A baker takes out bread baked in a wood-fired oven due to fuel shorages in Sanaa, Yemen February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
SANAA (Reuters) - Bakers in the Yemeni capital Sanaa have swapped diesel and gas for firewood due to fuel shortages to keep making bread in a country where hunger is widespread after years of war.
Each day workers unload tonnes of wooden logs from trucks that have travelled hundreds of miles from Yemen's remote mountains to Sanaa's biggest wood market.
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