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Yemeni Situation ‘Close To A Breaking Point,’ Millions on Brink of Famine

Yemeni Situation ‘Close To A Breaking Point,’ Millions on Brink of Famine
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The United Nations World Food Program [WFP] is scaling up its emergency operations in war-torn Yemen to provide urgently needed food assistance to some nine million people, the agency said Wednesday.

Yemeni Situation ‘Close To A Breaking Point,’ Millions on Brink of Famine

"We are in a race against time to save lives and prevent a full-scale famine unfolding in the country, but we urgently need resources to do this," said the WFP Representative and Country Director in Yemen, Stephen Anderson.

The new emergency operation will require up to $1.2 billion over a one-year period and should allow WFP to gradually scale up assistance to feed all severely food insecure people in Yemen every month.

The success of this operation hinges on immediate sufficient resources from donors.
"The situation is getting close to a breaking point in Yemen with unprecedented levels of hunger and food insecurity. Millions of people can no longer survive without urgent food assistance," Anderson continued.

With the new plan, WFP aims to provide vital food assistance to nearly seven million people classified as severely food insecure, in addition to nutrition support to prevent or treat malnutrition among 2.2 million children.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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