A U.N.-backed report on Yemen published on Wednesday found there was no famine in the country but said 60 percent of Yemenis, or 17 million people, are in "crisis" or "emergency" food situations, an increase of 20 percent since last June.
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Yemeni militiamen took over the main port of the southern city of Aden and the adjoining district of Mualla on Wednesday, residents and the fighters said, as part of an offensive against the country's Houthi group.
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government protester was killed and seven injured in clashes with supporters of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a Saturday.
Saleh blamed a “foreign agenda” and a “conspiracy against Yemen, its security and stability” for the string (...)
Security forces in Yemen's port of Aden have arrested 30 people during a two day hunt for suspected Al-Qaeda operatives behind an attack on an intelligence building, a security official and the Defense Ministry said.
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Yemeni police clashed with suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Aden Friday, arresting several, as they searched for a group that had attacked an intelligence building there, a security official said.
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A separatist activist and his son were shot dead on their farm and gunmen killed a soldier at a police post in worsening violence in southern Yemen, witnesses and media said on Monday.
A fourth man was also shot dead on Sunday by soldiers in Dalea, (...)
Yemen has arrested some 80 suspected separatists after army positions in south Yemen came under fire and shops owned by northerners were burned, an official and southern residents said on Monday.
The sweeps carried out over three days followed a (...)
Three people were killed on Sunday in clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters in southern Yemen, where separatist sentiment is strong, officials and witnesses said.
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