Five Years On, Saudi Attacks on Yemen’s Farmers Are Pushing the Whole Country into Famine

Between March 2015 and March 2019, the Saudi-led Coalition launched at least 10,000 airstrikes in Yemen that struck farms, 800 that struck local food markets, and about 450 airstrikes that hit silos and other food storage facilities.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Yemen Famine feature photo

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- The country of Yemen, known in the medieval period as "Green Yemen," is one of the most extensively terraced areas of the world. There, Yemeni farmers transformed rugged mountain slopes into terraces and built dams like the Great Marib, a structure whose history spans long enough that it was mentioned in the Quran. During the

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Oxfam: Starving Yemeni Families Selling Daughters as Young as Three into Marriage

The fact that girls as young as three have been sold is shocking and a testament to the severity of the humanitarian crisis, particularly the country’s burgeoning famine, that many Yemenis face.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Yemen | Child Marriage

LONDON -- As the entirely man-made crisis in Yemen continues to worsen, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam has stated that some desperate Yemeni families are selling their daughters, some as young as three years old, as child brides in hopes that their dowries can buy them much needed food and shelter. Oxfam made the shocking and disturbing claims in

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Losing a Generation: UNICEF Sees Saudi War Robbing Yemeni Children of Their Future

“Without education [young Yemenis] will not be able to find jobs… A generation that is not educated has a very bleak future. We are losing a generation — many children are losing their education, and displacement makes it worse.” — Meritxell Relano, Yemen’s Director of UNICEF

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Hodeida Yemen

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), expressing its concern about "future  of Yemen’s children,” has said that a "lost generation" has begun to form in Yemen owing to the humanitarian conditions faced by children in the country under  the Saudi-led coalition’s military campaign. Yemen’s director

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Save the Children: 85,000 Children May Have Already Died of Hunger in Yemen

The war has given rise to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Three-quarters of Yemen’s people require life-saving assistance and more than 8 million are at risk of starvation. Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed in the fighting.

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MintPress News Desk
By Associated Press
And MintPress News Desk
Yemen Famine

A leading international aid group said Wednesday that an estimated 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 may have died of hunger and disease since the outbreak of the country's civil war in 2015. Save the Children based its figures on mortality rates for untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition, or SAM, in young children. The United

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As UK Introduces U.N. Resolution To End Yemen War; Pompeo Blames Iran For Saudi-Imposed Famine

With Pompeo now placing the blame on Iran for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, we are only likely to get more of the same stalling while civilians continue to die in the thousands each month.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Yemen Famine

At the end of the same week that the Trump administration announced a 30-day deadline to reach a ceasefire in Yemen, it was revealed the United Kingdom is planning to introduce a United Nations Security Council resolution that seeks to end of the war. According to a Friday ABC News report, citing diplomatic sources, the British could introduce

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Saudi War on Yemen: World’s Worst Famine in a Century Could Claim 13 Million

The United Nations coordinator for Yemen has warned that the world has only 3 months to halt the slide toward catastrophe in Yemen

Juan Cole
By Juan Cole
Yemen Famine

Yemen is a country of some 29 million persons, but over a third of them are at risk of starvation if Saudi and UAE bombing campaigns continue. Lise Grand, the United Nations coordinator for Yemen, has warned that the world has only 3 months to halt the slide toward catastrophe. She seems to think that an immediate armistice must be called in the

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