哈德拉米 Hadhramaut[a] (Arabic: حَضْرَمَوْتُ \ حَضْرَمُوتُ, romanized: Ḥaḍramawt / Ḥaḍramūt; Hadramautic: 𐩢𐩳𐩧𐩣𐩩, Ḥḍrmt) is a region in southern Arabia. The name is of ancient origin, and is retained in the name of the Hadhramaut Governorate of Yemen. The people of Hadhramaut are called Hadhrami. They formerly spoke Hadramautic, but now predominantly speak Hadhrami Arabic.The origin of the name "Ḥaḍramawt" is not exactly known, and there are numerous competing hypotheses about its meaning. The most common folk etymology is that the region's name means "death has come," from Arabic: حَضَر, romanized: ḥaḍara, lit. 'he came' and Arabic: مَوْت, romanized: mawt, lit. 'death', though there are multiple explanations for how it came to be known as such. One explanation is that this is a nickname of 'Amar ibn Qaḥṭān, a legendary invader of the region, whose battles always left many dead. Another theory is that after the destruction of Thamūd, the Islamic prophet Ṣāliḥ relocated himself and about 4,000 of his followers to the region and it was there that he died, thus lending the region its morbid name "death has come." A third related etymology posits that حضر refers to the inhabitants of the area, themselves, and hints that the way of life of the ancient Hadhrami people was severe and ascetic in the eyes of the bordering kingdoms situated in today's North Yemen.[citation needed]Ḥaḍramawt is also identified with Biblical Hazarmawet (Biblical Hebrew: חֲצַרְמָוֶת; Genesis 10:26[1] and 1 Chronicles 1:20).[2] There, it is the name of a son of Joktan (who is also identified with Qahtan), the ancestor of the South Arabian kingdoms. According to various Bible dictionaries, the name "Hazarmaveth" means "court of death," reflecting a meaning similar to the Arabic folk etymologies. The Hadhrami are referred to as Chatramotitai in ancient Greek texts. Hadhramautic texts come later than Sabaean ones, and some Sabaean texts from Hadhramaut are known.
- The Hadhrami (Arabic: حضرمي, sing.) or Hadharem (plural: الحضارم) are people inhabiting the Hadhramaut region in Yemen and their descendants in diaspora communities around the world. They speak Hadhrami Arabic an Arabic dialect with a heavy Hadramite Substrate, which belongs to the South Semitic languages. Among the two million inhabitants of Hadhramaut, there are 1,300 distinct tribes. The Hadharem have a long seafaring and trading tradition that predates Semitic cultures, the Semitic Hadramites diaspora was historically the Mofarite & Gurage mercantile Semitic pioneers in East Africa, Hadramite influence was later over shadowed by the rise of the temple of the Moon governing Sabaean Semites that saw the concentration of power switch to a governing ruling class. With Governing pressure in the South Semitic regions Hadhrami seamen navigated in large numbers all around the Indian Ocean basin, from the Horn of Africa to the Swahili Coast to the Malabar Coast and Hyderabad in South India, Sri Lanka to Maritime Southeast Asia.[1] They were involved in many places as organizers of the Haj. There are Hadharem communities in western Yemen and in the trading ports of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. The money changers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia have usually been of Hadhrami origin.The Hadhrami have long had a notable presence in the African Horn region (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia). Hadhrami settlers were instrumental in helping to consolidate the Muslim community in the coastal Benadir province of Somalia, in particular.[3] During the colonial period, disgruntled Hadhrami from the tribal wars additionally settled in various Somali towns.[4] They were also frequently recruited into the armies of the Somali Sultanates.Some Hadhrami communities also reportedly exist in Mozambique and Comoros Madagascar.The vast majority of the Hadhrami Jews now live in Israel.
