The conference, organized by the Yemen Without Qat Foundation in cooperation with the World Relief and Development Organization, the Federation of NGOs in the Islamic World, and with the participation of a group of experts, academics and business leaders, seeks to create a popular and public alignment of all different groups and institutions to limit the use of the qat plant.

Tenants of the central qat market stalls in the Al-Sawda area in the Ataq district, the center of Shabwa Governorate, demonstrated in rejection of the increase in rents imposed on them by the new investor of the market, without intervention from the local authority.

Secretary-General of the Psychologists Syndicate in Taiz Governorate, Walid Al-Rabasi, said on Thursday that the Houthi war, displacement, unemployment, economic collapse, and the worsening humanitarian crisis are the most prominent reasons that led to the worsening of the psychological state among Yemenis.