The beautiful city of Aden smiles at me from space! Sending all my love to #Yemen - a land of endearing warmth, rich history, millennia-old civilization, and architectural wonders. 🤍 🇾🇪

raises legitimate questions about the ability of this extremist group to control the situation and establish security in its region. These horrific incidents reveal the failure of Houthi leaders to provide a sustainable security system for members of their group in accordance with international principles.

The Elders today expressed concern that the severe famine and humanitarian crisis in Yemen will be worsened by the US Government’s designation of one of the parties in the conflict as terrorists. This action done by the US will punish the whole of the Yemeni population, raising the prospect of mass famine and significant loss of life, and possibly make a future diplomatic solution even more difficult, the Elders warned. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world and exacerbating this situation will increase instability in an already fractured and fractious region.

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Source:https://theelders.org/news/elders-warn-yemen-famine-will-be-worsened-us-designation-houthis-terrorists

'The idea [of using fishing boat radar to track enemy ships] came, incongruously, from the Houthis in Yemen, the scrappy, Iranian-backed rebels who have bedeviled an American-backed coalition of Gulf States for years and rule a swath of territory in northern Yemen. The Houthis, who wield a vast arsenal of cruise and ballistic missiles, kamikaze boats and long-range drones, have used the radars to track Emirati and Saudi ships.' https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/us/politics/sweden-ukraine-nato-marines.html