Black clouds of smoke stood in sky. Explosions and Cannon Thunder echoed over rooftops of Sanaa. In many quarters of Yemeni capital, armed forces delivered fierce battles, while inhabitants barricaded in ir homes. It was a violent wave of violence that ever-blooded civil war in Yemen experienced this Sunday: Several dozen people died, re were hundreds of injured.

The alliance between Huthi rebels and ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh was shattered shortly before. The split was triggered by Saleh's appearance on television. In his speech he offered "to brethren of neighbouring States" to propose a new side in relation to each or, when air strikes and blockade would end. "It's enough what happened in Yemen," said ex-head of state. "Brethren" was primarily meant by Saudi Arabia – Rebel's greatest enemy.

The Huthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Huthi insulted ex-president Saleh as a high traitor. The rebel fighters built roadblocks and attacked south of Sanaa, where Saleh's relatives and many of his partisans dwell. Saudi Arabia, on or hand, welcomed turnaround and declared that it would liberate Yemen from "evil of Iran-controlled militias."

Hunger, malnutrition and cholera

The Civil War, which 2015begann in March, plunged Yemen into world's largest humanitäreKatastrophe. According to UN data, 8,400 people have been killed and 48,000 injured. Three million lost ir homes and deadlines a existence alsBinnenflüchtlinge. Even before war, nation in south of ArabischenHalbinsel with its 27 million inhabitants was a poor country: Yemen had to import 90Prozent of food. Two-thirds of all Yemenis are starving or malnutrition. 1.8 of 4.5 million children under age of five are acutely malnourished. 920,000 people fell ill 2017 to cholera, more than 2,200 died of epidemic.

The spectacular disintegration of Huthi War Alliance has been looming for a long time. Saleh led a six-time war against rebel movement before his fall 2012. In May 2017, deep mutual mistrust was evident when Saleh first offered talks to Saudi Arabia-led alliance and provoked Shia rebel leadership.

On August 24th, Saleh had tens of thousands of his followers marched into Sanaa. He enforceable his Huthi war partners in a bombastic speech as an "armed militia." In September, Houthis responded with ir own grand rally, on brink of which re were first battles and dead. Her suspicion that Saleh was playing a double game was furr strengned when Saudi Arabia allowed a Russian medical team to travel to Sanaa to operate 75-year-old in October despite an air blockade.

The conflict could now extend to a three-front war – between Houthis, armed forces of ex-president Saleh in north, and government forces allied with Gulf Alliance in south. Then fights could destroy world Heritage metropolis Sanaa as badly as Aden and Taiz, or two major cities of country.

Date Of Update: 04 December 2017, 12:02