US Navy sailors signal all go for launch to a Super Hornet fighter jet off the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier, operating in the Red Sea, on 13 March 2025.Photo: MC2 Logan Mcguire/US Navy Photo/Alamy Stock Photo

Britain’s undeclared war on Yemen

Ruth Rohde and Jack Cinamon explain how the US and Britain went from selling bombs for use against Yemen to dropping them themselves.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Abdul-Malik al-Houthi

Abdul-Malik’s recent efforts to interfere with Israel’s war machine that has got the world suddenly talking about the Houthis, writes Richard Swift.

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NI 555 - Critical minerals - May, 2025
Country profile: Yemen

Country profile: Yemen

The photos, facts, and politics of Yemen.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
These three Yemeni girls are among the 3.1 million people displaced by the war. They stand by the shredded remains of their tents in Abs settlement, which is regularly damaged by passing sandstorms.Photo: Giles Clarke, UN OCHA / Getty Images

Who cares?

Hazel Healy investigates the challenges facing 21st century humanitarian action.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Education against the odds. Yemeni children attend classs in a school building damaged by a Saudi-led air strike in Taez.Photo: Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images

Education otherwise

The world is full of extraordinary schools. We feature three inspirational stories about courageous teachers, second-chance education and progressive pedagogy in Yemen, South Sudan and Colombia.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017

A word with Murad Subay

Yemeni street artist Murad Subay on using art to campaign and to commemorate.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
Saudi fighter pilot prepares for action over Yemen. The targeting of schools, hospitals and even wedding parties, has brought international condemnation. Munitions supplied by Britain and others have been used.Photo: Fayez Nureldine/Getty

Arming up…

Its not just for show, as the bombing of Yemen illustrates, writes Vanessa Baird.

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NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016

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United Nations at 80 July, 2025
Critical minerals May, 2025
Decolonize now September, 2023
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Bad Education September, 2017
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
Feminism fights back July, 2014
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