The World from PRX

Yemen

People inspect the rubble of a prison facility hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in a stronghold of Houthi rebels on the border with Saudi Arabia, in the northern Saada province of Yemen, Jan. 22, 2022. Internet access remained largely down for four
Yemenis struggle to maintain contact with loved ones amid attacks, internet blackout
A family visits across the U.S.-Canada border at the Peace Arch Historical State Park as a cyclist rides past on the Canadian side, in Blaine, Wash.
Top of The World
US to reopen land borders next month to fully vaccinated people
A cargo ship and oil tanker ship sit idle while docked at the port of Hodeida, Yemen
Environment
A rusting oil tanker off Yemen’s coast is at risk of exploding. It could cut off humanitarian aid to millions.
Yemeni fighters look over a mound of soil lined with sandbags
Conflict
Saudi Arabia is ‘desperate to get out’ of Yemen’s yearslong civil war
A huge flag of Ethiopia waves with people sitting underneath it
Food
In Ethiopia, a taste of home for displaced Yemenis
Houthi fighters hold images of relatives killed in violent conflict
Conflict & Justice
Yemen’s most stable city threatened by Houthi takeover
A woman holds a young malnourished child.
Foreign policy
Aid agencies fear impact in Yemen after US terror decision
Tunisian protesters demonstrate beneath a poster of Mohamed Bouazizi near the prime minister's office in Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 28, 2011.
Global Politics
Fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi’s protest inspired the Arab uprisings. A decade later, his sister still mourns.
Sadaqa Hospital, as seen from the street
Conflict
Film shows how Yemen’s health workers struggle to save young victims of malnutrition
In this file photo, men deliver UN World Food Program (WFP) aid in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen, Sept. 21, 2018.
Conflict
Labeling the Houthis as ‘terrorists’ might actually cost Yemeni lives
A health worker takes the temperature of people riding a taxi van
COVID-19
Yemen faces spread of COVID-19 ‘with no health care system at all’
Nasim Almuntaser stands inside his packed bodega filled with products.
COVID-19
Without protective gear, NYC bodega workers risk their lives
A man wears a protective face mask as he rides a motorcycle
Conflict & Justice
As it braces for coronavirus, Yemen offers lessons of survival for the world
UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen
Conflict & Justice
UN envoy to US: ‘We need to keep Yemen out of a potential regional conflict’
A crowd of young men in military clothes raise their fists in the air. Some have weapons on their shoulders.
Conflict & Justice
With veto, Trump keeps the US in Yemen. Did he ‘greenlight a failed strategy?’
A man holds a blackened piece of metal toward the camera
Saudi Arabia is buying more weapons than ever before
A soldier stands in a road holding a gun
A troop drawdown could happen in Hodeidah. What does this mean for Yemen?
Three young men in hip-hop dance poses
Al-Qaeda is gone, but this Yemeni hip-hop group still can’t perform
Two soldiers carrying guns stand in front of a black car.
Conflict
Yemen’s Sanaa airport to reopen; vital port city Hodeidah still contested
delegates sit across each other in a large room with a wood floor
Former Yemeni war detainee praises UN-brokered prisoner swap
Men in military uniforms carrying guns at an airport with another man carrying luggage.
Conflict
Yemen peace talks begin with prisoner swap, reuniting war-torn families
An explosion at a military arms depot is seen after it was hit by a Saudi-led air strike on the Nuqom Mountain overlooking Yemen's capital Sanaa, October 14, 2016.
Yemenis don’t believe the US Senate can end their civil war
Demonstrators from the Stop The War Coalition stage a protest, holding signs.
Senate could vote to pull US out of the Yemen war
Children displaced from the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah have a meal in a shelter in Sanaa, Yemen November 1, 2018.
Rep. McGovern on Yemen: ‘I don’t believe the Saudis have any intention of stopping this war’
The Dangers of Being a Woman and a Journalist
Full Episode
A boy sits at his desk in a classroom in Saada province, Yemen
Politics
Young survivors of Yemen school bus air strike return to class amidst fears of future attacks
At Least 40 Children Dead in Yemen after Saudi-led Airstrike
Full Episode
A man holds a piece of honeycomb covered in bees. He is wearing a white netted hat.
Beekeeping in Yemen becomes a dangerous profession in war
Boys inspect the wreckage of a bus at the scene of Thursday's air strike in Saada province, Yemen August 10, 2018.
