Yemeni forces push Saudi troops out of Bayda province
Yemen's Ansarullah Houthi forces have managed to drive Saudi troops and remnants of the former regime out of the southern province of Bayda, following nearly two months of heavy clashes in the region.
The victory came on Friday as Ansarullah fighters retook a military base in the town of Mukayris, located in the southern parts of the province, and pushed the troops loyal to the former Yemeni regime back to Abyan province, further in south, the Associated Press reported.
Some 300 pro-former-regime forces were killed in the clashes, 30 of whom were slain mistakenly by Saudi airborne attacks.
During the past two months, some 550 forces from two warring sides were reportedly killed in the province.
On Thursday, Yemeni forces backed by allied popular committees targeted Sahn al-Jin military base located in the oil-rich province of Ma’rib in west-central Yemen by rockets and killed several Saudi troopers. They also managed to shoot down a Saudi warplane in the northern province of Sada'a.
Alarming malnutrition among Yemeni children
Meanwhile, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that some 537,000 children in Yemen were facing life-threatening “severe malnutrition.”
This means that “one out of eight children under age five, are now at risk of severe acute malnutrition in Yemen – a threefold increase from 160,000 in March,” the report said, adding that “almost 1.3 million children under five are moderately malnourished compared with 690,000 children prior to the crisis.”
According to the report, the threatening malnutrition has been aggravated due to blocked or damaged delivery routes and restrictions on food and fuel imports.
Yemen has been under military strikes on a daily basis since Saudi forces launched their military aggression against their southern neighbor on March 26, in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
About 6,400 people have reportedly lost their lives in the Saudi strikes, and a total of nearly 14,000 people have been injured since March. According to UNICEF, 505 children are among the fatalities.
The UN said earlier this month that some 114,000 people have also been forced to flee the war-stricken country due to the Saudi aggression.
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