Saving Yemen

Saving YemenA victory in the civil war, by either side, is unlikely to bring peace.

March 9, 2017 By Gerald M. Feierstein | https://www.thecairoreview.com/tahrir-forum/saving-yemen/

As the conflict in Yemen draws to the end of its second year, the human toll of the political tragedy continues to mount. Rough estimates of civilian casualties, since fighting began in March 2015, may now exceed 10,000 killed with over 40,000 injured. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported that over three million of Yemen’s 27.5 million citizens have been internally displaced by the conflict, while over half the population is considered food insecure. Famine and epidemics of disease may be on the near horizon. Five years after Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s election as interim president started the clock on the only negotiated political transition of the Arab Spring, the future survival of Yemen hangs in the balance.https://www.thecairoreview.com/tahrir-forum/saving-yemen/