Tag: Yemen: U.S.A.’ Famine

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi IbraheM,Sr Zahrah, a widow and mother of eight displaced by war, sits in a makeshift shelter in Sana’a, Yemen.  (Photo: UNHCR/Mohammed Hamoud)   by: Kathy Kelly This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a refugee from Iraq, to talk about refugee crises driven by war. Sabia recently returned from Kabul where she helped document the young Afghan Peace Volunteers’ efforts to help bring warmth, food and education to internally displaced families living in makeshift camps, having fled the Afghan War when it raged near their former homes. Last year Sabia had been visiting with refugees in "the Cala...