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- Anies Rasyid Baswedan (born 7 May 1969) is an Indonesian academic, activist, and politician who currently serves as the Governor of Jakarta. A student activist and political analyst before entering public service, he served as rector of Paramadina University before being appointed to be Minister of Education and Culture in Joko Widodo administration. He is the founder of Indonesia Mengajar, a program that selects, trains, and assign university graduates to serve in a one-year teaching mission across the country.Anies Rasyid Baswedan was born on 7 May 1969, in Kuningan, West Java to a Hadhrami-Javanese father and a Sundanese mother. His grandfather, Abdurrahman Baswedan, was a prominent Arab-Indonesian activist who served as a cabinet minister during the Indonesian National Revolution. Baswedan grew up in Yogyakarta, attending SMP Negeri 5 and SMA Negeri 2 Yogyakarta. In 1987, he spent one year as an AFS Intercultural Programs exchange student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Al Hudaydah (Arabic: الحديدة), also known in English as Hodeda, Hodeida, Hudaida or Hodeidah, is the fourth-largest city in Yemen. In 1914, during the First World War German troops led by Major Freiherr Othmar von Stotzingen established "Stotzingen Mission" ,a wireless station, at Al Hudaydah, which was used during the Arab Revolt to relay communications from Constantinople to German East Africa as well as broadcast propaganda to the Sudan, British Somaliland and Abyssinia.After a disastrous fire in January 1961 destroyed much of Al-Hudaydah, it was rebuilt, particularly the port facilities, with Soviet aid. A highway to Sana'a, the capital, was completed in 1961. The city was also the site of a Soviet naval base in the 1970s and 1980s. Al-Hudaydah has a large number of historical places; particularly in Zabid, which is regarded as one of the most important Islamic towns in the world. The city is not large but it has more than one hundred old mosques. Furthermore, it used to have a university, which is as old as al-Azhar. The Malay writer Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir visited Al Hudaydah on his pilgrimage to Meccain 1854, and describes the city in his account of the journey, mentioning that the custom of chewing khat was prevalent in the city at this time. The city was briefly occupied by Saudi forces during the Saudi–Yemeni War of 1934.
- Située sur la mer Rouge, la ville est un port important, à partir duquel sont exportés du café, du coton, des dattes et des peaux. Le port s'est développé à partir du milieu du xixe siècle sous l'impulsion de l'Empire ottoman.
Mocha (Arabic: المخا al-Makhā ) also known as al-Makha, is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Until Aden and al Hudaydah eclipsed it in the 19th century, Mocha was the principal port for Yemen's capital, Sanaʽa.Mocha is famous for being the major marketplace for coffee (Coffea arabica) from the 15th century until the early 18th century. Even after other sources of coffee were found, Mocha beans (also called Sanani or Mocha Sanani beans, meaning from Sana'a) continued to be prized for their distinctive flavor—and remain so even today.[1] The coffee itself did not grow in Mocha, but was transported from places inland to the port in Mocha, where it was shipped abroad.According to the Portuguese Jesuitmissionary Jerónimo Lobo, who sailed the Red Sea in 1625, Mocha was "formerly of limited reputation and trade" but since "the Turkish assumption of power throughout Arabia, it has become the major city of the territory under Turkish domination, even though it is not the Pasha's place of residence, which is two days' journey inland in the city of Sana'a."[2] Lobo adds that its importance as a port was also due to the Ottoman law that required all ships entering the Red Sea to put in at Mocha and pay duty on their cargoes.
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200512/PDF/b4_screen.pdf
Sana'a (Arabic: صنعاء Ṣan‘ā’ pronounced [sˤɑnʕaːʔ], Yemeni Arabic: [ˈsˤɑnʕɑ]), also spelled Sanaa or Sana, is the largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sana'a Governorate. The city is not part of the Governorate, but forms the separate administrative district of "Amanat Al-Asemah". Under the Yemeni constitution, Sana'a is the capital of the country, although the seat of the internationally recognised government moved to Aden in the aftermath of the 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état. Aden was declared as the temporary capital by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in March 2015.
- Sana'a is one of the oldest populated places in the world. According to popular legend, it was founded by Shem, the son of Noah. It was known as "Azal" in ancient times, which has been connected to Uzal, a son of Qahtan, a great-grandson of Shem, in the biblicalaccounts of Genesis.[8] Its name is related to the Sabaic word for "well-fortified",[9] a name that echoes the meaning of the Ethiopianname—recorded in a Syriac account as Auzalites—the city held in the 6th century. The Arab historian al-Hamdani wrote that Sana'a was walled by the Sabeans under their ruler Sha'r Awtar, who also arguably built the Ghumdan Palace in the city. Because of its location, Sana'a has served as an urban center for the surrounding tribes of the region and as a nucleus of regional trade in southern Arabia. It was positioned at the crossroad of two major ancient trade routes linking Marib in the east to the Red Sea in the west. When King Yousef Athar (or Dhu Nuwas), the last of the Himyarite kings, was in power, Sana'a was also the capital of the Ethiopianviceroys.
