Campaigners against the arms trade slammed the ‘morally indefensible’ decision to resume weapon sales to the kingdom.
Yemen: UK to resume Saudi arms sales after humanitarian review
The UK is to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite concerns they could be used against civilians in Yemen, in violation of international humanitarian law. Sales were suspended last year after a …
UK resumes arms sales to Saudi Arabia, says ‘possible’ war crimes in Yemen are ‘isolated incidents’
The UK government has come under fire after announcing that it is to recommence arms sales to Saudi Arabia, despite acknowledging that the kingdom could be using them to commit war crimes in Yemen.
UK to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia as ‘possible’ war crimes in Yemen were ‘isolated incidents’, government announces
Britain is to resume sales of arms to Saudi Arabia, the UK government has announced. Sales of weapons to the Middle Eastern country, which currently leads a coalition of states accused of committing …
Yemen: Thousands of Children’s Lives at Risk as Health Care Services Plummet
(July 5, 2020) – Health care for children in war-torn Yemen has been further devastated by a combination of funding cuts and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Save the Children warns. Between …
Britain to resume sale of arms to Saudi Arabia despite Yemen fears
Yemen’s starving children, grim legacy of six years of war
Nearby the cries of other malnourished children reverberated around the pink-walled hospital ward, a vivid reminder of the human cost of Yemen’s devastating conflict, which drags into a seventh year …
Yemen’s disaster becomes “cataclysmic”
The five year-old war in Yemen is intensifying. The country is splitting apart as the pandemic ravages the poorest country in the Middle East. The war is a burden on the Saudi economy, dooming hopes …
Saudi Oil Derivatives Grant to Yemen’s Al-Mahra Province Enters 3rd Year
The Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) has delivered the latest installment of the 2018 Saudi oil derivatives grant, with 4,800 tons of diesel arriving at Nishtun port in …
Yemen’s children suffer from lack of medicine, aid cut
With medicines run short and humanitarian aid cut, millions of Yemeni children who are starving under war and blockade are suffering a lot.