Yemen has become synonymous with human suffering – over 22 million people need humanitarian aid, including almost every child in the country.
The US Senate voted to defeat a war powers resolution for Yemen that represented an attempt to insert congressional oversight into U.S. military operations in the deadly civil war there.
The new envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, says he plans to launch a comprehensive political process that would start from where UN-brokered negotiations led by his Mauritanian predecessor Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmad had stopped.
From Germany to Canada, governments are finally waking up to the catastrophe in Yemen. Saudi’s remaining allies are part of the problem
The West must use its diplomatic leverage to ensure the Saudis bring the Yemen conflict to an end, Keith Vaz, British MP and chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Yemen, says.
Saudi Arabia’s U.S.-backed military campaign in Yemen, now almost three years old, not only drives the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, but also deepens the terrorist threat to the United States.
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