Photographer LorenzoTug visited Yemen in 2018, witnessing the harrowing effects of a conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people and created one of the worst famines in history. View his Pulitzer Prize-winning work here:
The war started four years ago — four years of a conflict that has split Yemen in two, with a pro-government coalition supported by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates fighting against a group of rebels, known as the Houthis, for control of the country. In the middle: 28 million Yemenis.
In the parts of the country most affected by the conflict, malnutrition is so widespread that clinics can only accept the most severe cases. In one such clinic in Hajjah, in northwestern Yemen, a 10-year-old girl came in with her father. “She had big sweet eyes and bone-thin arms, but the clinic could not accept her,” Tugnoli said. Her condition was not yet life-threatening, so she was sent back to endure hunger.
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