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According to UN officials with direct knowledge of the plans, the WFP's 365 remaining staff members in northern Yemen will lose their jobs by the end of March. These local staff constituted "all the WFP members in the areas under the control of the de-facto Houthi authorities," he said. The Associated Press reported similar off-the-record comments on Thursday.
The Saudi military on Thursday said Yemeni separatist leader Aidaros al-Zubidi fled to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Al-Zubidi, the leader of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council...
Recent Saudi airstrikes against UAE-aligned separatists escalated tensions in southern Yemen. With Saudi Arabia and the UAE backing opposing factions, a return to fighting would most benefit the Houthis.
Yemen’s separatist movement on Friday announced a constitution for an independent nation in the south and demanded other factions in the war-torn country accept the move in an escalation of a confrontation...
UAE-backed separatists in Yemen announced on Friday a two-year transition to independence following a lightning grab of land in the war-torn country. The Southern Transitional Council (STC) said it plans to...
Yemen’s Saudi-backed government said it had appointed Hadramout’s governor to take overall command of the “Homeland Shield” forces in the eastern province, granting him full military, security and administrative authority.
A separatist group in Yemen backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed on Thursday to the deployment of forces aligned to Saudi Arabia to the southern regions it took control of last month. Saudi Arabia...
Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces. The UAE later said it would withdraw its forces from Yemen.
