Thu 14 November 2019:
Germany’s arms exports to Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) has significantly rose in the first half of this year despite the two countries’ involvement in the Yemen conflict, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Egypt has become the second biggest customer of the German weapons industry with €800 million ($880 million) in purchases, according to the government’s arms exports report for the first half of this year.
The U.A.E., another actor involved in the Yemen conflict, ranked sixth among the biggest customers, with Berlin approving the sale of more than €206 million (over $226 million) worth of arms exports to this country.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative-left coalition government promised last year to stop arms exports to countries intervening in Yemen’s civil war.
But the government has since attracted heavy criticism from the opposition as it continued arm deliveries to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the U.A.E.
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