Key battle in Yemen's war risks tipping country into famine - AP
AP reports: "With American backing, the United Arab Emirates has resumed an all-out
offensive aimed at capturing Yemen’s most vital port, Hodeida, where
Shiite rebels are digging in to fight to the last man. Thousands of
civilians are caught in the middle, trapped by minefields and barrages
of mortars and airstrikes.
If the array of Yemeni militias backed by the UAE takes the city, it
would be their biggest victory against the rebels, known as Houthis,
after a long stalemate in the three-year-old civil war.
But the battle on the Red Sea coast also threatens to throw Yemen into
outright famine."
Comment: Throughout history famine and war often go hand in hand. Yemen, it seems, has not escaped that pattern.
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