Yemen: Then as Now? Part 4

Transition to a still uncertain future
Photos and Text © William CarterMany Yemenis are short, and their donkeys more soProtecting himself from the sun with a vestige of British colonial timesThe hot, humid valleys north of Sanaa are rich in agriculture — and malaria 

Yemen’s indigenous architecture long contributed to its reputation as a quasi-mythical land

 

In 1963 the Brits still hung on

 

Late in the day a colonial officer reviews a dwindling number of troops

 

Street life in Aden survived longer than the politicians on the walls

 

Building for an uncertain future — then as now

 

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