War in Yemen: with the end of American support, "Saudi Arabia will have to buy peace"
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A Houthi activist in the city of Amran, northwest Yemen, after bombing raids by the Saudi-led coalition.
REUTERS / Khaled Abdullah
By: Clémentine Pawlotsky
8 min
Thursday, in his first foreign policy speech, Joe Biden ended American support for the Saudi coalition in Yemen "This war must end", he hammered, announcing the cancellation of arms sales, in particular of "Precision munitions", to Saudi Arabia.
The conflict in Yemen has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions, according to international organizations.
Can stopping the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia end the conflict in Yemen?
Elements of response with François Burgat, political scientist on the Arab and Muslim world and emeritus director of research at the CNRS.
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