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Early marriage, child recruitment and prostitution levels are on the rise in Yemen as a direct result of poverty caused by war. (AFP/ File)

April 22nd, 2017 - 08:43 GMT

Civilians continue to pay highest price in Yemen war

In Yemen, people are not able to pay their rent, utilities and hospital bills or for groceries.

Yemenis shop at a market in the old city of the capital Sanaa on May 5, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)

May 12th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Yemen government, Houthi rebels discuss prisoner swap before Ramadan

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed speaks during a press conference at the Information Ministry in Kuwait City, Kuwait, May 5, 2016. (AFP/File)

May 10th, 2016 - 08:30 GMT

Yemen targets Saudi base with missile attack

Yemeni children stand outside a tent at a makeshift camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) after they were forced to flee their homes due to the ongoing fighting in the country, in the Nehm region, west of Marib city, on May 8, 2016. (AFP/Abdullah al-Qadri)

May 10th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Artillery fire in Yemen’s Taiz kills six

Pro-Hadi forces roll through the streets of Aden. (AFP/File)

May 9th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Yemen: Pro-Hadi forces raid, evict hundreds of homes in Aden

This March 23, 2016 file photo shows Yemeni children walking on stones in front of buildings that were damaged by Saudi airstrikes in the capital Sana’a. (AFP/File)

May 9th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Seven killed by Saudi airstrikes in northern Yemen

UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. (AFP/File)

May 8th, 2016 - 08:52 GMT

Yemen peace talks continue in Kuwait despite tension

A picture taken on May 3, 2016 shows a Yemeni security forces member patrolling a street with a banner hung by Al-Qaeda militants in the Yemeni port of Mukalla, 300 miles east of Aden. (AFP/Stringer)

May 4th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

UN envoy: Yemen peace talks set to resume in Kuwait

United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (C) arrives to give a press conference at the Information ministry in Kuwait City on April 26, 2016. (AFP/Yasser al-Zayyat)

May 1st, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Yemen peace talks: Government demands end to ceasefire ‘breaches’ by Houthis

A general view of the various delegations taking part in the Yemen peace talks in Kuwait city. (AFP/KUNA)

April 23rd, 2016 - 08:43 GMT

UN envoy: Yemen peace talks are ‘very constructive’

The war in Yemen has killed more than 6,000 people, half of them civilians, and spread disease and hunger across the impoverished nation. (AFP/File)

April 17th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

UN: Yemen moving closer to peace deal

Pro-Hadi forces remain on patrol in the port city of Aden. (AFP/Saleh Al-Obeidi)

April 12th, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Multiple airstrikes, clashes violate Yemen’s ceasefire

A Jewish Yemeni man arrives in Israel on March 21, 2016 after a covert operation that evacuated a group of 19 Yemeni Jews from their home country. The evacuees were amongst the last remaining members of Yemen's ancient Jewish community, of whom an estimated 40-50 remain. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

March 24th, 2016 - 06:58 GMT

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