A girl looks on as she leads her cow across a spring lake in Khamis Banisaad district of al-Mahweet province, Yemen, June 23, 2021. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
KHAMIS BANISAAD, Yemen (Reuters) - Yemeni lumberjack Ali al-Emadi spends hours chopping down an acacia tree with an axe as his 12-year-old nephew helps out splitting logs.
In a country blighted by war, Emadi had to turn to logging in his northern al-Mahweet region to eke out a living. An economic collapse has wiped out the farming and building work he used to travel around the country for.
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