A cafe in Yemen run by women, for women

Women talk as they sit in the only all-female internet cafe in Marib, Yemen. Photo: Reuters/Nusaibah Almuaalemi

When Um Feras realised there were no leisure spaces for women in her city in Yemen, she founded her own cafe and hopes to change attitudes about women-led businesses.

"There were no places for women to gather comfortably, no places belonging to the female community: where the team from administration to the youngest employee is female," she said from the Morning Icon cafe she set up in April last year in Marib, central Yemen.