The Latest Breaking News from Hodeidah

The Yemeni government denied any change in inspection procedures on ships bound for the Houthi-controlled western Hodeidah port, stressing that the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen was still operational. Houthis claimed that the inspection mechanism had been suspended. The government emphasized that it will take deterrent actions against…

About 70 percent of Yemen's food imports entered through Hodeidah ports that are under the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militias, which claim that these ports are besieged. Several international reports showed that imports through ports under the legitimate government's control dropped 53 percent from the same period last year,…

The huge revenues of several Yemeni institutions prompted the Houthi militia to implement new administrative and financial measures to control and manage the profit in their favor. The new measures introduced e-accounting systems and complex administrative control procedures, dismissed the head of these institutions, and replaced them with group members.…

The Yemeni army accused the Houthi militia of testing an anti-ship missile launched from Sanaa, which landed in the Red Sea waters off Hodeidah. The army spokesman, Brigadier General Abdo Majali, announced that the Houthis conducted an anti-ship missile test from the Nehm district, which landed west of Hodeidah in…