A girl sits as other children play on swings at a camp for internally displaced people in Marib, Yemen February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Nabeel al-Awzari
DUBAI (Reuters) - An offensive by Yemen's Houthi group to take Marib city, the last stronghold of the internationally-recognised government, threatens to displace hundreds of thousands and complicate a renewed diplomatic push to end the war, U.N. officials say.
The gas-rich region of Marib has been a refuge for hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence during Yemen's six-year-old war, expanding its main city rapidly.
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