Life gradually returns to Yemeni beach amid hopes for end of civil war
STORY: Life gradually returns to Yemeni beach amid hopes for end of civil war
DATELINE: Feb. 7, 2023
LENGTH: 00:06:14
LOCATION: HAJJAH, Yemen
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of students and their teachers playing on a beach in Midi District, Hajjah Province, northern Yemen
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ABDULLAH AL-MUTANBEK, Teacher
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): YAHYA MUSA, Student
STORYLINE:
Almost four years after the Yemeni government forces recaptured the Red Sea coastal city of Midi in the northwestern province of Hajjah from the Houthi rebels in April 2018, local visitors began to return to the city's beach.
Local authorities allowed visits to the beach in December of last year, after spending nearly four years to remove the landmines that had been planted in the beach and some parts of the city, which is a few miles to the east of the beach and has become an abandoned site as a result of the Yemeni civil war that broke out in 2014.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 4 mi
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