Yemeni City Longs for Change After 10 Years of Civil War

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Yemeni City Longs for Change After 10 Years of Civil War
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Taiz, Yemen's third most populous city, has been on the front line of the country's civil war for nearly a decade. The war has destroyed millions of Yemeni lives, but perhaps nowhere has it been felt more than in the front-line neighborhoods in Taiz that are closest to the fighting and have seen the worst of the war. The Houthi blockade has severely disrupted the lives of people here, impeding the flow of food and medicine and other necessities to the city, driven prices up and further disrupted a failing economy. The citizens of Taiz say they are at their wits end, desperate for change.

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