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Truce offers glimmer of hope to Yemenis battered by seven-year war

People shop for vegetables hours before a two-month nationwide truce takes effect, in Sanaa, Yemen April 2, 2022. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Yemenis welcomed a nationwide U.N.-brokered ceasefire due to come into effect on Saturday evening as a glimmer of hope in a country ravaged by a seven-year conflict that has forced millions into hunger, poverty and homelessness.

But after numerous failed attempts at peace and more than a year of escalating violence, Yemenis have greeted the news cautiously.

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