The Yemen Thread
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UPDATED: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 22:06
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'A million more' Yemen children face famine?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-middle-east-45857729/yemen-could-b
e-worst-famine-in-100-years
Yemen could be on the brink of 'worst famine in 100 years' - distressing scenes
A military intervention was launched by Saudi Arabia in 2015, leading a coalition of nine African and Middle East countries, responding to calls by Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support in response to Houthi takeover in Yemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen
Yemen has been in many civil wars. The Yemeni Civil War of (2015 to present) is an ongoing conflict that began in 2015 between two factions: the incumbent Yemeni government led by Hadi and the Houthi militia where each one of them claims to constitute the Yemeni government, along with their supporters and allies. Houthi forces controlling the capital Sana'a and allied with forces loyal to the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have clashed with forces loyal to the government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, based in Aden. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have also carried out attacks, with AQAP controlling swathes of territory in the hinterlands, and along stretches of the coast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2015-present)
On 21 March 2015, after taking over Sana'a and the Yemeni government, the Houthi-led Supreme Revolutionary Committee declared a general mobilization to overthrow Hadi and further their control by driving into southern provinces. The Houthi offensive, allied with military forces loyal to Saleh, began on the next day with fighting in Lahij Governorate. By 25 March, Lahij fell to the Houthis and they reached the outskirts of Aden, the seat of power for Hadi's government; Hadi fled the country the same day.Concurrently, a coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched military operations by using airstrikes to restore the former Yemeni government and the United States provided intelligence and logistical support for the campaign. According to the UN and other sources, from March 2015 to December 2017, 8,670–13,600 people have been killed in Yemen, including more than 5,200 civilians, as well as estimates of more than 50,000 dead as a result of a ongoing famine due to the war.
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I miss Dreamtrove. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Me too. But I'm glad YOU'RE here, SIX!
I miss Dreamtrove. :( - SIX
What I find so very odd is that there is apparently NOW a campaign to make Saudi Arabia pay for the death of one Saudi journalist ... it was a brutal death, they say, but nothing worse than what we did in our black sites ... but I digress ....
Anyway, a campaign to make the Saudis pay for the death of one Saudi journalist in a Saudi consulate in Turkey, and yet 13 MILLION Yemenis face starvation thanks to a Saudi air campaign which has been backed by .... guess who?
I mean, WTF?? Have people gone completely bonkers? Lost all sense of proportionality? No longer plugged into the real world? Can't figure out what's more meaningful or more important?
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Yemen’s long civil war is forcing parents to choose which children to save from starvation
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-war-childre
n-hunger-famine-b1949779.html
Abandoning Yemen to War Criminals
https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/abandoning-yemen-to-war-criminals/
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Ethiopia: The West’s Diplomats Meet in Secret to Decide How to Help the TPLF
Jeff Pearce
12 hours ago·7 min read
The West’s Horn of Africa experts have been meeting with a TPLF leader and TPLF/OLF supporters in secret, even as its governments claim to be impartial — TPLF’s Berhane Gebre-Christos speaks as TPLF member, proposed head of “transitional government” (limo/Uber drivers) and Washington-based Ethio-American diaspora.
Donald Yamamoto, recently the U.S. Ambassador to Somalia who just retired this year, to TPLF official Berhane Gebre-Christos:
“Abiy is not listening… Obasanjo has not been extraordinary helpful or very active, and so are there any other opportunities that you see?”
Vicki Huddleston, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs and US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa to Berhane Gebre-Christos:
“I couldn’t agree more that you know, Abiy should step down, there should be an all-inclusive transition government.”
Former ambassadors and current diplomats for the United States, Britain and EU had a Zoom meeting this past Sunday with an official for the TPLF in what amounts to a green light from the West for the terrorist group’s attempts to overthrow the democratically elected Ethiopian government. And there’s evidence to prove it: a phone-cam video of the two-hour meeting.
“I hope that you’ll have military success fairly soon, because it seems as if the situation is only becoming more drastic,” said Vicki Huddleston, who was Chargé d’Affairs ad interim in Ethiopia during years the TPLF were in power.
France’s retired diplomat and writer Stéphane Gompertz openly speculated on the potential for Abiy to be forced from power. “Even if Abiy sticks to his guns, which unfortunately he seems to be doing, you either hope that people around him either in government or in the military realize that this is going nowhere and might force him to, well, accept the cessation of hostilities or force him to step down?”
The Western powers — Britain, the EU and especially the United States — have been posturing for months that they have not taken sides in the conflict and are pushing negotiations only in the interests of peace. But the Zoom talk rips away the façade, revealing a chummy circle of foreign policy elite, both retired and still active who mostly know each other and are in sympathy with TPLF objectives. They include Donald Yamamoto, one of the U.S. government’s most senior Africa experts who just retired this year as the American ambassador to Somalia, and Spain’s diplomat Carmen de la Peña.
Former EU ambassador to Ethiopia Tim Clarke admitted that all of the attendants “maintain contacts with our former employees. Just the other day I was talking to the existing EU ambassador to Ethiopia.”
Others who attended included former British ambassador Robert Dewar and one of Finland’s top former ambassadors, Kirsti Aarnio. It’s unclear how many other Western diplomats were online, or for that matter, how many of these secret consultations they have had with the TPLF while feigning neutrality to the world.
A phone cam video of the Zoom meeting was taken by a participant, and the video reveals a lot. Donald Yamamoto displayed stunning ignorance of the situation on the ground when he said, “With troops now right outside of Addis — and as you know, the evacuations have begun — that’s a very alarming situation…” Only TPLF soldiers are not right outside of Addis but at least more than 200 kilometres away.
The Zoom meeting was held under the auspices of the newish Peace and Development Center International, but the source described it as a thinly-veiled front, calling it “TPLF and OLF-run masquerading as NGO.”
The who’s who of Western diplomacy listened to former Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Berhane Gebre-Christos, now a stalwart TPLF official, give a meandering talk in which he claimed without evidence that Abiy Ahmed started planning the invasion of Tigray from when he took office as prime minister in 2018. “He started
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'It’s time for Sanders to stand up for Yemen'
https://vtdigger.org/letters_to_editor/its-time-for-sanders-to-stand-u
p-for-yemen/
'UN Condemns Seizure of Closed US Embassy in Yemen by Rebels'
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-11-18/un-condemns-seizure
-of-closed-us-embassy-in-yemen-by-rebels
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Saudi airstrikes hit Yemen's Houthis after Jiddah attack
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-religion-iran-saudi-arabia-yeme
n-6ca450805c1144fe15f32535801133de
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There was also a hostage crisis embassy staff thread
Politics latest: RAF took part in air raids on Yemen against Houthi rebels along with US, says Rishi Sunak
https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-post-office-investigator-on
e-of-worst-in-history-wrongly-jailed-victim-didnt-let-her-children-visit-12593360
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Biden affirms willingness to continue airstrikes in Yemen if Houthis continue attacks on shipping
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/biden-affirms-willingness-continue-airstrike
s-225946795.html
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Joe Biden says US has delivered ‘private message’ to Iran after Yemen raids
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1855473/joe-biden-yemen-raids-hou
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