Death, starvation haunt southern Yemen

[Sally]

Such unfortunate people, and most of these are just civilians who were trying to get on with their lives.


Death, starvation haunt southern Yemen

ADEN, Yemen — The stories and scenes of civilian deaths and starvation in the Yemeni city of Taiz are nightmarish, coming on the heels of the siege imposed since April 2015 by Houthi rebels and forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Anywhere one looks, only pain, sorrow and sadness stare back, in a scene reminiscent of the catastrophic situation that prevailed in Syria’s Madaya.

Summary⎙ Print The catastrophic humanitarian situation in Yemen’s besieged Taiz calls for immediate action to lift the siege that has strangled the city for almost a year.
Author Ashraf al-FalahiPosted February 23, 2016
TranslatorKamal Fayad
The siege in Taiz, in southern Yemen, is catastrophic, prompting the United Nations’ World Food Program to announce Feb. 15 that the city faces imminent famine.

Doctors Without Borders was able to deliver some aid in January, but the effort was merely a drop in the bucket. Taiz field hospital director Sadek al-Shujah told Al-Monitor, “For the past 11 months, populated neighborhoods of Taiz have been subjected to daily bombardments by the Houthis and their allies. There is a severe shortage of orthopedic equipment, which, in turn, is negatively affecting both injured people and the medical staff. Many of the surgical cases at hand require treatment in successive stages … [and] surgeries are proving difficult to undertake.”

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[irosie91]

Such unfortunate people, and most of these are just civilians who were trying to get on with their lives.


Death, starvation haunt southern Yemen

ADEN, Yemen — The stories and scenes of civilian deaths and starvation in the Yemeni city of Taiz are nightmarish, coming on the heels of the siege imposed since April 2015 by Houthi rebels and forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Anywhere one looks, only pain, sorrow and sadness stare back, in a scene reminiscent of the catastrophic situation that prevailed in Syria’s Madaya.

Summary⎙ Print The catastrophic humanitarian situation in Yemen’s besieged Taiz calls for immediate action to lift the siege that has strangled the city for almost a year.
Author Ashraf al-FalahiPosted February 23, 2016
TranslatorKamal Fayad
The siege in Taiz, in southern Yemen, is catastrophic, prompting the United Nations’ World Food Program to announce Feb. 15 that the city faces imminent famine.

Doctors Without Borders was able to deliver some aid in January, but the effort was merely a drop in the bucket. Taiz field hospital director Sadek al-Shujah told Al-Monitor, “For the past 11 months, populated neighborhoods of Taiz have been subjected to daily bombardments by the Houthis and their allies. There is a severe shortage of orthopedic equipment, which, in turn, is negatively affecting both injured people and the medical staff. Many of the surgical cases at hand require treatment in successive stages … [and] surgeries are proving difficult to undertake.”

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Death, starvation haunt southern Yemen - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

TAIZ is a very important SEAPORT-----Iran wants to CONTROL IT ------(and aden) hard hit area in Yemen------are the places IRAN wants----SANAA
(the capital) and ADEN (seaport) and TAIZ (seaport)---- Saleh allied himself with IRAN

 

[waltky]

Still no light at the end o' the tunnel...

No end in sight to war in Yemen
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 - One of the world's most deadly conflicts marks its first anniversary with no sign of any potential end to the carnage, says Frank Gardner.

One of the world's deadliest - yet least reported - conflicts is marking its first anniversary. Saturday marks one year since a Saudi-led coalition of Arab air forces began carrying out airstrikes on rebel forces in Yemen. In the space of those 12 months, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights estimates, at least 3,200 civilians have been killed and 5,700 wounded, with 60% of the casualties inflicted by air strikes. Talks have been under way in Riyadh to find an end to the war.

