UN sanctions on Yemen were first imposed in February 2014, by UN Security Council Resolution 2140. The sanctions comprised an asset freeze and travel ban on listed individuals, and also established a sanctions committee to oversee and implement these measures.
The European Council has implemented the humanitarian exemption to UN sanctions set out by UNSC Resolution 2664 (2022) with respect to its Somalia, CAR, Yemen, Haiti, Iraq and Lebanon (assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri) sanctions regimes. See previous post. Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/338 and Council Regulation (EU) 2023/331. Under the exemption, the making available of funds or economic …
The final report of the UN Panel of Experts on Yemen was published on 26 January 2022. The report recommends that the Security Council (UNSC) call on parties to/associated with the Yemen conflict to undertake the following measures, and recommends that the UNSC express its intention to impose sanctions if the parties do not do so: Refrain from actions that …
The UN has announced the addition of Muhammad Abd Al-Karim Al-Ghamari (Houthi Military Chief of General Staff), Yusuf Al-Madani (Commander of the Houthi’s Fifth Military Region) and Saleh Mesfer Saleh Al Shaer (Houthi Assistant Minister of Defence for Logistics and Judicial Custodian) to its Yemen sanctions list. Mr Al-Ghamari and Mr Al-Madani are said to have led offensives throughout Yemen, …
Sa’id Ahmad Muhammad al-Jamal, an alleged Houthi financial conduit based in Iran, has been sanctioned by OFAC under counter-terrorism authority Executive Order 13224 alongside 6 businessmen, 4 entities and 1 vessel, which the US believe to be part of an international smuggling network cooperating with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) to finance the Houthis. Al-Jamal has been designated …
Over the past month, multiple sanctions regimes have been renewed around the world: The US renewed its regime in respect of Yemen for 1 year by continuing the national emergency as declared; The EU adopted: Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/796, which renewed its cyber-attacks sanctions regime until 18 May 2022; and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/848 and Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/855, …
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