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The UN’s envoy to Yemen has warned of a “dramatic deterioration” in the country’s six-year-old war, with a Houthi rebel assault on government-held Marib risking the lives of more than one million internally displaced people.
Martin Griffiths slammed the Houthi rebels for mass casualties and a recent spate of missile and drone strikes on neighbouring Saudi Arabia, while also urging Yemen’s UN-recognised government to let much-needed fuel reach Houthi-held areas.
He spoke as the group continued their push towards the oil
-producing region of Marib, aiming to take the government’s last stronghold in the north of the country but threatening the safety of Yemenis displaced by earlier waves of fighting.
Syrian refugees in Lebanon are eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but few know how
March 9, 2021
A member of the healthcare staff administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Lebanon s Rafik Hariri Hospital in the capital Beirut, 14/2/2021 (AFP)
BEIRUT While pushing his potato cart in the streets of the Shatila refugee camp in the suburbs of Beirut, Hassan Houran said he wanted to get vaccinated against COVID-19 but, like many Syrian refugees, had no idea how to register to get it.
“Nobody is helping us; we ask the UN to help us get the vaccine so we can protect our health and our children’s health,” said the 41-year-old originally from Aleppo countryside.
The mountainous town of Bsharre, in northern Lebanon, 02/08/2020 (Silvia Mazzocchin)
BEDAWWI In a decade of war in Syria, Nora was displaced ten times. The 42-year-old woman dodged death as bombs fell within earshot multiple times, fleeing between Idlib, where she lived with her husband – now disappeared – and Damascus, her city of origin. “In Idlib, we stayed three years under the bombs; we slept under olive trees, without knowing what would happen to us,” she said.
A year and a half ago, Nora fled to Lebanon to join her two adult children in Bsharre, an idyllic mountainous town in northern Lebanon. “I was able to sleep and rest psychologically. In Syria, we were always afraid that if we go to sleep, we will not wake up,” she said. Nora worked as a babysitter for the neighbors and described the village’s atmosphere as “nice.”