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The orchestrators of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen

World Cameron Joseph - 12 Jul 2020

As the crisis continues to unfold, the biggest threat may be the vested interest in maintaining the civil war Therefore, with no end in sight to the conflict plaguing the nation, the question worth asking is: who benefits from a Yemen at war?

Covid-19: The straw that breaks Yemen’s back?

Coronavirus Cameron Joseph - 9 Jul 2020

The pandemic may be the final blow to a nation on the brink

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Covid-19 deepens the crisis in war-torn Yemen

World Haris Zargar - 8 Jun 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has left millions at the mercy of the country’s warring factions, which will not stop fighting, despite an escalating humanitarian emergency

The Year of the Locust

Africa Simon Allison - 21 Feb 2020

About 25 years ago, Baldwyn Torto and his team taught themselves to talk to locusts. Now, Simon Allison brings you the story of the swarms eating their way across the continent

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First UN ‘mercy flight’ leaves Yemen’s rebel-held Sanaa

Article Agency - 3 Feb 2020

Yemeni children in critical need of medical care were evacuated Monday from the rebel-held capital Sanaa, in what the United Nations hopes will be...

Water ‘wars’ wash over the world

Article Sarah Smit - 10 Jan 2020

Conflicts have doubled in the past decade, with 26% of these occurring on the African continent

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Africa must help end the war on its doorstep in Yemen

Africa Radhya Al Mutawakel - 17 Sep 2019

The Horn of Africa will not get stability and security without accountability and peace in neighboring Yemen

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Sudan’s generals should be targeted with global sanctions

Article Yassin Osman - 25 Jul 2019

The EU must monitor military leaders, rather than use them to outsource migration control

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Trump vetoes bill to end US support for Saudi-led Yemen war

Article Wg Dunlop - 17 Apr 2019

The veto was the second of his presidency

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Classified note confirms French weaponry in Yemen: report

Article Daphne Benoit - 15 Apr 2019

Rights groups have regularly accused Paris of being complicit in alleged war crimes committed in Yemen

Japan stops journalist going to Yemen

Article Agency - 6 Feb 2019

The decision came amid debate in Japan about whether journalists should be prevented from going to war zones

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Amnesty report says SA arms diverted to Yemeni militia

Article Kiri Rupiah - 6 Feb 2019

Between 2015 and the end of 2017, South Africa transferred $62-million worth of major conventional weapons to the UAE

‘This is how we welcomed 2019’: Civilians killed in Houthi attack

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Jan 2019

A woman and a child killed and 16 others wounded after Yemeni rebels shell a residential neighbourhood in besieged Taiz

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Are Sudan’s protests against Bashir regime doomed to fail?

Africa Deutsche Welle 1 - 3 Jan 2019

Though a diplomatic pariah, Omar al-Bashir's Western back channel support means he holds the cards in a standoff unlikely to deliver major change

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Netflix drops satire episode critical of Saudi Arabia

Article Agency - 2 Jan 2019

The episode can still be seen in other parts of the world — and in Saudi Arabia on YouTube

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