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The ongoing war in Yemen has killed thousands and forced millions to flee their homes.
With the Arab world's poorest country on the brink of famine, the people who are displaced are living in dire conditions.
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This sparse camp at Darwan, about 30 kilometres away from the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, has been home for some people for more than a year.
More than 120 families live here, most fleeing their homes to escape air strikes.
Many have come from Saada, a stronghold of Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels that has been the target of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes.
Yemenis suffer from a shortage of food, water and medicine.
Here they live in makeshift tents, lacking basic supplies, making like extremely difficult for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) like Nadia Ali Atef.
"We live under a power pole and I have three daughters and a son and my husband is sick suffering a psychological disease. And we rely on Allah (God) amid the condition we live in. We don't have mattresses and floods get under us and we sit amid flood and amid waters and sometimes we escape to our neighbours here. We have no food, we have no drink, we have no mattress we have no tents and we have nothing," she says.
Some of the makeshift structures stand directly under a tower which can carry high voltage electricity.
It's been off for a while, but the residents are are threatened at any moment by the return of power supply and also by floods.
The war pits troops and militiamen loyal to the internationally recognised government, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, against Shiite Houthi rebels and a former president's loyalists.
More than 9,000 people have been killed in Yemen's civil war, including more than 3,000 civilians, according to the United Nations.
The UN's refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration estimates more than 2.4 million people have been forcibly displaced by the fighting.
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