More than 17 Million People in Yemen Are Going Hungry, Including over 1 Million Children, UN Says
YEMEN, JUL 9 – The United Nations warns hunger could impact over 18 million Yemenis by September amid plummeting humanitarian aid and escalating conflict, with 1.2 million children at risk of severe malnutrition.
- Over 17 million individuals across Yemen, including upwards of one million children under five, are experiencing critical hunger and malnutrition amid the ongoing conflict.
- The crisis escalated after the Houthi rebels seized Sanaa in 2014, prompting a Saudi-led coalition intervention in 2015 that has prolonged the civil war.
- In recent weeks, Houthi forces targeted merchant ships in the Red Sea for the first time in over seven months, while Israeli air raids struck important Yemeni ports, heightening regional tensions and threatening maritime security.
- UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg emphasized that pursuing a military option would worsen Yemen’s crisis and encouraged both parties to engage in peace talks and facilitate the release of individuals held due to the conflict.
- Without increased humanitarian funding and meaningful peace talks, Yemen’s humanitarian disaster will deepen, threatening to worsen food insecurity and suffering.
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More than 17 million people in Yemen are going hungry, including over 1 million children, UN says
More than 17 million people in conflict-torn Yemen are going hungry, including over one million children under the age of five who are suffering from “life-threatening acute malnutrition,” the U.N. humanitarian chief says.
More than 17M people in Yemen going hungry, including over 1M children, UN says
More than 17 million people in conflict-torn Yemen are going hungry, including over one million children under the age of five who are suffering from “life-threatening acute malnutrition,” the U.N. humanitarian chief says
At today's regular monthly UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Yemen, Ambassador Samuel Žbogar welcomed the recent agreement between the internationally recognized government and the Houthis on joint management of water infrastructure in the city of Taiz and called for increased humanitarian aid deliveries. According to the UN, the food crisis there is escalating.
The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs on Tuesday stressed the urgency of moving toward a political solution to the conflict in Yemen and called for decisive action by the Security Council and international donors. In a session of the highest decision-making body on the humanitarian situation in that Arab country, […]
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