(2022-07-12). UN Envoy Wants Another Expansion of Yemen Truce. news.antiwar.com With a couple of weeks left before the latest deadline, the Yemen ceasefire has been an almost unconditional success. UN officials are trying to piece together ways to Almost four months in, there have been claims of scores, if not hundreds, of violations. These largely don't appear to have happened, however, and the only credible report was a Saudi cross-border attack this weekend. | Years of war haven't benefited anybody in Yemen, a…
(2022-07-11). UN Agencies Warn Of 'Looming Catastrophe' As Global Hunger Rises. popularresistance.org A staggering 2.3 billion (30 percent) of the world's population were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, with nearly 12 percent facing severe food insecurity. Millions across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Yemen and Syria already experiencing severe levels of hunger and poverty face the prospect of mass starvation. | This is set to worsen due to the US/NATO provoked war in Ukraine, with executive director of the UN's World Food Program (WPF) David Beasley warning that the food crisis caused by the war would push countries into famine, causing "global destabilization, starvation and mass migration on an…
(2022-07-11). UN agencies warn of "looming catastrophe" as global hunger rises. popularresistance.org United Nations agencies reported last week that global hunger and the chronic inability to access food soared in 2021. | A staggering 2.3 billion (30 percent) of the world's population were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, with nearly 12 percent facing severe food insecurity. Millions across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Yemen and Syria already experiencing severe levels of hunger and poverty face the prospect of mass starvation. | This is set to worsen due to the US/NATO provoked war in Ukraine, with executive director of the UN's World Food Program (WPF) David Beasley warning that the food crisis…
(2022-07-11). UK warship seizes "advanced Iranian missiles" bound for Yemen. wsws.org The UK has supplied fighter jets, bombs and missiles to the Saudi-led coalition for use in Yemen worth more than £6.8 billion, although the actual sales are far higher, under its Open Licence system.
(2022-07-11). Report: US Weighs Resuming 'Offensive' Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia. news.antiwar.com Reuters reported on Monday that the Biden administration is Sources told Reuters that the decision hinges on whether Riyadh makes progress toward ending its war in Yemen, where a ceasefire has been holding relatively well. The report said that the Biden administration wants the ceasefire to stick. | In February 2021, Biden said he…
(2022-07-11). 17 killed, injured in Saudi attack on Yemen's Saada. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 11 (MNA) — The Saudi-led coalition has once again broken the terms of a United Nations-mediated truce, killing and injuring as many as 17 people in a cross-border attack on the impoverished country.
(2022-07-11). Outrage as Biden Reportedly Considers Lifting Ban on 'Offensive' Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia. commondreams.org "Saudi Arabia and the UAE are fabulously wealthy oil states and do not need any aid," noted one progressive. "U.S. weapons transfers are intended to throw our money to American arms corporations."
(2022-07-11). Saudi airstrikes in Yemen 'gross violation of ceasefire'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — Chief Negotiator of Yemeni National Salvation Government Mohammed Abdul-Salam on Monday announced the continuation of ceasefire by Saudi aggressor coalition in border regions in Yemen.
(2022-07-11). On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) President Biden is on the cusp of going off to Saudi Arabia as one part of his upcoming Middle East trip. One of the failures of Mr. Biden has been completely disengaging the US from the Saudi-led war on Yemen, which he had pledged to do. Although there has been …