- Manakhah (Arabic: مناخة) is a village in west-central Yemen. It is located in the San‘a’ Governorate, on the road between Sana'a and al-Hodeida, located in the Haraz mountains. It was once home to a Jewish community, until their emigration to Israel in the 19th and 20th century. German geographer, Carl Rathjens, visited the town in the early 1930s.
索科特拉岛 Socotra (Arabic: سُقُطْرَى Suquṭrā), also called Soqotra, located between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea, is the largest of four islands in the Socotra archipelago. The territory is located near major shipping routes and is officially part of Yemen, and had long been a subdivision of the Aden Governorate. In 2004, it became attached to the Hadhramaut Governorate, which is much closer to the island than Aden (although the nearest governorate was the Al Mahrah Governorate). In 2013, the archipelago became its own governorate, the Socotra Governorate.In the notes to his translation of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, G.W.B. Huntingford remarks that the name Suqotra is not Greek in origin, but from the Sanskrit dvīpa("island") sukhadhara ("supporting, or providing bliss").
- The islanders followed indigenous religions until 52 AD, when, according to local beliefs, Thomas the Apostle was shipwrecked there on his way to evangelize India.[59] He then supposedly constructed a church out of his ship's wreckage and baptized many Socotrans.[59] After this, Christianity became the main religion of the island.[59] They followed Nestorius, the Archbishop of Constantinople, who was later excommunicated for heresies. The Socotrans remained loyal to his teachings and joined the Assyrian church.[59] During the 10th century, Arab geographer Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani recorded during his visits that most of the islanders were Christian. Explorer Marco Polo wrote in his travelogue: I give you my word that the people of this island are the most expert enchanters in the world. It is true that the archbishop does not approve of these enchantments and rebukes them for the practice. But this has no effect, because they say that their forefathers did these things of old.Christianity in Socotra went into decline when the Mahra sultanate took power in the 16th century and became mostly Muslim by the time the Portuguese arrived later that century.
- 据说“索科特拉”（Suqutra）一词派生于梵文词组“dvipa sukhadhara”，意思是「极乐岛」[4]、「受祝福的岛屿」或「幸福之岛」的意思。然而也有人认为，这个名字可能来自阿拉伯语“SUG”，意为“乳香”。
Monetary system
- The central bank of Yemen said it had floated the national currency, instructing banks to follow the market rate in a move aimed at shoring up a financial system battered by war. The move by the internationally recognised authorities based in the port city of Aden is an acknowledgement of the yawning gap between the official exchange rate of the riyal and its black market valuation in an imploding economy.https://www.reuters.com/article/yemen-riyal-idUSL8N1L1138
industry
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/ap-photos-yemens-prized-honey-industry-stung-by-war/2017/08/29/f02732ce-8c80-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953_story.html Yemen’s ruinous civil war has taken its toll on one of the impoverished country’s prized exports — its coveted honey. Thick, rich and as dense as liquid gold, Yemen’s honey has traditionally been sought after in the oil-rich Gulf, where it is seen as a delicious and natural way to boost one’s immune system. The best of Yemen’s honey, known as Sidr, comes from the Hadramawt region in the southeast, which has been gripped by unrest for years.
