Houthi forces, government-affiliated forces, and the UAE and UAE-backed Yemeni forces have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared scores of people. The country’s broken economy has worsened the humanitarian crisis.Ĭoalition and Houthi forces have harassed, threatened, and attacked Yemeni activists and journalists. Hundreds of thousands of families no longer have a steady source of income, and many public servants have not received a regular salary in several years.

Yemen’s economy, already fragile prior to the conflict, has been gravely affected. Across the country, civilians suffer from a lack of basic services, a spiraling economic crisis, abusive local security forces, and broken governance, health, education, and judicial systems. In August 2019, clashes occurred between Yemeni government and STC forces, with the UAE carrying out airstrikes in support of the STC. In southern Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have backed rival Yemeni groups-the Saudi-supported Yemeni government led by President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC). Houthi forces, which still control much of northern and central Yemen, killed Saleh after clashes in December 2017.

Over the past year, these alliances have fractured. Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have led a coalition of states in Yemen against Houthi forces that, in alliance with former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, took over Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September 2014. More than 20 million people in Yemen are experiencing food insecurity 10 million of them are at risk of famine. According to the Yemen Data Project, more than 17,500 civilians were killed and injured since 2015, and a quarter of all civilians killed in air raids were women and children. The armed conflict in Yemen has resulted in the largest humanitarian crisis in the world parties to the conflict have killed and injured thousands of Yemeni civilians.

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