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Yemen Review section
April 21, 2025
07:35 MIN
January-March 2025
The Woeful Plight of Yemen’s IDPs: A Tale of Two Towns
By Sam Ali
In mid-2015, Yousef and his extended family escaped from an aerial bombardment near his hometown, Al-Shareefiah, a village outside Haradh in northern Hajjah governorate. The 68-year-old head of a large household had found refuge in Hayran, a nearby district, hoping the airstrikes would stop soon so he and his family could return to their homes and large banana plantation. But air and ground attacks intensified in Haradh and nearby areas, including Hayran, where they were taking shelter. He and his family were soon on the run again. Now, nearly a decade since he abandoned his hometown, Yousef lives with his family in a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs). They have never been able to return home, nor have…
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Publications
June 22, 2023
05:40 MIN
May 2023
Yemenis Stranded in Sudan: The Last Community
By Tawfeek Al-Ganad
In one month, from April 15 to May 15, tens of thousands of foreign nationals evacuated Sudan as clashes escalated between the Sudanese military and the country’s main paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Armored convoys wound out of Khartoum, evacuees were airlifted in military planes, and warships from different nations worked together to ferry people to safety. Yemen was the last nation to organize an official evacuation — which only began after other countries had completed their own. Except for internal measures to relocate Yemenis from Khartoum to Port Sudan, Yemen’s evacuation only started on May 14 and 15, when Yemenia Airways flew approximately 775 Yemenis, including 75 children, on four direct flights from Port Sudan to Sana’a…
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Publications
April 14, 2023
15:46 MIN
March 2023
Qat in Wartime: Yemen’s Resilient National Habit
By Laura Kasinof
Early one summer morning, Mohammed stood among his grove of qat trees in a village south of the capital Sana’a in Sanhan district. Two local men, who work as Mohammed’s mubazigheen (pickers), were busy harvesting qat, plucking leaves, and placing them in plastic shopping bags. Every so often, Mohammed would step in to help, hiking up his crisp white thobe to reach the highest branches. The war has made Mohammed’s small qat farm, around 2,640 square meters (.65 acres), less profitable than it once had been. The 45-year-old said he makes around US$33 a day from qat in the summer, when the harvest is plentiful due to the rainy season. But this figure does not include his expenses, and Mohammed…
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Yemen Review section
August 12, 2022
09:14 MIN
July 2022
Wartime Economy Fosters Surge in Female Entrepreneurship in Aden
By Ghaidaa Alrashidy
Women have only ever made up a fraction of the business community in Aden, and in 2015 – when Houthi forces and their allies invaded the southern city and spurred a regional intervention to liberate it – their share declined dramatically. While precise numbers are hard to come by, anecdotal evidence points to a rapid decline: Dr. Kulthum Nasser, head businesswoman in the Aden Chamber of Commerce, told the Sana’a Center that the war reduced its female membership from roughly 20 to just six, with many forced to close their businesses or flee the country. But before long, Nasser began to notice a reversal: the number of women entrepreneurs in Aden increased rapidly. Speaking with many of these women, she…
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Analysis
May 3, 2022
07:00 MIN
April 2022
Death From Beneath: Landmines in Hudaydah
By Sam Ali
On a Sunday night more than three years ago, Rawan, 15, was squeezed onto a motorcycle with her sister and two brothers as their father, Abdulbari Yahyah Farea, sped them away from fighting near their home by Hudaydah airport. The motorcycle struck a landmine, with the explosion killing Rawan's father and two brothers, 3 and 8, instantly. Rawan was slightly injured and tried to drag her severely wounded sister, Hanan, 10, to relative safety. Rawan spent the next 12 hours on the phone with UN aid workers, who provided first aid guidance until her phone battery died. Hanan was still losing blood. UN officials eventually got an ambulance to the girls, following extensive calls to Houthi authorities in Sana’a and…
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Publications
April 7, 2022
04:50 MIN
March 2022
Fleeing Another Conflict: An Inside Look at the #YemenisinUkraine Safety Network
By Azal Al-Salafi
The Russian invasion of Ukraine sent waves of shock across the world. However, it did not take long in the Yemeni diaspora for the first shock to be replaced by another: the realization that some Yemenis were facing yet another war, this time in Europe. About 600 Yemenis, many of them students, were residing in Ukraine when Russia invaded on February 24. Consequently, a collective of young activists and volunteers soon formed a safety network to address the plight of these Yemenis caught up in the war. It consists of members of Yomn Council, a newly established association led by Yemeni youth living abroad that aims to identify and support efforts to resolve Yemen-related issues, as well as other diaspora…
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