The United States Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (HOA) is a geographic region that encompasses the countries of Djibouti, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya and neighboring Yemen. Each country in the region is home to many culturally unique distinctions to include groups that make up the HOA's area of ​​operation. Specifically, one of these culturally unique groups originated in Yemen. Yemen, according to a 2004 census, has nearly 20 million inhabitants (UNDP, 2010). More than 45% of the population lives on less than 2 US dollars per day (UNDP, 2010). Yemen's poor have shaped a cultural group that essentially makes up the majority of the country's population. The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate the current Yemeni culture shaped by the effects of poverty on the population of Yemen. These effects cover a wide range of problematic issues based on three major topics. The effects of poverty on Yemen's population include severe health problems across the majority of the region, the decline of the country's political infrastructure, and growing support for terrorist organizations in the region. The dilemmas in Yemen are not solely of internal origin. Yemen hosts some 91,587 (in 2007) refugees from Somalia (CIA, 2011). The wake of events perpetrated by the effects of poverty on the population of Yemen, if nothing is done, will continue to erode with significant and lasting negative effects on the entire Area of ​​Responsibility (AOR) of the HOA, including local, regional and US interests. Yemen has always been plagued by serious health problems in the majority of the region. The people of the region depend on the country, the decline of the country's political infrastructure, and the growing support for terrorist organizations in the region are all systematic results. effects of poverty. In conclusion, Yemen must combat its health problem through both preventive and reactive measures. Yemen must find common ground between its different political factions and unify politically to develop a true governing nation. Yemen must also irradiate all terrorist factions in the region to prevent future recruitment into terrorist organizations. These measures are necessary to ensure that the effects of poverty on the people of Yemen are mitigated and minimal. This can only be achieved through continued financial, medical and foreign political assistance from neighboring countries in the region as well as support from anti-terrorism organizations around the world..