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Crisis in Marib: Averting a Chain Reaction in Yemen
A battle looms for Marib in Yemen’s north, home to some three million people as well as major oil and gas facilities.
International actors must stave off a humanitarian disaster, as they did in Hodeida in 2018, and then turn toward brokering a wider settlement.
- ICG
In early February, the rebel Huthi movement (also known as Ansar Allah) reinvigorated its year-long offensive in Yemen’s northern governorate of Marib, launching an intense assault and making territorial and strategic gains in the province’s west.
Huthi forces are now reportedly within 30km of Marib city, the…