Escalating Fighting in Yemen Worsens Food Security Crisis
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Today, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that 74% of families in Yemen were unable to meet their food needs, as military operations escalated.
The past few hours have seen an escalation between Yemeni government forces under the Saudi-led coalition in support of legality, and between Al-Houthi and the Al-Houthi on several fronts, in parallel with international warnings of increasing levels of hunger.
Eleven years after Riad's first intervention, Saudis have returned to bomb the Houthi, supported by Iran. Who are the actors at stake and how Bin Salman's involvement alongside government forces plays a decisive role
Escalating fighting in Yemen worsens food security crisis
Aid agencies in Yemen highlighted the growing hunger emergency sparked by renewed fighting between Houthi opposition forces and Government troops, after mobile health clinics reported that hundreds of children displaced by the violence are suffering from the most deadly form of malnutrition.
While the war begun in 2014 seemed to have been contained by a truce concluded four years ago, Yemen was quickly drawn into the spiral of violence in the Middle East. The Huthis rebels, supported by Iran, face government forces supported by Saudi Arabia. RFI devotes a special day to understanding the stakes of this war, its consequences for civilians and its regional impact.
How Yemen's renewed civil war could set the whole region ablaze
The Middle East has seen many explosions of violence in recent years. But while the US-Iran war has grabbed the headlines this year, the rapidly escalating conflict between the Houthis and Yemen’s internationally recognized government and Saudi Arabia risks becoming just as consequential for the region. The complexity of Yemen’s internal conflict cannot be underestimated. […]
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