Fighting in the capital city of Sana’a soared amid tensions leading up to the death of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former authoritarian president. Clashes are expected to continue in the wake of his death as warring parties battle to gain the military advantage. They’re certainly not going to get better,” Iona Craig, an independent journalist who focuses on Yemen, told CBC’s The Current on Tuesday. The Saudi-led coalition formed in March 2015, after the Houthis, an Iranian-backed Shiite group, took control of large swathes of Yemen. ABDULJABBAR ZEYAD/Reuters A malnourished 6-year-old lies in a bed at an intensive care unit in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah on Sept. 11, 2016.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2017 21:56 UTC