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April 2, 2018

Yemen: Fire Destroys World Food Programme Warehouse at Red Sea Port
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In Yemen, a huge fire tore through a warehouse belonging to the United
Nations' World Food Programme on Saturday, incinerating food, fuel and
other supplies bound for victims of a 3-year civil war. Among supplies
destroyed were hundreds of thousands of mattresses meant for people made
homeless by a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign against Houthi
rebels. The war has devastated Yemen's health, water and sanitation
systems, sparking a massive cholera outbreak and pushing millions of
Yemenis to the brink of starvation.


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