Those heartbreaking pictures from Yemen

I saw them too Maw poor children have known nothing but deprivation in their short lives.
It seems to be a situation repeated in many places, what are we doing in the name of religion and greed.

I remember Biafra and the shock and horror I felt on seeing those emaciated children and their despairing parents. I was in my twenties then, and now, in my seventies I feel exactly the same when seeing the emaciated children of the Yemen and their despairing parents. The world appears to have learnt nothing in fifty years, in fact I think its got worse, an awful sort of acceptance that this is how some countries behave and that we can do little or nothing about it until they fight themselves to a standstill - Just awful!

If we must deal with the Saudis we should insist they stop blocking food imports and medical aid as part of the deal. It would be no good refusing to supply arms unless there is a wider embargo including USA and France.

Yemen is the poorest country in the middle east and as a caring nation we want to help but it's never a clear cut undertaking in war torn countries. Saudia Arabia has the excuse that it has Houthi rebels to deal with. There will always be warring factions because remove one and another rears its head. They don't care about innocent civilians caught in the cross fire.

Goodness knows how we are ever going to get through to those who hold power because they were fortunate to be born into an oil rich dynasty.

We’ve cut aid to Yemen and children will starve – is this what global Britain means?

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/02/weve-cut-aid-to-yemen-and-children-will-starve-is-this-what-global-britain-means

I know this is an old thread, but the subject matter is very pertinent right now, with the recent announcement of cuts in aid to these poor souls. Maybe the fools who have enough spare money to donate to buy a sofa for the PM's mistress, would like to send it to the charities helping these people instead.

GillT57

I know this is an old thread, but the subject matter is very pertinent right now, with the recent announcement of cuts in aid to these poor souls. Maybe the fools who have enough spare money to donate to buy a sofa for the PM's mistress, would like to send it to the charities helping these people instead.

But the PM assured us at PM today that we give more in aid to Yemen than any other country, despite cutting it by 50%, apparently, and anyway, wasn't it rather unBritish to be worrying about starving children in Yemen when we have a covid crisis in the UK?

And no, we won't stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia for them to bomb Yemen with...

Unicef appeal for Yemen

www.unicef.org/emergencies/yemen-crisis

British Red Cross appeal for Yemen

donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/yemen-crisis-appeal?c_code=175151&c_source=google&c_name=Yemen%20Crisis%20Appeal&adg=red%20cross%20yemen&c_creative=brand&c_medium=cpc&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhP2BBhDdARIsAJEzXlGCl8tb90mm3wD62l7LHNRaocKU1yWabHi03R85X0WS25bna047KZ8aAnc1EALw_wcB