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Famine menaces 20m people in Africa and Yemen: The Economist

OUTSIDE a thatched hut in Panyijiar, in South Sudan, Nyakor Matoap, a 25-year-old woman, clutches the youngest of her three children. Dressed in a silky emerald shawl, she hides the baby, named Nyathol, underneath its folds. Her other…

How drugs have become big business

Before war came, Khalid Omar was only an occasional user of qat, sitting around with friends and chewing its narcotic leaves. Then he lost his well-paid job with an oil company in Shabwa province. In 2015 he lost his younger…

Trump administration weighs deeper involvement in Yemen war

YemenExtra By Karen DeYoung and Missy Ryan ( Washington post) Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has asked the White House to lift Obama-era restrictions on U.S. military support for Persian Gulf states engaged in a protracted civil war…

US General Admits killing 100s of civilians in Mosul

YEmenExtra A large number of Iraqi civilians has been killed with a coalition airstrike in western Mosul ,U S commander admitted. “We probably had a role in those casualties,” Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend said to reporters on…