Racked by war, cholera and now coronavirus, the country faces the world’s worst famine in decades

Ten years after the rage and hope of the Arab spring filled the public spaces of Sana’a, Yemen’s capital has become a curiously quiet place.

Traders and customers alike shuffle through the streets of the old city, ground down by the repression of the Houthi rebel occupation and the economic hardship caused by the Saudi- and Emirati-led coalition blockade.

A few months in, the cracks in the unity started to show, but I think a lot of us refused to acknowledge it

Yemen is just made up of gangs now. There’s no apology, no court for us to take our complaints

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