Yemen is a human tragedy on a massive scale. The ongoing civil war is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The local militant factions, Sunni or Shiite, northern or southern, Saudi-backed or Emirati-backed have lost any sense of their culture or their country. The international media has abandoned Yemen as an issue, Western NGO’s while thick on the ground trying to do some of the world’s worst work in an active war zone are unable, or maybe even unwilling to bend to the needs and requirements of deeply traumatised and desperate locals, mired as NGO's are in their own highly bureacratised policies and processes. Can the fighting end in Yemen? Can peace come to this war-ravaged land?  In this episode of The Focus, John speaks with Yemeni activist, Hisham Al-Omeisy to find out.

Yemen is a human tragedy on a massive scale. The ongoing civil war is the world&rsquo;s largest humanitarian crisis. The local militant factions, Sunni or Shiite, northern or southern, Saudi-backed or Emirati-backed have lost any sense of their culture or their country. The international media has abandoned Yemen as an issue, Western NGO&rsquo;s while thick on the ground trying to do some of the world&rsquo;s worst work in an active war zone are unable, or maybe even unwilling to bend to the needs and requirements of deeply traumatised and desperate locals, mired as NGO's are in their own highly bureacratised policies and processes. Can the fighting end in Yemen? Can peace come to this war-ravaged land? &nbsp;In this episode of The Focus, John speaks with Yemeni activist, Hisham Al-Omeisy to find out.

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STRATEGIKON is the podcast of SAGE International (SAGE), an Adelaide-based private think-tank specialising in the analysis of foreign policy, international and national security issues in Australia's 'defence state' of South Australia. Est. in 2015 STRATEGIKON is hosted by SAGE Founder/CEO Dr. John Bruni, long-time media commentator on national security issues &amp; co-hosted by SAGE colleague, David J. Olney. STRATEGIKON is produced by Michael Migali, who is also &lsquo;the asker of occasional questions.&rsquo; Our podcast is proudly powered by the Auscast Network, Australia&rsquo;s Coolest Podcasting Network. Let STRATEGIKON be your window to all things security and foreign affairs.
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Early episode music courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): "One-eyed Maestro" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution

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