But even if it stopped tomorrow and did not resume, Yemen today is a shattered country with chronic problems and a traumatised population in need of aid for years to come. So how did it start, who is fighting whom, and how could it end? The conflict began six months before the air strikes, in September 2014. Houthi rebels, angered by what they saw as a corrupt and discriminatory government, marched down from their mountain base in the north, seized the capital, Sanaa, and placed the UN-recognised President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi under house arrest. He later escaped and fled the country to neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

Within six months, the Houthis had taken over the whole of western Yemen while the retreating and demoralised government forces abandoned most of the east to al-Qaeda. The Houthis, who represent only a minority of Yemenis, achieved their lightning success by allying with their former enemy, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ousted by the Arab Spring protests that began in 2011, Mr Saleh stayed on in Yemen and retained the loyalty of much of the army and security forces. Despite fighting six inconclusive wars against the Houthis while he was in power, he saw them as his chance to wreck his successor's rule as president, so he effectively put his troops at their disposal.

Overwhelming firepower

 

[irosie91]

thanks for the idiotic ---very biased ---essay on YEMEN. For real news from
Yemen----talk to a Yemeni in the USA (and probably in England---since those born
in the EMPIRE get citizenship) I like that one about "this present conflict has torn
Yemen apart" Yemen has been in a state of civil war for more than 60 years---nothing new. As to the Houthis----CLIENTS OF IRAN which has also sent their
WELL ARMED proxy kennel of dogs HEZBOLLAH in-----to destroy the country
in the same manner that Hezbollah destroyed Lebanon

 

[waltky]

Humanitarian Disaster in Yemen Rivals Syria...

UN: Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen Rivals Syria
October 04, 2016 — The United Nations is appealing to the international community to pay more attention to Yemen, which it considers one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

Most media attention is on Syria, where the country's devastating, long-running civil war has killed more than 250,000 people and forced more than 11 million to flee their homes. But U.N. officials fear this focus on the horrors playing out in Syria is overshadowing the desperate needs of more than 12 million people in war-torn Yemen. Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the war has destroyed the livelihoods of Yemen's people, robbed them of basic services and pushed the economy to near total collapse. He said children are one of its main victims. “This year, the nutrition cluster estimates that there are 1.5 million [children younger than 5] who are acutely malnourished, of whom 375,000 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition,” Laerke said. “There are many, many others suffering from moderate malnutrition, indicative of the gravity and severity of the situation.”

A malnourished boy lies on a bed outside his family's hut in al-Tuhaita district of the Red Sea province of Hudaydah, Yemen​

The U.N. World Food Program (WFP), which distributes food to about 6 million people every other month, understands the gravity of the situation. But the WFP has cut back monthly food rations because it has run out of money and urgently needs $145 million to carry out its mission until the end of the year, says agency spokeswoman Bettina Luescher. She said everyone, but especially the children, are suffering from the food shortages. “Even before the violence and the war in Yemen, the malnutrition rates of children in Yemen were the highest in the world,” she said. “So you have a little bit of a perfect storm coming together there.” “Half of the children are stunted,” Luescher added, “meaning they are too short for their age because of chronic malnutrition.”

The difficulty getting food, fuel and other relief items into Yemen, Laerke said, is because of extensive damage to the port city of Hudaydah. “Before the war, Yemen was over 90 percent dependent on import of basic food items and medicines,” he said. “Eighty percent of those imports come through Hudaydah port. That gives you an indication of the importance of that lifeline.” “What is particularly urgent in the port is the rehabilitation and the repair of five cranes, which were damaged in an airstrike in August 2015, so they have been partly out of commission for quite some time,” Laerke added. Laerke said it was very difficult and slow to get shipments of goods in the port offloaded for further transportation with the cranes in need of repair.

