Between a rock and a hard place: safe from war, Yemenis struggle

OBOCK, Djibouti: Under a scorching sun, refugees who fled Yemen’s war struggle on in a camp on Djibouti’s rocky shores, a year after Saudi-backed airstrikes began devastating their homeland.

Over 2,000 Yemenis have made the Markazi camp their home, fleeing the Arabian Peninsula to Djibouti across the narrow Bab al-Mandeb straits -- the “Gate of Tears” in Arabic -- the key shipping channel of the Gulf of Aden.