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| Yemen ceasefire comes into effect under UN plan | |
| 2016-10-20 | |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A ceasefire took effect in war-ravaged Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... late on Wednesday under a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... plan. The UN special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced that the cessation of hostilities would take effect "at 23:59 Yemen time on 19 October 2016, for an initial period of 72 hours, subject to renewal".
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... militias for rejecting to pay the salaries of state employees. Activists had made similar calls in the past to protest against Houthi militias in Sanaa and against the deteriorating living conditions. The militias have refused to pay the employees' salaries at a time when Sanaa citizens lives under harsh conditions under krazed killer forces, who on almost a daily basis, carry out abduction operations against civilians. "Most Yemenis want to put an end to the Houthi-Saleh coup," Yemen expert and analyst Ibraham al-Qatabi told Al Arabiya English, referring to the deposed president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , allied with the Houthi militias. "The resentment against Saleh and Houthis continues to grow everyday even within their hardcore supporters." "No Yemeni citizen wants to be ruled by a militia and warlords. Everyone knows Saleh and Houthis are not going to last and that’s what the current situation, indicators and history of Yemen tell us," Qatabi said. | |
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| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-20 08:48 |