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Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen

Sanaa : Yemen | about 1 month ago  
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Yemen — More than half of this country’s scarce water is used to feed an addiction. Even as drought kills off Yemen ’s crops, farmers in villages like this one are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat, the leaves of which are chewed every day by most Yemeni men (and some women) for their...
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