News – Yemen: Recent satellite images showed severe environmental and coastal pollution resulting from an oil spill off the port of Aden.

"The port of Aden continues to face multiple sources of oil pollution, starting on July 5 with a 14-kilometer-thick oil spill visible, likely from a single ship," Wim Zwegenenberg, Head of Humanitarian Disarmament Project at (European Space Photography), said on his Twitter account. 

He added, "The oil spills that were seen on July 21, 2022, which led to marine and coastal degradation and pollution, are still ongoing.

Aden and southern governorates are witnessing security chaos, and almost daily crimes, under the control of the forces of US-Saudi aggression and Saudi-Emirati occupation. They witness increasing of assassinations involving military security leaders, religious and social tendencies, kidnapping, bombings and clashes between militants fighting for influence among them.

The crimes of clashes in the governorates of Aden, Lahj, Al-Dhalae, Abyan and Shabwa increased to 265 crimes due to insecurity and the proliferation of militias and armed groups loyal to the countries of the coalition.

“Based on the directives of the occupying countries, the armed militias affiliated with them faced peaceful protests in the streets of Aden, Ataq, Mukalla and Wadi Hadramawt districts by force of arms, forced arrests, chases, and raids on the homes of the free people who rejected the occupation,” the report pointed out.

The report stated that the Center's monitoring unit has recorded 380 crimes against peaceful protesters in the occupied southern governorates during September, including three killings, 280 arrests and extra-legal detentions, and 36 neighborhood raids to search for activists opposed to the starvation policies implemented by the occupying countries and Hadi's government.

As a result of the escalating security chaos, seven incidents of systematic bombings, with the intent to harm the citizens' peace in the city of Aden, were monitored, and 9 raids of citizens' homes by armed militias, in addition to the suppression, intimidation, shooting and arrest of the protesters in a number of governorates.