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Yemen at war

Bethan McKernan reports from Yemen where since the first Saudi bombs fell in March 2015, a civil war has become a devastating proxy conflict and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis

  • People suffering from mental illness walk at the yard of a psychiatric care centre in Sanaa, Yemen December 31, 2019. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

    Hidden scars: mentally ill patients lost in Yemen’s war

    With one psychiatrist for 750,000 people and huge stigma around mental health, patients get little help
  • Shibam, also called ‘the Manhattan of the desert’.

    'Manhattan of the desert': civil war puts Yemen's ancient skyscrapers at risk

    In addition to the conflict’s huge human cost, Yemen’s rich cultural heritage has been ravaged, from the Queen of Sheba’s reputed throne room to the mudbrick high-rises of Shibam
  • Hamid Yahya al-Oud.

    A father's grief and the Made in USA bomb dropped in Yemen

    Cluster bomb, a type of munition invented by the Nazis to kill as many as possible, used in coalition strike on farm that killed Raja, 14
  • Members of the Southern Transitional Council’s forces seen at a checkpoint controlling the entrance to the port city of Aden

    Yemen: Aden's changing alliances erupt into four-year conflict's newest front

    Fighting in the south between separatists and government forces points to why peace is even more elusive
  • Halima Yehia, from Damar,  holds her granddaughter Qasima in the malnutrition ward of the al-Sabeen women and children’s hospital

    'Now it's just ghosts': Yemenis living under the shadow of death by airstrike

    Four years of war has not brought Saudi Arabia any closer to victory, but all over Yemen ordinary people are suffering
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