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“If you ask people who study the topic, they will tell you that a modern famine is a man-made disaster. Natural disasters can play a part. For example, flooding and drought can destroy crops, but relief agencies and wealthy governments can now get aid where it needs to go. So it is ultimately war and political will that keeps enough food from being grown or delivered in places like Ethiopia and Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, Haiti and North Korea and, of course, now in Gaza.”

US bombs killed 60 African migrants in Yemen strike in April. The victims faced war at home, Saudi gunfire if they attempted to seek asylum to their north, Houthi imprisonment where they stood
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/world/m

They Fled War in Ethiopia. Then American Bombs Found Them.
In April, U.S.-made bombs destroyed a detention facility that held Ethiopian migrants in Yemen, crushing bodies and shredding limbs. Amid official silence, the survivors are left wondering why.

We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys
https://novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/we-also-broke-into-an-airbase-to-stop-war-crimes-thankfully-we-were-two-nice-white-boys/

We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys
In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen, write Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse. Our lenient treatment exposes the Palestine Action ban for what it is: racist and politically motivated.

From Revolution to Ruin: An Empirical Analysis Yemen's State Collapse
Riste Ichev, Rok Spruk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08512 https://

From Revolution to Ruin: An Empirical Analysis Yemen's State Collapse
We assess the broad repercussions of Yemen's 2011 revolution and subsequent civil war on its macroeconomic trajectories, human development, and quality of governance by constructing counterfactual benchmarks using a balanced panel of 37 developing countries over 1990-2022. Drawing on matrix-completion estimators with alternative shrinkage regimes and a LASSO-augmented synthetic-control method, we generate Yemen's hypothetical no-conflict paths for key macroeconomic aggregates, demographic and h…