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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…

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…

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…