With world attention focused on Ukraine, Gulf despots are also getting away with wanton aggression- with British support, For over half a decades the people in Yemen have known nothing but war.. More than
half of Yemen’s population continue to face the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, unable to access food for survival, and
the rate of poverty and hunger is increasing every day.
Eight million Yemenis will likely lose all humanitarian aid in March
unless urgent funds are delivered, United Nations officials have warned,
amid an escalation in a long-running war that last month caused the
highest toll in civilian casualties in at least three years.
More than 650 civilians were killed or injured in January by air raids,
shelling, small arms fire and other violence, “by far the highest toll
in at least three years”, according to UN figures.
Yemen has been at war since 2014, when the Houthi rebels took control of
much of the country’s north, including the capital, Sanaa, forcing the
president to first flee to the south and then to Saudi Arabia. A
Saudi-led military coalition entered the war in March 2015, backed by
the United States with the aim of restoring President Abd-Rabbu Mansour
Hadi to power.
As
is the case in Ukraine, The world must not forget Yemen a crisis that
continiues to threaten millions of lives , that shoes no signs of
abating.,
Potential disruption to global wheat supplies after Russia's invasion
of Ukraine is raising concerns that war-torn Yemen's hunger crisis and
food price inflation could deepen, with some Yemenis rushing to buy
flour.
The
World Food Program (WFP) this week said the Ukraine crisis is likely to
further increase fuel and food prices, especially grains, in
import-dependent Yemen where food costs have more than doubled in many
areas in the past year.
Russia and Ukraine account for about 29% of global wheat exports and interruption to that flow is pushing up global prices.Conflict and inflation in Yemen have pushed millions to the brink of famine. Despite years of destruction, ordinary
Yemenis are still hoping for peace.
Against the might of arms dealers, warlords and militias, two talented survivors of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis still hope for a better future. Declassified spoke to Saber Bamatraf, a pianist, and Shatha Altowai, an artist.
The couple fled to Scotland to escape threats from Yemen’s socially conservative Houthi rebel group; and now live just an hour away from an arms factory that supplies Saudi Arabia and profits from the devastation of their hometown.
Producer/director: Phil Miller
Paintings courtesy Shatha Altowai - https://www.shathaaltowai.com/
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