Al Hudaydah

American  

[ahl hoo-dey-duh, -dahy-duh] / ɑl hʊˈdeɪ də, -ˈdaɪ də /

noun

1. a city in W Yemen, on the Red Sea.

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Example Sentences

The rebels control the capital, Sana, and parts of the strategic port city of Al Hudaydah, where much of the humanitarian aid from across the world is unloaded.

From New York Times

The couple finally married eight years ago in a wedding hall in Al Hudaydah, Yemen’s main port city and her hometown.

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The screening of ships coming into Al Hudaydah — ostensibly to prevent arms from entering the country — has had “a chilling effect on commercial shipping supplies of fuel and food needed to fend off starvation, even though United Nations searches of shipping had found no weapons,” the experts said.

From New York Times

Since then, fighting has devolved into proxy warfare, with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates arming and fighting alongside a disparate group of Islamist, tribal and regional militias against the Houthis, who control Sana, the capital, as well as the major port of Al Hudaydah and their ancestral territories along the Saudi border.

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The main combatants in the battle for Al Hudaydah, a city of 600,000 people, have blamed each other for explosions in a residential neighborhood, at the city’s fish market, and outside the main hospital.

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