Shocked and perplexed... no one is paying attention to war in Yemen.

[WarGamer]

Yes, shocked and surprised, I tell ya...

For the life of me I can't figure out WHY the war in Yemen is being kept SECRET from all the kind hearted Westerners.

For some reason... the UN is having a hard time finding countries to donate money for millions of starving Yemenis.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114002

WFP was forced to reduce food rations for eight million people at the beginning of the year due to a shortage of funds, Mr. Beasley said. For now, five million people who are at immediate risk of slipping into famine conditions have continued to receive a full food ration.

WFP is currently only 11 percent funded and needs more than $887.9 million to provide food assistance for 13 million people over the coming six months.

Mr. Griffiths said more than 75 per cent of the $14 billion generated by United Nations appeals has come from six donors - the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Germany and the European Commission – whose funds have staved off mass famine, “an important success”, he said.

[Joinfortmill]

1. I hear you.

[WarGamer]

2. Less than a Billion dollars to keep them out of famine for the next 6 months.

I've heard generous offers of HUNDREDS of billions to rebuild Ukraine.

[jimfields33]

3. The president of yemin needs to have press conferences on tv and

social media. First I’m hearing they are having troubles.

[WarGamer]

4. Why isn't the media covering it?

Just a few days ago I saw a blonde host on CNN in tears about a Ukrainian woman reaching Poland with her 3 kids.

I wonder if she gets choked up about Yemen. I think women there have children, too... right?

[jimfields33]

7. But clearly nobody is aware of the troubles in yemin.

[WarGamer]

9. Hmmm....

The Riemann hypothesis or the mystery of my Yemen isn't being publicized...

I'm not sure which is harder to solve.

[jimfields33]

11. Hopefully it will now.

It’s starts slow and builds.

[pnwmom]

34. We signed an agreement in 1994, in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons,

to protect it from any military aggression.

We signed that along with Britain and Russia.

I'm not aware that we signed anything like that with Yemen. And the US learned during the 20 long years in Vietnam that we can't be the policemen of the world. But we have been one of the major contributors of aid to that country.

[Triloon]

5. I thought the world was fed up

With American intervention in Arab affairs. Perhaps you should address your complaint to the Arab League.

[WarGamer]

6. So no help for brown people?

Really? Feeding is intervention?

[Beastly Boy]

13. The US is helping the brown people in question. So is Europe. The Arab League is not.

How brown do you have to be to get a penny from the Arab League?

[Triloon]

18. A predictable knee jerk.

The US has been helping and feeding 'brown people' all around the world for many decades. And we continue and will continue. But the Saudis and Iranians have created an artificial famine in Yemen and I can't take it seriously that you think it's my ass that needs to be shamed for it.

[WarGamer]

19. How do you explain the difference between media attention of UKR v Yemen?

[Triloon]

23. If I had to guess (and I do) ..

I'd guess that Russia's invasion of Ukr has a deeply significant impact on our global futures. Iran and Saudis contrived civil war in Yemen does not.
Btw ... About 7000 Ru soldiers have been killed in the last 3 weeks in Ukr. Nearly all of them are White and I don't mind at all, I believe many more of them will need to be killed. How does the Western Racism theory account for that? Am I giving undue sympathy to Ukr because it is a White society?
Nope.
I have the same sympathies for Syrians, Palestinians, and other 'brown people', yes, even when it's white people killing them.
If it is news orgs job to keep us informed on all these conflicts then they have surely failed. Pretty sure we can agree on that much anyway.

[WarGamer]

26. +1000, great points

[iemanja]

8. Short answer

Westerners see brown and black people as less important, particularly when they live in the Global South.

[WarGamer]

10. I wasn't going to say it... afraid of Alert Karens... but that's it.

It's (un)conscious bias.

[Emrys]

12. Thanks. The lack of focus on Yemen is something that's grated on me for a few years now.

A possibly vain hope of mine is that what we've all witnessed in Ukraine may expand and transfer to concern over other areas of confict and their human cost. There's no shortage to choose from.

[WarGamer]

14. It all brings about my misanthropy.

I've struggled most of my life with this depressing view of human v human relationships.

"Selective Humanism"...

[Hortensis]

16. Thanks for the post, WarGames. Fwiw, I don't think it's helpful to judge

humanity by our limitations and least common denominators. We are...human, and moaning about that apparently satisfies complainers but otherwise feeds few at best.

While humanity's real and potential caring is feeding many and called on competently will feed many more.

