Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie on Sunday visited war-torn Yemen to show solidarity with displaced families in the hope of mobilizing support for an incoming fundraising conference. Jolie, 46, who is special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), landed in the southern coastal city of Aden to meet with families and refugees there. Aden is the seat of the internationally recognized government. The U.N. refugee agency said it hopes that Jolie’s visit would draw attention to growing humanitarian needs in Yemen, the Arab World’s poorest country, ahead of the annual High Level Pledging Conference for Yemen on March 16. Jolie, 46, who is special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), landed in the southern coastal city of Aden to meet with families and refugees there. Aden is the seat of the internationally recognized government.