people
- Ali Abdullah Saleh Afash (Arabic: علي عبدالله صالح عفاش (help·info), ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ; 21 March 1947[1] – 4 December 2017) was the inaugural president of Yemen whose ascent to power came after the assassination of President Ahmad al-Ghashmi. He was elected President of Yemen Arab Republic (the Yemen Arab Republic) in 1978 at the age of 31 (others say 36), and subsequently became the first president of Yemen following the Yemeni unification with South Yemen in 1990.[2] During his two decades in power, he was accused of plundering billions of dollars from the poorest Arab nation. Saleh has been described as having been a dictator. Long considered a moderate president, he oversaw his country's development of deeper ties with Western powers, especially the United States, in its fight against terrorism. In 2011, in wake of the "Arab Spring" that spread across Yemen, Saleh's time in office became more and more untenable, until eventually he was ousted as president of Yemen in 2012. He was succeeded in office by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Saleh had openly allied with the Houthis (Ansar Allah),[4] leading to the Yemeni Civil War, in which a protest movement and a subsequent insurgency succeeded in capturing Yemen's capital, Sana'a, causing President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi to resign and flee the country.In December 2017, he declared withdrawal from the coalition with the Houthis and instead sided with his former enemies – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and president Hadi. However, accused of treason, he was killed by a Houthi sniper during a firefight in the capital city of Sana'a amidst the ongoing battle on 4 December 2017.
- note that he received foreign honours from scilian royal family
politics
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/04/former-yemen-president-saleh-killed-in-fresh-fighting Yemen’s civil war has taken a dramatic turn after Iranian-backed Houthi rebels killed the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, punishing him for switching sides and seeking peace with Saudi Arabia.
- 美媒周五報道，早前在該區爆發衝突的也門政府軍與南部分離組織，初步同意停火，並一致對抗佔據北方的青年運動武裝組織。報道引述也門官員指，總統哈迪與分離組織南方過渡委員會（STC），過去數周在沙特阿拉伯西部地市吉達展開多輪談判。雙方達成的協議包括：雙方成立聯合政府﹔STC武裝人員編入警隊﹔哈迪將重返南部重鎮亞丁的臨時總統府，政府軍及STC均撤離該市，僅保留總統衞隊。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191026/00180_016.html
- 也門內戰再起波瀾，分離組織南方過渡委員會（STC）昨日宣布在控制地區成立自治政體。而獲沙特支持的也門政府則批評，此舉將對去年十一月簽訂的和平協議造成「災難性後果」。獲阿聯酋支持的STC去年在沙特首都利雅得與也門政府簽訂的和約，訂明STC等南方勢力將加入新建立的政府內閣，而所有武裝部隊將收歸至獲國際承認的也門政府麾下。然而，STC周日發聲明宣告︰「在二○二○年四月廿五日、午夜起，STC宣布在南部展開自治。」
STC的聲明又指，已向亞丁省等南部各省，頒布緊急狀態。英媒引述目擊者指，STC武裝部隊已進駐亞丁。也門政府在內戰中，南遷至亞丁成立臨時首都；惟政府軍去年於當地與STC爆衝突，總統哈迪被迫逃離亞丁。也門外長哈德拉米指STC企圖成立南方政體，是在「重啟其武裝叛亂」。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200427/00180_004.html
language
- https://www.quora.com/Which-languages-have-no-writing-system Prior to 2014, the Soqotri language of the Soqotra island in Yemen was largely an unwritten language - meaning that it was largely passed on orally, until a Russian Arabist Vitaly Naumkin made a script for it 4 years ago. It is a Modern South Arabian language, one of the member of the family, with several other languages being spoken in Yemen and Oman as well, although most of them are considered to be endangered and their numbers are dwindling.
arabs
- https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-original-Arabs-come-from-Yemen
ethnic groups
- The Hadhrami (Arabic: حضرمي, sing.) or Hadharem (الحضارم, pl.) are people inhabiting the Hadhramaut region in Yemen and their descendants in diaspora communities around the world. They speak Hadhrami Arabic, which belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Among the two million inhabitants of Hadhramaut, there are 1,300 distinct tribes.
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- The Hadharem have a long seafaring and trading tradition. Hadhrami seamen have navigated in large numbers all around the Indian Oceanbasin, from the Horn of Africa to the Swahili Coast to the Malabar Coast and Hyderabad in South India, Sri Lanka to Maritime Southeast Asia.[1]They were involved in many places as organizers of the Haj. There are Hadharem communities in the trading ports of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. The money changers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia have usually been of Hadhrami origin. The Hadhrami have long had a notable presence in the African Horn region (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia). Hadhrami settlers were instrumental in helping to consolidate the Muslim community in the coastal Benadir province of Somalia, in particular.[3] During the colonial period, disgruntled Hadhrami from the tribal wars additionally settled in various Somali towns.[4] They were also frequently recruited into the armies of the Somali Sultanates.
