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A packet of rice for a family of nine: Why Yemenis are starvingMEE correspondent9-12 minutesTAIZ, Yemen - Bashir al-Sofi remembers making a living as a construction worker. That was before the war.Work is scarce today, and the 48-year-old father of seven now struggles to feed his family in his village south of the city of Taiz. His children don’t get three meals a day and they haven’t eaten meat or fruit in a long time. Such staples have now become a luxury.“One of my children suffers from malnutrition because he was born at the beginning of the war and I couldn't provide him with milk and proper food," Sofi tells Middle East Eye.Read more at: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-are-yemenis-starving-1490708556