Flashpoint Yemen
With few exceptions, Yemen is a conflict that has fallen off the collective radar in Europe and the West in general. This is largely because it forces people to deal with some very uncomfortable questions including how post-JCPOA Iran was able to divert many millions of dollars to fuel a widespread insurgency and sack the country’s capital Sana’a. Since the Houthi takeover of a huge swath of territory, there has been a cholera outbreak, a famine and, importantly, starvation. The UN sprang into action and the World Food Program – with a huge funding stream from Saudi Arabia and others – began trying to protect the most vulnerable: children, women, the elderly. However, Houthi fighters have harassed the UN since food aid operations began and civilian casualties continue to rise.
The Euro-Gulf Information Center is proud to invite you to participate in our up-coming information session with Fatima Abo Alasrar who will delve-deep and explain the internal dynamics unfolding in Yemen from a socio-political, economic and security perspective. Alasrar will present the main issues involved in Yemen and how to best deal with them.
The seminar will be held on February 24, from 5:30 to 7 pm, at the EGIC Office, Kungsgatan 8, Stockholm, Sweden, will be in English.
