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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: How Shipping Containers Explain the Conflict in Yemen
Description: For this episode, I wanted to explore a different way to understand the crisis in Yemen. Â Yemen has two main ports, Hodeidah to the north, on the Red Sea and Aden to the south, on the Gulf of Aden. Of these two ports, Hodeidah is by far the bigger one. But Hodeidah is under the control of forces aligned with the Houthi rebels. Aden is controlled by forces aligned with the internationally recognized government of Yemen --Â a government that is militarily backed by a Saudi-led coalition. Â Both the politics and the basic logistics of getting goods into these two por...