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Can we stop Britain enabling the bloodbath in Yemen?
The Tories said they'd support Saudi aggression 'in every practical way short of engaging in combat' and our arms companies are central to the slaughter —so why isn't Yemen a priority for the British left, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Placards prepared for people taking part in a protest over Yemen
While pretending to seek peace, Europe is heading toward a collision course with Russia – using security guarantees, troop deployments, expropriation and censorship as tools, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
Alba party leader KENNY MacASKILL makes some suggestions on how to save our pubs and reduce irresponsible drinking
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Opinion polls point to electoral collapse, parliamentary rebellion and a looming leadership challenge as Starmer’s Labour haemorrhages working-class support and the far right exploits the vacuum left by a hollowed-out party, says NICK WRIGHT
The long-term effects of chemical weapons such as Agent Orange mean that the impact of war lasts well beyond a ceasefire
AS WE approach the seventh anniversary of the beginning of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military intervention and blockade in Yemen, the horror continues.
By the end of 2021 the UN Development Programme estimated 377,000 people had been killed in Yemen, either directly through violence or indirectly through hunger and disease. This follows 2018 analysis from Save the Children that estimated “85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger since the war in Yemen escalated” in March 2015 with the Saudi involvement.
More broadly, in September 2021 the UN World Food Programme warned that 16 million Yemenis — over half the population — were “marching toward starvation.” And in 2018 Mark Lowcock, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief co-ordinator, said Yemen was dealing with “what most people think is the biggest epidemic of cholera outbreak the world has seen.”
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