Mourners carry the body of Youssef al-Salmi, 10, who was killed when a bomb exploded while he was playing with it near his family's house in Hasn Faj Attan village, in the mountainous outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.​

Saudi Arabia, an ally of the Yemeni government, began intensive airstrikes against the Houthi rebels at the end of March 2015. Airstrikes by the Saudi Arabian coalition have caused massive damage to the country's infrastructure. Worse is the number of civilians who have been killed or wounded. New U.N. figures put the number of casualties from the start of the Saudi bombing campaign until the end of September at nearly 11,000, including more than 4,000 killed. Rupert Colville, spokesman with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the casualties continue to mount. Since the latest estimates were issued, he said at least 10 civilians, including six children, were killed and 17 wounded in the Yemeni city of Taiz.

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[irosie91]

Humanitarian Disaster in Yemen Rivals Syria...

UN: Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen Rivals Syria
October 04, 2016 — The United Nations is appealing to the international community to pay more attention to Yemen, which it considers one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

Most media attention is on Syria, where the country's devastating, long-running civil war has killed more than 250,000 people and forced more than 11 million to flee their homes. But U.N. officials fear this focus on the horrors playing out in Syria is overshadowing the desperate needs of more than 12 million people in war-torn Yemen. Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the war has destroyed the livelihoods of Yemen's people, robbed them of basic services and pushed the economy to near total collapse. He said children are one of its main victims. “This year, the nutrition cluster estimates that there are 1.5 million [children younger than 5] who are acutely malnourished, of whom 375,000 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition,” Laerke said. “There are many, many others suffering from moderate malnutrition, indicative of the gravity and severity of the situation.”

A malnourished boy lies on a bed outside his family's hut in al-Tuhaita district of the Red Sea province of Hudaydah, Yemen​

The U.N. World Food Program (WFP), which distributes food to about 6 million people every other month, understands the gravity of the situation. But the WFP has cut back monthly food rations because it has run out of money and urgently needs $145 million to carry out its mission until the end of the year, says agency spokeswoman Bettina Luescher. She said everyone, but especially the children, are suffering from the food shortages. “Even before the violence and the war in Yemen, the malnutrition rates of children in Yemen were the highest in the world,” she said. “So you have a little bit of a perfect storm coming together there.” “Half of the children are stunted,” Luescher added, “meaning they are too short for their age because of chronic malnutrition.”

The difficulty getting food, fuel and other relief items into Yemen, Laerke said, is because of extensive damage to the port city of Hudaydah. “Before the war, Yemen was over 90 percent dependent on import of basic food items and medicines,” he said. “Eighty percent of those imports come through Hudaydah port. That gives you an indication of the importance of that lifeline.” “What is particularly urgent in the port is the rehabilitation and the repair of five cranes, which were damaged in an airstrike in August 2015, so they have been partly out of commission for quite some time,” Laerke added. Laerke said it was very difficult and slow to get shipments of goods in the port offloaded for further transportation with the cranes in need of repair.

Mourners carry the body of Youssef al-Salmi, 10, who was killed when a bomb exploded while he was playing with it near his family's house in Hasn Faj Attan village, in the mountainous outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.​

Saudi Arabia, an ally of the Yemeni government, began intensive airstrikes against the Houthi rebels at the end of March 2015. Airstrikes by the Saudi Arabian coalition have caused massive damage to the country's infrastructure. Worse is the number of civilians who have been killed or wounded. New U.N. figures put the number of casualties from the start of the Saudi bombing campaign until the end of September at nearly 11,000, including more than 4,000 killed. Rupert Colville, spokesman with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the casualties continue to mount. Since the latest estimates were issued, he said at least 10 civilians, including six children, were killed and 17 wounded in the Yemeni city of Taiz.

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when the issue of HORRORS in YEMEN come up----real horrors ----BARBARIC HORRORS-----think *) IRAN (*

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's wrong - lil' girls an' boys shouldn't go hungry...

U.N. seeks $2.1 billion to avert famine in Yemen
February 8, 2017 - The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $2.1 billion to provide food and other life-saving assistance to 12 million people in Yemen who face the threat of famine after two years of war.

