Displaced and scared: Yemenis still in limbo after almost five years of war


  • World
  • Wednesday, 15 Jan 2020

Children play in the sun on a cold winter day at a camp for internally displaced people in Khamir of the northwestern province of Amran, Yemen December 16, 2019. Picture taken December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

KHAMIR, Yemen (Reuters) - Widow Samirah Nasser and her eight children tried to return to their Yemeni village but were forced by relentless air strikes to return to the relative safety of a refugee camp.

Shivering through yet another camp winter, she is one of 3.6 million Yemenis - around 12% of the population - displaced during a nearly five-year war that has spawned what the United Nations says is the world's most urgent humanitarian crisis.

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