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Ukraine conflict could hit food supplies, worsening Yemen hunger crisis

March 4th, 20220 SANAA — Potential disruption to global wheat supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine is raising concerns that war-torn Yemen's hunger crisis and food price inflation could deepen, with some Yemenis rushing to buy flour. The World Food Program (WFP) said this week that the Ukraine crisis is likely to further increase fuel and food...

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News from Yemen: Fighting eases in Marib, Biden speaks with Saudi king

February 8th, 20220 ADEN — The Saudi-led coalition deployed newly formed units near Yemen's Marib, where battles abated over the last week, according to military and government sources, as the warring sides hold their positions in the fight for energy-rich areas that has led to the war's biggest escalation in years. Last month the Houthi movement...

COMMUNITY

Dingell calls on Biden administration to press Saudi Arabia to end Yemeni blockade

April 6th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) joined Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) in leading 76 of their congressional colleagues to call for the Biden administration to publicly increase pressure on Saudi Arabia to lift the blockade on Yemen immediately, unilaterally and...

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U.S. special envoy for Yemen travels to Middle East, Houthis agree to continued talks

March 26th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Special Envoy Tim Lenderking was scheduled to travel to the Middle East on Thursday, to press a plan for a ceasefire in Yemen, talks on settling its civil war and an end to the humanitarian catastrophe that it has caused, the U.S. State Department announced. Lenderking’s trip was expected to include...

COMMUNITY

Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war’s end

March 1st, 20210 SANAA — Unable to find work, Ahmed Farea has sold everything, including his wife’s gold, to feed and house two young daughters in one small room. Elsewhere in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, widow Mona Muhammad has work, but struggles to buy anything more nutritious than rice for her four children amid high prices. And in a nearby...

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Yemen’s warring parties start prisoner swap, raising peace prospects

October 17th, 20200 SANAA – On Thursday, planes carrying prisoners exchanged by the warring parties in Yemen took off from three airports in an operation to return about 1,000 men home and help build the trust to enable fresh talks to end a devastating war. The Saudi-led military coalition and Yemen’s Houthi movement agreed last month in Switzerland to...

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Yemen’s warring parties agree to ceasefire in Hodeidah and U.N. role

December 14th, 20180 RIMBO, Sweden — Yemen’s warring parties agreed on Thursday to cease fighting for the Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah and withdraw their troops, the first significant breakthrough for U.N.-led peace efforts in five years of conflict. At the close of a week of talks in Sweden, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a...

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Yemeni father mourns baby girl who died of starvation

November 16th, 20180 SANAA, Yemen — Saleh al-Faqeh held the wasted arm of his baby daughter as she took her last breath on Thursday at the malnutrition ward of the main hospital in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. Four-month-old Hajar al-Faqeh reached the al-Sabeen hospital last week from Saada province, one of thousands of Yemeni children suffering from...

Art & Culture

Yemen’s ancient architecture threatened by war

August 18th, 20180 SANAA — Yemen’s three-year war has taken a heavy toll on Sanaa’s historic Old City, a dense warren of mosques, bath houses and 6,000 mud brick houses, which date from before the 11th century. Part of the Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been razed by bombing. Now only rubble and straggly palm trees remain, where...

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Street artist in Yemen remembers casualties of war

March 2nd, 20180 SANAA — Yemeni street artist Haifa Subay is painting murals to help ensure that victims of Yemen's grueling three-year civil war are not forgotten. Her latest mural, portraying a one-legged casualty of a landmine, is one of many Subay has done in the capital Sanaa during the war, which has killed thousands, driven many more from...

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Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air raids kill dozens in Sanaa

December 15th, 20170 SANAA — Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck a military police camp in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people and wounding 90 more, including some prisoners, an official and witnesses said. The strike is part of an air campaign by the Western-backed coalition on the Iran-allied Houthis that has escalated...

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Yemeni former president Saleh killed after switching sides in civil war, Houthis maintain upper hand in Sanaa

December 4th, 20170 SANAA - Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed in a roadside attack on Monday after switching sides in Yemen’s civil war, abandoning his Iran-aligned Houthi allies in favor of a Saudi-led coalition, foes and supporters said. Analysts said Saleh’s death would be a huge moral boost for the Houthis and serious blow to the...

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Dearborn’s Qahwah House brings authentic Yemeni coffee to America

September 29th, 20172 DEARBORN—A cup of Joe is readily available at almost every intersection in the metropolitan area, especially Dearborn, where coffee shops, diners, hookah bars and gas stations all boast a bold and strong coffee. But quick access to caffeine doesn’t necessarily equate to a high quality bean. This month, Ibrahim Alhasbani had a...

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Spread of fighting, cholera pushes Yemen to collapse

May 19th, 20170 SANAA, Yemen — Spilling into the hallways of crowded Yemeni hospitals, children writhe in pain from cholera. Displaced villagers roam baking hot plains and barren mountains to evade warring militias. The escalating outbreak of disease and displacement of tens of thousands by recent fighting has inflamed one of the world's worst...