Today's D Brief: Yemen on the Hill; Vice chiefs’ acquisition crusade; Nuclear fears, shifting; Satcom jamming; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
April 21, 2021 10:33 AM ET
The D Brief
The future of Yemen is one of several pressing security issues being considered today before the House and Senate’s Foreign Relations Committees. The White House’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Timothy Lenderking, began testifying this morning before the House Foreign Affairs Committee at 10 a.m. ET; he’ll head over to the Senate side later this afternoon at 2 p.m. And that will be immediately followed by a panel discussion with officials from the U.S. Institute of Peace and the International Rescue Committee.
One place inside Yemen getting a lot of attention: Marib, where the Iran-backed Houthis have been sending troops and equipment and the Saudi air force has escalated its air campaign in recent weeks. Marib hosts some 4 million displaced Yemenis, and “One in four families have no access to toilets, showers, or hand-washing facilities near their shelters,†the UN’s refugee agency said Tuesday.
ICYMI: “We must be clear about who is frustrating UN efforts†in Yemen, Britain’s UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward said last week at the international assembly in New York. And that chief “frustrator†is the Houthis, based in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a.
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