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  • Yemen rifts stall reforms needed to access Gulf aid, sources say

    Rifts within Yemen's new presidential council are delaying approval of reforms needed to unlock $3 billion in financial aid from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that would help ease a severe foreign exchange crunch, four sources said. When the council was formed in April under Saudi auspices, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi each pledged to inject $1 billion into the Aden-based central bank, and Saudi Arabia said it would grant another $1 billion for oil derivatives and development.

  •  U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Lenderking’s Travel to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman

    U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Oman starting September 8 to urge the parties to intensify UN-led negotiations in the coming three weeks, to act with urgency and flexibility, and to take the necessary steps to extend and expand the UN-mediated truce.

  • Lawmakers Press Biden to Track U.S. Aid Tied to Civilian Harm in Yemen

    A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday urged the Biden administration to do more to ensure that U.S. military support to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates does not contribute to civilian harm in Yemen, following an internal watchdog report that said the United States has failed to assess how its aid is tied to such casualties. The report, released publicly in June, after The New York Times disclosed its existence, found that while the Pentagon oversaw $54.6 billion of military aid to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates from 2015 to 2021, top security officials failed to collect sufficient data and evidence on civilian casualties or monitor the use of American-made weapons.

  • 27 dead as Al-Qaeda launches attack on Yemen separatists

    Twenty-one separatist fighters and six members of Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch were killed Tuesday as an attack by the jihadists punctured months of relative peace in the war-torn country, government and security sources said. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) attacked positions held by the UAE-trained Security Belt group in Abyan province in Yemen's south, the sources told AFP.

  • Saudi Arabia lists five Yemenis as terrorist supporters

    The five Yemenis are accused of criminal offenses that include trafficking Iranian weapons to Yemen, receiving training in Iran, and handling drone and missile operations, according to the press release.

  • Yemen Military Committee Suspends Talks With Houthi Rebels

    Citing a statement, Saba said the Houthi rebel fighters launched a massive offensive on the government forces posts in Al-Dhabab, west of Taiz in a bid to “block the last main outlet for Taiz, which has been under siege for seven years.” The committee also said that despite a UN-sponsored truce, the Houthis continue daily violations, including using drones, firing ballistic missiles and redeploying and mobilizing forces. The two-month truce was first enforced on April 2 and renewed for another two months on June 2, and also on August 2 will expire on October 2. The latest talks have covered extending the truce and opening up the roads. Since April, fuel ships have been accessing Hodiedah port, and a limited number of commercial flights resumed from Sana’a airport while Houthis refused to open up roads in Taiz.

  • Yemen’s HSA pledges $1.2 mln to U.N. drive to avert tanker oil spill

    Yemen's HSA Group on Thursday became the first private entity to pledge funds for a United Nations operation to avoid an oil spill from a tanker stranded off the coast of Yemen, as the U.N. urgently tries to secure an initial requirement of $80 million. The international organisation, which has so far raised over $60 million, has warned that the Safer, stranded since 2015 off a Red Sea oil terminal, could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster near Alaska.

  • Yemen officials: UAE-backed forces take southern oil fields

    Yemeni officials say forces backed by the United Arab Emirates have seized control of vital southern oil and gas fields after nearly a week of fierce clashes in the region

  • Yemeni southern separatists launch military campaign in Abyan

    Yemen's main southern separatist group said it had launched a military operation in Abyan province "to cleanse it of terrorist organisations", a move that would strengthen the UAE-backed faction's control in the south. Yemen has been split by a seven-year-old war pitting a fractious coalition led by Saudi Arabia against the Iran-aligned Houthi group. The Houthis largely hold the north and the internationally recognised government is based in the south.

  • U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Lenderking’s Travel to the UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia

    U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia starting August 11, while members of his team travel to Jordan, as part of our vigorous diplomatic efforts to help secure an expansion of the UN-mediated truce and bolster peace efforts.  The Special Envoy and his team will focus on helping meaningfully expand benefits of the truce to all Yemenis and pave the way for a permanent ceasefire and an inclusive, durable Yemeni-led resolution to the conflict.  Special Envoy Lenderking will also discuss recent instability in Shabwa and the need for a return to calm.