[WarGamer]

17. I know it's going to sound crazy...

But despite this deep and dark misanthropy that lives inside of me...

I'm frequently surprised by the humanity of some people.

Unfortunately I've never been able to "flip the switch" to be permanently pro-human and only occasionally misanthropist.

[Hortensis]

24. :) I start from a wired in notion that everyone has a right to life, etc.

Even if the world might be better off with some major cullings. And in democracies have a right to vote and have some kind of representation in government.

I never expect averages to be what the best are, or the worst, or do better than people always have, so am not disappointed. I can be surprised, though. In this dark era, misanthropes are presumably a lot less so.

Anyway, it can be disastrous for our emotional balance and health to care as much as we often think we should. Nature knew that long before modern communications swamped us all with a world of sorrows.

[WarGamer]

25. +1000 so true...

[ruet]

15. "Yemen's Houthi Rebels Are Impeding the U.N.'s Aid Flow -- And Demanding a Cut"

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-18/un-balks-as-yemen-rebels-try-to-control-the-flow-of-aid

Delivering aid in a war zone has always posed a problem for U.N. agencies. But officials said the situation in Yemen has been especially challenging.

The Houthis have withheld visas and permissions for equipment and supplies and refused to grant clearances for U.N. missions to move through rebel-controlled areas. Aid workers said agency leaders’ past willingness to concede to some of the rebels’ demands has emboldened the Houthi leaders to push for more.

Nearly 300,000 pregnant and nursing mothers and children under age 5 haven’t received nutrition supplements for more than six months because the Houthis “held beneficiaries hostage to the 2%” demand, another U.N. official said.

In another example, Houthi authorities for months delayed permission to distribute 2,000 tons of food — enough to feed 160,000 people — in the district of Aslam, where the AP previously found starving villagers reduced to eating boiled leaves. When approval came in November, the food had spoiled “beyond the point of salvage,” another aid official said.

Houthi leaders have remained defiant in the face of U.N. pushback.

“Yemen will survive” if agencies suspend aid, Abdul-Mohsen Tawoos, secretary-general of the Houthi agency coordinating international aid, told European donors during a Jan. 20 Skype call. Minutes of the call were obtained by the AP.

He said the Houthis wanted to reach an agreement with the U.N. and its donors, but “won’t be bullied.”

Also, from your story:

WFP is currently only 11 percent funded and needs more than $887.9 million to provide food assistance for 13 million people over the coming six months.

Mr. Griffiths said more than 75 per cent of the $14 billion generated by United Nations appeals has come from six donors - the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Germany and the European Commission – whose funds have staved off mass famine, “an important success”, he said.

So it's about the "kind hearted Westerners" huh? Finally, civil wars suck. They are doing it to themselves.

[barbaraann]

35. Good info. Thank you. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Harder to say which side is 'OK' in Yemen

and seven years is a long time to keep world attention. As the situation in Donbass showed, too.

[WarGamer]

21. +1000, great point

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Your thread has got me thinking about other conflicts that faded away

both from the news, and my knowledge. So I started with South Sudan, which was in a civil war. Turns out they managed to make a power-sharing agreement in 2018, and formed a coalition government in February 2020 (which may have been swamped by covid news?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudanese_Civil_War . I have a vague memory of hearing about some ceasefire agreement (which may or may not have been in 2018), and cynically thinking "it won't last". And then I forgot about it.

The civil war in the neighbouring Central African Republic is still unresolved, sadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic_Civil_War . The deaths seems to have been worse at the start, but it's still ongoing, and here's a chilling way the Wikipedia description of events ends: "On 16 and 17 January 2022, Russian mercenaries killed at least 65 civilians in Aïgbado and Yanga villages."

The military junta in Myanmar is still in charge, and no doubt killing anyone who protests. I can't remember what the last state of the war in Ethiopia I heard was (I think the last Ethiopian news I heard was that they'd started generating power form their massive Nile dam, which implies the central government is secure).

[WarGamer]

28. yeah... mans inumanity just keeps rolling.

[Demovictory9]

27. ...

[BlackSkimmer]

29. I didn't notice too much attention about Syria around here either.

Certainly not like what we’re seeing with Ukraine.

[WarGamer]

30. true...

[malaise]

31. or the strife in Ethiopia

but hey, they aren't in Europe

[WarGamer]

32. can't argue...

But boy, the blonde anchor on CNN worked up a good head of tears for the Ukrainian mom crossing the Polish border.

[BlackSkimmer]

33. Yup.

This.