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More than 17 million people in conflict-torn Yemen are going hungry, including over one million children under the age of ...
The Yemen crisis has developed into a "humanitarian catastrophe," experts say. — -- It’s been just more than two months since a Saudi Arabia-led coalition began its airstrike campaign ...
In early April 2018, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reported that the Yemen crisis had become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Approximately three quarters (equivalent ...
BEIRUT — The fighting in Yemen threatens to cause widespread hunger and thirst and displace huge numbers of people, creating another humanitarian disaster in a region already reeling from the ...
Here’s what you need to know about the growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Update, Jan. 21, 2022: The IRC is appalled by the mass killing of civilians in Yemen—over 70 were reported killed in the ...
There's a humanitarian crisis in Yemen. It persists, and it's deepening. Right now 5 million people are on the brink of starvation as war continues to ravage the poorest country in the Middle East.
Yemen’s unprecedented humanitarian crisis cannot be understood in isolation from the country’s complex political and economic dynamics, International Rescue Committee (IRC) president and CEO David ...
Yemen is finally making headlines. The U.S. has called for a cease-fire in hostilities. But in the meantime, the humanitarian crisis characterized as the world's worst by the U.N. continues ...
Yemen’s civil war has already led to what the United Nations described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis — at least three million displaced by fighting, a cholera epidemic that is now ...
The humanitarian crisis: food shortage and famine. Yemen’s civil war, pitting Saudi Arabia on one side against Iranian-backed Houthis on the other, has brought the country to the brink of famine.
Yemen’s civil war is not, despite popular belief, part of a broader Saudi-Iranian conflict, but rather the result of deep historical tensions within Yemen itself. Yet the United States and Saudi ...
On Monday, Saudi Arabia announced $1.5 billion in new humanitarian aid for Yemen and vowed to expand the capacity of Yemen's ports to receive fuel, food and medicine, as well as establish "safe ...