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  • Saudi extends 2018 deposit at Yemen central bank, pays final installment

    Saudi Arabia on Monday extended a deposit it gave the central bank of Yemen's internationally recognised government in 2018, and agreed to pay the final installment of the promised $2 billion, the central bank and Saudi ambassador to Yemen said. The Saudi finance ministry said the 2018 deposit duration would be extended and this would support Yemen's currency and economic situation.

  • Five questions on the Gulf Cooperation Council-led Yemeni-Yemeni consultations

    The actual consultation that took place provided proof. There were about 700 people participating, which was more than the number of those who participated in the National Dialogue in Yemen. The representation, with the exception of the Houthis, was very impressive, and the inclusivity of the meeting was far more successful than anything experienced since the war. In terms of capacity, the GCC has been involved in Yemen over the years and has the technical capacity and accumulated experience to deal with Yemen, more so than any other international organization.

  • U.N. receives $33 mln toward plan to prevent Yemen tanker oil spill

    The United Nations has received $33 million in new pledges on Wednesday towards a $144 million operation to avoid an oil spill from a tanker stranded off the coast of Yemen which threatens a major environmental disaster. Around $40 million has been raised to fund the operation to offload the decaying Safer tanker, the U.N. and the Netherlands government said in a joint statement following a pledging event they co-hosted.

  • Glimmers of hope: Yemen’s rich history endures far from war – in pictures

    Photographer Tariq Zaidi travelled to the Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah regions of Yemen, where a ceasefire has allowed a kind of normality to return after years of conflict and unimaginable hardship

  • U.N. seeks $144 million to offload decaying Yemen oil tanker

    The United Nations will launch a $144 million appeal on Wednesday for an operation to offload a million barrels of crude oil from a tanker stranded off the coast of war-torn Yemen for years which threatens a major environmental disaster. David Gressly, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said he hoped a donors conference held with the support of Netherlands in the Hague would quickly mobilise funds to avert a catastrophe on the Red Sea coast and its region.

  • Plane carrying released Houthi prisoners arrives in Yemen from Saudi Arabia

    A plane carrying Houthi prisoners arrived in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, the Red Cross said on Friday. The International Committee of the Red Cross is arranging the transfer of at least 100 prisoners to Yemen on three flights, AP reported. The first plane with released Houthi prisoners left Saudi Arabia for Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition said earlier on Friday. The official Saudi Press Agency later posted a video on Twitter of prisoners aboard a second flight to Yemen.

  • Saudi Arabia seizes hundreds of kilograms of hashish and qat at Yemen border

    Saudi Arabia’s border guards have foiled an attempt to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of hashish and qat into the kingdom from Yemen to the southern regions of Jazan, Najran and Asir. Border authorities seized 760 kilograms of hashish and more than 45 tonnes of qat, said Col Misfir Al Qarini, the official spokesman for the General Directorate of the Saudi Border Guard.  

  • Tim Lenderking: Hope in Yemen?

    I think that the Houthis have not been able to impose their will on the ground in Yemen—which is something that they’ve had success in over the last year, particularly their offensive on the city of Marib, about 100km east of Sana`a. There are energy platforms there that the Houthis would like to control. The city is controlled by the Yemeni government, and the Houthis have thrown a lot of fight at Marib over the last year. But they haven’t succeeded in taking the town.

  • Tim Lenderking: Hope in Yemen?

    Nobody among the Gulf countries wants this conflict to continue, and I think that there's been a more united front on that side—the primary point of that is that there is no military solution to this conflict. That’s basically what the world has been saying. I think that's what the parties themselves have realized over the course of the last year. That has been beneficial in leading toward the truce and the de-escalation of hostilities.

  • Yemen’s Presidential Council Launches a New Era

    The council is a turning point in Yemen, ending the era after Yemen’s unification in 1990 when the recognized political parties served as the only legal forms of political participation. This council is the first political body to embody the drastic political and military changes that have resulted from the war: Political parties’ powers have faded, and religious-sectarian and regional armed groups have become increasingly dominant. The council’s establishment is also emblematic of regional powers’ influence on Yemen, which, in addition to hosting a toxic swirl of internal conflicts, has increasingly become the battlefield of others’ conflicts.