Story | 16 September 2021
In Maghrabah, a remote district in Hajjah governorate in northern Yemen, families are resorting to eating the waxy leaves of a local tree to survive, boiling them to soften them into a bitter-tasting paste that is slightly more digestible. This is also described as 'famine food' - a last resort for people who do not have access to nutritious food to sustain themselves.