders in Yemen declared a Transitional Political Council to represent the south in a step toward independence from…
Trump and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman are the most dangerous men in the world – and they’re…
YemenExtra
Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning writer on The Independent who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East.
Many people view Donald Trump as the most dangerous man on the…
Yemen’s honey vendors stung by war
Mohammed Hamoud
He is a freelance Photo/Video journalist, who has covered the uprising in Yemen in 2011 and its repercussions. His work has been published in many media outlets including AP, Reuters and EPA, as well as UNHCR.…
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…