Yemen’s Houthis claim missile attack on British ship
Yemen's Houthi group has claimed responsibility for attacking a British ship in the Gulf of Aden with several missiles.
Yemen's Houthi group has claimed responsibility for attacking a British ship in the Gulf of Aden with several missiles.
In a surprise move, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, Yemen's foreign minister, has been appointed as the country's new Prime Minister
Houthi camps in Yemen's capital Sanaa have been reportedly hit by airstrikes.
The United Nations has asked Yemen's Houthi authorities to reconsider their decision to expel US and British nationals working for the world body in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
The US has reportedly conducted a series of fresh airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen's central province of Al Bayda.
Wednesday’s caveat advanced by the UN’s World Food Program can thus be contextualised with the visual of a child reduced to skin and bone with an inflated tummy, recalling reports of a “starving Biafra” in the 1970s.
Earlier in the day, UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths expressed concern over renewed attacks.
As it turns out, the worst affected are the chronically deprived conflict areas, notably Yemen, South Sudan, a swathe of Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Indeed, fears have been expressed that the repercussions of Covid-19 could be deadlier than the virus itself. While coronavirus has left families in even the richest countries in hunger, it could mean starvation for the poorest, as in parts of Odisha as reports in this newspaper affirm.
The deadly violence follows an upsurge in fighting in northern Yemen between the warring parties that threatens to worsen the war-battered country's humanitarian crisis.
