HeathfieldRoad1874 - 7/2/2017 16:19
That being the case, does it justify the arming of the rebels by the US and UK?
HeathfieldRoad1874 - 7/2/2017 18:18
I think that Iraq has shown that direct intervention is not a viable solution. Any solution needs to involve the local communities.
Aid agencies have warned that Yemen is “at the point of no return” after new figures released by the UN indicated 17 million people are facing severe food insecurity and will fall prey to famine without urgent humanitarian assistance.
A total of 6.8 million people are deemed to be in a state of emergency – one step from famine on the five-point integrated food security phase classification (IPC), the standard international measure – with a further 10.2 million in crisis. The numbers reflect a 21% increase in hunger levels in the Arab world’s poorest state since June 2016.
JuanPabloAngel - 16/3/2017 20:31
Aid agencies have warned that Yemen is “at the point of no return” after new figures released by the UN indicated 17 million people are facing severe food insecurity and will fall prey to famine without urgent humanitarian assistance.
A total of 6.8 million people are deemed to be in a state of emergency – one step from famine on the five-point integrated food security phase classification (IPC), the standard international measure – with a further 10.2 million in crisis. The numbers reflect a 21% increase in hunger levels in the Arab world’s poorest state since June 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/16/yemen-conflict-7-million-close-to-famine
6.8 MILLION people on the brink of famine? Just unbelievable that humans can act in such a way as to cause this kind of misery.
Not content with killing or making destitute all of his own people, Assad is busy leading a coalition backing the Yemeni government leading to a humanitarian crisis for 80% of the population.
Great job.
BodyButter - 16/3/2017 13:33
I'd imagine Assad is very busy at the moment with his own civil war.
Syria and Yemen are the same conflicts; Sunni Vs Shia. Iran and Saudi Arabia won't face each other directly so they are fighting proxy wars wherever possible.
The US (and so Britain) supports the Saudis and are encouraging these conflicts. The British media reflects the American side so they paint Assad as an evil dictator just as they did with Saddam and Gaddafi but they dare not report on life in Saudi.
Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitoring group has said.
Saturday’s blast hit a convoy carrying residents from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya as they waited at a transit point in rebel-held Rashidin, west of Aleppo.
At least 68 children were among the 126 people killed in the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating a previous toll of 112 dead.
At least 109 of the dead were evacuees, the UK-based monitoring group said, while the rest were aid workers and rebels guarding the convoy.