Yemen - more Sunni/Shia conflict

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PressTV-Hadi sells foreign exchange reserves in Aden
Yemen's President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who has resigned and fled the capital, has begun to sell the foreign exchange reserves in Aden’s central bank following his failure to pay the employees’ salaries.

According to Yemen’s Yemenat news website, Aden’s central bank has announced the selling of the US dollar reserves to Yemen’s exchange companies, banks, merchants and commercial corporations.

The news comes as the employees of Aden refinery went on strike on Wednesday for not being paid. According to an agreement between the syndicate of the refinery’s workers and local authorities, part of the salaries should have been paid.
(fighting their way into bankruptcy... :dismay: The Yemenis have been fighting each other even before Yemen exsisted. Good for business, not good for civilians. I'm so old I remember when there were 2 Yemens! )
 
Just to add to their misery - http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...lera-outbreak-hits-war-torn-Yemen-UNICEF.html
War-torn Yemen is suffering from a cholera outbreak, the UN’s children agency said Friday, posing a further threat to infants in the impoverished nation.

“This outbreak adds to the misery of millions of children in Yemen,” UNICEF Yemen representative Julien Harneis said in a statement.

“Children are at a particularly high risk if the current cholera outbreak is not urgently contained especially since the health system in Yemen is crumbling as the conflict continues.”

UNICEF said health professionals in the militia-held capital Sanaa had reported several cases, as had medics in Taez, Yemen’s third largest city.

The conflict between Yemen’s government and Iran-backed Houthi militia escalated last year with the intervention of a Saudi-led Arab coalition in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
 
... and now the US Navy is being dragged in too -
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...ip-targeted-again-by-missiles-from-Yemen.html
A US Navy destroyer was targeted on Wednesday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi militia, the second such incident in the past four days, US officials told Reuters.

The USS Mason, which was accompanied by the USS Ponce - an amphibious transport dock - fired defensive salvos in response to the missiles, neither of which hit the ship or caused any damage as it operated north of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The renewed attempt to target the US Navy destroyer will add pressure on the US military to retaliate, a move that would represent the first direct US military action against Houthis in Yemen’s conflict. The Pentagon hinted about possible retaliatory strikes on Tuesday.

The incidents, along with an Oct. 1 strike on a vessel from the United Arab Emirates, add to questions about safety of passage for military ships around the Bab al-Mandab Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...rikes-Houthis-after-attacks-on-navy-ship.html
The US military launched cruise missile strikes on Thursday to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a US Navy destroyer, US officials said.

The strikes, authorized by President Barack Obama, represent Washington’s first direct military action against Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen’s conflict.

Still, the Pentagon appeared to stress the defensive nature of the strikes, which were aimed at radar that enabled the launch of at least three missiles against the US Navy destroyer USS Mason since Sunday.

“These limited self-defense strikes were conducted to protect our personnel, our ships, and our freedom of navigation,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.

US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said US Navy destroyer USS Nitze launched the Tomahawk cruise missiles around 4 a.m. local (0100 GMT).
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/world/middleeast/yemen-united-states-missiles-radar.html
For the United States, it was simple retaliation: Rebels in Yemen had fired missiles at an American warship twice in four days, and so the United States hit back, destroying rebel radar facilities with missiles.

But for the rebels and many others in Yemen, the predawn strikes on Thursday were just the first public evidence of what they have long believed: that the United States has been waging an extended campaign in the country, the hidden hand behind Saudi Arabia’s punishing air war.

For the Obama administration, the missile strikes also highlighted the risks of a balancing strategy it has tried to pursue in Yemen since a bitter sectarian war engulfed the country two years ago. The United States has not formally joined the Saudi-led coalition that intervened in support of Yemen’s deposed government — and has tried to push the warring factions toward a peace deal — but it has refueled coalition bombers, trained Saudi pilots and provided intelligence to the bombing campaign.

A year and a half of bombing — along with the deaths of thousands of Yemeni civilians — has stoked anger in Yemen not only toward the Saudis, but also toward their perceived patrons in Washington. This week’s attacks on the Mason, an American destroyer, and the Pentagon’s response show how rapidly the United States can go from being an uneasy supporting player to an active participant in a chaotic civil war.
(Russia in Syria, US in Yemen ... )
 
Yemen war: US ship faces new round of 'Houthi missiles'
US officials say a new round of missiles targeting an American warship in the Red Sea has been fired from a region of Yemen controlled by Houthi fighters.

The USS Mason, a destroyer, launched countermeasures and was not hit in Saturday's strike.

Three US warships in the Red Sea detected the missiles, the US military said, amid rising tensions with the Iran-allied group.

"The Mason once again appears to have come under attack in the Red Sea, again from coastal defence cruise missiles fired from the coast of Yemen," Admiral John Richardson, chief of naval operations, announced on Saturday in Baltimore.

US officials initially said that surface-to-surface missiles had been fired at the USS Mason, USS Nitze and USS Ponce off the coast of Yemen starting around 19:30 GMT, though it was unclear how many.

If confirmed, the missile launches would be the third attack in about a week targeting the Mason and other US ships.
 
UN announces 72-hour ceasefire in Yemen - France 24
A 72-hour ceasefire in Yemen is due to start on Wednesday night, the U.N. envoy for Yemen said on Monday after he received commitments from all of the country's warring factions.
U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the cessation of hostilities would begin at 2359 local time (2059 GMT) on Wednesday and could be renewed after the initial three-day period, the United Nations said in statement.
 
Yemen ceasefire comes into effect - France 24
A ceasefire took effect in war-ravaged Yemen just before midnight Wednesday, under a United Nations plan, as warring parties face mounting pressure to end more than 18 months of fighting.
The UN special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, had announced on Monday that the cessation of hostilities would take effect "at 23:59 Yemen time (2059 GMT) on 19 October 2016, for an initial period of 72 hours, subject to renewal".

There was heavy fighting in Yemen hours before the truce began.
 
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