Jemen-Konflikt: Wer kontrolliert welche Gebiete?

These maps aren’t very helpful if you’re only aware of the latest headlines in Yemen. The internationally recognized „government and aligned forces“ in red is actually made up of all the non-houthi groups on this map. These different groups all sit on a power sharing council ruling the non-houthi territory. 

If you saw the latest headlines about the sepratist STC sweeping across the south and taking over, it’s because they orchestrated a mostly bloodless coup against the saudi aligned members of the council, but there is currently no open fighting between the non-houthi forces. The tribal forces in light red and Tareq Saleh in purple seem to have been aware or supportive of the coup. The blue are a militia trained by both Saudi Arabia and UAE to fight ISIL forces that were previously prominent in the area, they’re not hostile to the STC. 

If you’re wondering what this means for the civil war, most likely just guarantees Yemen is formally re-partitioned into two countries again. The actual fighting between houthis and non-houthis stagnated years ago and became a mostly frozen conflict. The houthis may or may not want to take the south (their ultimate plans are kept to themselves mostly), but can’t come down from their mountain stronghold due to Saudi/UAE airpower. And the south is way too unpopulated to take the north, and the STC doesn’t want the north in any case. 

Somewhere between 150-300K deaths over the course of the conflict a good chunk of them from malnutrition. There’s like 2 million malnourished children there currently.

„Four, maybe five, [Yemens].“ – Jeremy Irons

Thanks for sharing. I didn’t know the conflict was triple to quintuple pronged.

[Edit: anyone getting the Jeremy Irons quote reference is iconic at reference humour.]

Are there claims over territories by uae/saudis/whatever or is it just „geopolitical/militia“ conflict? If wikipedia article on Yemen is correct about history, it seems Yemen has more claims over neighboring territories than others have over Yemen. Am I right?

Kind of terrifying how small differences between basically the same people can cause such prolonged conflicts.

So is Taiz going to fall to the Houthis then?