Yemen’s children caught in food crisis
‘The crisis is testing the West’s commitment to Yemen, whose leaders have been fighting an al-Qaeda faction here in cooperation with the U.S. military. Al-Qaeda has tried to win the loyalties of villagers by providing them food and improving living conditions.’
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Iona Craig is a freelance journalist based in Sana'a, Yemen and The Times of London Yemen Correspondent. She also writes for USA Today, The Sunday Times and regularly contributes to The National (UAE) and Index on Censorship.
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A collection of Iona's reporting from Yemen's southern province of Abyan
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For more coverage of the case of Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye currently being held in a Sana'a prison at the request of the United States. You can sign the petition here in English.
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