{"id":92668,"date":"2021-03-06T11:04:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T05:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=92668"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:59:53","slug":"consequences-of-yemen-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/consequences-of-yemen-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences of Yemen Civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synopsis- <\/strong>Joe Biden declared that the US will no longer back the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen. Yemen Civil war resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and a humanitarian crisis. A reconciliation is urgently required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background of Yemen civil war-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The civil war between the Yemeni government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels\u00a0began in 2014. The Houthi rebels gradually took over the capital Sana\u2019a.<\/li>\n<li>In 2015, the war intensified. Saudi Arabia and 8 other Arab nations, supported by the US, the UK, and France, launched airstrikes against the Houthis. This attack was aimed to restore the Hadi government in Yemen.<\/li>\n<li>The Saudi-led coalition imposed a blockade on Yemen, in the hope of weakening the Houthis.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the blockade, the Houthis continued to amass weapons, including technologically sophisticated drones. They used these weapons to strike Saudi targets across the border.<\/li>\n<li>The Saudi-led coalition failed to eject the Houthis as the rebel group still controls the city.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Consequences of Yemen-Saudi war<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The war has produced a humanitarian crisis. At least 8.4 million people are at risk of starvation and 22.2 million people (75% of the population) are in need of humanitarian assistance.<\/li>\n<li>The conflict has killed more than 100,000 Yemenis and displaced 8 million.<\/li>\n<li>Towns and cities have been destroyed. Poverty has spread and diseases like cholera have proven difficult to combat because of poor medical infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>According to the UN, 50,000 Yemenis are starving to death and 16 million will go hungry this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the steps taken by the US?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joe Biden has announced an <strong>end to US support for Saudi-led offensive operations<\/strong> in\u00a0Yemen.<\/li>\n<li>The Biden administration had put a temporary <strong>halt on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.\u00a0<\/strong>Moreover,<strong> US-appointed a Special Envoy for Yemen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Other than that, the US also Removed the Shia Houthi rebels from the terrorist list.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The US is planning to increase the number of refugees accepted by the US from 15000 to 125000 for the fiscal year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What needs to be done?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The international community should focus on tackling the humanitarian situation in Yemen.<\/li>\n<li>The Biden administration should use its leverage to pressure Saudi to lift the blockade on Yemen.<\/li>\n<li>The Houthis and the Saudis must agree to a ceasefire. After that, the US and its regional allies can call a multilateral conference involving all stakeholders to consider Yemen&#8217;s future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis- Joe Biden declared that the US will no longer back the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen. Yemen Civil war resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and a humanitarian crisis. A reconciliation is urgently required. Background of Yemen civil war- The civil war between the Yemeni government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels\u00a0began in 2014.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/consequences-of-yemen-civil-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consequences of Yemen Civil war<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1333],"class_list":["post-92668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-ir_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}