Humanitarian Crisis

Whenever the word Humanitarian Crisis flashes on the screens or the papers, the first country or place that comes to mind is Syria. No doubt, Syria is going through the worst humanitarian crisis, but the world's largest humanitarian crisis isn't in Syria, it's in Yamen.

Crisis all over the Arab countries started with the advent of The Arab Spring. The Arab Spring also referred to as Arab revolutions or Democracy Spring was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia.The wave of initial revolutions and protests faded by mid-2012, as many Arab countries treated the protesters harshly and imprisoned thousands of exponents of Arab Revolution. In some Arab countries, the movement resurfaced much stronger and resulted in Large-scale conflicts — the Syrian Civil War, Iraqi insurgency, and the Yemeni Crisis and following civil war.

Yamen is one of the Arab countries that has suffered a lot due to civil strife. Thousands have been killed, millions displaced and conflict has been going on for years now. The reasons which promoted The Arab Spring were massive unemployment, food insecurity, sucide bombing, separatist movement in the south, unjust treatment and totalitarianism. The protests forced the-then stakeholder Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over the affairs of the country to Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi formally replacing him as the president of Yamen in 2012. Things got worst when Saudi-led coalition stepped into the affairs of Yamen accusing Iran for supporting the separatist movement.

In Yamen, three blocks are at war with each others. Houthis and people loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh are one one side, supporters of Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi on other side and a third force led by so called Islamic State are on another side. Iran and Russia are backing Houthis and its allies, US and Saudi Arabia are backing supporters of Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi, while IS itself has got a support from some extremists. Saudi Arabia considers houthis as a threat to whole Arab world and fears that Iran could get benefit of it.

In such formidable rivalries and a support from influential countries which have prolonged the war, the affecties are childrens, innocent people whose livings are deteriorated and thousands of children gave their lives because of malnutrition, diseases and bombing.