2018 in Yemen

Events in the year 2018 in Yemen.

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See also:	Other events of 2018 History of Yemen Timeline Years

Incumbents

• President: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
• Vice President: Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar
• Prime Minister:
  • Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr ( 4 April 2016 – 15 October 2018 )
  • Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed (18 October 2018 - )

Events

• Ongoing since April 2015 – Battle of Taiz
• 28 to 31 January – Battle of Aden
• 26 March – The Houthis launch a barrage of rockets at Saudi Arabia, killing an Egyptian man and leaving two others wounded in Riyadh.^[1]
• 22 April – An airstrike occurs in Hajjah Governorate. The attack left between 33, 43 and 55 deaths.
• 3 May - The United Arab Emirates deployed over 100 soldiers to the island of Socotra in an unofficial military deployment, dismissed Yemeni personnel, and took administrative control of Socotra Airport and seaport.^[2]
• 3 July - 46 detainees are released from the Beir Ahmed prison, following reporting by the Associated Press about torture and abuse occurring there.^[3][4]
• 9 August - A Saudi airstrike hit a bus in the Dahyan air strike, Sa'dah, reportedly killing dozens of children.^[5]
• 1 September - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates say that the bombing of a school bus in Yemen by Saudi Arabian aircraft, which killed 51 people, was "unjustified".^[6]
• 3 December - A flight chartered by the United Nations evacuated 50 wounded Houthi fighters to Muscat, Oman for medical treatment, as part of the peace talks.^[7][8]

Deaths

Saleh Ali al-Sammad

• 17 February – Abdul Salam al-Haddad, diplomat, Ambassador to Germany, Kuwait and Ethiopia.^[9]
• 19 April – Saleh Ali al-Sammad, de facto President of Yemen (b. 1979)