BBC Minute: On the war in Yemen - Proxy war?

BBC Minute talks to BBC correspondent Nawal al-Maghafi about a conflict largely forgotten by the outside world: Yemen. The United Nations says the war which has raged since March 2015 has killed more than five thousand civilians, displaced more than three million people, and left more than seven million on the brink of famine.

In this episode, Nawal discusses why Saudi Arabia began its bombing campaign against Houthi targets in Yemen, and says the media’s portrayal of the war as merely one part of a regional power struggle between Tehran and Riyadh is sometimes exaggerated.

Photo: Houthi fighters raise their weapons during a mobilisation of supporters in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, August 2017, Credit: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images.