Arwa Al-Ghanimi went to a chicken shop in the city of Taiz, southwest of Yemen, to buy a chicken for her family, but the amount she was carrying, 4,000 riyals (one dollar = 1,900 riyals in areas controlled by the legitimate government), was only enough to buy half a chicken. She was surprised to find that the price of a small chicken had risen to 8,000 riyals.