'We are lost': Yemenis face eighth year of struggle as war grinds on


  • World
  • Friday, 25 Mar 2022

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises during an air strike on an army weapons depot on a mountain overlooking Yemen's capital Sanaa, April 20, 2015. Picture taken April 20, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo

SANAA (Reuters) - Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger.

Rmeishi, who is in the ninth grade, helps his family by working at his father's car repair garage in the capital Sanaa and hopes later to have a trade job as a mechanic, plumber or electrician.

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