The junta proclaimed the Yemen Arab Republic, and after a civil war in which Egypt's Nasser and the USSR supported the revolutionaries and King Saud of Saudi Arabia and King Hussein of Jordan supported the royalists, the royalists were finally defeated in mid-1969. The southern port of ...
"Rising regional tensions linked to the war in Gaza, and in particular the military escalation in the Red Sea, are slowing down the pace of peace efforts in Yemen," Grundberg said in a live briefing to the UN Security Council. The UN envoy said Yemen's rival parties vowed to operationaliz...
Map of Yemen Facts & Figures President:Abdel Rabbo Mansour Hadi (2012) Prime Minister:Khaled Bahah (2014) Total area:203,849 sq mi (527,969 sq km) Population (2014 est.):26,052,966 (growth rate: 2.72%); birth rate: 31.02/1000; infant mortality rate: 50.41/1000; life expectancy: 64....
1990. A southern secessionist movement and brief civil war in 1994 was quickly subdued. In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to delineate their border.Fighting in the northwest between the government and the Huthis, a Zaydi Shia Muslim minority, continued intermittently from 2004 to 2010, ...
Yemen, which was already one of the poorest countries in the world, has now suffered eight years of civil war. Tens of millions of people have been plunged into the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Its long-ruling dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was in...
The northern portion of Yemen was ruled by imams until a pro-Egyptian military coup took place in 1962. The junta proclaimed the Yemen Arab Republic, and after a civil war in which Egypt's Nasser and the USSR supported the revolutionaries and King Saud of Saudi Arabia and King Hussein of ...
This occurred against the backdrop of a civil war turned international conflict and famine, which together fuelled extensive population movement, with more than four million people internally displaced by the end of 20201. The Electronic Disease Early Warning System, a surveillance programme coordinated...
50 years after Lebanon’s civil war began, a bullet-riddled bus stands as a reminder Maersk said both vessels carried cargo belonging to the U.S. Defense and State Departments, as well as other government agencies, meaning they were “afforded the protection of the U.S. Navy for ...
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The attack on the Red Sea port aimed to drive out Iranian-aligned Shiite rebels known as Houthis, who have held Hodeida since 2015, and break the civil war’s long stalemate. But it could set off a prolonged street-by-street battle that inflicts heavy casualties. The fear is that a pro...