- Some Hadhrami communities also reportedly exist in Mozambique and Madagascar.
- The vast majority of the Hadhrami Jews now live in Israel.
- indonesian painter Raden Saleh was born into a noble Hadhrami family
History
- Sheba (/ˈʃiːbə/; Ge'ez: ሳባ, Saba, Arabic: سبأ, Sabaʾ, South Arabian
S-b-ʾ, Hebrew: שבא, Šəḇā) was a South Arabian speaking kingdom believed to be in modern day Yemen mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Quran. Sheba features in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian, particularly Ethiopian Christian, traditions. It was the home of the biblical "Queen of Sheba", who is left unnamed in the Bible, but receives the names Makeda in Ethiopian and Bilqīs in Arabic tradition.The predominant scholarly view is that the biblical narrative about the kingdom of Sheba was based on the ancient civilization of Saba in South Arabia,[1] in contradiction to several local traditions from different countries. Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman write that "the Sabaean kingdom began to flourish only from the eighth century BCE onward" and that the story of Solomon and Sheba is "an anachronistic seventh-century set piece meant to legitimize the participation of Judah in the lucrative Arabian trade." The British Museum states that there is no archaeological evidence for such a queen but that the kingdom described as hers was Saba, "the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms". Kenneth Kitchen dates the kingdom to between 1200 BCE until 275 CE with its capital, Ma'rib. The kingdom fell after a long but sporadic civil war between several Yemenite dynasties claiming kingship, resulting in the rise of the late Himyarite Kingdom.
- The two names Sheba (spelled in Hebrew with shin) and Seba (spelled with samekh) are mentioned several times in the Bible with different genealogy. For instance, in the Generations of Noah[7] Seba, along with Dedan, is listed as a descendant of Noah's son Ham (as sons of Raamah, son of Cush). Later on in the Book of Genesis, Sheba and Dedan are listed as names of sons of Jokshan, son of Abraham. Another Sheba is listed in the Table of Nations[9] as a son of Joktan, another descendant of Noah's son Shem.In the Quran, Sheba is mentioned in surat an-Naml in a section that speaks of the visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon. The Quran mentions this ancient community along with other communities that were destroyed by God.
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- Aden (UK /ˈeɪdən/ ay-duhn, US /ˈɑːdɛn/ ah-den; Arabic: عدن ʻAdin/ʻAdan Yemenipronunciation: [ˈʕæden, ˈʕædæn]) is a portcity in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. Aden's ancient, natural harbour lies in the crater of a dormant volcano which now forms apeninsula, joined to the mainland by a lowisthmus. This harbour, Front Bay, was first used by the ancient Kingdom of Awsan between the 5th and 7th centuries BC. The modern harbour is on the other side of the peninsula. Aden gives its name to the Gulf of Aden. Aden consists of a number of distinct sub-centres: Crater, the original port city;Ma'alla, the modern port; Tawahi, known as "Steamer Point" in the colonial period; and the resorts of Gold Mohur. Khormaksar, located on the isthmus that connects Aden proper with the mainland, includes the city's diplomatic missions, the main offices of Aden University, and Aden International Airport (the former British Royal Air Force station RAF Khormaksar), Yemen's second biggest airport. On the mainland are the sub-centres of Sheikh Othman, a formeroasis area; Al-Mansura, a town planned by the British; and Madinat ash-Sha'b(formerly Madinat al-Itihad), the site designated as the capital of the South Arabian Federation and now home to a large power/desalinization facility and additional faculties of Aden University. Aden encloses the eastern side of a vast, natural harbour that comprises the modern port. The volcanic peninsula of Little Aden forms a near-mirror image, enclosing the harbour and port on the western side. Little Aden became the site of the oil refinery and tanker port. Both were established and operated by British Petroleum until they were turned over to Yemeni government ownership and control in 1978. Aden was the capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen until that country's unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 1990, and again briefly served as Yemen's temporary capital during the aftermath of the 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état, as declared by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi after he fled the Houthi occupation of Sana'a. From March to July 2015, the Battle of Aden raged between Houthis and loyalists to President Hadi. Water, food, and medical supplies ran short in the city. On 14 July, the Saudi Armylaunched an offensive to retake Aden for Hadi's government. Within three days the Houthis had been removed from the city.
