Yemen: Understanding the conflict

Here is what is happening in Yemen, now in the fourth year of a civil war, writes Kelly McFarland.

The military conflict now escalating in Yemen threatens the lives of more than 250,000 people in the port city Hodeidah while 8 million more people across Yemen already risk starvation, writes Kelly McFarland, Georgetown University.

The country is also facing the “worst cholera outbreak in modern history.”