Before the war, I used to consider my journey to Sana'a long if I had to travel for about ten hours by public transport. Normally, it took an hour and a half to two hours from Mocha to the city of Taiz, and then five to six hours from Taiz to Sana'a.
the drivers in the terminal were refusing to accept fares in new currency from passengers, a state of confusion and discontent began to surface. At that time, a Houthi security squad arrived and dispersed the citizens who intended to travel to Sana’a and other provinces.
Since 2015, domestic travel became a cause of concern to Yemenis due to the ramifications of the war which divided the country into several enclaves, each controlled by a warring party. This made it difficult to move and travel between different parts of the country...
Haj Mohammed told us how he got stuck on Friday, 4th of September, 2020, on the frontiers of Ma’rib, beyond “Bab Al- Falaj” checkpoint, that was controlled by forces affiliated to the internationally recognized government. How did they stop him, not allowing him to continue his journey to Sana'a...
Here, we are trying through a series of blogs, to highlight this pattern of violations to expose only little of what the people have been going through for almost seven distressful years, via documenting the journey of Mwatana’s team members from their governorates all around Yemen to Sanaa.
No one knows the suffering of travelers in Taiz, except for those who tried this narrow ascending twisting road that makes people sick and dusty, let alone the longtime stops on narrow rocky places, due to the narrowness of the road, waiting the oncoming vehicles pass.
Uncle Abdo cultivates his land, which he sees equivalent to the entire planet of Earth, with whatever he likes of fodder and dozens of palm trees. Besides, the revenues of cultivation seasons are enough to make Uncle Abdo imagine himself as an emperor on the throne of the kingdom of satisfaction.
No one pays any attention to this village. The displaced people in this village have not been treated as IDPs, and the residents as a hosting community. It was not dealt with as an IDP camp, where necessary needs and WASH interventions should be provided.
In war, there are spaces absent from the humanitarian landscape, in which people are licking their wounds or dying silently in the face of the uncaring media and its audience.
On Monday morning, November 5, 2018, Khalil left his village, with his family, escaping the hell of war that suddenly took place in his village, following the rapid progress made by the forces of the internationally recognized government and UAE-backed Security Belt towards the city of Damt, with the aim of controlling the city...
