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Mar 2022
19m 48s

Kamal Al-Solaylee on the war we chose to...

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The UN has called it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s now seven-year-long war has killed almost 400,000 people, mostly children younger than five years old. Millions of people in the country are at risk of famine. And the war, between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition trying to push them out, rages on. Kamal Al-Solaylee ... Show More
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