More than 50 percent of Abyan’s microfinance program clients were exposed to inconsistent material losses due to the military confrontations between the Yemeni army and Ansar Al-Sharia during the past few months. A recent field study prepared by the Microfinance Network in Yemen and conducted by Ghamdan Awnfound that 45 percent of the program clients’ houses in Abyan were subject to robbery and looting, and yet clients in Abyan were encouraging to the program prior to the breakout of confrontations. Read more here.