Yemen, Red Sea and Houthi
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More than 17 million people in conflict-torn Yemen are going hungry, including over a million children under the age of 5 who are suffering from “life-threatening acute malnutrition,” the United Nations humanitarian chief said Wednesday.
In the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, tense negotiations are underway as the family pins its hopes on a pardon from the victim’s relatives, their only remaining lifeline
Tomy Thomas, husband of 37-year-old Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who faces execution in Yemen on July 16 for a 2018 murder conviction has expressed hope for a positive outcome, citing ongoing efforts by the Central government, state authorities, and the Ministry of External Affairs to secure her release.
An Indian nurse who is on death row in war-torn Yemen is set to be executed on 16 July, campaigners working to save her have told the BBC.Nimisha Priya was sentenced to death for the murder of a local man - her former business partner Talal Abdo Mahdi - whose chopped-up body was discovered in a water tank in 2017.
According to Thomas, the Central government, the State government, and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) are making efforts to secure Nimisha's release.
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Nimisha Priya had been offered a job at a health centre outside Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and believed this could be the stepping stone to opening her own clinic.