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It’s taken Hawo Yousef a long time to save up money for the letter.

Here on a dusty, scalding hot plateau in south Yemen, an old military base turned refugee camp for her and 17,000 other Somalis, $15 is a month’s work, if you can find it.

Cargo bombs from Yemen open new front in al-Qaida terror war

The first public signs emerged last week in a French television interview. France’s interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, told a weekly talk show that Saudi Arabian intelligence was warning that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap), which has its headquarters in Yemen, was planning a new wave of attacks and urged Europe to be on its guard.

Sally’s Story: A Child Bride in Yemen

Sally as-Sabahi used to love playing the make-believe marriage game with her brothers and sisters.
For a little girl living in a single room down a back alley of Old Sanaa, just imagining the new wedding clothes, make-up and party for her school friends was a thrilling way to escape daily grind of poverty.

Yemen suffers ‘silent emergency’ as food runs short

Deep in the remote and rugged highlands 100 miles south-west of Sanaa lies Bilad at-Taam – the land of food - a large valley rimmed by mountains shimmering in the heat whose name has become a sad irony.
For this is one of the hungriest areas of Yemen, where an average of half of all families suffer from an acute and chronic shortage of food.

Yemen threatens to chew itself to death over thirst for narcotic qat plant

There’s something a bit different about the three brothers Rafik proudly leading us around their field of lanky green trees, grown from the rich and rare soils of Wadi Dahr.
From high on the scorched brown rock face that surrounds the valley, half an hour’s drive northwest from Sanaa, the fertile carpet of vegetation below appears truly as a minor miracle of nature.