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Yemen can’t wait: why a global protest has created a chance for change
Joe Biden has suggested a new direction on Yemen — we must seize the opportunity to protest in his first week as US President to make sure he keeps his promise, writes CHRIS NINEHAM
Houthis and their supporters demonstrate outside the closed US embassy in Sanaa, January 18

UP TO a quarter of a million people have died as result of the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen. The UN believes the war and the accompanying blockade threaten 24 million people with acute food shortages.

Yemen has experienced the worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world for decades while the Covid-19 situation in the country remains unclear because the health system has been pulverised.

Yet the war on Yemen is a largely unreported catastrophe. The problem for the Western media is that this is a disaster whose roots lie in Western foreign policy.

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