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U.N.: Yemen’s warring parties agree only to renew two-month truce

August 4th, 20220 Yemen's warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the U.N. envoy said, despite international pressure for an extended and expanded deal that would build on the longest stretch of relative calm in over seven years. "This truce extension includes a commitment from the parties to intensify negotiations to reach...

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Yemenis cut back their Ramadan meals as soaring prices bite

April 8th, 20220 ADEN/SANAA – Aqeel bin Thabet, a university professor in the Yemeni city of Aden, used to buy one or two sheep to eat during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, but because of soaring prices this year can only afford meat from a butcher once a week. Others in the city like 50-year-old Intisar Ahmad said she will have to forgo meat...

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Famine in Yemen could increase fivefold without immediate action, U.N. warns

March 18th, 20220 By Andrea Germanos Multiple United Nations agencies on Monday sounded heightened alarm over the food crisis in Yemen, warning of a projected fivefold increase in famine conditions. Warnings from the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF came in response to the just-released Integrated Phase...

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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...

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U.N. shrinks Yemen food rations in “desperate measures”

December 24th, 20210 YEMEN — The World Food Program (WFP) said on Wednesday it will reduce food rations for 8 million people in Yemen from January due to a lack of funding from donors, warning the cuts will push more people into starvation. Families on reduced handouts will receive barely half of the WFP's daily minimum ration. Other food assistance...

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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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Dearborn Iftar to raise funds to help combat dire humanitarian crisis in Yemen

May 20th, 20190 DEARBORN — Byblos Banquet Hall will be the site of an iftar to help combat the dire humanitarian crisis in Yemen on Thursday, May 23, with support from the Haidara Foundation for Peace and Human Development and the Pure Hands organization. “Today Yemen is facing the largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” an invitation letter...