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YemenExtra The Yemeni Media Union today, condemned the Saudi aggression's detention of oil tankers, the tightening of the blockade, and the worsening of economic conditions. The Union pointed out in a statement that these arbitrary…

YemenExtra M.A. Yemen's Minister of Health Dr. Taha al-Mutawakel stressed that the Saudi-led coalition has been resisting and refusing to open Sanaa International Airport for merely humanitarian flights, which has caused the suffering…

Ministry of Industry and Trade confirmed, on Wednesday, that over 200,000 gas cylinders will by arrived to Sana`a next days Mohammed Ahmed Al-Hashemi, the  first undersecretary of the Ministry of Industry and Trade said, said in on…

YemenExtra Y.A In the port of this coastal city in western Yemen, hundreds of fishing boats, painted in bright blues and intricate patterns, are anchored – many of them docked since 2015. The paralysed port is yet another reminder of how…

YemenExtra Y.A Iraq has once again extended by three months a ban on international flights to and from the Kurdish region, some five months after the region held a controversial referendum on independence, which opened up a persisting…

YemenExtra Y.A “Let me be clear: The use of starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime.” – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, January 15, 2016, warning the warring parties in Syria “People are dying; children are suffering not as…

YemenExtra Y.A French President Emanuel Macron has reportedly asked King Salman of Saudi Arabia to remove a long-running blockade on Yemen and let humanitarian aid through, as millions of Yemeni civilians struggle with the…

YemenExtra SH.A. "The Yemeni transportation ministry precisely pursues developments related to al-Hudayda port and strongly rejects the Saudi ambassador's claims in his al-Jazeera news channel interview that four cranes have…

YemenExtra Y.A Yemen is being pushed ever closer to famine after 1,000 days of Saudi Arabian-led war and “medieval” blockade, says an international charity group. “For 1,000 days, huge amounts of sophisticated modern weapons have…

YemenExtra Y.A The White House welcomed what they called a first step by Saudi Arabia to allow humanitarian aid to reach Yemen, welcomed the decision to open the port of Hodeidah and Sanaa airport, saying that millions of Yemenis are…