Former allies Yemen now attack each other
sana'a December 4, 2017 06:39From our correspondent
From our correspondent
The Red Cross will intensify its relief operation in Yemen. Wednesday giro 7244 was also opened on Wednesday. 104 million euros is needed for aid in the country.
A plane with on-board aid workers from the UN arrived Saturday in the capital Sanaa of Yemen. It is the first aid flight since the coalition led by Saudi Arabia almost three weeks ago, set a blockade. There is no permission yet to fly over relief goods.
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is rapidly deteriorating due to the border restrictions that have been set. Because of these blockades, hardly any more fuel comes into the country. In many parts of Yemen, water purification works due to the lack of diesel that the generators must power. About one million people do not have access to clean water and another cholera epidemic threatens, according to the Red Cross.
Iran hopes that Saad Hariri will remain as prime minister in Lebanon. Ali Akbar Velayati, the chief adviser to Iran's spiritual leader Ali Khamenei, told the Iranian state television this Tuesday. Velayati denies that before Harari retired he had a tense interview with him in Beirut.
The French President Emmanuel Macron, in his voyage to the Persian Gulf, interviewed the strong man of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the last moment. French media reported Macron told the 32-year-old Crown Prince Thursday in Saudi Arabia about the bloody war in Yemen, the political crisis in Lebanon and rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
If the Saudi Arabia-led coalition does not allow humanitarian aid in Yemen, this leads to 'the biggest famine that has seen the world for several decades with millions of victims.' This said United Nations emergency relief coordinator Mark Lowcock on Wednesday.
The missiles that have been fired from Yemen in Saudi Arabia recently were a response to the aggression of Riyadh. That said Iranian President Hassan Rohani on Wednesday. Iran is accused of delivering the missiles that the Houthi rebels flee to Yemen on the neighboring country.
America accuses Iran of delivering the missile to Houthi rebels in Yemen fired in July on a target in neighboring Saudi Arabia. The United States has asked the UN to call Iran to account for violating two UN resolutions.
The United States is going to allow refugees again, but there are sharpened entry requirements for migrants from eleven countries. This is evidenced by a law issued by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
At American missile attacks in Yemen, tens of thousands of Islamic state (IS) warriors have been killed on Monday. The attacks were conducted on two training camps of the terrorist movement, reports the US Department of Defense.
The US Supreme Court is not handling the appeal against President Donald Trump's ban on entry for the time being. On October 10, a meeting was scheduled to hear the arguments of the parties involved. She has been asked to make a new decision now that the government has come up with a modified third version.
The US government is going to expand the controversial entry ban further. Citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad will also be subject to restrictions when traveling to the United States. Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia remain on the list.
After a steady decline over ten years, the hunger in the world increases. Last year, 815 million people starved 38 million more than in 2015. According to a joint report from five United Nations organizations, the increase is mainly due to conflict and climate change.
Saudi security forces have ruled a terrorist attack on the Ministry of Defense in Riyadh. Two men were arrested while they were on their way with explosion girders, hand grenades, firearms and knives to buildings in which the Ministry's offices were located, according to the Ministry of Interior.
The US Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court in an urgent procedure for a ruling on President Trump's infamous entry ban. The judiciary wants a ruling on a decision in appeal of a court of law.
The 'crown prince of the jihad' is ready to take over the bloody throne of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Hamza bin Laden, Osama's favorite son, works in shadow on a reunion of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. According to him, the focus of muslim extremists must be back to deadly attacks on the West just sixteen years after '11 September '.
Cholera still catches around Yemen. Since April, 612,703 people have been affected by the disease in the stray country, according to World Health Organization and Yemeni authorities.
By an air strike at a checkpoint at the Yemeni capital Sanaa, seven people were killed on Wednesday. Five citizens in a taxi arrived and two armed men from the checkpoint, so witnessed.
By air attack on the capital of Sanaa of Yemen on Friday, 12 people were killed, including six children, reported rescuers.
Iran and Saudi Arabia will soon exchange diplomats, Tehran reported Wednesday. The step indicates a possible defrost in relations between regional rivals since the diplomatic ties were broken last year.
Certainly thirty people were killed by an air attack north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa. According to Houthi insurgents, a hotel was hit. News Channel Al Jazeera reports dozens of dead and injured in the Arhab district.
Human traffickers have reintegrated 180 migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia to the coast of Yemen. Presumably 55 of them drowned, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Thursday.
According to the United Nations, fifty migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia have deliberately drowned when they were forced into the sea by a human trafficker for the coast of Yemen.
Three women and six children of the same family were killed on Friday morning by an air attack on the Yemeni city of Saada, reported the head of local health service on Friday. Three other citizens were injured. According to the health official, the attack was conducted by the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
The Red Cross opens Wednesday giron number 6868 because of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. In the country since May, 27 people have died on cholera on average. 'There is a drama happening there,' said a spokesman for the Dutch branch of the relief organization.
The number of terrorist attacks worldwide and the number of deaths dropped by 2016 for the second year in a row. This was mainly due to fewer attacks in Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria, Pakistan and Yemen, the US Department of Foreign Affairs reported Wednesday.
The number of deaths due to a cholera outbreak in Yemen increased to 1500 in early July, according to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 219,000 people are ill.
The entry ban for some of the travelers from six Muslim countries by the United States started Thursday night (local time) without incidents. At many major airports there were a handful of protesters against the government of President Donald Trump. Attorneys also reported at the airports.
The US Department of Foreign Affairs has explained to diplomatic posts abroad what criteria residents of six major Islamic countries need to meet if they want to visit the US. The Supreme Court ruled this week that the US may refuse visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen if they do not have a 'bona fide relationship' with, for example, family in the country.