Friday, August 19, 2016

Medical aid group MSF withdraws from north Yemen after attacks...

Doctors Without Borders has announced that it is withdrawing from northern Yemen due to what it called "indiscriminate bombings and unreliable reassurances" from the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in the country.

The medical aid group, known by its French acronym MSF, said an attack on a hospital it supported in the area had killed 19 people and wounded 24 on Monday - a higher death toll after some of the wounded had died. Earlier, 11 were reported killed.

"The air strike on Abs Hospital was the fourth and the deadliest attack on an MSF-supported medical facility during this war, while there have been numerous attacks on other health facilities all over Yemen," the Geneva-based group said in a statement.

MSF also said that air strikes in northern Yemen - a stronghold of the rebels known as Houthis - have intensified since peace talks collapsed earlier this month.

The conflict in Yemen pits an internationally-recognised government backed by a Saudi-led coalition against the Shiite Houthi rebels, who captured the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014. Full story...

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