Yemen's war cut a father's route to work, now his toddler starves

Grandmother of malnourished Muath Ali Muhammad carries him near their home in Aslam district of the northwestern province of Hajja, Yemen July 30, 2019. [Reuters]

Before Yemen’s war broke out four years ago Ali Muhammad used to cross the border into Saudi Arabia to work, joining thousands of other Yemenis from his poor, mountainous region.

But fighting in the border areas left him unemployed in his remote village, watching acute malnutrition turn his two-year-old son Muath into skin and bones.