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Yemen: Days of Reckoning

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  • Hodhon Badaa Abdullah, 25, a refugee from fighting in Somalia, waits at a Yemeni Red Crescent transit center in Bab al Mandab, Yemen, March 19, 2012. The divorced mother of five paid $400 to smugglers who ferried her here. She hopes to find a job cleaning homes.
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  • Girls gather at a school that serves as a camp for internally displaced people in Aden, Yemen, March 17, 2012. More than one hundred families stay at the school. They fled the province of Abyan, torn by fighting between al Qaeda-linked militants and government forces.
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  • Women gather water from the cistern at Hababa, a medieval fortress village outside Sana, Yemen, March 14, 2012.
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  • New arrivals from Ethiopia stroll near a refugee transit center at Bab al Mandab, about a hundred miles west of Aden, Yemen, March 19, 2012. More than 500,000 refugees live in Yemen. Most have fled unrest and poverty in Somalia and Ethiopia.
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  • Saleem al Harazi, who lost both eyes to a sniper, is cradled by his mother in Sana, Yemen, March 26, 2012. The 12-year-old was shot when he joined antigovernment protesters in Sana in March 2011. “I loved them and wanted to stand with them,” he recalls. “I wanted them to end poverty.” They were the last people he ever saw, and he has no regrets: “I am still happy I was able to witness the protests firsthand.”
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  • Eleven-year-old Turki Ahmed flies a kite amid the rubble of Sadah, a northern antigovernment stronghold near Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia, March 27, 2012. His ten-year-old cousin, Afnan Hussein Ali Jarallah al Tamani, scampers behind him. Since 2004 an insurgency in the north has destroyed much of the city, left hundreds dead and driven more than 100,000 people from their homes.
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  • Preparing to leave for school, 13-year-old Alhanouf al Tamani peeks out from her niqab in Saada, Yemen, March 28, 2012. For the past three years, she has lived with her parents and six siblings in a single room - all that was left of the family home after fighting between government forces and insurgents virtually destroyed it. They’re the lucky ones. Others, displaced by violence, make do in tents.
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  • Lights atop the 300-foot minarets at the four-year-old al Saleh Mosque glow during a storm in Sana, Yemen, March 31, 2012. The $60 million house of worship is Yemen’s largest and most extravagant, named for Ali Abdullah Saleh, who stepped down in February 2012 after 33 years as president. It opened with claims of promoting moderate Islam but militant groups have only gained strength here.
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  • Relatives and neighbors celebrate bridegroom Ameen Ararah, in floral head scarf, at center rear, 21, at his wedding in Sana’s Old City, Yemen, April 1, 2012. In a country where nearly half the population lives on $1.45 a day, wedding expenses, which can exceed $5,000, are prohibitive. Many couples now pool resources and marry in groups.
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  • Generators keep the lights blazing at a wedding in Sana’s Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage site, where power cuts are frequent, Sana, Yemen, April 5, 2012.
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  • Wearing his ceremonial dagger, Yemen’s top tribal leader, Sheikh Sadiq al Ahmar, and his tribesmen stand by his residence, with its portrait of al Ahmar’s politician father in Sana, Yemen, April 6, 2012. The sheikh’s followers fired on government troops in May 2011; they retaliated, attacking his home.
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  • People still assemble and pray near Sana University’s southern gate, dubbed Change Square in early 2011, when it became a gathering place for thousands of Arab Spring protesters opposing the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Sana, Yemen, April 6, 2012. Saleh stepped down, but Yemen’s woes remain.
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  • A shattered family mourns 15-year-old Nadaa Showqi Abduallah Hussein, her body swathed in cloth in Aden, Yemen, Nov. 13, 2012. She was killed by a sniper in the southern port city during a March clash between gunmen and government forces. “What happened to her makes all people cry,” says her father, Showqi Abduallah Hussein, at right in head scarf. “She had no enemies.”
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  • A lieutenant patrols the pink barracks of Yemen’s female counterterrorism unit at a base in Sana, Yemen, Nov. 13, 2012. “The color on the walls was our idea,” says one officer. “We fought for the color.” Some 1,500 women serve in police and counterterror units. They’re crucial in an ultraconservative culture where men cannot check female suspects, or those disguised as women.
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  • As dusk falls over the Fun City amusement park, a mother watches her children spin on a ride featuring an unveiled version of Fulla, a Barbie doll alternative popular among Middle Eastern girls in Sana, Yemen, Nov. 13, 2012. Moments like this offer relief from troubles, but the “emergence of a new dawn” heralded by Yemen’s 2011 peace Nobelist, Tawakkol Karman, eludes much of the country.
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  • A man holding an AK-47 passes by as Muhammad Ali Jobebi, left, and his son prepare bundles of qat, a popular stimulant leaf, at a bazaar in Sana, Yemen, Nov. 13, 2012. Once best known for its coffee, Yemen now devotes 40 percent of its scarce water to irrigating qat. Worth $1.2 billion a year, the qat trade can earn sellers one thousand dollars per day. Meanwhile most of the country’s food is imported.
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