Yemenis face daily struggle to survive in besieged Taiz

Mohsen al-Najdi, 53, a blood cancer patient, sleeps on a bench after receiving chemotherapy at a hospital in Taiz, Yemen May 22, 2022. REUTERS/Anees Mahyoub

TAIZ, Yemen (Reuters) - Yemeni cancer patient Mohsen al-Najdi has to drive more than three hours along narrow mountain roads to receive chemotherapy he can barely afford in Taiz, a city which has been largely cut off from the rest of Yemen during a seven-year war.

Like other residents of the southwestern governorate, Najdi misses easier times when it took less than an hour from his rural home to Taiz, before Iran-aligned Houthis cut off the main routes and encircled the Yemeni government-held city centre.