united nations
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-usa/u-n-shuttle-diplomacy-aims-to-avert-assault-on-vital-yemen-port-idUSKBN1J71K7 The United Nations is engaged in “intense” shuttle diplomacy between the Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in a bid to avert an attack on Yemen’s Hodeidah port city, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said on Monday.
USA
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-usa/u-n-shuttle-diplomacy-aims-to-avert-assault-on-vital-yemen-port-idUSKBN1J71K7 The United Nations is engaged in “intense” shuttle diplomacy between the Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in a bid to avert an attack on Yemen’s Hodeidah port city, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said on Monday.
USA
- https://www.ft.com/content/0ed5276a-c8e7-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e The Trump administration has unfrozen Yemeni central bank funds in a boost to the country’s Saudi-backed government in its war against Iranian-allied rebels, according to three officials familiar with the matter. The decision, which relied on support from US secretary of state Rex Tillerson as well as Treasury officials, to unblock about $205m held in the US will enable the cash-strapped Yemeni administration to service its debt and resume salary payments, two officials said. The move was also viewed as a sign of support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels that are backed by Shia Iran.
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/10/us-stops-refuelling-of-saudi-led-coalition-aircraft-in-yemen-war
- Congress has given final approval on a resolution to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, in an unprecedented attempt to curtail the president’s power to go to war and a sweeping rebuke to Donald Trump’s foreign policy.The House voted 247 to 175 to send the resolution to the president’s desk, where it is likely to be met with a veto. Sixteen Republicans broke ranks and joined Democrats in the effort. The Senate passed the resolution last month, with seven Republicans voting in favor of it. The resolution’s passage sets up another confrontation between Congress and Trump, who has already threatened to veto it. The White House has said the resolution raises “serious constitutional concerns”.The vote marks the first time Congress has invoked the 1973 War Powers Act to curb the executive’s power to take the country into a conflict without congressional approval. It is aimed at ending US involvement in the long-running Yemen conflict.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/04/yemen-saudi-arabia-war-us-military-assistance-vote-congress-trump-veto-latest
uk
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48704596 Campaigners have won a legal challenge over the UK government's decision to allow arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which is engaged in the war in Yemen. Campaign Against Arms Trade argued the decision to continue to license military equipment for export to the Gulf state was unlawful. It said there was a clear risk the arms might be used in a serious violation of international humanitarian law. Judges said licences should be reviewed but would not be immediately suspended. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said the government would not grant any new licences for export to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners while it considers the implications of the judgment. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said the government was "disappointed" and would be seeking permission to appeal against the judgment.
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Saudi arabia
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/10/us-stops-refuelling-of-saudi-led-coalition-aircraft-in-yemen-war
- Congress has given final approval on a resolution to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, in an unprecedented attempt to curtail the president’s power to go to war and a sweeping rebuke to Donald Trump’s foreign policy.The House voted 247 to 175 to send the resolution to the president’s desk, where it is likely to be met with a veto. Sixteen Republicans broke ranks and joined Democrats in the effort. The Senate passed the resolution last month, with seven Republicans voting in favor of it. The resolution’s passage sets up another confrontation between Congress and Trump, who has already threatened to veto it. The White House has said the resolution raises “serious constitutional concerns”.The vote marks the first time Congress has invoked the 1973 War Powers Act to curb the executive’s power to take the country into a conflict without congressional approval. It is aimed at ending US involvement in the long-running Yemen conflict.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/04/yemen-saudi-arabia-war-us-military-assistance-vote-congress-trump-veto-latest
- https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/16/politics/trump-vetoes-yemen-war-powers-resolution/index.html President Donald Trump issued the second veto of his presidency Tuesday, stopping a congressional resolution that would have sought to end US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. "This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future," Trump wrote to the Senate Tuesday. Trump added that the resolution is "unnecessary" in part because there are no United States military personnel in Yemen "commanding, participating in, or accompanying military forces of the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthis in hostilities in or affecting Yemen."
