Tag: Yemen

Yemen conjoined twins ‘like any child’ after separation in Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) — A Jordanian hospital has successfully performed the country’s first operation to separate conjoined twins, seven-month-old babies from Yemen, the chief surgeon announced Sunday. It was “a rare and delicate” procedure which is “a medical success for the whole kingdom”, said the doctor, Fawzi al-Hammouri. The nearly eight-hour operation which required 25 surgeons and technical advisers was performed in July. But Amman’s Specialised Hospital delayed any announcement because “after the operation they […]

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Study in streets: outdoor classes for Yemen’s beleaguered children

by Taha Saleh with Shatha Yaish in Dubai TAEZ, Yemen (AFP) — Dozens of children kneel in an outdoor, makeshift classroom at the start of the school year in Yemen, where coronavirus and a brutal war have left them facing a bleak future. The youngsters in the impoverished Arab country’s third city of Taez make do and learn as best they can, seven years into a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and forced […]

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US announces extra $165 million in Yemen aid

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The United States on Monday announced an additional $165 million in humanitarian aid for Yemen, as the war-ravaged country continues to face what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s conflict flared in 2014 when Iran-backed Huthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa, prompting a Saudi-led intervention to prop up the internationally recognized government the following year. The fighting has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and left […]

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Thousands of families hit by Yemen floods: UN

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The United Nations said Tuesday that thousands of families across war-torn Yemen have been hit by torrential rains and deadly floods since mid-April that destroyed homes and shelters. “Initial reports indicate some 3,730 families (22,380 people) have been affected by the rains and flooding, the majority of whom are internally displaced people,” the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said. “Intensified rainfall over the past few days is causing damage to […]

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Huthi missile debris sparks fire at Saudi university

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Debris from missiles fired by Yemen’s Huthi rebels into Saudi Arabia caused a small fire on a university campus in the kingdom’s south, the Riyadh-led military coalition operating in Yemen said. Saudi air defence intercepted five ballistic missiles and four drones deployed by Yemeni rebels on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to the coalition. The missiles were fired and drones sent from Yemen’s Sa’ada province, a rebel stronghold in […]

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Fire at Saudi oil terminal after projectile hit: energy ministry

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — A fire broke out at an oil terminal in southern Saudi Arabia after it was hit by a projectile, the energy ministry said Friday, the sixth anniversary of a Riyadh-led military intervention in Yemen. “A projectile attack on a petroleum products distribution terminal in Jizan… resulted in a fire in one of the terminal’s tanks,” the ministry said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency, adding that […]

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Saudis offer ceasefire to Yemen’s Huthis as conflict escalates

by Anuj Chopra with Dana Moukhallati in Dubai RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi Arabia on Monday offered Yemen’s Huthi rebels a “comprehensive” UN-supervised ceasefire, as part of a series of fresh proposals aimed at ending a catastrophic six-year conflict. But the Huthis swiftly dismissed the initiative, which comes as the Iran-backed rebels escalate attacks on the kingdom — including its oil facilities — and push to seize the Saudi-backed Yemeni government’s last northern stronghold […]

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UK aid charities warn of famine as Covid hits poorer nations

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A coalition of UK aid agencies warned Monday that the Covid-19 pandemic is worsening the “dire humanitarian” crisis in fragile states and raising the risk of famine, including in Yemen. Parts of Yemen and South Sudan are already on the brink of famine, while Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk, driven by the pandemic’s economic impact, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said in a new report. […]

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Biden pulls Yemen war support, welcomes refugees in US reset

  by Shaun Tandon and Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday ended US support for Saudi Arabia’s devastating war in Yemen and dramatically increased the welcome to refugees, ushering in a major reset in American foreign policy. In his first major speech on foreign affairs as president, Biden also froze former president Donald Trump’s plans to redeploy troops from Germany and vowed a tough approach against […]

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Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as government plane arrives

  by Mohamed Abdelhakim with Fawaz Al Haidari in Abu Dhabi Agence France Presse Aden, Yemen (AFP) — At least 26 people were killed when explosions rocked Yemen’s Aden airport moments after a new unity government flew in, in what some officials charged was a “cowardly” attack by Iran-backed Huthi rebels. Although all government ministers were reported to be unharmed in Wednesday’s attack, more than 50 people were wounded, medical and government sources told AFP […]

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Heavy rains trigger collapse at Yemen’s newly restored museum

TAEZ, Yemen (AFP) — Heavy rains have triggered the collapse of parts of the newly restored National Museum in Yemen’s third city Taez, in the latest loss to the country’s cultural heritage after years of war. Established as an Ottoman palace, then a residence for one of Yemen’s last kings, the building became a museum in 1967 but has since been bombed and its collections pilfered. It was partially restored in 2019, but a recent […]

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More than 170 dead in Yemen floods

SANAA, Yemen (AFP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 172 people across Yemen over the past month, damaging homes and UNESCO-listed world heritage sites, officials said. The destruction has dealt a new blow to a country already in the grips of what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis after years of war between a Saudi-backed government and Iran-allied rebels. In the mainly government-held province of Maarib […]

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