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‘Relish this moment, forget about the war’: Yemenis on World Cup

Yemeni football fans watch a live broadcast of the World Cup match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia inside a paid-entry shop in Sanaa, Yemen [Yahya Arhab/EPA-EFE]

Sanaa, Yemen – In Maeen district in the heart of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, about 10 street vendors gathered on the side of a busy road to watch the Argentina-Saudi Arabia match.

The men, who make a living selling vegetables or black-market petrol, crowded around a laptop that one of the vendors had brought and placed on some cardboard on the ground.

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