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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureThe ‘helpers’: the Yemeni students doing homework for the Saudis
Amid war and a COVID-19 lockdown, some students in Yemen have found a new market, selling academic services to their...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhile the world was locked down, Yemen faced an apocalyptic year
With the international community preoccupied with COVID-19, the world’s largest humanitarian crisis worsened,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat does Biden’s presidency mean for the future of the Gulf?
Will the new president undo Trump’s hawkish stance on Iran, Yemen, Libya and Qatar?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yemen’s war and the blackout in the Spanish press
“Public opinion in western countries has been quite incapable of applying the necessary pressure to cut our ties...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe UK must immediately stop selling arms that are killing Yemeni civilians
After more than five years of war, governments, including the UK, can no longer credibly claim to be fooled by...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen: the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the war torn country
The 5th anniversary of the war in Yemen is a time for stock taking about the changes in the past year and prospects...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen Hopes and Expectations - Part 4: a looming environmental disaster
Risk of a catastrophic oil spill, alarming water shortages and pollution, climate change, and other environmental...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen’s hopes and expectations - Part 3: living conditions and humanitarian aid
Corruption, war profiteering, and outrageous governance are deepening the severe humanitarian disaster in Yemen.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen’s hopes and expectations - Part 2: Can Saudi Arabia leave Yemen?
While Saudi Arabia seeks an exit from the Yemen war, it is deepening its involvement in the South instead.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen’s hopes and expectations - Part 1: the Stockholm agreement
What has been the outcome of the Stockholm agreement, a year after it was reached?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow to lobby Washington to death
A business model from hell and the war in Yemen.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBAE’s evasive justifications for arming Saudi’s Yemen war
Campaigners attended the UK arms company’s AGM and asked some tough questions. The answers failed to convince.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJeremy Hunt thinks it would be 'moral bankruptcy' NOT to arm Saudi Arabia. Sorry, what?
Next month the case against British arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen goes to the Court of Appeal....
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Published in: HomeNorth Korea is selling arms and breaking sanctions – does anyone care?
Arming Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Libya, and making huge fuel transfers on the high seas – it embarrasses Trump, but...
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Published in: HomeMigrant crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen
Just to be clear, this means that more desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaProspects for Yemen in 2019 and beyond
The fear and terror induced by this situation, combined with unbearable survival conditions are creating a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow Britain is a bad influence on the Gulf states – an interview with David Wearing
Could Britain ever promote democracy in the Gulf? Only if it turns its own foreign policy away from neoliberalism...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFamine in Yemen: long announced, now on our screens
What are world leaders doing? Where is the ‘international community’ Yemenis so often appeal to?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe West’s approach to Saudi Arabia: ‘one step forward, two steps back’
Western powers are actively enabling the very human rights violations they seek to expose.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHodeida: prospects of humanitarian catastrophe brings Yemen back into the news
Was the decision to carry out the offensive in the summer, when living conditions are the worst for the population,...