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Behind the Front Lines in Yemen’s Marib
Just before major battles in northern Yemen and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crisis Group expert Peter Salisbury travelled to Marib, the government’s last stronghold.
He found a region coping well with massive displacement but fearing a settlement that would favour the advancing Huthis.
Five years into Yemen’s civil war, it was a long, hard struggle to enter the country, as it usually is for foreigners like me.
I spent the months before travelling doing bureaucratic outreach to get my government visa, and sleepless nights waiting for last-minute security clearances.
So it was a…