"The situation in Yemen is catastrophic and rapidly deteriorating," Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, said in the appeal document. "Nearly 3.3 million people - including 2.1 million children - are acutely malnourished." Yemen has been divided by nearly two years of civil war that pits the Iran-allied Houthi group against a Sunni Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia. At least 10,000 people have been killed in the fighting, which has unleashed a humanitarian crisis in the desperately poor Arabian Peninsula country.

In all, nearly 19 million Yemenis - more than two-thirds of the population - need assistance and protection, the U.N. said. "Ongoing air strikes and fighting continue to inflict heavy casualties, damage public and private infrastructure, and impede delivery of humanitarian assistance," it said. "The Yemeni economy is being wilfully destroyed," it added, saying that ports, roads, bridges, factories and markets have been hit.

Girls stand at the entrance to their tent at a camp for internally displaced people in the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen​

An estimated 63,000 Yemeni children died last year of preventable causes often linked to malnutrition, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said last week. “In Yemen, if bombs don’t kill you, a slow and painful death by starvation is now an increasing threat,” Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said in a separate statement as the U.N. plan was launched. A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia entered Yemen's civil war in March 2015 to try to reinstate President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after he was ousted from the capital Sanaa by the tribal Houthis, who are fighting in an alliance with troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The United States has sent the Navy destroyer USS Cole to patrol off Yemen's coast to protect waterways from Houthi militia aligned with Iran, U.S. officials last week, amid rising tension between Washington and Tehran. Oxfam accused Britain and other powers backing the Saudi-led coalition of "political complicity" in the Yemen conflict. "The UK Government's calculated complicity risks accelerating Yemen toward a famine, putting millions of lives at risk and making a mockery of their global obligations to those in peril," Mark Goldring, chief executive of Oxfam GB, said in a statement.

U.N. seeks $2.1 billion to avert famine in Yemen

 

[waltky]

Yemen rife with cholera...

Yemen Cholera Outbreak Could Reach 300,000
May 19, 2017 - Yemen could see as many as 250,000 new cases of cholera within six months, in addition to 50,000 already reported, the World Health Organization said Friday.

"The speed of the resurgence of this cholera epidemic is unprecedented," Nevio Zagaria, WHO country representative for Yemen, told reporters during a conference call on Friday. He said the death toll from the outbreak has already reached 240 and more than 50,000 cases have been registered in the past three weeks.

Girls are treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen​

Two years into a war between Houthi rebels and government forces allied with a Saudi-led Arab military coalition, which has killed more than 8,000 people, Yemen has declared a state of emergency Sunday in the capital, Sana'a, over the outbreak. Fighting has taken a toll on medical facilities in the war-torn country, as more than half of Yemen's facilities, which are now operated by Houthi rebels, no longer function.

The U.N. says some 17 million of Yemen's 26 million people lack sufficient food and at least three million malnourished children are in "grave peril." Yemen, which is the Arab world's poorest nation, is now classified by the World Health Organization as a level three emergency, alongside Syria, South Sudan, Nigeria and Iraq. This is the country's second cholera outbreak in less than a year. Cholera is highly contagious and can be contracted from ingesting contaminated food and water.

Yemen Cholera Outbreak Could Reach 300,000

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Cholera Outbreak Kills at Least 180 in Yemen
May 15, 2017 - A cholera outbreak in Yemen has killed at least 180 people since April 27, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday.

Two years into a war between Houthi rebels and government forces allied with a Saudi-led Arab military coalition, which has killed more than 8,000 people, Yemen has declared a state of emergency in the capital Sana'a over the outbreak. Fighting has taken a toll on medical facilities in the war-torn country, as more than half of Yemen's facilities, which are now operated by Houthi rebels, no longer function.

Women are treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sana'a, Yemen​

The U.N. says some 17 million of Yemen's 26 million people lack sufficient food and at least three million malnourished children are in "grave peril." U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Jamie McGoldrick and other international officials met with the health ministry in the Houthi-run capital of Sana'a, urging aid donors to assist to avoid an "unprecedented disaster."

