Yemenia Airways to resume flights to Cairo and India from Yemen’s Sanaa

Security forces and airport staff gather outside a Yemenia Airways Airbus A320 aircraft. (File/AFP)
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Updated 28 July 2024
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Yemenia Airways to resume flights to Cairo and India from Yemen’s Sanaa

  • Return flights to Cairo will operate once daily, while flights to India will run twice weekly

CAIRO: Yemenia Airways announced on Sunday that commercial flights from Yemen’s Sanaa to Egypt and India will resume starting Sunday evening, Yemen’s state news agency SABA said.
Return flights to Cairo will operate once daily, while flights to India will run twice weekly.

The resumption in flights are part of an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Yemen aimed at calming hostilities in Yemen’s decade-old civil war.
Flights between Sanaa and Cairo had been halted since late 2016.


Berlin says plans to host Sudan aid conference

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Berlin says plans to host Sudan aid conference

  • The conference would be held around the anniversary of the2023 outbreak of the civil war in April
  • Previous Sudan aid conferences were held in Paris in 2024 and London in 2025

BERLIN: Germany plans to host a Sudan aid conference in the spring to raise emergency relief funds for the war-torn country, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
Brutal fighting between Sudanese government forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated the country, with reports of atrocities, starvation and mass killings.
“Today, the world commemorates a sad date: 1,000 days of war in Sudan,” a foreign ministry spokeswoman said. “Far too many people continue to suffer and die there, victims of hunger, thirst, displacement and rape.”
The conference would be held around the anniversary of the 2023 outbreak of the civil war in April, the spokeswoman said.
Previous Sudan aid conferences were held in Paris in 2024 and London in 2025.
“The world’s largest humanitarian crisis has already driven millions of civilians into poverty and many tens of thousands to their deaths,” the spokeswoman said.
“Germany is doing everything in its power, both politically and in humanitarian terms, to help the people on the ground and to end the fighting.”
International calls for a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the fighting between Sudan’s army-aligned government and the RSF, which is descended from the Janjaweed militias accused of genocide in Darfur two decades ago.
Both sides have faced war crimes accusations over the course of the conflict.