Tue. Nov 12th, 2024
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What’s your money worth? A series from the front line of the cost-of-living crisis, where people who have been hit hard share their monthly expenses.

Names: Abdulla Ali and Arwa Ahmed (a pseudonym to protect her privacy)

Ages: 45 and 42

Occupations: Abdulla works as a day labourer and his wife Arwa is a part-time domestic worker

Live with: Their five children – sons Qasem (12), Asem (10), Basem (4), Hazim (2) and daughter Basima (6)

Live in: A first-floor, two-room apartment in Al-Thawra district on the outskirts of Sanaa, the Yemeni capital.

December household income: 95,000 ($170.3)* Yemeni riyals. According to the Yemen-based Studies and Economic Media Center, a family of five in Sanaa needs a minimum of $106.2 per month for food.

Total expenses for the month: 93,000 Yemeni riyals ($166.7)

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