Authors : Abada Ifeanyichukwu Michael, Quentin Chukwuemeka Chukwu, Omeh Paul Hezekiah and Asikason Okechukwu Jonathan
Abstract: The abidance of United States-Saudi Arabia Arms deals in spite of its rising international condemnation is sending shock waves in the international system. That President Trump vetoed the bill that aimed to halt the deal against the backdrop of commission of crimes against humanity in Yemen by Saudi coalition forces using the American-made weapons to fight Iran-backed Houthi Rebels as well as evidences of diversion of such arms to Al Qaeda-linked fighters and hard-line Salafi militias in the Yemen is puzzling for a country that pontificates on liberal values and observance of fundamental human rights. Thus, the objective of this study therefore is to interrogate the nexus between the arms deal and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen in the context of individual level of analysis. Through the aid of realist theoretical paradigm, documentary method of data collection and content analysis, the study found that the Yemeni crisis rather than being a sectarian crisis is a power politics by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and that the duo personalities of president Trump and Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Saud are engendering the crisis. In order to stem the tide of this phenomenon, the study recommends amongst other things, immediate suspension of arms sale and logistics supports to the Saudi led coalition and the deployment of peace keeping forces by UN.
Abada Ifeanyichukwu Michael, Quentin Chukwuemeka Chukwu, Omeh Paul Hezekiah and Asikason Okechukwu Jonathan, 2020. United States-Saudi Arabia Arms Deal and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen. The Social Sciences, 15: 128-134.