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Hisham al-Omeisy

A health worker takes the temperature of people riding a taxi van

Yemen faces spread of COVID-19 ‘with no health care system at all’

COVID-19

Yemen, made vulnerable by more than five years of war, is ill-equipped to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The public health problem is exacerbated by warring factions, who downplay the threat of the pandemic even as Yemeni hospitals — and graveyards — are crowded with victims.

A man wears a protective face mask as he rides a motorcycle

As it braces for coronavirus, Yemen offers lessons of survival for the world

Conflict & Justice
delegates sit across each other in a large room with a wood floor

Former Yemeni war detainee praises UN-brokered prisoner swap

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’

People flee as smoke billows after air strikes hit the house of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa May 10, 2015

Here’s life in Yemen: ‘It’s about 5:30 p.m. There are jets flying over us.’

Conflict
Houthi fighters ride in a truck on a street leading to the Republican Palace in Sana'a, Yemen, on January 20, 2015.

Rebels take over Yemen’s capital, but one Yemeni insists it’s ‘not big news’

Conflict

Sana’a resident Hisham al-Omeisy live-tweeted the television address of the rebel leader whose forces have taken control of Yemen’s capital. He says Western media are overreacting, and that for many Yemenis the Houthi takeover is more business as usual than a big event.