An elderly man is treated for a suspected cholera infection in Sana'a, Yemen, May. 15, 2017. The U.N. says a cholera outbreak has killed at least 180 people over the past two weeks.​

Yemen, which is the Arab world's poorest nation, is now classified by the World Health Organization as a level three emergency, alongside Syria, South Sudan, Nigeria and Iraq. Cholera is highly contagious and can be contracted from ingesting contaminated food and water.


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Mozambique Declares End to Cholera Epidemic That Infected Over 2,000
May 19, 2017 — Mozambique has declared an end to a cholera epidemic that was triggered by heavy rains and infected more than 2,000 people, a senior government official said Friday.

The outbreak was another setback for Mozambique, which is grappling with a financial crisis as it strives to woo investors to develop huge offshore gas reserves. "The epidemic is under control: In the last 28 to 29 days, we have not registered new cases of cholera and so we are declaring the epidemic terminated," Francisco Mbofana, national director of public health, told a news conference.

Cholera patients are treated at the Cholera Treatment Center in Tete district,Mozambique​

Five cholera treatment centers installed in the most affected provinces have already been dismantled, Mbofana said.

Four people died between Jan. 5 and April 22 out of the 2,131 cases registered by health authorities. Last year, in the same period, 103 people died of cholera across the country. Cholera causes severe vomiting and diarrhea and is often lethal if not treated swiftly.

Mozambique Declares End to Cholera Epidemic That Infected Over 2,000

 

[irosie91]

For those who do not know----the current war in Yemen was
galvanized by IRAN----the Houthis are a Shiite minority ---armed
to the teeth by Iran and also aided by Hezbollah implants . Iran wants the all important seaports of Yemen and has already taken control of them-----as well as of the capital SANAA.
Yemen is also the stepping stone, FOR IRAN, to SAUDI ARABIA-----
Iran has its imperialist eyes on the big black rock of Mecca.
Cholera is endemic in Yemen as well as just about every other disease that is spread via the oral fecal route. Russia is cheering-----in fact, I suspect, so is China. Control on the STRAITS OF HORMUZ means control on just about all the
sea going transport of the red sea to the Mediterranean.

 

[waltky]

Cholera death toll rises in Yemen...

Cholera outbreak spreading at 'unprecedented' speed kills 315 in Yemen
May 21, 2017 -- A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 315 people since April 27 and is spreading with "unprecedented" speed, the United Nations' World Health Organization said Sunday.

More than 29,300 suspected cases have been reported in 19 of the country's 22 provinces, the agency posted on Twitter. The highest number of likely cases -- more than 6,000 -- are in the capital city, Sana'a, where the Houthi government declared a state of emergency one week ago. On Friday, the WHO warned that Yemen could have as many as 300,000 cases of cholera within six months and an "extremely high" number of deaths. "We need to expect something that could go up to 200,000-250,000 cases over the next six months, in addition to the 50,000 cases that have already occurred," Nevio Zagaria, WHO Yemen representative, told reporters in Geneva. "I have to admit that when I see the data that I saw this morning, not officially released; are really taking us by surprise. The speed of the resurgence of the cholera epidemic is unprecedented," Zagaria said.

About 7.6 million people live in Yemen's cholera-threatened areas, according to U.N. estimates. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholera. Almost 75 percent of people infected do not show any symptoms. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates three million to five million cholera cases annually and more than 100,000 deaths occur each year. Cholera can be treated by immediate replacement of the fluid and salts lost through diarrhea. But Yemenis are facing a lack of access to food, clean water and medications and more than half of the country's medical facilities are not operating, the WHO said. Burdened medical staff members haven't been paid since September.

