February 10, 2023
A boy steps over an AK-47 assault rifle at a camp for displaced persons, in Marib, Yemen, in this July 27, 2018, photo. Thousands of boys, some as young as 10, have been forcibly recruited as child soldiers in the country’s civil war, most by Houthi rebels who push the children into combat at the front lines. The boys describe fighting and killing in battle, traumatized by seeing the often mangled bodies of the dead. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Ahmed Maher
An AP investigation finds that Yemen’s massive cholera epidemic was aggravated by corruption and official intransigence. Both the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and the U.S.- and Saudi-backed government impeded efforts by relief groups. (April 8)
