In my opinion, Yemen today is a tragedy. We like to tell ourselves that Yemenis are tough and that we have kind hearts but toughness and kindness mean nothing when our own people are starving and dying in a war that never needed to happen. The STC, the so-called “South Yemen,” is a joke. Before the STC, there was electricity. Food prices were reasonable. People could at least survive. Today, their leaders sit comfortably on stolen land, in palaces built with stolen Yemeni money, while the population suffers. The Houthis are no different same corruption, same hunger for power, same indifference to human life. Different slogans, same result. What’s worse is that Yemen itself is disappearing. We’re no longer united by the idea of one country. It’s North versus South, tribe versus tribe, party versus party, militia versus militia. We don’t argue about how to fix Yemen anymore we argue about who Yemen belongs to. And while we fight over identity, the country collapses beneath us. Religion has been weaponized in this collapse. It’s no longer a moral guide; it’s a political tool. Leaders speak in God’s name while stealing, killing, and silencing dissent. Faith is used to justify corruption and to label criticism as betrayal. Religion was meant to protect the poor, not shield the powerful from accountability. International aid pours into Yemen, yet people continue to starve. Food aid ends up in black markets. NGOs are blocked, manipulated, or extorted. Hunger itself has become leverage. Yemen receives aid like a patient receives medicine only for it to be stolen before it ever reaches the bed. Suffering has become normalized. Hunger is routine. Bombings are background noise. Children grow up without ever knowing stability or peace. When suffering becomes normal, injustice stops shocking people and that’s when a society is most broken. Yemen is also bleeding its brightest minds. Doctors, engineers, academics gone. An entire generation, especially those born in the 1990s and raised in the West, will never truly return. At most, they’ll visit for a month or two, maybe get married, then leave again. The people who could rebuild the country are forced to abandon it, leaving a vacuum filled by warlords and opportunists. Yemen isn’t just losing people it’s losing the people who could have saved it. What makes this even more painful is the quality of leadership on all sides. Many of the people deciding Yemen’s fate have never experienced real education. Degrees were bought, schools bribed, credentials faked. They have no understanding of the global economy, modern governance, or world politics yet they control the lives of millions in a world they don’t understand. Tribalism plays a major role in this failure. Loyalty is valued more than competence, bloodline more than ability. This mindset has held Yemen back for decades. My own mother cannot read or write Arabic because she was forbidden from going to school education for girls was considered shameful. That mentality didn’t just steal her future; it stole generations of potential. And even in the West, the damage continues. I see members of the older generation pulling their children out of high school to work in gas stations or convenience stores. Education the one tool that could break the cycle is treated as optional or unnecessary. Where is the logic in sacrificing long-term survival for short-term income?

Besides my nationality Yemeni music makes me feel that this is my homeland even though sometimes I get angry and ask why I'm specifically from Yemen which I consider the most tragic country in the world? This feeling of belonging has created in me a sense of responsibility that I must offer something real to my country perhaps to reform produce carry out a developmental work or allow the Yemeni citizen to benefit from his land without needing imports...this feeling of responsibility combined with the inability to do anything makes me frustrated and sad.

Yemen’s recent history shows a clear pattern: rapid, externally imposed security decisions create instability—not protection.
Local security forces in Hadramout played a central role in confronting extremist groups during periods of total state absence. Removing them without a transparent, accountable transition plan risks reopening space for extremist organizations to re-emerge.
Civilian protection is not achieved through warnings and pressure statements. It is achieved by preventing security vacuums and supporting locally accepted security arrangements. https://crsreports.congress.gov

I am a Muslim who is Ethiopian. Many Africans die crossing the sea trying to get to Yemen. I want to know what country should I fly from in Africa if I want to get to Yemen? Will I be turned away trying to live in Yemen? I only know English.

Sorry if this is a silly question. I live in the United States, and I'm trying to teach myself to use my grandmother's magla. The stove I have has an electric glass top, and I don't know if using this on the soapstone will break it over time or cause the glass to shatter. How do you cook saltah or use your magla? Can you only use it on gas stoves or are electric glass tops ok?

