Residents in Yemen's Hodeida call for the end of the war Residents in Hodeida call for the war to end after nearly four years of conflict in Yemen, home to what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. Clashes halted near the rebel-held port of Hodeida, following intense conflict between government loyalists supported by a Saudi-led coalition, and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels from the Red Sea city, whose docks are a lifeline to 14 million Yemenis at risk of starvation. SOUNDBITES