“While the world is focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war [de la coalition arabe] in Yemen is entering its eighth year”writes Bruce Riedel, academic and specialist in Middle Eastern affairs on the site of the American think tank Brookings.
The conflict has become even more complex with the muscular military intervention in March 2015 of a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, supported by the United Arab Emirates, to counter the advance on the ground of the Houthi rebels, supported by the Iran. Above all, the war provoked one of the worst humanitarian crises of the current century in one of the least developed countries (LDCs) on the planet.
Seven years later, the situation is all the more distressing since the objective of defeating the Houthi rebels has “totally failed”, according to Bruce Riedel. They always control “the capital Sanaa and most of northern Yemen, where 80% of the population lives. And the Yemeni people are paying a terrible price in this war for which there is no end in sight”.
The heavy death toll, 377,000 according to the UN, close to that recorded in eleven years of war in Syria, is due to the fighting, but also to malnutrition and the collapse of healthcare systems, having multiplied the e