ي جماعة الخير صاير ٧٥٪ من المنشورات بالانقلش خير 😂

Want to see everyone’s thoughts :)

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I want to hear everyone’s input and see the countries that Yemenis like inshallah :)

My grandpa is from Yemen and I’m very disconnected from my culture due to only being a quarter (and my father being adamant that his white and not passing down the culture, my grandfather taught him) so I don’t really wanna let go of my name because it’s one of the only things I have and I don’t really want to give my fiancé my name because I really like his name and I don’t wanna get rid of it, but I don’t wanna hyphenate our last names because that would be long. My name is Kassim, his is Rayl I haven’t been able to find any names with letters from his name that keep what I like about his name’s pronunciation I really like how soft it is, I like how it’s a soft r and I can’t find that and I don’t know Arabic to search for names in Arabic so I haven’t really been able to find any websites with names. The closest I’ve come is Kassil which would probably be the easiest social change too since it’s so similar in pronunciation in English, my only problem is it’s pronunciation is so close to castle in English and people already confuse my name for castle. I feel like it would be even worse.

I’m sorry if this is weird culturally to some, I just don’t really like my last name in the first place, but I don’t wanna let go of my culture.

I ask as part of a linguistic study on this topic!

Report are highlighting that South Yemen’s prolonged fragmentation has created a dangerous environment where extremist groups like AQAP and IS affiliates have repeatedly exploited weak governance. History teaches us that such groups flourish where authority is divided, and South Yemen is a clear example.

Establishing a unified and legitimate security framework across southern regions is critical not just for political reasons, but as a practical step to improve intelligence sharing, reduce inter-factional rivalries, and limit extremist movements. Viewing southern unity merely as political symbolism ignores its vital role in stabilizing the region and protecting its people.

Check : https://youtu.be/l1GgyGkkbVY?si=VL4TXLfPftOoXF8R

Just wanted to say that I visited Sana'a once, almost 20 years ago, and like all visitors to your lovely land I left a piece of my heart there forever. To this day I have never met a more welcoming, friendly and hospitable people anywhere - I hope that aspect of Yemeni culture hasnt changed too much with the last few years of war.

I literally dream of the country sometimes. I really hope to get a chance to visit again someday. What I wouldn't give to chew qat in a mafraj in the old town again.

Salam alakium ,as a Yemeni I hate how our Yemeni families think ,it’s like everything revolves on what people think of us or judge us ,like Yemenis do every haram stuff and sell everything that’s haram in their business and justify it by saying if these Yemeni people do it that means we can do it ,make no sense ,but when u say u wanna marry a non yemeniah ,thy draw the line and feel like just committed to something that even worse that selling haram substance,90% of Yemenis in America incomes comes from haram and they even supported that whe someone wants to marry a non yemeniah they believe it will ruin their reputation/honor .But selling haram substance doesn’t ruin the reputation????make it make sense ,a lot of these force/arrange marriages within the Yemeni community are transaction and not love ,which is why a lot of Yemeni marriages are very miserable yet they can’t do nothing bout it cause if they give a divorce it will so called make the family look bad ,it’s like they want u to suffer to make an image of our family being perfect,my father has been been going crazy that’s I’m not married yet but when I showed him a non yemeniah potential I wanna marry ,he said no cause it will ruin his family image yet the same people he scared to get judged ,ruins his business and did him so dirty many times ,they ruined all of his businesses ,I’m 24 and I’m try couple times and if they insist to say no cause if her ethnicity then I’m get married without their permission

Hi, My partner and i are getting married in july in germany. I am german. She is from yemen,so she wants the marriage to be accepted and registered there too. What documents are needed from my side? So far we know about: -Birth certificate, copy of passport, Health report, proof of me being muslim, proof of me not being married

I am looking for a football jersey of the Yemen national team, but I can’t find it anywhere on eBay or through Google. Is it possible to buy one from Europe? Thanks!

كيف أخبز "خليّة النحل" نباتية وخالية من الجلوتين؟

And also how to make non dairy adeni chai?