The Guardian: Yemen: ceasefire agreed for port city of Hodeidah “Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to an immediate ceasefire in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, the U.N. secretary general has said, in a potential breakthrough at the end of a week of peace talks in Sweden. … If implemented…

New York Times: This Is What Our Yemen Policy Looks Like Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist “…Members of the United States Congress are considering measures that would end our country’s support for the [Saudi Arabian war in Yemen]. … United States policies are contributing to the deaths of children…

Agence France-Presse: Around 20 million Yemenis food insecure due to ongoing conflict “Around 20 million Yemenis are food insecure, U.N. agencies said on Saturday, adding the conflict ravaging the impoverished country was the key driver behind rising hunger levels. ‘As many as 20 million Yemenis are food insecure in the…

New York Times: U.S. Tax Dollars Help to Starve Children Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist “…Both the Obama and Trump administrations have supported the Saudi war in Yemen with a military partnership, arms sales, intelligence sharing, and until recently air-to-air refueling. The United States is thus complicit in what…

International Rescue Committee: New nutrition analysis confirms children are being starved in Yemen “A new integrated food security and classification (IPC) report shows that 240,000 Yemeni civilians are living in famine condition and 9.8 million are on the brink of famine, a shocking increase of 42 percent … since 2017.…

NPR: Yemen Peace Talks Begin In Sweden, As Humanitarian Crisis Deepens “For the first time in more than two years the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels are holding peace talks, with half of Yemen’s population facing starvation as a result of the civil war. … The civil war in Yemen,…

The Guardian: ‘We need more food, not less’: U.S. cuts leave Palestinian refugees in crisis “…Until last year, the U.S. donated roughly one-third of [the U.N. Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA)] $1.1bn (£861m) budget — easily the biggest contribution — to cover schooling, health care, and food aid for 5.3…

The Lancet Global Health: Yemen needs a concrete plan — now Editorial Board “…[The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is] an opportunity to learn, in the hope that this situation can be reversed in Yemen, and prevented elsewhere. … In May 2018, The Lancet Global Health published a modeling study by…

POLITICO Magazine: Why Congress Suddenly Cares About Yemen Paul Slovic, president of Decision Research and professor of psychology at the University of Oregon; and Andrew Quist, research associate at Decision Research, both co-editors of the website The Arithmetic of Compassion “…When we assess the importance of large-scale humanitarian crises, the…

Foreign Policy: U.N. Body Declares Famine Conditions in Parts of Yemen “The World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization have officially determined that 73,000 Yemeni civilians in rebel-controlled cities are enduring famine conditions, according to two diplomatic sources. The figures, which appear in a report to be released…