Yemenis queue for days to get precious cooking gas

Описание: (1 Apr 2018) LEAD IN:
Amongst the other hardships, Yemen is now experiencing a shortage in cooking gas.
People are queuing for hours for the precious fuel.

STORY-LINE:
Gas cylinders are lined up along the street.
And nearby are their tired owners.
These people have been waiting for hours, and sometimes days, to have the cylinders filled with cooking gas.
They wait desperately at a gas filling station in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa - many of them have not cooked at home for days.
The price of a 20 kilogramme gas cylinder has jumped from 4,700 rials (19 US dollars) to 7,000 rials (28 US dollars).
Many gas filling stations have closed altogether.
Every morning Um Adnan goes looking for firewood and pieces of cardboard to set on fire and cook with.
She lives in the neighbourhood of Bani Al-Harith with her four children.
"We had to look for cardboard and firewood in order to prepare bread, nothing. For a week, we have moved from one (gas) facility to another. They tell us that there is gas but it is a lie, there is none. So, we return to collecting firewood and cardboard for fire in order to eat and not die of starvation."
Local media reports that the high costs and lack of cooking gas are due to a dispute between the ruling de facto authority in Sanaa and the traders.
The price for a cylinder was set at 3000 rials (12 US dollars) but traders are said to have broken the agreement.
Some believe that they are withholding the fuel in order to push up the prices.
Others believe it is caused by taxes which the Houthis have put on fuel tankers.

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