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Yemen hunger crisis: Refugee chief ‘shocked to the bones’
About 19 million people in Yemen [total population: ~ 27 million] are in need of some form of aid, says the UN, as the price of basic commodities rise by a third.
The UN secretary general has warned that Yemen is facing a “tragedy of immense proportions,” with a child under five perishing of preventable causes every 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, Saudi forces reportedly threaten to attack the port of Hodeida, the last remaining humanitarian lifeline, as Trump works to “push through contracts for tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia.”
“I am shocked to my bones by what I have seen and heard here in war- and hunger- stricken Yemen. The world is letting some 7 million men, women and children slowly but surely, be engulfed by unprecedented famine. It is not a drought that is at fault. This preventable catastrophe is man-made from A to Z,” said Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
[Saudi Arabia Report #13 is prepared by an affiliated team of political scientists.]
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Saudi Arabia using terror laws to suppress free speech: UN
“Saudi Arabia has been accused of using anti-terror laws to suppress free expression and failing to carry out independent inquiries into its Yemen bombing campaign in a hard-hitting report published on Thursday by the UN special rapporteur on human rights.”
Saudi Arabia, U.S. in talks on billions in arms sales – U.S. sources
“Washington is working to push through contracts for tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, some new, others in the pipeline, ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to the kingdom this month,” informed sources told Reuters.
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