Povertˆ in Medio oriente

In this Saturday Nov. 13, 2010 photo a Yemeni boy looks back while laying on the ground as he begs for money in an alley of the old city of Sanaa, Yemen. More than 50 percent of Yemen’s children are malnourished, rivaling war zones like Sudan’s Darfur and parts of sub-Saharan Africa. That’s just one of many worrying statistics in Yemen. Nearly half the population lives below the poverty line of $2 a day and doesn’t have access to proper sanitation. Less than a tenth of the roads are paved. Water is running out. Tens of thousands have been displaced from their homes by conflict, flooding into cities. The government is riddled with corruption, has little control outside the capital, and its main source of income, oil, could run dry in a decade. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)