The World Health Organization brought 46.4 tons of assistance including trauma kits, medicines to treat malaria and diarrheal diseases, and water and sanitation supplies for more than 84,000 people.
"It took us days and days and days to organize the safe passage ... But it did arrive in Aden last Saturday. It was the first time that we got a convoy into Aden for weeks," Johannes Van Der Klaauw, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, told a news briefing.
The UN convoy was to have included rations from the World Food Program "but the WFP trucks in the end were disconnected from that convoy" he said without elaborating.
Hunger and disease are threatening the 1 million residents of Aden, now a war zone caught between local faceless myrmidons and Houthi
...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...
fighters, aid agencies say.
The United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
says 21 million people need help, about 80 percent of the population of the country.
UN Secretary-General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
is "very much disappointed" that a UN-brokered humanitarian pause in fighting did not take hold over the weekend, his front man said on Monday.
Van Der Klaauw said that the UN wanted to have aid ships dock in Aden. "But since the pause didn't take place, we still have a big problem that Aden is not reachable by sea. And it should be."
As vessels are diverted to the northern port of Hodeida, goods have to be taken by land to Aden and there is a perception "that vessels have only gone into that part of 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...
which is in the hands of the de facto Houthi authorities."
Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head...
Yemeni forces battling the Iranian catspaws in the country's south say they have taken control of the airport in Aden and that they have driven the rebels into a part of the city jutting out into the sea.
The advance is a major blow for the Houthis, basically trapping them on the small peninsula.
Ali Al-Ahmadi, the front man for the city's anti-rebel forces known as Aden Resistance Leadership Council, says the operation was coordinated with the Saudi-led coalition.
Also on Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition carried out