“This is the first food I’ve eaten in four days,” Habiba Mohammad Hassan, a 17 year old Somali tells me as we wedged ourselves into the back of a truck with over 40 other refugees and opens a packet of high energy biscuits. Hassan, and 150 others, just spent the last two days crossing the [...]
I arrived in Yemen yesterday with contradictory mental ideas of the country. It’s the place where Noah’s Ark was launched and Osama bin Landen’s father was born. It is a country where Westerners are kidnapped by tribesmen but rarely harmed, where suicide bombers struck the USS Cole, where young women dance and chew qat with [...]
It arrived just in time - my passport that is. I am part of the camp that says, “what can go wrong DOES go wrong” it’s just a matter of time before odds catch up with you. I have heard too many horror stories about passports getting lost in transit and the hoops people have [...]
