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Yemen: Understanding the conflict

  • Written by Kelly McFarland, Director of programs and research, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University

The military conflict now escalating in Yemen threatens the lives of more than 250,000 people in the port city Hodeidah while 8 million more people across Yemen already risk starvation. The country is also facing the “worst cholera outbreak in modern history.”

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