uk
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48704596 Campaigners have won a legal challenge over the UK government's decision to allow arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which is engaged in the war in Yemen. Campaign Against Arms Trade argued the decision to continue to license military equipment for export to the Gulf state was unlawful. It said there was a clear risk the arms might be used in a serious violation of international humanitarian law. Judges said licences should be reviewed but would not be immediately suspended. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said the government would not grant any new licences for export to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners while it considers the implications of the judgment. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said the government was "disappointed" and would be seeking permission to appeal against the judgment.
- aid
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-uk-aid-to-feed-millions-of-people-in-yemen The UK is stepping up its humanitarian support to help millions of people at risk of starvation in Yemen, the Prime Minister announced today. New UK aid worth £200 million will feed millions of people and provide water and sanitation to those most in need. This new announcement brings the total that the UK has committed since the start of the four-year conflict to £770 million.
Saudi arabia
- The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s UN-recognized government on Sunday said it was temporarily closing all land, sea and air ports in Yemen to stop Iranian weapons from reaching Shiite Houthi insurgents.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1189056/saudi-arabia
- Saudi Arabia has said it will inject $2bn in Yemen's central bank to shore up the war-torn country's depreciating currency, according to Saudi state media. The announcement on Wednesday, which was reported by SPA news agency, comes a day after Yemen's prime minister pleaded with Riyadh to help - and even offered to step down if it meant it could lead to an injection in funds.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/saudi-inject-2bn-yemen-halt-currency-collapse-180117110753107.html
- 也門叛軍「青年運動」周三再度襲擊沙特阿拉伯，發射巡航導彈擊中該國西南部吉贊省發電廠，造成當地大停電，暫無人傷亡。華府指出會密切留意事態發展，據報白宮急召多個部門的高官開會商討對策。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190621/00180_012.html
- Saudi Arabia has said it will inject $2bn in Yemen's central bank to shore up the war-torn country's depreciating currency, according to Saudi state media. The announcement on Wednesday, which was reported by SPA news agency, comes a day after Yemen's prime minister pleaded with Riyadh to help - and even offered to step down if it meant it could lead to an injection in funds.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/saudi-inject-2bn-yemen-halt-currency-collapse-180117110753107.html
- 也門叛軍「青年運動」周三再度襲擊沙特阿拉伯，發射巡航導彈擊中該國西南部吉贊省發電廠，造成當地大停電，暫無人傷亡。華府指出會密切留意事態發展，據報白宮急召多個部門的高官開會商討對策。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190621/00180_012.html
uae
- economist 6jul19 the uae begins pulling out of yemen
sudan
- 獲伊朗支持的也門什葉派叛軍青年運動，上周五伏擊隸屬沙特阿拉伯領導聯軍的蘇丹士兵車隊，造成數十名士兵死亡。若然消息屬實，這成為蘇丹自二○一五年派兵介入也門內戰後，遭到最嚴重傷亡。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180409/00180_005.html
japan
- Japan's Foreign Ministry has ordered freelance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka to hand over his passport as he attempted to travel to Yemen. Tsuneoka went through departure inspection at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday. He had planned to report on food shortages in the civil war-torn country. Tsuneoka says he tried to travel to Yemen via Oman in mid-January, but was not allowed to enter Oman and was ordered to return to Japan. This time, Tsuneoka planned to travel to Yemen through another country. But at Haneda, he was shown a written order to give up his passport because he had been banned entry into Oman. Tsuneoka says he had been issued visas from Yemen and the country where he was taking his connecting flight, so he cannot understand why he was barred from leaving Japan. He claims it infringes on his freedom of travel and amounts to obstruction of journalism. Japan's Foreign Ministry has been urging Japanese nationals in Yemen to evacuate, and is advising against traveling to the country.https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190205_34/
korea
- 南韓外交部周二確認，有兩艘南韓船及一艘沙特阿拉伯船，於周日在也門海灣，被什葉派叛軍青年運動扣押。被扣押的十六名船員中，有兩名南韓人。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191120/00180_007.html
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