The world is missing out on the real Yemen: we are not just war, headlines or suffering | Nada Al-Saqaf

The world is missing out on the real Yemen: we are not just war, headlines or suffering |  Nada Al-Saqaf

After a decade of conflict, loss is constant, as is fear for our children’s future. But we are more than this

A decade of war in Yemen has left us in a place we never could have imagined. Our biggest worries were once exams, work and weddings. Today, we live with the weight of constant fear. You wake to the sound of explosions or the silence of grief, leave your home uncertain if you will return, look at your child and wonder what kind of future awaits.

Yet life goes on. We carry our losses, our broken hearts, our grief, and we continue. Ten years of war, ten years of mourning, of learning to survive with a lump in our hearts.

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