A UN spokesman said the humanitarian situation in Yemen, with 16 million hungry people and a $ 2.5 billion shortfall in the global aid budget, was deteriorating and very dangerous.
More than 20 million Yemenis are on the brink of famine and need help, and more than 16 million men, women, and children are starving this year, Stephane Dujarric said Thursday night.
He continued: “Tens of thousands of people are currently living in conditions like famine and five million people are only one step away from them.”
UN agencies, including the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), have repeatedly warned that Yemen’s people continue to face famine and a humanitarian catastrophe that is unprecedented in the last century.
On April 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia, formed a brutal military coalition including several Arab countries and with the help and green light of the United States, launched a full-scale war against Yemen – the poorest Arab country – under the pretext of bringing back the ousted and fugitive President Abd al-Mansour Hadi who has been in power.