A cholera outbreak in Yemen has spread with “unprecedented” speed and further burdened the decimated health care system, the World Health Organization said​

Doctors Without Borders, the international medical humanitarian organization, warns that the outbreak is threatening to spiral out of control. "The fast spread of the current outbreak is extremely alarming," said Ghassan Abou Chaar, the organization's head of mission in Yemen. "Before the outbreak, the health system was already overstretched and people's health needs were already huge. To bring the outbreak under control, it won't be enough simply to treat those people who reach medical facilities. We also need to address the source of the disease, by improving water and sanitation and working in communities to prevent new cases."

The organization has treated 3,092 patients in four cholera treatment centers and nine cholera treatment units. Teams are expecting a delivery of more than 63 tons of supplies in a few days. The current disease outbreak is a resurgence from an episode last October that peaked in December. A power struggle has taken place between a Saudi-backed government and Iran-aligned rebels since late 2014.

Cholera outbreak spreading at 'unprecedented' speed kills 315 in Yemen

 

[montelatici]

Wahabi supporter Rosie is unbelivably dimwitted. Iran is a human rights and democratic poster boy compared to the Kingdom.

 

[irosie91]

Wahabi supporter Rosie is unbelivably dimwitted. Iran is a human rights and democratic poster boy compared to the Kingdom.

In terms of morality----the Shiite/Baathist alliance vs the WAHABIST ----six of one and half dozen of
the other. In terms of effectiveness of filth------the Baathists win hands down

 

[montelatici]

There are churches and synagogues in Iran, how many churches or synagogues are in the Kingdom you dimwit. You are the filthy Zionist.

 

[irosie91]

There are churches and synagogues in Iran, how many churches or synagogues are in the Kingdom you dimwit. You are the filthy Zionist.

how does the churches and synagogues remaining in Iran seem to you an ISSUE?
you filthy Baathist whore Iran has committed genocide against its Christian,
Zoroastrian, Bahai, and Jewish population. Saudi Arabia was rendered
"kaffir free" by order of muhummad 1400 years ago (a deathbed decree-----read
the Koran------it is an interesting book ---historically speaking) How are the churches
and synagogues doing in BAATHIST EGYPT? and BAATHIST IRAQ?

 

[montelatici]

There are churches and synagogues in Iran and there are Christians and Jews in Iran. Unfortunately, the secular Baathists only remain in Syria. Iraq and Egypt are respectively Sunni and Shiite. Too bad.

 

[irosie91]

There are churches and synagogues in Iran and there are Christians and Jews in Iran. Unfortunately, the secular Baathists only remain in Syria. Iraq and Egypt are respectively Sunni and Shiite. Too bad.

yes------monte-------your level of knowledge is "too bad" Most Baathist dogs are sunnis--------a few
misguided adolf admirers are Christians. Theoretically-----baathism does not exclude shiites

 

[skye]

Saudi Arabia must stop killing children and civilians in Yemen!


It's enough!!!

 

[irosie91]

Saudi Arabia must stop killing children and civilians in Yemen!


It's enough!!!

most of the death and destruction in Yemen is IRANIAN SPONSORED-----and has
been ongoing for decades. Find a friendly Yemeni expat in the USA --------if you
earn his trust-----you will learn the truth

 

[skye]

Saudi Arabia must stop killing children and civilians in Yemen!


It's enough!!!

most of the death and destruction in Yemen is IRANIAN SPONSORED-----and has
been ongoing for decades. Find a friendly Yemeni expat in the USA --------if you
earn his trust-----you will learn the truth

really

I could post hundreds of links pointing the finger to Saudi Arabia.....I don't want to bore you though



May 18, 2017,
Yemeni Rebels Say Saudi-Led Airstrike Killed 23 Civilians

 

[montelatici]

Saudi Arabia must stop killing children and civilians in Yemen!


It's enough!!!

most of the death and destruction in Yemen is IRANIAN SPONSORED-----and has
been ongoing for decades. Find a friendly Yemeni expat in the USA --------if you
earn his trust-----you will learn the truth

The death and destruction is perpetrated by the Wahabis of the Kingdom.