Yemen Rebels Kill Four Loyalist Tribesmen in Sanaa Suburb
Shiite rebels killed four clansmen of a prominent Yemeni tribal leader opposed to their month-long protest campaign in a gunbattle in a Sanaa suburb on Tuesday, a tribal source said. The deaths came as U.N. envoy Jamal Benomar pressed efforts to broker a ...
Saudi boy flees to Yemen to escape brutal father
A 9-year-old Saudi boy has fled to Yemen to escape the physical abuse of his father after the latter poured corrosive bleach on his younger brother's scalp, local Arabic daily Al-Watan reported on Monday. Faisal, who witnessed his father's savage brutality ...
Yemen clashes between Shi'ite rebels and tribesmen kill 22: sources
SANAA (Reuters) - Twenty-two people were killed in fighting between Shi'ite Muslim rebels and government-allied tribesmen in northern Yemen on Monday and Tuesday, tribal and local sources told Reuters. The fighting in al-Jawf province, northeast of the ...
Critics say Yemen is not a good model for anti-Islamic State plans
Yemen army soldiers celebrate after re-taking the province of Shabwa from al Qaeda in May.... In addition, a Shiite Muslim militant group that controls northern Yemen, known as the Houthis, in recent weeks surrounded the capital, blocking off roads and ...
UN plan will boost nutrition, education in Yemen
A major school feeding plan is set to launch in Yemen this October. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) will be providing food for 196,000 children at schools in the Hajjah and Hudaydah governorates. This is the opening of what hopes to be nationwide school ...
Yemen army, tribes clash with Shiite rebels
Sanaa (AFP) - Shiite Huthi rebels clashed Monday with Yemeni army forces and loyalist tribes northeast of Sanaa as a UN envoy kept up mediation efforts, tribal sources said. Fierce gunfights erupted when rebels attacked troops and armed tribesmen in the ...
Rising Al Qaeda In Yemen Calls Into Question US Strategy Against ISIS
As the U.S. and other Western governments ramp up their efforts to form an international coalition to fight the Islamic State, there is another crisis brewing in the Middle East: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is trying to gain back both the influence ...
US man imprisoned in Yemen makes emotional plea: 'They're gonna kill me in here'
An American citizen, who has been missing inside the prison system of Yemen for seven months, has made contact with his wife in a furtive phone call during which he alleged that his US-allied captors are torturing him and may kill him. Sharif Mobley, 30 ...
Yemen's Houthis say talks with presidency 'suspended'
The Houthis have recently staged a series of massive protests in Sanaa to demand the dismissal of the government and the reinstatement of recently-slashed fuel subsidies. A spokesman for Yemen's Houthis has said the Shiite group has suspended talks with ...
Over 130,000 people displaced in Somalia so far this year as IDPs bear brunt of food insecurity crisis
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www.unhcr.fr, which should ...
Food Assistance Outlook Brief, September 2014
Source: Famine Early Warning System Network Country: World, Afghanistan, Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Ni ...
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014: Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization Country: World World hunger falls, but 805 million still chronically undernourished MDG target to halve proportion of world’s hungry still within reach by end of 2015 16 September 2014, Rome - About 805 million people in the world, or one in nine, suffer fro ...
