8.4 Million War-Hit Yemenis in Need of Urgent Food Aid, UN Warns

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The United Nations humanitarian chief warned that the war on Yemen has left as many as 8.4 million people in the Arab world’s already poorest nation in dire need of urgent food aid.

There is a total of 75 percent of Yemen’s 22-million-strong population needed some sort of assistance, said the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock.

Remarking in an analysis obtained by the Associated Press [AP] on Monday, he said three million Yemenis were malnourished, including 1.1 million pregnant women, “and more than 400,000 severely acutely malnourished children.”

Humanitarian officials “estimate that 3.5 million to four million more people could become severely food insecure in the months ahead,” the report added.

If current trends continued the same, food needs could increase “by as much as 62 percent,” it said.

According to AP, more than 10,000 people have died since Saudi Arabia led many of its allies into the war on Yemen.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team