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Yemen faces humanitarian emergency
The Biden administration plans to announce “an end to American support for offensive operations in Yemen” on Thursday, according to national security adviser Jake Sullivan, making good on a pledge from the campaign trail.
Saudi Arabian military operations in the country, supported by the US, have created what many humanitarian organizations have dubbed “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” with mass starvation, civilian deaths, and disease outbreaks.
Tens of thousands of civilians have died in the nearly six-year conflict in the poorest Arab country between the Houthis, a rebel group that controls much of the countryside, and a Saudi-led coalition backing the internationally recognized government in Aden.
2021-01-29 13:35:14 GMT2021-01-29 21:35:14(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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by Mohamed al-Azaki, Mohammed Al-Wafi
HAJJAH, Yemen, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) At a minefield in the Yemeni district of Midi by the Red Sea, Saudi and Sudanese soldiers were helping their Yemeni comrades transporting thousands of landmines that have been already removed to large holes in the desert to destroy.
The Houthi militia planted these mines before they were forced to withdraw towards remote villages in southern Hajjah province.
Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014, when the Iran-backed Houthi militia stormed several northern provinces and pushed the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of the capital Sanaa.
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The Saudi-led coalition has continued to wage its campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, resulting in heavy civilian casualties. In June 2018, the coalition launched a major offensive to retake the coastal region of Hodeida, further worsening the humanitarian crisis. The United Nations, which appointed a new special envoy for Yemen in 2018, has attempted to broker a cease-fire.
The Houthis have responded to Saudi airstrikes with missile attacks on Saudi Arabian infrastructure and territory, including oil tankers and facilities and international airports. Further complicating the civil war, secessionist groups in Yemen’s south, supported by the United Arab Emirates, have clashed with the UN-recognized government forces based in Aden.
2021-01-25 18:36:22 GMT2021-01-26 02:36:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SANAA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) Yemen s Houthi rebels said that the Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched a total of 18 airstrikes on their fighters in the Yemeni central province of Marib on Monday.
The Houthi-run al-Masirah TV said the airstrikes targeted several positions in Sirwah district, in the western part of Marib, without providing more details.
Residents in the district told Xinhua that the airstrikes hit Houthi s military reinforcements on the desert roads, weapon depots in the mountains and other military sites of the rebels.
The airstrikes came a day after other airstrikes on the same district killed at least 34 Houthi rebels, according to a local Houthi security source.