Red Sea
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Area | 438000 |
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Max. width | 355 km (221 mi) |
Max. depth | 3,040 m (9,970 ft) |
Max. length | 2,250 km (1,400 mi) |
Islands | Tiran Island |
Jabal al-Tair Island | |
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Rocky Island | |
Hanish Islands | |
Did you know | Approximately 40% of the Red Sea is quite shallow (under 100 m/330 ft), and about 25% is under 50 meters (164 feet) deep. |
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ID | 809258 |
About Red Sea
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez. The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion.
US warship downs drones fired from Houthi-held Yemen in Red Sea
...A US warship engaged and shot down three drones after three commercial vessels came under attack in the Red Sea, US Central Command has said...
Royal Navy sends second warship to Gulf
... A US destroyer in the Red Sea has already intercepted missiles and drones - reported to have been launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen...
Japan condemns Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack of cargo ship in Red Sea
...By Emily McGarveyBBC NewsJapan s government has strongly condemned the hijacking of a Japanese-operated cargo ship in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthi rebels...
Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack cargo ship in Red Sea
...Yemen s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels say they have seized an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea...
Sudan conflict: ‘Our lives have become a piece of hell'
... " Even those who escaped from Khartoum to the relative safety of Port Sudan, on the Red Sea coast, are often struggling to survive...
Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery
... Washington s strategic alliance with the oil-rich Gulf Arab states dates back to 1945 and a wartime meeting on a US warship in the Red Sea between President Roosevelt and the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz...
Rumbling Middle East fault lines make this Israel-Gaza war different
... They have all been brought down, so far, by Israel s air defences or by US Navy warships in the Red Sea...
Iran-backed Yemeni rebels shoot down US drone
... This includes troops being stationed onboard military vessels in the Red Sea, which lies between Yemen and Israel...
Yemen crisis: UN to make record aid appeal
An evaluation mission from The World Food Programme reached the Red Sea Mills
UN aid officials have for the First Time in six months reached a vast store of desperately-needed food on The Frontline in Yemen's Hudaydah port.
The Red Sea Mills facility holds enough grain to feed 3. 7 million People for a month, but the UN had warned The Grain was At Risk of rotting.
The Yemeni government and The Rebel Houthi Movement agreed a ceasefire around Hudaydah in December.
But they have yet to implement a UN-brokered plan to pull out of the port.
UN Secretary General António Guterres announced That a World Food Programme evaluation mission had been able to reach the Red Sea Mills at the start of an aid pledging conference in Geneva on Tuesday.
Member states have so far promised $2. 6bn (£2bn) - a 30% increase on the amount pledged at a similar conference Last year, but $1. 6bn short of the total the UN hopes to raise.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the biggest potential donors this year, having pledged $500m each.
The Two Countries are leading a coalition of mostly Sunni Arab states That intervened in The Conflict in Yemen in March 2015 and imposed a partial blockade after President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi was forced to flee abroad by the Houthis - a group they consider to be a proxy of regional Shia power Iran.
Tens of thousands of People have been killed or injured since then, many of them civilians. Many more have died from preventable diseases, exacerbated by malnutrition.
The UN estimates That 24 million People - 80% of Yemen's population - are in need of assistance. Up to 10 million of them are believed to be on The Verge of famine.
A sign of hopeBy Lyse Doucet , BBC chief international correspondent
Finally getting access to the Red Sea Mills is a breakthrough. When we visited this vital granary in January we saw how Yemen's desperately needed grain was At Risk of rotting.
But the UN needs sustained access. That requires progress on promises made in December's Stockholm Agreement. Sources say they are now more hopeful the Houthis' long-delayed pull out from the main port of Hudaydah and two smaller ports will soon commence.
That should lead to the phased redeployment of Yemeni government forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition. Both sides have been dragging their feet, raising fears this rare deal will collapse.
There is no trust, and much tension. And, away from this strategic corner of Yemen, fighting intensifies in some areas, and The Risk of famine still looms.
There seems to be - At Last - a greater recognition on all sides That there is no military solution to this conflict. But moving toward peace is still fraught with Risk .
That many of the governments announcing donations at the Geneva conference were involved in The War in Yemen
"Donor governments pledging funds must work to resolve the obstacles That are preventing aid from reaching the People who need it, and to ensure That the aid delivered responds to their actual needs," it said in a statement.
"Ultimately, Yemen's humanitarian crisis can only be resolved when donor governments end their involvement in The War and hold the warring parties accountable for their atrocious conduct endangering the lives of Millions . "
to help all those in need.
"While billions are spent on bombs and weapons bringing death and destruction, much less is made available to save lives of Yemeni civilians," said Mohamed Abdi, its Yemen country director.
humanitarian aid, yemen, united nations, yemen crisis
Source of news: bbc.com