Hope to hunger and Yemen’s forgotten uprising
Jan 27, 2021
As the Arab Spring gripped the region, thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of the capital Sanaa on Jan 27 that year, demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down, while loyalists staged their own counter-protests.
Death, destruction and starvation have obliterated the aspirations that propelled a 2011 uprising in Yemen, with the hopes of the country crushed by war and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
In recent years, there has been an outrage at the near famine conditions that stalk the country.
Today, millions of Yemenis are on the brink of famine with the economy destroyed and schools and hospitals in tatters, while the relentless Houthi campaign for more territory grinds on.
