Escaping Yemen: US citizen's journey out of the conflict zone

On April 7, 2015, Mokhtar Alkhanshali, founder of the specialty coffee company Mocha Mill, became the first Yemeni American to escape from Yemen after three weeks of aerial bombardment from a Saudi Arabia-led coalition. The U.S. government has refused to evacuate its citizens, but Alkhanshali was able to escape by boat. The 26-year-old coffee entrepreneur described Washington's policy as an abandonment of Yemeni-Americans.