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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Saeed Al-Batati in Al-Mukalla

‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees

A woman dressed in a black abaya stand with a group of children outside a makeshift camp built with bits of cloth, rope and sticks
Jamila Rabea, left, a displaced mother of five in the port city of Al-Mukalla in Yemen, says her family is hungry most of the time. Photograph: Saeed Al-Batati

The pain of going to bed hungry is becoming familiar for Jamila Rabea. It’s hard to sleep. The meagre rations of bread, tomato paste and tea she spends much of her day trying to gather, she gives to her children. Five of them live with her in a shelter built from tarpaulin, cloth and scraps of wood.

Like many of the refugee families living here in a makeshift camp to the east of the Yemen port city of Al-Mukalla, she has had to leave home because of the bombs and fighting.

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