By Ghassan Kadi for the Saker Blog | March 16, 2021 In the past few weeks much has happened in the area of diplomacy on the part of Russia. Russia is forging ahead after stepping up its presence in the Middle East in the past decade, taking a strong pro-active political role. Moscow during this […]
Press TV – March 13, 2021 The spokesman for Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement has dismissed the US proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in the war-torn country, saying the plan would plunge Yemen further into turmoil. “The US plan doesn’t include breaking the siege or ceasing fire. It is actually a detour which would lead […]
The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign policy realm where we, as progressives, have been disappointed — or even infuriated. There are one or two positive developments, such as the renewal of Obama’s New START Treaty with Russia and Secretary of […]
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Having all but given up on the prospect of peaceful settlement under the administration of Joe Biden, the Houthis are now betting it all on retaking Yemen's oil-rich Marib province from Saudi Arabia.
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It is a cruel irony that the US, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, which are destroying Yemen, are the same countries that Yemen most relies on for humanitarian aid. Over the past two years, the Saudis, UAE, and US have all slashed aid to Yemen.
Une centaine de gouvernements et des donateurs particuliers ont participé le 2 mars à une collecte pour empêcher la famine au Yémen. Mais l'argent récolté, environ 1,7 milliards d'euros, n'est pas suffisant. Antonio Guterres, secrétaire général de l'ONU, parle même d'une « peine de mort pour le pays ». Les combats entre Houthis et forces gouvernementales s'intensifient dans la province de (...)
Une centaine de gouvernements et des donateurs particuliers ont participé le 2 mars à une collecte pour empêcher la famine au Yémen. Mais l'argent récolté, environ 1,7 milliards d'euros, n'est pas suffisant. Antonio Guterres, secrétaire général de l'ONU, parle même d'une « peine de mort pour le pays ». Les combats entre Houthis et forces gouvernementales s'intensifient dans la province de (...)
Instead of entering the talks inspired by goodwill, and respecting Yemen’s sovereignty and bridging points of view between the various parties, Saudi Arabia further polarized and torpedoed the nearly year-long National Dialogue Conference, which was meant to bring Yemen’s various factions to a consensus on how to address the country’s most pressing issues.
"Saudi Arabia has crushed our revolution, turned our lives into hell because our uprising was interpreted by the ruling family as a threat to [their] influence and because of their fear of the revolution spreading to the Saudi interior.” -- Yemeni artist Aisha Ali Saeed
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