This week, Yemen’s civil war went into its fifth year, with the Saudi-backed government fighting – largely by remote control – an insurgency mounted by Shi’ite Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran. The Houthis have territorial control over much of the country, including its main population centers, and the Saudis have been leading a US-backed coalition in an effort to wrest it back, so far with limited success.
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With Yemen heavily dependent on imports, the fighting, and particularly the resulting blockades, have made it difficult to supply the country’s 29 million people with basic goods, and international bodies such as the United Nations have said that Yemen stands on the brink of a terrible famine. Yet according to Scott Paul, Oxfam America’s humanitarian policy lead, it’s not that staples and other goods don’t make it in; it’s that they’ve become prohibitively expensive due to war-induced delays. The upshot, Paul says, isn’t that there’s nothing to eat; it’s that millions in Yemen simply can’t afford to.
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