{"id":34804,"date":"2023-04-16T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34804"},"modified":"2025-04-20T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:55:51","slug":"yemen-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/yemen-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Yemen Civil War (Background, Beginning)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary Regarding Peace Talks in Yemen<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After eight years of crushing civil war in Yemen, a new round of talks this week has raised a glimmer of hope for a breakthrough in one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Background of the Yemen Civil War:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The wave of protests known as the <strong>Arab Spring<\/strong> did not take long to arrive in Yemen after the Tunisian Revolution (2011\u20132012).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yemen, <\/strong>only unified since 1990, was a <strong>poor country<\/strong> with a government widely acknowledged to be <strong>corrupt<\/strong>, with a large number of <strong>weapons in private hands<\/strong>. It had<strong> deep divisions that persisted<\/strong> between the north and south<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>By 2011, the country was <strong>already facing challenges<\/strong> from al Qaeda-linked militants and separatists in the south and Zaydi Shia Muslim rebels in the north.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media\">\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nLRgdFP-s30\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nLRgdFP-s30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Beginning of the Civil war:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In September 2014, the <strong>Houthi insurgency<\/strong> (predominantly a Iran-backed Zaydi Shia force) transformed into a full-blown civil war as Houthi fighters swept into the capital of Sana&#8217;a.<\/li>\n<li>The rebels continued to apply pressure until the <strong>internationally recognised government was ousted in January 2015.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Houthis declared themselves in control of the Yemeni government<\/strong>, dissolving the Parliament, and installing an interim <strong>Revolutionary Committee.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The then President (Hadi) escaped to Aden and declared himself Yemen&#8217;s legitimate president and proclaimed Aden as the country&#8217;s temporary capital.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Saudi-led coalition<\/strong> intervened in 2015 in an attempt to restore the (Hadi) government, launching a devastating <strong>bombing campaign<\/strong> that lasted years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi-test.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/content\/ckeditor\/2023\/04\/19\/image-20230419115541-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Image Caption: Key Players in Yemen Conflict<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Even before the war, <strong>Yemen was the poorest Arab country<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>But the conflict mired the Yemenis into one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises and pushed the country to the brink of <strong>famine<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The UN estimates the war had <strong>killed 377,000 people<\/strong> as of the end of 2021, both directly and indirectly through hunger and disease &#8211; <strong>70% of those deaths are children.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>About 24 million people &#8211; <strong>80% of Yemen\u2019s population<\/strong> &#8211; are in need of humanitarian aid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary Regarding Peace Talks in Yemen:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What has changed now?<\/strong> A surprise rapprochement\/resumption of harmonious relations between two regional powers,<strong> Saudi Arabia and Iran<\/strong> &#8211; who fed a <strong>proxy conflict<\/strong> that worsened the war.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who is at the talks? <\/strong>The negotiations in Yemen\u2019s capital, Sana, bring together <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> and the <strong>Houthis<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are they trying to achieve?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Negotiators are seeking the reinstatement of a <strong>truce <\/strong>and <strong>a complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Yemen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The negotiators also want to pave the way for broader talks <strong>to resolve Yemen\u2019s multifaceted political conflict and repair its demolished economy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why does the d\u00e9tente between Saudi Arabia and Iran matter?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Both Riyadh and Tehran are keen to prove that their diplomatic efforts were instrumental in bringing calmness to Yemen.<\/li>\n<li>Saudi officials are eager to end their military involvement in Yemen, which has been e<strong>xpensive and damaging to the kingdom\u2019s international reputation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Will these talks end Yemen\u2019s conflict?<\/strong> Without genuine support within the country, among the Yemenis themselves, a political resolution cannot take root.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the Arab spring?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is the Houthi movement?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Houthi movement is an Islamist political and armed organisation that emerged in North Yemen in the 1990s. The Houthi movement is a predominately Zaidi Shia force, whose leadership is drawn largely from the Houthi tribe, that have a complex relationship with Yemen&#8217;s Sunni Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/peace-talks-yemen-8-year-war-8550490\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What do peace talks in Yemen mean for its 8-year war?<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/9\/yemens-war-explained-in-maps-and-charts-interactive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Aljazeera<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen civil war began in 2014 when Houthi forces invaded Sana&#8217;a resulting in a full-fledged civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}