How Yemen has been engulfed by civil war

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🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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After almost a decade of fighting, civil war in Yemen has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Nawal Al-Maghafi is a Special Correspondent with the BBC who has been reporting on the Middle East since 2012. She explains to Claire Graham how this complex war began between government backed forces and the Houthi rebels.

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0:00.0	Love, Genessa, a brand new true crime podcast from the BBC World Service and
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0:10.9	available now. Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:19.5	Hello and welcome to the Explanation from the BBC World Service. This is where we
0:25.0	press polls on the busy 24-hour news cycle and dig a bit deeper behind the headlines.
0:30.6	Today the West Bank's nightmare started coming true.
0:34.6	Protest is trying to bricks in there, using ambient pulse to smash vehicles.
0:40.3	It's a city where mothers carry guns along with their groceries.
0:43.9	The spaces that people can run to for safety are shrinking every day here.
0:50.1	I'm Claire Graham and with the help of my BBC colleagues are drawing the worlds.
0:57.2	I'll be trying to get a better understanding of the stories that matter to all of us.
1:02.0	Today, Hoi Yemen has been engulfed by civil war and become a humanitarian crisis.
1:11.8	Yemen is located in southwest Asia at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula
1:17.0	between Oman and Saudi Arabia.
1:20.4	Situated at the entrance to the Bab El Man de Bstreet, it stands at the crossroads of Africa,
1:26.7	the Middle East and Asia.
1:29.0	There's a rich and complex history to this region but for our purposes we'll start in
1:34.4	1962 when a Republican coup established a nationalist government in the Yemeni capital,
1:41.4	Sana.
1:42.7	Lady Royalists fled to the mountains bordering Saudi Arabia, they are known today as the
1:48.7	Houthis.
1:50.2	Since then many presidents have ruled over a Republican Northern Yemen and most have been
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