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War In Yemen Being Called Largest Humanitarian Crisis Of Our Time

This Feb. 15, 2018, photo shows sand drifting over an empty highway from Abyan to Aden in Yemen. Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world’s poorest before the conflict began. (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)
This Feb. 15, 2018, photo shows sand drifting over an empty highway from Abyan to Aden in Yemen. Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world’s poorest before the conflict began. (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

More than two million people have been displaced by the war in Yemen, which is being called the largest humanitarian crisis of our time.

Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins speaks with David Miliband (@DMiliband), president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former UK foreign secretary, who was in Yemen two weeks ago.

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