Events in the year 2018 in Yemen.
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Incumbents
- President: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
- Vice President: Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar
- Prime Minister:
- Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr ( 4 April 2016 – 15 October 2018 )
- Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed (18 October 2018 - )
Events
- Ongoing since April 2015 – Battle of Taiz
- 28 to 31 January – Battle of Aden
- 26 March – The Houthis launch a barrage of rockets at Saudi Arabia, killing an Egyptian man and leaving two others wounded in Riyadh.[1]
- 22 April – An airstrike occurs in Hajjah Governorate. The attack left between 33, 43 and 55 deaths.
- 3 May - The United Arab Emirates deployed over 100 soldiers to the island of Socotra in an unofficial military deployment, dismissed Yemeni personnel, and took administrative control of Socotra Airport and seaport.[2]
- 3 July - 46 detainees are released from the Beir Ahmed prison, following reporting by the Associated Press about torture and abuse occurring there.[3][4]
- 9 August - A Saudi airstrike hit a bus in the Dahyan air strike, Sa'dah, reportedly killing dozens of children.[5]
- 1 September - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates say that the bombing of a school bus in Yemen by Saudi Arabian aircraft, which killed 51 people, was "unjustified".[6]
- 3 December - A flight chartered by the United Nations evacuated 50 wounded Houthi fighters to Muscat, Oman for medical treatment, as part of the peace talks.[7][8]
Deaths
- 17 February – Abdul Salam al-Haddad, diplomat, Ambassador to Germany, Kuwait and Ethiopia.[9]
- 19 April – Saleh Ali al-Sammad, de facto President of Yemen (b. 1979)
References
- ^ Rashad, Marwa; Dadouch, Sarah; al-Ansi, Abdulrahman (28 March 2018). "Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war". Reuters.
- ^ "Yemen Hits U.A.E. Takeover of Its 'Most Alien-Looking' Island".
- ^ "In Yemen, 46 Detainees Released From UAE-Controlled Prison". The New York Times. Associated Press. July 3, 2018.
Prosecutor Mohammed Ali Saleh confirmed the release of the 46 on Tuesday, without elaborating, while the detainees themselves gave The Associated Press a list with their names.
- ^ al-Haj, Ahmed; Michael, Maggie (July 9, 2018). "Yemen demands Emirates shut down prisons where abuses rife". Associated Press News.
- ^ El Yaakoubi, Aziz (August 9, 2018). Williams, Alison (ed.). "Dozens killed, including children on a bus, in Yemen air strikes". Reuters. Archived from the original on August 9, 2018. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
- ^ 01 Sept 2018 GMT+3 (2018-09-01). "Saudi-UAE coalition admits Yemen school bus attack 'unjustified'". Aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Agence France-Presse (December 3, 2018). "UN plane evacuates wounded Houthis". The Hindu.
Fifty wounded rebels will be evacuated from the Yemeni capital for medical treatment on Monday, a Saudi-led military coalition said, as the UN envoy landed in Sana'a ahead of planned peace talks in Sweden.
- ^ Wintour, Patrick (December 3, 2018). "Yemen: injured Houthi rebels evacuated, raising hope of peace talks". The Guardian.
A plane carrying 50 wounded Houthi rebel fighters has left the Yemeni capital Sana'a in a critical confidence-building measure before peace talks can get under way in Stockholm as early as Wednesday.
- ^ "FM mourns Ambassador al- Haddad". sabanews.net. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
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