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The agreement was brokered in the midst of a fuel crisis in areas controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthi group, with the Saudi-led coalition not allowing fuel tankers to come into HodeidahВ port. ItвЂ™s the first truce to have been agreed since 2016 and so far, itвЂ™s holding up. Hope for Ahmed and many others across Yemen came on 2 April, when the countryвЂ™s warring parties signed a two-month ceasefire led by the United Nations. вЂњMoreover, the soldiers at the checkpoints stop us every time to investigate our destination and what we are working on,вЂќ Ahmed said of his fortnightly trips along the dangerous mountain roads. Every two weeks he takes the mountain roads back from the city to see his family. Unable to afford to rent a room in the city following the closure of the main road, Ahmed sleeps in the restaurant with his fellow workers. But he works at a restaurant in Taiz city.

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вЂњI can see my house from Taiz city but I canвЂ™t reach it because the road is blocked and if I want to visit my family I travel for five hours through mountains,вЂќ Ahmed, who preferred not to provide his full name, told Middle East Eye.ДЄhmed lives in al-Hawban, which is part of the Taiz governorate. 'I can see my house from Taiz city but I canвЂ™t reach it because the road is blocked' Before war came to Yemen in late 2014, it would take Ahmed about ten minutes to drive from the centre of Taiz city to the nearby area of al-Hawban.Д«y 2015, the main road out of the city was closed and the drive now took five hours through dangerous mountain passes.

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