Sitting on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen controls the passageway to the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea and is only 30 km away from Djibouti, an East African state. A civil war broke out in Yemen in 2014, plunging the nation into a great famine and triggered a humanitarian crisis. It ranks as the second to the last on the Global Peace Index by Economist Intelligence Unit. Yemen relies on oil for its economic development. As ongoing conflicts over the years have disrupted oil production, the state’s Human Development Index score is the lowest among Asian and Arab countries.