Britain will resume the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia that could be used in the Yemeni civil war, just over a year after the Court of Appeal ruled it unlawful. Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F
The conflict in Yemen, which started in 2015, has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The fighting is between a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels, supported by Iran.
Britain has been supplying Saudi Arabia the arms that have been used in the conflict.
Concerns these weapons have been used to commit war crimes led to a legal challenge and last year the UK court of appeal ruled it was unlawful for the UK government to export arms used in the conflict without checking violations had taken place.
Ministers then had to reassess their arms export decisions and stop new exports.
Last week the government said it had examined this and would restart supplying the Saudis because any historical violations were “isolated incidents”.
Where does this leave our involvement in the conflict?
Nawal Al-maghafi reports.
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