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Yemen

World’s worst humanitarian crisis about to get worse… again

Annie Slemrod

The looming battle for the key port of Hodeidah threatens vital infrastructure and civilians

A coalition of anti-Houthi forces, which includes fighters loyal to internationally recognised (but deposed) President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a Saudi Arabian-led coalition, and now reportedly some fighters who followed former president Ali Abdullah Saleh when he abandoned the Houthis shortly before his death earlier this month, may be headed for the city.

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