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  • More than 115 children killed in Yemen war

    news AFP, 24 Apr 2015 (9 years ago )
    At least 115 children have been killed and 172 injured in Yemen since the conflict began last month, according to the UN's agency for the welfare of children. A spokesman from UNICEF said on Friday at least 64 children who had died between March 26 and April 20 had been killed by the strikes.
  • Fresh fighting flares in Yemen as dialogue hopes dim

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 25 Apr 2015 (9 years ago )
    Fierce fighting has been raging between Yemen's rival factions in the south of the country a day after Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former president, urged his allies to withdraw from the areas they have captured. The factions are trying to gain more ground in Dar Saad, a district near the southern po...
  • Humanitarian crisis of immense magnitude looms in Yemen

    news Al Jazeera, 25 Apr 2015 (9 years ago )
    One year ago, the International Rescue Committee warned that stability in Yemen would not be possible while "more than half of the population do not know where their next meal is coming from". This past month's events have borne out that monition. Violence in the country, which has affected 18 of it...
  • Air raids and ground clashes rage in Yemen

    news AP, 26 Apr 2015 (9 years ago )
    Fighter jets from the Saudi-led coalition battling Shia rebels in Yemen have struck targets in several provinces, including the capital Sanaa, security officials said, as fighting raged across the country. Sunday's air strikes began just after midnight, officials said, hitting a military base kno...
  • Houthis cautiously welcome plan for Yemen ceasefire

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 10 May 2015 (8 years ago )
    Houthi fighters have said in a statement that they would deal "positively" with any efforts to lift the suffering of the Yemeni people, a sign that they could accept a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by Saudi Arabia. The Houthis political council said on Sunday that they would like to se...
  • Air strikes target ex-Yemen president Saleh's residence

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 10 May 2015 (8 years ago )
    Warplanes from the coalition led by Saudi Arabia has bombed the residence of Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital, Sanaa, but Yemen's former president is believed to be safe, witnesses have said. Three air strikes hit Saleh's residence early on Sunday morning, but the president and his family are "w...
  • Yemen's Saleh declares alliance with Houthis

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 11 May 2015 (8 years ago )
    Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has formally announced an alliance with Houthi fighters for the first time, after the Arab coalition launched two air strikes on his home in the capital, Sanaa. Saleh, who was forced to step aside in 2012 following a year of deadly nationwide protest...
  • Somaliland: Risking torture for a better life abroad

    news Al Jazeera, 11 May 2015 (8 years ago )
    Hargeisa, Somaliland - Outside his two bedroom house made of tin in the heart of Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway Somaliland region, Kosar Dhool cuts an exhausted figure burdened with events far heavier than his slim frame can bear. The father of five has been receiving phone calls from his son...
  • Yemen: More violence ahead of humanitarian pause

    news CNN, 12 May 2015 (8 years ago )
    Sanaa, Yemen (CNN)Yemen's residents saw a much-needed break late Tuesday in the fighting gripping the country as a five-day humanitarian pause proposed by Saudi Arabia went into effect. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Friday that his country would implement the pause at 11 p.m. local t...
  • Somali group seizes boat with foreign nationals

    news Al Jazeera, 13 May 2015 (8 years ago )
    A boat carrying at least 10 foreign nationals has washed ashore in central Somalia in a region controlled by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group, witness tell Al Jazeera. All on board the stricken boat - which came ashore near the town of El Dheer in Galgaduud region - were led away by masked fig...