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Canada Standard
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Canada Standard
2nd LD Writethru: Omani FM announces ceasefire deal between Yemen's Houthis, U.S.
MUSCAT/SANAA, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Oman has brokered a ceasefire between Yemen's Houthi group and the United States, Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi said in a statement on Tuesday. "In the future, neither side will target the other, including American vessels, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping," the statement said. The minister also expressed his country's gratitude to both parties for their "constructive" engagement, stating that it hopes the agreement will pave the way for further progress on regional issues and contribute to achieving justice, peace, and prosperity for all. Ahead of a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump said the halt would start immediately, after the Houthis approached the administration on Monday night, indicating "they want to stop the fighting." "The Houthis have announced ... that they don't want to fight anymore. They just don't want to fight," said Trump. "We will honor that, and we will stop the bombings ... and they have capitulated." In a post on X, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Houthi Revolutionary Committee, said the U.S. "halt of aggression against Yemen" will "be evaluated on the ground first." He noted that the group's operations "were and still are in support of Gaza to stop the Israeli aggression and allow the entry of aid" into Gaza, indicating that the ceasefire with the United States did not include a halt to the group's attacks on Israel. Meanwhile, the head of Houthi supreme political council, Mahdi al-Mashat, said in a statement, reported by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, that "there will be no retreat from supporting Gaza, no matter the cost. What happened proves that our strikes are painful and will continue." "To all Zionists, from now on, take shelter or leave for your homeland immediately. Your failed government will no longer be able to protect you," al-Mashat claimed in the televised statement. Tensions between the Houthis and the United States intensified after Washington resumed airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15. The strikes were aimed at deterring the group from attacking Israel and U.S. warships.
Yemen Online
20-04-2025
- Health
- Yemen Online
Malnutrition is ‘crisis inside the crisis' in Yemen: NGO
Aden-Tensions between the Houthi group and the Trump administration have intensified since Washington resumed airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15. Malnutrition has been exacerbating an already dire humanitarian situation in war-torn Yemen, a non-governmental organization (NGO) warned. 'Malnutrition is a crisis inside the crisis. It has actually extremely amplified the situation and the vulnerability of the population in Yemen,' Illaria Rasulo, head of mission of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Yemen, said in a video posted on social media platform X. '2024 was a very tough year, with the additional outbreak of acute watery diarrhea in whole Yemen,' and extremely high levels of malnutrition recorded in MSF facilities, apart from measles outbreaks and sporadic cases of polio and diphtheria, Rasulo said. 'For 2025, we are expecting even more outbreaks,' she predicted, noting a 'dramatic' humanitarian situation in Yemen as many NGOs have to reduce their activities in or even leave the country amid fund cuts from major donors, including a funding freeze from the United States. On January 20, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, which orders a 90-day pause in the country's 'foreign development assistance.' Tensions between the Houthi group and the Trump administration have intensified since Washington resumed airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15, after the group announced plans to resume attacks on Israeli targets, citing Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza as the reason. In the deadliest raid since the renewed US airstrikes, the US army launched a series of attacks on Thursday night targeting and destroying the Houthi-controlled Ras Isa fuel port and concrete tanks storing imported fuel. According to an update from Houthi-run health authorities early Saturday, at least 80 people were killed and 150 others wounded. Earlier on Saturday, the US army launched 29 fresh airstrikes on Houthi targets in northern Yemen, while Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Houthi Revolutionary Committee, vowed to retaliate.
