This is the main road in the city of Sadaa. Saudi-led airstrikes have destroyed every building on the southern part of the road. Many of those buildings were once shops. Rawan Shaif/GlobalPost
Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Global Post: Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
HUDEIDAH, Yemen — The second floor of the dialysis clinic here looks more like a refugee camp than a kidney treatment center.
A few dozen patients have been living here for days, sleeping on either plastic chairs or the grime-covered floor. They are waiting for treatment but the clinic's machines are not working. With each passing day the toxins in their blood increase. They get sicker. They can do nothing but wait.
Like all of Yemen, they are slowly dying.
The dialysis center represents all that is wrong with the country right now. Yemen is the site of a civil war, with one side backed by a Saudi-led coalition, the other led by the Houthi rebel movement. For nine months Saudi Arabia has been both bombing the country, at times indiscriminately. It has also imposed a crippling blockade.
WNU Editor: This is a comprehensive look at the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. We all know about the humanitarian crisis in Syria .... but it looks like Yemen is now reaching a level of desperation that would be shocking even for many Syrians.
Seems the leader of one of the biggest rebel groups is dead: https://www.rt.com/news/327094-top-syrian-rebel-killed/ Will this have an impact on the rebels performance or will he possibly be easily replaced?
ReplyDeleteBsed upon the prior history of tbese things, I'd say he will be eadily repkaced, however, time will tell. Also, the Russians are involved now. Russian forces are better trained, better led, are more motivated, and have far better intelligence at their disposal than the US or it's "allies" have. As such, the results may well be diffrrent now from padt results.
ReplyDeleteI meant past results. I apologize for the mispelling.
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