Yemen specialty coffee ‘wave’ sweeps war-hit capital

SANAA: Tucked amid shell-pocked buildings and roadside tributes to fallen fighters, a less obvious byproduct of wartime is spreading across Yemen’s capital: specialty coffee houses serving steaming cups of top-rated pour-over.
The Arabian Peninsula’s most impoverished country, locked in an eight-year conflict between Iran-backed Houthi militia and forces supporting the internationally recognized government, has deep ties to coffee.
Legend has it that Sufi mystics on Yemen’s western coast were the first people to brew coffee beans back in the 15th century.