Yemen's Taiz city runs out of food as Houthis close in
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People in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz are running out of food and fuel as Houthi forces advance and cut off basic supplies.
Ali Abdulsamed spent a full day walking from shop to shop, searching for food for his family of six. At every store, he found empty shelves. He could not afford petrol to travel farther — its price more than doubled last week.
After visiting more than a dozen stores, he found one 25kg bag of wheat flour. It cost more than twice the usual price. He was lucky to find anything at all.