The capture of Western Yemen is making the country's humanitarian crisis worse

NPR speaks with people in Yemen and in aid groups who say the fighting is displacing families to areas without enough aid to support them. Transcript DEBBIE ELLIOTT, HOST: Aid groups say half of Yemen's population is in need of humanitarian assistance and that 18 million people are facing acute food insecurity after years of conflict. But this month, things got worse. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels, already in control of Yemen's capital, managed to dislodge Saudi-backed forces from Western Yemen. This reignited hostilities and shattered a fragile truce. NPR's international correspondent Aya Batrawy is following the story from Dubai and reports on the deepening crisis unfolding in Western Yemen.AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE: The U.N. World Food Programme says that in just a matter of days this month, 125,000 people were displaced in Yemen. And it says that number will likely rise as frontline fighting moves. Alison Bottomley is with the aid group the Norwegian Refugee Council in Yemen.ALISON BOTTOMLEY: It's a very dynamic, moving, massive scale of displacement.BATRAWY: Bottomley says the situation is dire, with roads difficult to navigate and not enough aid to reach everyone.BOTTOMLEY: Most of...