Saudi Arabia and the UAE will each give $250m to support more than 10 million people in Yemen
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
UAE, Saudi Arabia to provide $70m to pay Yemen teachers
Funds from Gulf countries are set to boost the salaries of 135,000 teaching staff in the conflict-hit country
Cyclone Luban
Oman to increase number of people in shelter from Cyclone Luban to 4,000
Omani authorities said the country has not seen the worst of the storm yet
Saudi Arabia
Saudi king orders provision of $200m to Yemen
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman provides $200m to the Central Bank of Yemen to boost the country’s financial position
Saudi-led allies
Saudi Arabia, allies slam ‘biased’ UN resolution on Yemen
Saudi-led coalition denounces UN resolution that renews a UN-backed investigation of alleged war crimes in Yemen
Mike Pompeo
Saudi Arabia, UAE acting to reduce risks to Yemen citizens, says US
US Secretary of States Mike Pompeo has ‘certified’ that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are reducing risks to civilians from military operations in Yemen
Aden
UAE plans to establish $100m power station in Yemen
UAE says a new 120-megawatt power station in Aden will meet the energy needs of the local Yemeni population
Bab al-Mandab Strait
Saudi Arabia resumes oil shipments through Bab al-Mandab strait
Saudi Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources announces decision, weeks after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels attacked two crude vessels
Saudi-Yemen border
Saudi-led coalition says destroyed Yemen rebel missile launch sites
Saudi Arabia has come under increasingly frequent missile attacks launched by the Houthis from northern Yemen this year
ballistic missile
Saudi Arabia says Yemen rebel missile intercepted
Saudi-led coalition says ballistic missile targeted Al Shuqaiq on the kingdom’s southwestern coastline
Hodeida
Saudi Arabia dispatches first relief planes to Yemen
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre sends planes carrying food and shelter materials to Aden, Yemen, in preparation for transporting them to Hodeidah province
Yemen
Saudi says two Yemen rebel missiles intercepted over Riyadh
Debris from the missiles scattered over residential areas of the capital without causing casualties
Yemen
UAE says ready to back efforts for peaceful Yemen rebel pullout
UAE wants pullout from Hodeida to be unconditional and from the entire city
Defence budget
UAE jumps in annual peace index despite global downturn
UAE has jumped 12 places to 44th in the annual Global Peace Index, produced by The Institute for Economics and Peace
bahrain 2011 uprising
Bahrain upholds 5-year jail term of activist Nabeel Rajab
Appeal court upholds sentence for leading figure in 2011 protests against the Gulf state’s monarchy
Houthi rebels
Saudi Arabia says new Yemen missile intercepted over Najran
Debris from the missile landed in residential areas of southern Saudi city without causing casualties
ballistic missile
Saudi Arabia intercepts new missile fired from Yemen
Debris from the missile landed in residential areas of Jizan, but without causing casualties