Civilians say ‘time to say no for war’ after dozens of Yemeni children die in school bus attack
Mahmood Salem and four of his children on a visit to Djibouti in November 2017.
Immigration
‘There is real suffering’: How the travel ban is tearing some families apart
Man stands on pile of rubble
Conflict
Homeland Security decides not to deport 1,250 Yemenis to a war zone
Family or four, two girls, man and woman sit together on boardwalk at sunset
Immigration
‘I lost trust in the system,’ says US citizen now unable to reunite with his Yemeni family
A cargo ship unloads a shipment of fuel at the Hodeida port, May 27, 2018.
Conflict
Residents of Yemeni port city prepare for an invasion
“Out of Many, One.” But Do We Have One American Identity?
Full Episode
A Saudi border guard watches as he stands in a boat off the coast of the Red Sea on Saudi Arabia's maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan April 8, 2015
Conflict & Justice
Saudis say 19 oil ships are held hostage off Yemen. Not true, say maritime experts.
After Waffle House Shooting: Few Rules for Weapons Surrender
Full Episode
A woman lies on a table, her arm outstretched. Her face is hidden by a blue cloth.
Conflict
In a Yemeni town, hardship awaits displaced civilians
Mokhtar Alkhanshali, who exports beans from Yemen, his parents' home country.
Culture
The quest for coffee from a war zone
Supporters of southern Yemeni separatists take part in an anti-government protest in Aden, Yemen January 28, 2018
Conflict
South Yemen’s separatists speak through a Michigan mom
Ashes to Ashes? Trump Administration Rethinks Nuclear Strategy
Full Episode
Artist Haifa Subay paints a mural about children's suffering in a time of war, part of the 'Silent Victims' campaign in Sanaa, Yemen
Conflict
After 1,000 days of civil war in Yemen, violence has become ‘normalized’
missile shot at Riyadh
Conflict
Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi missile fired toward Riyadh; no reported casualties
A man walks on a street where Houthis have recently clashed with forces loyal to Yemen's former president
Conflict
Yemen’s capital is under lockdown — hear a first-person account
A malnourished boy lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, June 27, 2020. 
Conflict
How you can help people trapped in Yemen’s humanitarian crisis
For Many American Women, Sexual Harassment Comes With the Job
Full Episode
the launch by Houthi forces of a ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh's King Khaled Airport
Conflict
What the missile strike on Riyadh means
Women fully covered in black carry jerrycans after they filled them up with drinking water from a charity tap, amid a cholera outbreak, in Sanaa. Graffiti on wall behind them reads "USA kills Yemeni people."
Conflict
‘We don’t have leverage.’ Why the US can’t stop the Yemen war.
Woman leans over hospital bed to give her daughter rehydration fluid at a cholera treatment center in Sanaa.
Conflict
Unpaid doctors and nurses fight largest cholera epidemic on record
Saber Askar in East Porterville, California
Conflict
For one Yemeni American, the long wait to bring his family to safety
Hisham al-Omeisy, narrator of 'Guess my country,' a video by Mai Noman for the BBC
Conflict
Yemenis make a heartwarming video about a nasty war
Two men in smile in posed photo in front of small market
Justice
A Muslim immigrant and a Christian pastor find common ground — and try to connect with their Latino neighbors too
A woman takes part in a graffiti painting campaign on a wall in Sanaa, Yemen
Conflict
Listen to Yemenis describe how they’re getting through the war
Bodega
Conflict
Bodegas — a sacred New York institution — are always open. But they weren’t on Thursday.
Summer Nasser, Yemeni-American college student and small business owner.
SHORT: Here’s what one Yemeni American has to say about the Muslim ban
Full Episode
Prisoners released
Conflict
After being apart for years, four prisoners released from Guantanamo are reunited with loved ones in Saudi Arabia
Obamanomics, A Vietnam War Legacy, The Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Connection
Full Episode
Yemenis pose for a picture next to a part of a missile they say was dropped during a Saudi-led air strike near the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen
Conflict
The US just made it harder for Saudi Arabia to bomb Yemen. The people of Yemen barely noticed.
A Push Towards Peace, Bilingual Education, A Hidden Cold War History
Full Episode
Kids and the Election, Russia Tension, Analyzing ‘Locker Room Talk’
Full Episode
beekeeper
Business
How this Yemeni American keeps up the family business thousands of miles from home