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Yemenis fight for survival as famine looms

TAIZ/UNIQUBA/ADEN, 1 March 2017

It has been almost two years since Yemen’s third-largest city had running water or electricity. Worn down by relentless shelling and street-to-street fighting, Taiz is heading into its third year of conflict. But while the seemingly unending hostilities drag on, civilians, every day, face an ever more deadly fight: a battle against starvation.

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