UN-backed investigators have found evidence that rebels in Yemen recruited nearly three dozen teenage girls - some said to be survivors of sexual violence - as spies, medics, guards and members of an all-female force. The findings came in the third and latest report on Wednesday by the "group of eminent experts" commissioned by the Human Rights Council to investigate alleged rights violations by all sides in the war since […]
The United Nations humanitarian chief has warned that Yemen will "fall off the cliff" without massive financial support. Mark Lowcock told a closed Security Council meeting on Wednesday that many more people will starve to death, succumb to COVID-19, die of cholera and watch their children die because they have not been immunised for killer diseases. He added that the coronavirus was spreading rapidly across Yemen and about 25 percent […]
Yemen has reported its first two deaths from the novel coronavirus, its health minister told Yemen TV late on Wednesday. Yemeni authorities also reported five confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the first time the war-torn country has reported multiple cases. The United Nations has said it fears the disease could be spreading undetected in a country where millions face famine and lack medical care. Yemen's war between Houthi rebels and […]
The Saudi-UAE coalition fighting Yemen's Houthi rebels has declared a unilateral ceasefire. The suspension of the coalition's military operations is expected to go into effect at 12pm local time (09:00 GMT) on Thursday and last for two weeks, Saudi Arabia's state-run news agency SPA quoted coalition spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Malki as saying. The announcement came days after the United Nations called for a halt in hostilities amid the coronavirus pandemic. […]
More than 100 Yemeni soldiers have been killed in missile and drone attacks blamed on Houthi rebels, on a mosque in a military camp in the central province of Marib, medical and military sources said on Sunday. "We strongly condemn the terrorist attack on a mosque by the Houthi militias... which left more than 100 dead and dozens injured," the Yemeni foreign ministry said on Twitter. An army spokesman said that […]
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have launched an assault on Yemen's port city of Hudaiba, in the biggest battle of a three-year war between a Saudi-backed coalition and Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels. The air strikes on Wednesday morning targeting Houthi positions are supported by ground operations by Yemeni troops south of the Red Sea port, the internationally recognised Yemeni government-in-exile said in a statement. The exiled government "has exhausted […]
A gunman shot dead a Lebanese aid worker from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Saturday near the city of Taiz, southern Yemen. The incident took place early in the morning when a team of aid workers from the ICRC was returning from Taiz city. The ICRC confirmed to Middle East Eye that Hanna Lahoud, a Lebanese employee, was killed, stating that they were trying to find […]
The Saudi-led coalition that is fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen is responsible for the deaths of scores of children since last summer, a United Nations report says. Al Jazeera obtained excerpts from the confidential report by the UN Office on Children and Armed Conflict, which was sent to the UN Security Council on January 19. According to the excerpts, the Saudi-led coalition killed 68 children and wounded 36 others from […]
Aden's streets have emptied except for tanks and armoured vehicles as deadly clashes continue between forces loyal to Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and the separatist Southern Transitional Council, backed by the United Arab Emirates. At least 10 people were killed and about 100 others were wounded as separatists fought government troops, local medics said, deepening a rift between forces that had been on the same side. Clashes first […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
