About 100,000 Yemeni children at risk of dying of malnutrition
The UN describes Yemen as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 80% of the population reliant on humanitarian aid
27 October 2020 - 16:27
Dubai — Parts of Yemen are suffering record levels of acute child malnutrition, with nearly 100,000 children now at risk of dying, heightening warnings that the country is approaching a dire food security crisis, a UN report and officials said on Tuesday.
Drivers of malnutrition in Yemen worsened in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic, economic decline, floods, escalating armed conflict and significant underfunding of 2020’s global appeal for aid to Yemen have raised the spectre of widespread severe hunger or even famine after almost six years of war...
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