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Sanaa: Air strikes by a Saudi-led force hit military bases across Yemen on Friday, residents said, and the countrys foreign minister was quoted as saying there was no need to convene another peace summit after the first round of talks failed.
Talks in Geneva last week ended without a resolution to the conflict, which has claimed more than 2,800 lives, as the Iran-allied Al Houthi movement and Saudi-backed President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi refused to back down.
Ten people were killed in air raids in Jawf, a northern province bordering Saudi Arabia, residents said. Fighter jets also struck the capital Sanaa, the Al Houthis northern stronghold in Saada, as well as the provinces of Marib, Shabwa, Bayda and Aden in the centre and south of the country.
Hadis foreign minister Reyad Yassin Abdullah said his government had no interest in organising a new meeting in Geneva, Saudi newspaper Al Sharq Al Awsat reported on Friday, and would instead work with all parties to implement United Nations Security Council resolution 2216.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/no-need-for-more-talks-yemen-government-1.1541200
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Sanaa---Gunmen have shot dead a Huthi rebel commander in the Yemeni capital, as the insurgents came under attack elsewhere in the country, an official and tribal sources said Friday.
The men, on a motorbike, attacked low-ranking officer Ibrahim Hassan al-Sharfi near his Sanaa home late Thursday before they fled.
The Huthis' Al-Masirah television confirmed the attack.
The rebels have been under fire from a Saudi-led air campaign that began in March, as they are locked in battle with pro-government fighters, Sunni tribesmen and southern separatists.
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/middle-east/346127/gunmen-shoot-dead-a-huthi-rebel-chief-in-yemen-capital
KoKo
(84,711 posts)here in the USA?
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Been watching it all of my life. Biafra.
During the war there were great shortages of food and medicine throughout Biafra, due largely to the Nigerian government's blockade of the region. Many volunteer bodies organised the Biafran airlift which provided blockade-breaking relief flights into Biafra, carrying food and medicines in, and later provided means of evacuation for refugee children. On 30 June 1969, the Nigerian government banned all Red Cross aid to Biafra; two weeks later it allowed medical supplies through the front line, but restricted food supplies.[14] Later in October 1969, Ojukwu appealed to the United Nations to mediate a cease-fire. The federal government called for Biafra's surrender. In December, the FMG managed to cut Biafra in half, primarily by the efforts of 3 Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian Army, led by then Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, popularly called "The Black Scorpion", and later by Olusegun Obasanjo. Ojukwu fled to Côte d'Ivoire, leaving his chief of staff, Philip Effiong, to act as the "officer administering the government". Effiong called for a cease-fire 12 January and submitted to the FMG.[9] More than one million people had died in battle or from starvation.[15][16] Biafra was reabsorbed into Nigeria on 15 January.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra