The ongoing war in Yemen that began in 2015 has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. The scope of destruction and human suffering is catastrophic: hundreds of thousands are dead from bombing, war-related disease and malnutrition and millions remain on the brink of famine wit...
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 ...
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, and then...
After ousting the ex-president, Yemen began its civil war between the coalition and the Houthis. The situation is not as easy as this however, there are multiple other political groups claiming territory here as well. Here is a quick explanation of the largest groups in Yemen....
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....
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The United Nations has been trying to bring Yemen's rival parties to negotiations since the start of the civil war in late 2014, when the Houthis stormed and seized several northern provinces, forcing the Yemeni government out of the capital Sanaa.■...
Since the beginning of the civil war in Yemen, the maternal mortality rate has increased drastically from five deaths a day in 2013 to 12 deaths a day in 2019. The war has resulted in limited access to basic resources such as food and water. This is just one of the many main factors ...
district, the officials said. the officials spoke anonymously as they weren't authorized to brief journalists. yemen, the poorest arab country, plunged into civil war in 2014, when the iran-backed rebels captured the capital, sanaa. the saudi-led coalition intervened a year later. the...
civil war since 2014, when the iran-backed houthis took control of the capital, sanaa, and much of the northern part of the country, forcing the internationally recognized government to flee to the south, then to saudi arabia. a saudi-led coalition entered the war in march 2015, ba...