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Huge Revenues Push Houthis to Tighten Grip Over Yemeni Institutions

The huge revenues of several Yemeni institutions prompted the Houthi militia to implement new administrative and financial measures to control and manage the profit in their favor. The new measures introduced e-accounting systems and complex administrative control procedures, dismissed the head of these institutions, and replaced them with group members.…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Relish this moment, forget about the war’: Yemenis on World Cup

For some in the Yemeni capital, the tournament provides a welcome break from discussions about the continuing conflict.

Al Jazeera

Houthis Escalate Suppression Against Women

The Houthi militia increased its suppression against women in Sanaa, and other areas under its control, amid several accusations of local and international parties accusing the group of escalating its repressive campaigns and committing numerous attacks against Yemenis. The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms revealed in a recent report…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Yemeni Army Accuses Militias of Testing Anti-Ship Missile

The Yemeni army accused the Houthi militia of testing an anti-ship missile launched from Sanaa, which landed in the Red Sea waters off Hodeidah. The army spokesman, Brigadier General Abdo Majali, announced that the Houthis conducted an anti-ship missile test from the Nehm district, which landed west of Hodeidah in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Yemen, farmers choose narcotic over other crops, exacerbating climate woes

Farmers are draining groundwater around Yemen's capital and removing soil to cultivate the narcotic green leaf qat that dominates life in the country, threatening to exhaust precious resources in the climate-vulnerable nation.

Reuters

Houthis Implement New Method to Monitor, Suppress Residents

Houthi leaders in Sanaa established a new security formation named "community committees" to monitor the population and repress personal freedoms. According to militia media sources, the group's leaders in Sanaa held several meetings with residential and neighborhood supervisors and officials in ten districts. They formed the so-called "community committees," which…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Houthis Target Private Sector Companies in 3 Governorates

Once again, Houthi militias in Yemen are targeting the private trade sector in three different governorates as the Iran-backed group continues with its efforts to impose control over businesses operating in areas under its rule. Around 3,000 Houthi militiamen have been deployed over the years to take over businesses and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Houthi Insurgents Prevent Yemeni Women from Domestic, Int’l Travel

Houthi militias are banning women from traveling inside and outside Yemen without a mahram, or a male companion, accompanying them. Karima, a woman in her seventies, was stopped at a Houthi militia checkpoint in Sanaa and prevented from traveling because she did not have a mahram. Her son Fahmy told…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Unidentified Corpses’ Raise Doubts about Houthi Killing of Detainees

Houthi militias in Yemen announced a few days ago that dozens of bodies were buried in mass graves in Sanaa.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Yemeni Markets Flooded With Expired Food Items, Boost Houthi’s Profits

Markets in the Houthi-controlled governorates and the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, are flooded with expired food items. Regulatory bodies constantly announce the confiscation and destruction of large quantities of expired products from Yemeni stores and markets, and of referring those responsible to justice. However, Houthis have recently started confiscating the expired…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Yemen: Houthi-Run Hospital Holds Bodies of 22 Newborns

A Houthi-run hospital in Sanaa is keeping the dead bodies of 22 newborns whose families could not pay the discharge costs due to deteriorating living conditions. In a precedent, the hospital published an ad in a Houthi-run newspaper calling on the bereaved families to come forth to pay their dues…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Houthis Escalate Oppression Against Tribes in Sanaa, Amran

Houthi militias have escalated their attacks against the tribesmen and their leaders near Sanaa and Amran governorates to seize their lands and real estate and undermine opponents. Local sources in Sanaa told Asharq Al-Awsat that only a few weeks after the militias’ raids, killings, sieges, assaults, and kidnappings in Saraf…

Asharq Al-Awsat

War-torn Yemen battered by mental health crisis

Sanaa (AFP) - Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis: Yemen's seven years of brutal civil war have caused an explosion of mental illness overwhelming the basic health care services.

AFP

UN flight from rebel-held Yemen capital returns 129 migrants

The U.N. has returned 129 Ethiopian migrants stranded in war-torn Yemen to their homeland in its first humanitarian repatriation flight to depart from the rebel-held capital of Sanaa this year

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Yemen: Militias Reopen Iranian Hospital That Was Used as Spy Center

The Iranian-backed Houthi militias reopened an Iranian hospital in Sanaa, 13 years after closing it and using it as a center for spying and promoting extremism. The militias changed the hospital's name and allocated more than 3.5 billion riyals to equip it. The move is considered one of the group's…

Al Jazeera

End of Yemen’s truce leaves civilians afraid dark days are back

The truce lasted for six months and expired on October 2, with efforts to renew it unsuccessful so far.

Reuters

In an empty kitchen, Yemeni family struggles with hunger

In a bare kitchen in her house in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Umm Zakaria al-Sharaabi prepares for a daily challenge - creating a meal out of virtually nothing to feed the 18 people in her extended family.

Al Jazeera

Does the end of Yemen’s truce mean return to full-blown fighting?

Yemeni government and Houthis failed to extend a six-month truce that saw a lull in fighting in the eight-year conflict.

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AFP

Yemen war: seven years of war between Huthis, coalition

Dubai (AFP) - The conflict in Yemen between the Iran-backed Huthi rebels and pro-government troops escalated in March 2015 when a Saudi-led military coalition intervened in support of the loyalists.

Reuters

Yemen truce expires as U.N. keeps pushing for broader deal

Yemen's warring parties failed to renew a U.N.-brokered truce deal that expired on Sunday, dashing the hopes of some Yemenis for a broader pact that would ease economic woes and prolong relative calm after more than seven years of fighting.

Al Jazeera

Yemen’s warring sides fail to agree extension to UN-backed truce

UN Envoy Hans Grundberg urges both sides to continue efforts to try and extend ceasefire first accepted in April.

France 24

Yemen's warring sides fail to extend UN-backed ceasefire

Yemen's warring sides have failed to reach an agreement to extend a nationwide ceasefire, the UN said Sunday, endangering the longest lull in fighting since the country's bloody civil war began.

AFP

Yemen ceasefire ends without extension as UN envoy urges calm

Dubai (AFP) - A six-month truce in Yemen's war has expired without being extended, the United Nations' special envoy said on Sunday, urging calm and adding that negotiations are continuing.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Grundberg Leaves Sanaa without Commenting on Houthi Conditions for Extending Truce

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg concluded on Thursday a one-day visit to Yemen’s Houthi-run capital, Sanaa. During his visit, Grundberg met with the head of the Houthi ruling council, Mahdi al-Mashat. Grundberg left Sanaa without commenting on the conditions placed by Houthis on expanding the humanitarian and military…

AFP

Yemen truce deadline approaches as wait for peace drags on

Sanaa (AFP) - As a ceasefire deadline in war-ravaged Yemen draws near, civilians hope the truce will be extended -- fearing any fresh fighting would wipe out the small gains they have made.

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