Understanding the crisis in Yemen: Starving children and the Middle East's cold war
Hani Mohammed/AP Workers use a water hose to put down a fire at a vehicle oil store hit by Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen. GRAPHIC WARNING: AN IMAGE BELOW MAY UPSET SOME READERS. Explainer: An Air New Zealand company’s work on a Saudi engine prompted widespread condemnation. Why? Because Saudi Arabia has waged war in neighbouring Yemen, contributing to what the UN has called the world’s worst ongoing humanitarian disaster. Keith Lynch offers a guide to the basics of the conflict. On Sunday, it was revealed an Air New Zealand subsidiary (called Air New Zealand Gas Turbines) worked – th...