The first UN aid convoy from Saudi Arabia to northern Yemen –delayed for several weeks – is expected to set off today carrying tents, mattresses, blankets and other items for about 2,000 people stranded in the border area as a result of the Houthi conflict.
It had been due to...
Blog archive: Yemen
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10th October 2009
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9th October 2009The Houthi rebels in northern Yemen claim to have captured Munabbih (Munabah), a district bordering Saudi Arabia. Reuters quotes a rebel statement saying local residents had turned against the authorities because of rights abuses and "citizens took full control of government buildings...
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8th October 2009Yemen's parliament yesterday called on the government to bring the Houthi rebellion to a swift end (reports: Yemen Postand Almotamar). Although this can be interpreted as support for the government's policy (since ending the rebellion is the declared intention of Operation Scorched...
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7th October 2009Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of southern Yemen yesterday, calling for independence and waving flags of the former southern state which merged with the north in 1990. (Reports: AP, AFP, Reuters, dpa.) The protests were timed to coincide with a...
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6th October 2009The Yemeni government has taken the unusual step of publishing the names of several illegal arms dealers. Most prominent among them is Faris Mana’a, who headed the committee mediating with the Houthi rebels and is also brother of the governor of Saada. Others named are mostly well-known tribal...
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4th October 2009A briefing note from the UN refugee agency highlights the extraordinary numbers of people who risk their lives crossing the sea from the Horn of Africa, hoping to find safety in Yemen: September and October are the height of the sailing season and the number of arrivals by sea is...
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3rd October 2009The Yemeni military lost a MiG21 warplane over Saada province yesterday. The Houthi rebels said they shot it down, and named the pilot as Lieutenant Shamsan Mohammed Abdo Mufleh (it is unclear if he survived). The government said the aircraft was flying at low altitude and...
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1st October 2009Anti-government and separatist protests continued in several cities of southern Yemen yesterday. Reuters talks of thousands of demonstrators and some idea of the scale can be gleaned from the pictures on News Yemen’s website (report in Arabic). The most serious trouble...
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29th September 2009Violence flared in southern Yemen yesterday after a month of relative quiet. Reuters reports that shelling and gunfire between security forces and southern separatists continued for over an hour in Zinjibar (Abyan province) around the house of a relative ofTariq al-Fadhli, the...
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28th September 2009A headline at Almotamar, the Yemeni ruling party's website, announces: "UK confirms its stand by Yemen in facing up the rebellion". Displaying the British and Yemeni flags side by side, it announces that Britain is "ready to increase its development aid to Yemen" and that "the United...
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27th September 2009Two Saudi al-Qaeda suspects have been killed in the fighting in northern Yemen, al-Hayat newspaper reported yesterday. One of the dead men, Fahd Saleh Sulaiman al-Jatili, aged 27, was No 62 (out of 85) on the kingdom's most-wanted list. The name of the other man has not been...
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24th September 2009Food is running out for tens of thousands of civilians displaced by the conflict in northern Yemen, the UN warned yesterday. "The continuation of hostilities, the failure of the truce and the closure of roads has prevented humanitarian agencies from coming to the aid of the displaced,"...
