Internet woes shatter young Yemenis’ dreams of startups and studies

Blighted by years of war and economic crisis, Yemen’s slow and expensive Internet means the country’s young are missing out on opportunities to study and work. — Unsplash

ADEN: Yemeni entrepreneur Obeid al-Bakri launched a ridesharing app to provide safe transport in the southern city of Aden, but his plans quickly ran into trouble – the Internet was so slow, no one could get online to book a ride.

“Aden was absolutely fertile ground for a ridesharing app,” said the 34-year-old TakeMe founder. “We had all these security problems with normal taxis, where the passengers robbed the drivers or vice versa... But the Internet was just too slow.”