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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Stuck at sea for years, a sailor’s plight highlights a surge in shipowner abandonment

Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. Tanzania, which registered the ship where Saleh was abandoned, never acted on his case or even responded to emails, said Mohamed Arrachedi, a union organizer who worked …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Yemen Civil War To Be Protracted Conflict, World Should Brace Up

ABP News

The international crude oil market got a massive jolt and price rose by more than 1% per barrel to $70 a barrel within a couple of days after multiple missiles struck Saudi Aramco facilities in the Red Sea city of Jeddah last year, and drone attacks rocked the Ras Tanura and Rabigh refineries when the city was hosting an F1 …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Yemen Civil War: Who are the Houthis that Saudi Arabia is holding talks with? Will this end the conflict?

Firstpost

On Sunday, a Saudi delegation visited Yemen’s capital of Sana’a to hold talks with the Houthi rebels. History of Yemen’s civil war The seeds for Yemen’s civil war were sown in 2011 after unrest forced its long-time president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, according to BBC. Yemen is now controlled by different armed groups, and they control certain revenue …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Yemen president hands powers to new leadership council

Al Jazeera

Analysts say developments offer glimmer of hope for country devastated by seven years of war. Yemen’s exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has transferred his powers to a new presidential council, in a major political shake-up that took place as efforts to end the country’s years-long war gained traction with a fragile two-month truce. “I irreversibly delegate to this presidential leadership …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Escalation of the ‘forgotten war’ in Yemen

The Hindu

The new year began badly for Yemen. The Houthis are just 20 km from the provincial capital, but now face freshly deployed crack troops mobilised by the United Arab Emirates – the ‘Giants Brigade’ that is rapidly moving north after taking Shabwa province. The Saudi geopolitical interest is at the other end of Yemeni territory – the Al-Mahra province that …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Saudi Arabia and Iran have not always been foes

Al Jazeera

The outbreak of the Arab Spring triggered a number of conflicts and regional tensions in the Middle East, which over the past 10 years, have acquired an increasingly sectarian tinge. At the forefront of what some analysts have identified as “Sunni-Shia conflict” have been Saudi Arabia and Iran. As a result, Iran – under the Pahlavi dynasty – and Saudi …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Despite Biden’s push, a difficult road to peace in Yemen

Associated Press

CAIRO — Buthaina al-Raimi was five years old when a Saudi airstrike destroyed her home in the Yemeni capital and killed her parents and all five of her siblings in August 2017. Biden’s halt to support for the Saudi-led coalition was a dramatic break with the air campaign against Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, which had brought international condemnation for causing …

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3 years, 10 months ago

EXPLAINER: What US ending Saudi war support means for Yemen

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Joe Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will end its support of a Saudi-led coalition’s yearslong war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels likely will increase pressure on the kingdom to end its campaign there. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other countries, entered the war alongside Yemen’s internationally recognized government in March 2015. …

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