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Photos of Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen

Thursday, 02 April 2015 3:14 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 02 April 2015 11:31 PM ]

A Yemeni child receives treatment at the burn unit of a hospital in Sana’a, following an airstrike by Saudi Arabia in Yarim, south of the capital, the day before, April 1, 2015. © AFP

The Saudi-led airstrikes against Yemen, which started in late March, have so far killed nearly 200 people, including women and children.

Saudi Arabia’s air campaign against Yemen started on March 26 in a bid to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

However, the Ansarullah movement later said Hadi had lost his legitimacy as president of Yemen after he escaped the capital, Sana’a, to the southern port of Aden in February.

On March 25, the embattled president fled Aden, where he had sought to set up a rival power base, to Riyadh, after Ansarullah revolutionaries advanced on the port. The Houthi revolutionaries say the Hadi government was incapable of properly running the affairs of the country and containing the growing wave of corruption and terror.

Below is a selection of some of the latest photos of the aftermath of the airstrikes on Yemen.