أبريل 10, 2022
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Money Exchangers Eye Windfall from Rial’s Recent Gains
Ramadan Truce Faces Uphill Struggle – The Yemen Review, March 2022
US Assistance to Saudi-Led Coalition Risks Complicity in War Crimes
Fleeing Another Conflict: An Inside Look at the #YemenisinUkraine Safety Network
Hadi Out, Presidential Council Takes Over
Money Exchangers Eye Windfall from Rial’s Recent Gains
By: The Sana’a Center Economic Unit
The value of Yemeni rials increased dramatically today, April 7, following the announcement of US$3 billion in new Saudi and Emirati support for the internationally recognized Yemeni government. However, there are strong signs already from the money market that the rebound will be temporary.
Consultations in Riyadh between Yemeni parties to the anti-Houthi coalition and Gulf Cooperation Council states yielded major results in the past 24 hours, with Yemeni President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi replaced by a presidential council and Vice President Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar sacked. Both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates committed US$1 billion each in new support to the government-controlled Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) in Aden, while Saudi Arabia committed a further US$1 billion in support for oil derivative purchases and development projects..
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Ramadan Truce Faces Uphill Struggle
The Yemen Review, March 2022
March saw an escalation in cross-border attacks between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, with Houthi missiles and drones targeting Saudi oil and gas infrastructure, and the kingdom responding with airstrikes on Houthi-held areas in northern Yemen. However, the month ended on a hopeful note, with the warring parties declaring that they were entering, for the first time in more than seven years of war, a nationwide cease-fire. The truce, which commenced on April 2, the first day Ramadan, is set to last two months and includes a halt to military operations and cross-border attacks, in addition to the easing of coalition restrictions that would reopen Sana’a airport to commercial flights and allow fuel tankers to resume deliveries to the Houthi-held port of Hudaydah. Despite multiple early accusations of violations, there is hope that the cease-fire will provide Yemenis a reprieve from both the fighting and the three-month long fuel crisis that has gripped the country. The cease-fire also provides breathing space for peace consultations among anti-Houthi parties, brought together in Riyadh in late March and early April under the auspices of the six-state Gulf Cooperation Council..
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More in The Yemen Review, March 2022..
Military and Security
Politics and Diplomacy – Casey Coombs
Humanitarian & Human Rights
Economic Developments – The Sana’a Center Economic Unit
US Assistance to Saudi-Led Coalition Risks Complicity in War Crimes
By: Afrah Nasser
The protracted conflict in Yemen has killed almost a quarter of a million people directly or indirectly due to inadequate food, health care and infrastructure. It has included unlawful attack after unlawful attack, with homes, hospitals, schools and bridges among the civilian objects that the warring parties have targeted. Fighting has internally displaced more than 4 million people from their homes. Food insecurity is on the rise.
The conflict that began in 2014 between the Houthi armed group and the government of President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi morphed in 2015 into a conflict between the Houthis and the US-backed coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Today the fighting includes nearly 50 other battle fronts.
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Fleeing Another Conflict: An Inside Look at the #YemenisinUkraine Safety Network
By: Azal Al-Salafi
TThe Russian invasion of Ukraine sent waves of shock across the world. However, it did not take long in the Yemeni diaspora for the first shock to be replaced by another: the realization that some Yemenis were facing yet another war, this time in Europe.
About 600 Yemenis, many of them students, were residing in Ukraine when Russia invaded on February 24. Consequently, a collective of young activists and volunteers soon formed a safety network to address the plight of these Yemenis caught up in the war. It consists of members of Yomn Council, a newly established association led by Yemeni youth living abroad that aims to identify and support efforts to resolve Yemen-related issues, as well as other diaspora Yemenis and internationals with connections to Yemen. The initiative, #YemenisinUkraine, mobilized by the safety network on social media, called for action from authorities and the international community to provide a lifeline to Yemenis fleeing the war..
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Hadi Out, Presidential Council Takes Over
In the early hours of April 7, Yemen witnessed a dramatic political change as President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi dismissed Vice President Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and then signed over the executive authority he has held for the past decade to a presidential council. The eight-man body, known officially as the Presidential Command Council (PCC), was announced from Riyadh, where Yemeni parties to the anti-Houthi coalition had gathered under the auspices of Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-sponsored consultations.
The reformed leadership body brings together disparate factions within the anti-Houthi alliance. It is headed by Rashad al-Alimi, a former interior minister. The other seven members of the PCC are: Marib Governor Sultan al-Aradah, Southern Transitional Council President Aiderous al-Zubaidi, National Resistance forces leader Tariq Saleh, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Office Abdullah al-Alimi, Hadramawt Governor Faraj al-Bahsani, Giants Brigades Commander Abdelrahman Abou Zaraa and Member of Parliament Othman al-Majali.
Sana’a Center senior experts Maged al-Madhaji, Maysaa Shuja al-Deen and Abdulghani al-Iryani react to the change at the top of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, and look ahead to what it means for the future of the conflict in Yemen..
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Presidential Councils in Yemen:
Exploring Past Attempts at Power Sharing and Possibilities for the Future
May 12, 2021 | By Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen
During the past six years of war, President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi has failed in administering the situation in Yemen on the military and political levels. For many Yemenis, Hadi, after spending much of the conflict in exile in Saudi Arabia, is viewed not as a legitimate president but as cover for the Saudi war in Yemen, given that the Saudi-led coalition regularly asserts that its intervention is entirely at the request of Hadi and the internationally recognized Yemeni government. This lack of legitimacy and authority has resulted in the proliferation of militia rule across Yemen – most notably the armed Houthi movement, but also groups supposedly allied with the Hadi government..
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A Presidential Council:
The Best of Bad Alternatives to Hadi
June 14, 2021 | The Sana’a Center Editorial
During the past six years of war, President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi has failed in administering the situation in Yemen on the military and political levels. For many Yemenis, Hadi, after spending much of the conflict in exile in Saudi Arabia, is viewed not as a legitimate president but as cover for the Saudi war in Yemen, given that the Saudi-led coalition regularly asserts that its intervention is entirely at the request of Hadi and the internationally recognized Yemeni government. This lack of legitimacy and authority has resulted in the proliferation of militia rule across Yemen – most notably the armed Houthi movement, but also groups supposedly allied with the Hadi government..
