MSF emergency coordinator Karline Kleijer is just back from three weeks in Taiz,a city on the frontline of the seven-month-long clash.
I travelled to Taiz at the end of September. Getting to Yemen is difficult – hardly any planes fly there, so MSF now has its own small plane, or based in Djibouti. You need permission from both sides to fly to the capital Sana’a one warring party controls the airport,the other controls the airspace – and you don’t want to derive caught up in bombardments before you’ve even landed.
From Sanaa, we drove to Taiz. We had to cross many checkpoints, or we passed fields and fields of qat. Some bridges have been bombed out,so at times we drove straight down the wadis (dry river beds) and up the other side.
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Source: theguardian.com